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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I’d not for nothing it’s good for the economy! /s
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
“Does life have meaning” is an nonsense question. You can choose to attach meaning to your actions and your environment. Anecdotally, doing so is very rewarding. You could say the very definition of “rewarding” demands that meaning of some
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
InterCity makes sense to me (inner vs inter). I’m guessing “sprinter” has more to do with being advertised for shot trips. Still silly though.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Meaning that the forum contains people who hold more of your own beliefs. You only notice the differing ones as political.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Why not let your child be a product of their times? Whatever name you pick it isn’t like your great grandchildren will think you picked a cool, relevant name for their grandmother.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
That was their foot in the door to the startup scene. Now they are venerable founders with a proven track record of AI-driven solutions /s
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Sounds like you’re in IT. Can yall install ad blockers for your employees? How well does that kind of thing go over? Truly curious.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Having some months food and water on hand for emergencies? Sounds great. Building a fortified bunker to protect your property when the government is overtaken by brown socialists? Less great. If prepping were divorced from reactionary dooms
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
What haven’t software engineers fixed all the bugs?
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
My gift to any team I work with is an integration test harness that usually has some kind of DSL for setting up state. This looks wildly different depending on the project. But my theory is that if tests are easy to write then it is easy to
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
There is something satisfying to my mild adhd brain about doing monotonous tasks. I used to work in a candle factory, and one of my tasks was cutting birthday candles to size and packaging them. In on 8 hour period i would package ~8000 can
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
> for some reason Because it was entirely^ the fruits of your own labor! ^well everything is connected, I guess you didn’t write ffmpeg nor are you responsible for the creation of video encoding or camera technology, but I’ll go back to
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Betteridges Law of Headlines kicks in here. Any advice about nutrition that only advocates for eating more of something without mentioning what else you should eat less of is probably bogus.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I do think that in a kind of way intelligence and “interiority” are related. I might have the same “amount” of consciousness as a worm but my ability to investigate my experience is (I think) undoubtedly greater. “A dog can miss his master,
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
It’s funny you say that, considering VC funding tends to elicit a “very specific” kind of business model—a kind of “consumer goodwill pump-and-dump.”
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I know you were joking, but what I was thinking of was that our DNA creates cells, but I don’t think that we would grow into proper humans without interacting with the rest of the earths environment. And there’s a lot more than 750 MB of in
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
To be fair that’s just the size of the installer
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I can’t wait for the near future where the interview is AI on both sides of the zoom meeting.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This is a shame that many gay people in professional spaces have to deal with every day. Sure sexual orientation is a protected class. But who on the HR team, the C-suite, your senior engineering team, etc. secretly thinks you’re a disgusti
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Many important figures of history have had these traits. That isn’t to say that they are good in the whole, only that it is not obvious that they are something so maladaptive that they get trimmed from the evolutionary tree. It’s only in t
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
It is not very satisfying to a philosopher to say “looks like this one’s already been figured out”. The original “not invented here” syndrome :)
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This article gives me the willies and I can’t exactly articulate why. I think this “luxury beliefs” theory is based on his interactions with Yale students. Yes they are privileged, but more than that, they are 18-22 years old. I’m not surpr
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Trading pain for fear is one approach I guess. I don’t know a lot of 1%ers without coin sickness.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This is amazing! I have tried using checklists and the like in trello and iPhone reminders/notes but like you say it is tedious to repeat. Growing up my mother was a checklist fanatic. Any time we would go camping or traveling there wa
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I use vim every day and use a completely different workflow that heavily relies on searching and (gasp!) mouse mode. I like “hjkl” movement for nearby characters but the idea of typing numbers to move around a document (e.g. “13k”, “4w”,…)
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
“Make the easy things easy and the hard things possible”
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I think you’re exactly right. In philosophy this Bayesian thinking is called “verisimilitude”, or to quote Stephen Colbert, “truthiness”. Hume and Wittgenstein did a good job in their own ways of elucidating why judgements cannot stem only
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I enjoyed him mostly for his crusade against philosophy purporting that the mind has something other than a physical basis. Modern day philosophers that want to resurrect the “mind body problem” and panpsychism and the “hard problem of cons
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Hey I didn’t name it!
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This algorithm is pretty neat. I wonder if for the use case outlined by the post they could get even better compression through the use of fewer significant digits. For the purposes of recording times, 0. 00768 is likely just as useful as 0

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