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by sdwr 3y ago
I wonder if there is a word for this kind of trickle-down knowledge. I see it in games (big in Dota, even baddies are pretty good now), and suspect the same thing has happened in software. Not to say there aren't differentiators betwee
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by sdwr 3y ago
I want what I wear to have meaning. The problem with symbolism is that it only matters if someone is paying attention. The longing for clothes is really desire for a social circle that cares what I wear, and events that require meaningful s
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by sdwr 3y ago
Self-amputation and -mutilation is horrifying to me in a gut-punch, slightly titillating way. Kinda off-topic, but I'm trying to find a webfic that I read a few years back, about teenagers in a small town who become guardians of the f
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by sdwr 3y ago
I was violently beaten by a homeless(?) man under a bridge a few years back. I still remember the feeling of losing consciousness with each blow to the head. Going out was painful, but each time I "rebooted", I had a fierce joy fo
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by sdwr 3y ago
As a spur, a goad, a challenge. Like, the clock is ticking, and you can do better than this. Or you can't! I don't know. Pharrell Williams said once "There's more space in the negative"
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by sdwr 3y ago
The election is something that distance makes clearer, although 50 years might not be enough time. Think of the history of the roman senate. Truth is barely talked about, the narrative revolves around factions, power, and outcomes. Call it
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by sdwr 3y ago
Book smarts vs street smarts You're paying attention to the technical definition. "It's just an investment vehicle!" He's paying attention to the real-world outcome. Insiders made money by offloading bad investments
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by sdwr 3y ago
Seems right up there with marcus aurelius. I love the focus on bodily functions, feels ancient but timeless. What would a modern version look like? All the advice here has trickled down over time, and is taught to everybody growing up (in t
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by sdwr 3y ago
This is all armchair for me, but I think they have containers and sharding built in as well, which is the other half of the puzzle when it comes to scaling.
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They generated 50,000 statuses once, put them in a text file, and pick between them randomly. So not at all.
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In a typical architecture, the DB stores data, and the backend calls the DB to make updates and compile views. Here, the "views" are defined formally (the P-states), and incrementally, automatically updated when the underlying dat
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by sdwr 3y ago
Let me break my logic down: Assumptions: --------------------- 1. The average commenter here (me!) knows a little about nuclear fusion, and a lot about online tech news. 2. There are no new ideas. Background: ------------------------ This b
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by sdwr 3y ago
I'm not a fan of the monster metaphor, it blows the power disparity way up and doesn't leave room for reconciliation. Prefer thinking of the author as a pig instead, as in "men are pigs". In this case, instead of feastin
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by sdwr 3y ago
That was not a real question, it was a subconscious plea for elon musk to take over and make it work. "Shooting it into space" is a reference to how SpaceX disrupted the rocket industry through a "fail fast" mentality, a
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by sdwr 3y ago
I'll argue that "thinking in mobius" is simpler than thinking in circles, and more true to life than thinking in basic shapes. The core concepts in mobius-land are local curvature and global cumulative field.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Taken to the extreme, a hostile takeover looks like the crypto defi hacks - depress the share price, buy it with borrowed assets, then liquidate. To me that sounds like stealing. I'm having trouble imagining the reverse, where there&#x
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by sdwr 3y ago
Came here with the same nitpick. It settles down too slowly. Also takes too long to start moving after changing angle. So it's in this weird spot where it's both more + less reactive than real water.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Thats really funny. Part of the appeal of DFW stories is that they are perfectly mundane - nothing fantastical, implausible or scripted happens, the genius is him overthinking it. I almost don't mind if he made up, say, going to lobste
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by sdwr 3y ago
Thanks, was looking for this.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yes, everyone has addictions. For example, smiling can be addictive. Now, most people aren't "problem smilers", but for some it becomes a crutch and takes over their personality.
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by sdwr 3y ago
That's the flip side of pointless bureaucracy, wheel-spinning and busywork. When something properly important comes along, everyone is ready to make it happen.
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by sdwr 3y ago
It's about the tension between inner desire and acceptable behavior. A cafe is a fine place, unless you are out of work, friendless, with nothing productive to occupy your attention. Then the gap between what you are allowed to do (buy
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by sdwr 3y ago
Crooked is a bait? I read the original quote > “You shall love your crooked neighbor / With your crooked heart.” as splitting the difference between physically uneven and morally flawed. Selfishness - we put ourselves first in our h
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by sdwr 3y ago
Well I bought 1.5 pixels and 0 iphones, so, uh, add that to the data!
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Lower-class = can't Upper-class = won't The word "picky" demonstrates the social wrapper in action: lower-class "can't eat that food - I'm scared of it / it might throw off my digestion / not be
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Thanks.
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Yeah, this is great, cuts through a lot of the BS and kneejerk hate. > At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. feels related to >
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by sdwr 3y ago
Nice try, geek! In all seriousness, I believe that mastery is a learnable, transferrable skill. Knowing what improving feels like, what stagnating feels like, how much complexity to load on, finding the experts... There is nothing nerdier t
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by sdwr 3y ago
Interesting how you say "geek", because this is definitely the geek approach (this information is "out there" to be learned) vs the nerd approach (building mastery over the subject). Emotions are about other people, and
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by sdwr 3y ago
I never cared for sask berries as a kid (spoiled on wild blueberries!). Tried a few at the dog park last week, pretty tasty!

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