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by rwnspace 4y ago
As someone who as held national records in the sport of speedcubing, I don't feel this makes it easier to understand, at least if you are going for an instrumental understanding of how to solve it. I think the community are pretty good
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by rwnspace 4y ago
You'll like him even more if you know who Andrej Karpathy is, as they're the same person.
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by rwnspace 4y ago
I just don't care about the interests I'm not interested in at the time. The issue I used to have was that spending time on A meant I wasn't doing B. Now I'm in my thirties and I just don't care about B, as long as
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by rwnspace 4y ago
Let's pray they didn't read Maus on that same course!
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by rwnspace 4y ago
> All countries in Europe are experiencing the same thing. That's not quite true. Only a few countries are facing a 100% (or 'more') wipe-out of disposable income for the majority of the population. The UK is only really a
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by rwnspace 4y ago
What I find deeply disturbing about this is how fast the 'cuz of Ukraine war' narrative has taken hold in the UK, even among intelligent colleagues of mine. The UKs (complete lack of) leadership is going to send the country into a
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by rwnspace 4y ago
As an aside, when people point out virtue signalling (I'm taking it as an analogue of status games) without adding some analysis my first assumption is that they are virtue-signalling to put others down or make others seem shallow (or
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by rwnspace 4y ago
The only thing I've done in line with the absolute pessimism of my beliefs about the future is stop paying into my pension (for now). I still plan to have kids, gods willing. It's one thing to worry about the planet and the animal
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by rwnspace 4y ago
The practical purpose of public schooling is to A) catch the odd prodigy to send to the big leagues with the private school kids, B) get the well-behaved used to 9-5 hours, and C) have somewhere to keep the rest while the parents work. Univ
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by rwnspace 4y ago
Precisely this, kitted-out vim in the hands of someone experienced is a force multiplier but it's uh, 'late-game'. VSCode and the like take absolutely minimal brainpower and experience for near-enough similar gains (for most
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by rwnspace 5y ago
" Genes and racism S1R- Steven Rose notes in his recent letter (Nature 22 January, p.335) that a National Front journal New Nation has claimed to find support for racism in my writings on sociobiology, as well as in those of Dawkins an
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by rwnspace 5y ago
Yet in 1981 he either had a total change of heart, or, you are - wittingly or unwittingly - spreading misinformation: https://www.nature.com/articles/289627b0.pdf
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by rwnspace 5y ago
I personally think of it as 'conditional' depression. Mine was conditional on getting out of poverty wages and into a decent job. I'm still cash poor but I also have a place of my own and stuff. I was in a depressed or depres
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by rwnspace 5y ago
I think the laundry list of "things quitting gives you" is massively overblown. I know people whose use of social media puts them in a competitive mindset that helps them get to work that day and put their face and clothes on nice
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by rwnspace 5y ago
FWIW, I learned to read in order to load the Thomas The Tank Engine game from the CD drive via MS-DOS - and I went and spent most of my time on music and literature until I got into my tech in my late twenties. I think it's fine provid
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by rwnspace 5y ago
Gorgias was perhaps the most well-known ancient Sophist, and is also the namesake of one of Plato's Dialogues, which happens to be one of my favourites. Highly recommend reading the above, and into sophistry and rhetoric more generally
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by rwnspace 5y ago
I would love to see a J program written in a literate programming style (with the same terseness of code). Though I'm sure that idea seems like anathema to most of those people! Edit: thanks very much to commenters below for showing ho
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by rwnspace 5y ago
FYI, Dylan is back from his break/w.e as of a few weeks or so ago :)
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by rwnspace 5y ago
For a while I used vimwiki in a drop-down term: guake and yakuake have this as a primary feature, good for gnome/KDE, but if you're using a tiling WM you can use termdrop on most terminal emulators.
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by rwnspace 5y ago
Well it happened to me - I struggled with motivation, went for a diagnosis, got on the meds, got hooked, and have been dealing with the consequences ever since. There are many possibilities to explore and steps to take when one suffers from
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by rwnspace 5y ago
I've heard it on good authority that schizophrenics find nicotine/tobacco significantly ameliorates their symptoms - it can be a lesser evil for some.
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by rwnspace 5y ago
I think the lack of a stable is part of the appeal, most people don't have anywhere to put a horse.
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by rwnspace 5y ago
A wise point, it took me a while to realise this - intellectual honesty can lead to the habitual expectation it will be reciprocated and upheld by others.
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by rwnspace 5y ago
And yet here I was, going to the comments first (as is tradition), wondering whether Herdwicks is an individual sheep with the power to terraform, or a breed of some mild historical significance.
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by rwnspace 6y ago
> He gave me various simple rules, of which 1 remember only two: "Put a comma every four words", and "never use 'and' except at the beginning of a sentence". And some wit to boot!
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by rwnspace 6y ago
> and those people actually get paid to distract you And thus a veneer of legitimacy curtails the otherwise dragging distraction of guilt.
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by rwnspace 6y ago
Fwiw, I doubt a BBC journalist wrote that sentence (despite satisfying modern standards).
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by rwnspace 6y ago
Note that it's good to be angry about losing or doing poorly. The trick is to really feel the pain, and not take the easy route out and find excuses in the things that weren't in your control. High feedback situations or 1v1 games
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by rwnspace 6y ago
I'm surely not the only one who read this as 'tendies'...
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by rwnspace 6y ago
Job posting requirements are generally a poor way to assess the requirements for a job. They're either written by someone non-technical & may be inaccurate, `OR` specify the unicorn candidate. The latter serves to improve the quali

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