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by scop 4y ago
One thing that struck me while reading The Iliad as an adult was how the gods' personalities and actions seemed to make the story more believable. What do I mean you ask? Well, they embodied many of the arbitrary and difficult-to-dis
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by scop 4y ago
This is a 100% honest question and is not meant to be antagonizing or mean spirited: At what point would you cease being “fully masked up”? What data or authority would you need?
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by scop 4y ago
One thing I have found helpful with my children is that they are introduced to things in an analog way. Board games before video games. CD players before Spotify. This will they have a tangible relation to something in a very limited way so
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by scop 4y ago
Eric Weinstein had a great segment on his Portal podcast about this very thing. I can't recall the interview (maybe with Balaji?), but if it comes to me I'll comment it. The gist was that he was talking about Covid and he observed
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by scop 4y ago
And here come the many comments from people who have not led several highly successful businesses, with complete ignorance of what Musk may know, pontificate as to why they know better.
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by scop 4y ago
That I automatically read “boiler explosion” in George Carlin’s voice teaches me how Thomas the Tank Engine is still alive and well in my subconscious.
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by scop 4y ago
I only read nonfiction until I was diagnosed with cancer. After that diagnosis, I have almost exclusively read fiction.
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Moby Duck literally broke my brain and soul when I read it for the first time last year. I still think about that book about once a week, with some sense of foreboding excitement/dread.
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by scop 4y ago
Outside of OS & text editor (vim), there is one tool that I use countless times every, single, day: fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) I can only wonder how much time fzf has saved me in the long term. In terms
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by scop 4y ago
Good points! I agree with your interpretation, but given that it is a novel I see several layers that are simultaneously true. One layer is the psychological drama as you indicate. Another layer is what I would call Captain Ahab's atte
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by scop 4y ago
I read Moby Dick two years ago and that book literally shook me to the core. Since then, I cannot help but see any whale reference as imbued with great philosophical and metaphysical meaning. However one of the most interesting aspects of t
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by scop 4y ago
Yup. I find their sales strategy deplorable as not only do they cold call like crazy, but their presence at conferences are all sales and no meat. For example early on in AWS Lambda’s life, DataDog was hosting a session at reInvent that loo
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by scop 4y ago
I would love to see AI's attempt at Ezekiel's vision in chapter 1.
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Wow I had no idea archeologists do this, but it makes perfect sense. Reminds me of a commented TODO in code when time or resources do not allow a proper implementation.
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Reading Hamlet as an adult simply blew my mind. It was one of those moments where you step back in awe that a single mind could produce a work of such depth, with so many layers, yet with a consistency and a wholeness. JS Bach is the only o
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by scop 4y ago
That's a great observation about teachers. I was fully convinced in late middle school that I was an idiot who had no hope to achieve good grades or a grasp of subjects. Then suddenly I found myself getting As in high school without a
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by scop 4y ago
That's a great question. I started out as a programmer having been a casual computer user through my childhood/teenage years. I never took apart computers or ventured into how they worked. Thus, when I decided to pursue this as a
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by scop 4y ago
This book was absolutely essential when I was first sinking my teeth into software programming. Things that seemed either arbitrary or completely mysterious suddenly made sense now that I had a contextual understanding of how computers wor
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If this delivers, it will remove the single biggest headache I've had with iOS in a family with non-technical members. Keeping an ongoing source of truth, backed up collection of albums amongst a family has been a huge pain. (and yes
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iCloud Shared Photo Library debuts on iOS 16 to help share family photos(9to5mac.com)
1 points by scop 4y ago|1 comments
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I wish him and the team the very best. Social media is an incredibly hard problem that by no means has been solved. I raise a glass to a man who has successfully tackled hard problems and seeks to make the future better.
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by scop 5y ago
“we can take advantage of the next generation of electric vehicles [so] that a typical driver will save about $80 a month from not having to pay gas at the pump.” - President Joe Biden, March 31, 2022
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by scop 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. I was unaware of that and have edited accordingly.
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It should be noted that this has not gone under peer review yet. While I find the news exciting, these sort of pre-peer-review press releases annoy me.
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Does 'curse amulet' prove the discovery of Joshua's altar on Mount Ebal?(m.jpost.com)
14 points by scop 5y ago|6 comments
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By "shield himself from the consequences of his activity" I think Elon literally meant "I don't want to get shot by some crazy person following my movements". No perfect solution, but I can get his motivation.
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by scop 5y ago
I find this to be incredible news. I used to think Elon-hype was stupid, but both (a) his achievements and (b) his mind have gotten me to be an admirer. Re (a) achievements, the man has basically bootstrapped space travel and electric vehic
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by scop 5y ago
This quote from Blood Meridian is one of my favorite in all of literature and I think capture McCarthy's magic. He has such great talent to describe simultaneously with vivid details yet inexact clarity/meaning. > It was the
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by scop 5y ago
I likewise agree. When I read both Melville and McCarthy, I'll often find myself mid-run-on-sentence and think to myself, "welp, he's gone too far this time" only to find, by golly, they pull it off in the end. What woul
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by scop 5y ago
I recently watched The Godfather 1 and 2 for the first time as an adult and was floored by the two movies (really a single movie, broken into two parts). A complete tragedy executed to perfection. The full arc of the tragic downfall of a ma

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