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by rwnspace 8y ago
Please, it's quite obvious your intent is in part to generate emotion and not purely 'informed exchange'. Your tone is not appropriate to this community. Some things I've learned here: give your fellow conversationalists
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More information on your first sentence in Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep (tl;dr: no caffeine >2pm it's v bad for sleep phases + long half-life). I'd add mental health/anxiety issues as another reason to avoid it. It
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May I ask what your dosing was? I honestly don't doubt you one bit - but as an ex-25-a-day smoker, a week of endless pacing and sleepless nights and hiding in my cupboard, followed by a week of sleeping and grumbling, and a subsequent
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I am still in my first year of programming and Rust is my first systems language. I don't know C++, just enough for 'gists'. I had already read/skimmed Computer Organisation and Design: RISC-V, and Operating Systems: Thr
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Nah, it turns out opportunities for Python + first job in the UK are somewhat rare, especially as I don't have a completed degree. If you don't live in London, C#/.NET or JS + a framework make up 90% of opportunities. Of cour
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I planned to go from beginner Python to employed developer. Went a bit off track and learned the basics of lots and lots of languages. Kept switching the domains I wanted to work in. I studied a fair bit of CS, but in a fairly shallow way (
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A) You have always done whatever you wanted to do. You get a say in which voice/urge most constitutes 'you'. The more you veto, and the more you can distinguish the urges, the more of a say you get. Everything else is fluff.
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I think the "quickly" in your quote is the crux for me. I'm quite happy to read a paragraph or so of anecdata that provides a useful or motivating analogy/story. OTOH, if your article is 3k words, I'll be gone if yo
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That was recorded in April, here are some more recent of Bryan's thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efxJuvwgHu8 I would like to read a convincing account of how M$ would extend and extinguish the Linux kernel (o
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I do quite like hckrnews, though there's still not enough of a disconnect for me. The comment section is too juicy. I'm probably going to symlink the output of the script as a source for $HOME/.newsboat/urls [1] [1] htt
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I've deleted all my social media accounts besides Reddit and HN. The only thing that's stopping me from visiting these two is addiction. I don't read the news, mostly, why bother? It does much more harm than good. You don&#x2
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Regarding your quote of Joscha Bach, I wonder what we make of Executive Function disorders (ADHD) and their relationship to free will. Particularly, I wonder if philosophers with executive function disorders are more likely to prefer determ
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So it moves while self-solving. If the movement is regular, how about an effort to solve associated 'maze puzzles' with scrambles? It would be neat to see solutions with isomorphic paths.
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Being charitable, you could say at least part of the former are experiencing confirmation bias - that they enjoyed reading a different take on their existing knowledge - and cannot be arbiters of whether the book imparts anything useful to
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Agreed, I was hoping for something a bit more substantive. The following podcast episode with Cole Marta is what turned me on to learning more about research into Ketamine and MDMA. http://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes&#x2
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A study of musical scales (2017)(ianring.com)
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I meant that you're in no position to cast judgement on the guys dosage on his first use, especially since you have no idea whether he got very high purity stuff from the dark web or a crushed-up pill, or any idea at all really: and I
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> But over the years, I feel like HN becoming less and less valuable for me. I feel like I am wasting a lot of time here these days. Maybe HN has changed. Maybe I have changed. Maybe I just know a lot more about startups and webdev so th
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I would suggest the quality of the drug matters far more than the digestive system. And that the difference between first-time experience and hundredth-time (which I don't think is a particularly healthy number of times to hit) is quit
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I'm not a programming professional, but as I understand it: you study for interviews because the biggest tech companies used to ask difficult data structure & algorithms-based questions, plus some difficult/tricky questions wh
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Agreed, it is useful, certainly. But it's not to be wielded without subtlety: notably in your quote the use of 'imo' and 'in many cases'. Anyway, apologies for the terseness. My gripe is just when it is used as a ma
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Good job Popper's falsifiability is flawed then; else evolution is not science.
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Hm, I also seem to remember that German has a thinner dictionary. I suspect that lemmas in German are difficult to count, as there are so many compound words. Apart from the joy of teasing fellow Britons for their stupidity, I don't se
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Jaron Lanier has good things to say in this space. I for one would happily pay a small amount per month for an adequate search platform, or a fraction of a penny per search, say. I'm sick of my interactions with the web (and other peop
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Question: is the absolute number of high-quality games released every year going up or down? It's blatant that the average quality has been on a downhill trend since the advent of mobile gaming. But, are many pay-to-win games also good
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That's a question that doesn't have any really good answer, right? Unless you're looking for someone to say 'yes, unconditionally' or 'actually [x] requires masters-level+ mathematics'. I'm self-study
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I'm self-teaching in my late 20s after dropping out of a philosophy degree several times in a row. I hope you'll permit me to rant a bit, it's related to your comment and the article: the sheer amount of jank is absolutely un
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>In principle, First Order Logic and equivalent languages can represent anything that can be represented in natural language If you include a semantics for supervaluationism (Sorites paradox, Keefe on vagueness)! Thinking of it, I'd
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Interesting how the solver preferred to build a 2x2x2 block and then match/solve pairs until it could then apply ABA' sequences (commutators in cubing parlance). Very reminiscent of something between Lars Petrus' and Ryan Hei
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I'm pretty sure there are a few ways to do this: try inspecting the html of the page, you can find an xml url there. There used to be an 'export to rss' option buried somewhere in the sidebar, don't remember if that stil

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