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by scop 3y ago
> This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems, and their differences will identify th
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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman (2019) [video](youtube.com)
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by scop 3y ago
Not nearly as important as Science, but I had a friend who worked at a noteworthy video game publication in the 90s who had many good stories of bribes, arm-twisting, etc from game publishers.
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by scop 3y ago
There is a large degree of “this is normal” that creeps into your mind. You begin to assume that all cities are exactly like it. You can’t comprehend it being otherwise. As a native San Franciscan who moved to DFW TX area, I vividly remembe
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by scop 3y ago
I likewise switched back to $20 Casio watch after a few years of Apple Watch. I loved a lot about the Apple Watch, but just couldn’t deal with the distraction and time suck of “let me see what time it is oh has anybody message me, my favori
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by scop 3y ago
I actually quite like the amount of dead space, as most time conversion tools I have used have been filled to the gills with information whereas I am typically only looking for one or two specific data points. To be honest, with many time c
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by scop 3y ago
I recently started to learn a new programming language and was thinking that CoPilot etc would help me in that regard. I was surprised to find the opposite: whenever I would pause to think about a solution, AI would be polluting my editor w
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by scop 3y ago
Amen. The prose is some of the best English one will ever encounter. There are lines in there that stop you in your tracks for their beauty, depth, surprise, etc. I will say that there were several paragraphs/run-on-sentences where I r
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by scop 3y ago
Why yes, that's the point. It is a tragic tale of hubris, but one of much more existential depth than what teachers will simply label as "Ahab is the bad guy".
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by scop 3y ago
That is a great question. The injustice was that his leg was bitten off by a whale. But the perfectly valid rejoinder would be "well that's just an event, not an injustice, as it was done by a non-moral creature because a whale ca
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by scop 3y ago
Moby Dick hit me like no novel before or since. A poem in prose form. Attention paid to the littlest of details on the ship, searching for meaning or purpose. A meaning or purpose unveiled in one chapter, but then refuted in the next. Ahab
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IA Writer in Paper(ia.net)
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by scop 3y ago
I really enjoy when libraries or languages have a “Thinking in X” post of some kind. I find it really helps orient me once I actually get to writing some code. If anybody has any “Thinking in X” examples that you have found particularly use
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Ask HN: How did you find your "preferred" programming language?
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by scop 3y ago
It's my birthday today so I might just not buy myself a little something.
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by scop 3y ago
Is this "HTML-based" or "HTML, based"?
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by scop 3y ago
My late father taught me three things I must do to be a grown man: - brush my hair - work hard at school & work - check Consumer Reports before buying a car
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by scop 3y ago
I played a ton of guitar in high school and UG was my go-to resource for a lot of stuff. I then stopped for a long time due to career, marriage, kids, etc, only to pick up the ol’ axe again this year. I dutifully opened up UG and was shock
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by scop 3y ago
I was giving the major FE frameworks an honest try until they all started to move to server components. Blackpill moment. “Wait a minute…rendering HTML on the server…I THINK I’VE DONE THIS BEFORE (with a lot less boilerplate insanity)”
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by scop 3y ago
I’m a longtime PHP/JS dev who recently decided to give Ruby and Rails a look given its influence on Laravel. The first thing I did was read the Rails Doctrine and, while I appreciated most of it, I thought "The Principle of The Bi
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by scop 3y ago
Glad to see this mentioned. Still keep it on my desk. This book strikes the perfect balance between reference and introductory reading.
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by scop 3y ago
Another option is that this doesn't replace the student's work, but the teacher's. The single greatest use I have found for ChatGPT is in educating myself on various topics, hosting a socratic seminar where I am questioning C
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by scop 3y ago
Hey man, I'm busy making a career here concatenating strings.
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by scop 3y ago
That and the lonesome father looking at photos of his (dead?) family in a dark apartment really left a bad impression from me on the headset that I can't shake. I will never "unsee" that. Sure, use it for work...but at home,
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by scop 3y ago
I see a windmill and I want it painted it black…
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by scop 3y ago
I love this, especially for Bach’s counterpoint. To be able to go through pieces I know at a speed I dictate, giving myself however long I want to “hear” the chords in their relation to the previous chords, is just magic.
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by scop 3y ago
> 5/20 I use a variety of AWS services every day. I actually got a higher score than I was expecting.
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by scop 3y ago
One of the things my father passed on as a critical part of mature adulthood: Consumer Reports.
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by scop 3y ago
Best hacker news comment of 2023 right here.
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by scop 3y ago
A mallet. Amazing how many uses I have found for it where a normal hammer would break or damage whatever needs the work.

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