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by reedf1 5y ago
I forget where I came across it but this brings to mind an aphorism I've heard before. Basically, people in cultures that need to build fires to cook and heat their homes usually reject modern solutions saying "But then I wouldn&#
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by reedf1 5y ago
If you can write code twice as fast then you'll write twice as many bugs. Having been a C++ and python developer I see just as many footguns in both languages and have spent many many many hours dealing with slow, buggy code in either.
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by reedf1 5y ago
This kind of thing is always so exciting, especially for mediums like comic books where classic characters can finally be deconstructed. Also - did anyone else read the title think "Winne-the-Pooh, Ernest Hemingway Classic?!"
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by reedf1 5y ago
You're reaching a classic physics/mathematical limit that arrises from asking "why" questions. To understand this concept further you need to understand concepts from chaos theory, specifically attractors, but it may be
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by reedf1 5y ago
Empathy not your strong point?
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by reedf1 5y ago
Fascinating to see the characteristic layout of my street in London hasn't changed in the slightest!
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by reedf1 5y ago
Biological taxonomy is largely arbitrary. From a practical perspective it has very similar characteristics, so not much is gained from distinguishing it.
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by reedf1 5y ago
Coming from a C++ background I am totally confused by the constant flaming of python's package management.
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by reedf1 5y ago
Maybe he should explain his Brexit position? As far as I know this man is not an expert in anything but shirking expensive gimmicky fans and being a huge hypocrite, why he should be considered a authority in design I don't know. I&#x2
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by reedf1 5y ago
I have a constant battle in my being between cynicism, stoicism and romanticism. I feel like a mixture of all three no matter how immiscible the underlying philosophies are. It's like a constant battle between diogenes, marcus aurelius
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by reedf1 5y ago
I think they are useful to an expert user.
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by reedf1 5y ago
It's gonna fix everything - misguided. It doesn't fix anything - also misguided. There is a shocking lack of people with medium opinions on crypto.
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by reedf1 5y ago
I agree with some (especially meat) but many of these seem like personal moralization.
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by reedf1 5y ago
It's hard to take takes like this seriously when they get the basic premise wrong. It's flowery and cute but its a lot of writing with very little substance.
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by reedf1 5y ago
YOLO was such a shake up of the computer vision space that he could probably get hired just about anywhere with a resume crudely written in crayon.
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by reedf1 5y ago
I think they are trying to say, if you want a conference call have a conference call. I think there is an argument to be made that virtual meetings are separate and not simply an enhancement of a conference call.
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by reedf1 5y ago
You'd probably be disappointed. The best you could hope for is a graph of luminous flux vs time, showing the slightest decrease as the planet transits some emission nebulae.
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by reedf1 5y ago
You can't outsmart entropy!
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by reedf1 5y ago
The UK has ousted its boring technocrats and experts - our politicians and our public have embraced populism. We will ignore energy policy and GDPR because it's boring and spend our time debating culture wars in broadsheets and tablo
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by reedf1 5y ago
Huh - when I type 8*9 I get a search pane (that shows what you are describing) and a web pane. The web pane shows bing results.
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by reedf1 5y ago
>show me the result of the multiplication instead of a link to "search web for 8*9" As far as I can tell - it already does this. Now I hate how it works and it looks bad, but it does show web search results for what I type in t
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by reedf1 5y ago
The situation is far worse in the UK. Honestly I think it's terrifying, and the political implications are revolutionary.
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by reedf1 5y ago
Seems pretty criminal to not mention Nujabes.
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by reedf1 5y ago
On my reading I thought - no need to justify this obviously cool project! I think sometimes people feel the need to have a good reason to do something, even when they are doing it because it's just intrinsically awesome. I've tota
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by reedf1 5y ago
Many many homes in Europe are natural gas fuelled. Combined with low-efficiency heating systems (no heat pumps), and bans on fracking (like here in the UK) means that countries have an over-dependence on a resource that they import and have
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by reedf1 5y ago
Idolatry seems like an emergent property of human collective consciousness. You can try to ignore it (it's been tried), downplay it (also been tried), and ban it (and again).
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by reedf1 5y ago
Would you sacrifice clarity for elegance?
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by reedf1 5y ago
Exactly - you are robbing your dopamine reward loop by "stealing" the dopamine hit usually reserved for accomplishment or achievement with the comparatively easy and low-effort social reward of stating your aspirations.
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by reedf1 5y ago
This ends in radicalisation and Mao style "Land Reform" - the old and the wealthy refuse to address this problem at their own future peril.
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by reedf1 5y ago
The hostile environment policy is truly dystopian. I'm sure the design of this policy felt reasonable to a bureaucrat somewhere, but in effect the only practical way to tell if someone "might be foreign" is their race.

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