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by serpix 8y ago
some-> (threading macro) and the fact that you can put an s-expression _anywhere_, these two language fundamental features alone put lisps way above c-style languages. You can laugh and continue sipping your espresso while reading the JS
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by serpix 9y ago
for a LISP using meditation practicing hacker reading this is incredible, the same insights written down by someone else. > You do not feel physical sensation, consciously or subconsciously, without an accompanying thought or emotion. th
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by serpix 9y ago
On top of all that is going on in traffic you would add interpreting one more abstracted symbol to your cognitive load? The situation can change in milliseconds during driving, you can never ever be entirely sure nothing unexpected could ha
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by serpix 9y ago
In Finland this is the only way to get anybody even slightly competent to get something done.
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by serpix 9y ago
it is the knowing and experience of no self / anatta. You've been told this and nothing compares to experiencing it as a certainty and truth. That the you you thought you were is not real and never was. Suddenly there is an existe
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by serpix 9y ago
- what do you like doing? - how are you as a person, a coworker - are you able to ask for help? - can you hold a conversation? - how do you learn? - describe a failure in your career and how it went from there all this is for the interviewe
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by serpix 9y ago
re-frame is the uncrowned king of web dev at the moment, there is nothing like it out there
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by serpix 9y ago
as a recent burnout recoveree, it is possible at this point you have already lost a significant portion of your reserves and capacity to recover. You need to make immediate changes which allow you to recover energy. Burnout recovery is pain
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by serpix 9y ago
How is Common Lisp for SPA development? I tried to look for anything on either Racket or CL side and pretty much a dead wasteland on that front. I've used re-frame ClojureScript for a few years now but would like to dip my toes in CL,
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by serpix 9y ago
As someone who used re-natal previously I'm looking forward to trying this out!
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by serpix 9y ago
exactly the same. Just one nights poor sleep and the overcompensation of the mind makes life a living hell. Anxiety, depression and feeling like in a haze is absolute torture.
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by serpix 9y ago
After three weeks of writing Javascript I don't understand how people bare with writing so damn much of it. I need to rest my hands from all the damn typing and reorganizing parentheses and braces, moving functions and typing return al
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by serpix 9y ago
And full of missing return statements and corner cases. if it only were possible to put an expression anywhere you want :(
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by serpix 9y ago
always mapv when doing I/O on the backend and always extra vec when returning sequences in the frontend
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by serpix 9y ago
I've had fallen arches since a kid and was told I can never be a runner and I'll have a tough time with my feet. Nowadays I run mountain ultra marathons and my feet are fine, my flat arches give me no trouble at all. Fallen arches
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by serpix 9y ago
I've come to the realization the key difference is working code needs to be an order of magnitude more robust than hobby projects. There is a major difference in energy needed to get there. Spending this energy costs and there comes a
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by serpix 9y ago
say anything to another person starting with "you .... " will immediately bring up defenses and come off as argumentative and passive aggressive and all kinds of boundary violations going on there. There is no harm in saying what
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by serpix 9y ago
I'm already quite interested in resizing wide images to square images for Convolutional Neural Networks training
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by serpix 9y ago
This here is why estimation of tasks (in software) is IMHO futile hand waving. There is always unknown unknowns, snags and hangups which may surprise everyone. Everybody who actually creates or makes something can agree that that stuff is h
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by serpix 9y ago
Chemical imbalance theory still disproven
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by serpix 9y ago
Chevrolet Volt since 2009 is like this.
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by serpix 9y ago
Divorce, second breakup from a BPD person, meditation, tantra, yoga and ultra running. There are moments in ultra running and tantra that transcend everything, a glimpse of enlightenment and the simplicity of life that make you get through
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by serpix 9y ago
maintainability is irrelevant if the whole site can be regenerated in seconds with the new changes required. I'm okay with this though. Creating websites is tedious and is most analogous to cranking a handle as it is a learnable skill.
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by serpix 9y ago
Have you ever wondered why in our society when people stop taking their medications a significant portion of the population will go mad? The crux of the problem here is trying to conform to some ideal of what a good person is and using drug
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by serpix 9y ago
They might have been burned out. At the stage before your body prevents you from getting physically to work your work output takes a very serious nose dive.
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by serpix 9y ago
The new rMBP is about five hours if you don't touch it at all. under 4 hours if used for working. It is a step down from my previous 2012 model which is a damn shame.
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by serpix 9y ago
all the words from scrum: Standups, sprint, dailies, retrospectives, epics, tasks..
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by serpix 9y ago
The kids will only learn that it's okay to sacrifice yourself as well. They will learn to do the same and the cycle continues. If she really wants her kids to have a better life she should start from herself.
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by serpix 9y ago
Thank you for educating the discussion on what meditation is and isn't. Western culture/medicine seems to have fixated on meditation being only mindfulness which is just one facet of the journey inward.
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by serpix 9y ago
Connection with nature in my opinion does not equal knowing the names of all of the life found in nature. Connecting with nature means dropping your misguided identification as being somehow separate from nature. Experiencing the unmistakab

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