sethrin

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by sethrin 4y ago
I feel like that matches my experiences. I don't have commentary or mental projections, or stray thoughts: 'empty mind' is my default state. I'm not sure what tradeoffs this might entail.
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by sethrin 4y ago
Personally, I have exceptionally good factual recall and an extremely limited memory for personal experiences. I feel like I tend to have an unfiltered experience of the world, without any sort of mental commentary or projections similar to
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by sethrin 4y ago
> maintenance: 1 cent. $50 oil change every 6 months Sure, that's all the maintenance the average car needs over its lifetime. Totally reasonable comparison.
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Pupils Reveal ‘Aphantasia’ – The Absence of Visual Imagination(neurosciencenews.com)
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by sethrin 4y ago
Print media cannot "take down" content, but does enjoy a similar immunity as regards third party content. You should probably educate yourself on the subject, it would save you from making silly arguments.
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by sethrin 4y ago
I think you'll find that both print media and online media have substantially similar protections for third-party content.
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by sethrin 4y ago
Because intellectual property isn't.
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by sethrin 4y ago
No, Meyers-Briggs is fundamentally non-empirical, it has no empirical validity, nor was it derived from any empirical process. If you have a personal faith in its validity then I'm sure I don't mean to disrespect that.
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by sethrin 4y ago
I have aphantasia, so my experience of memories is generally closer to factual recall than sense experiences; additionally I don't have an inner monologue. Which is sort of why I asked: memory is not necessarily a record of our sense e
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by sethrin 4y ago
Meyers-Briggs is a fundamentally non-empirical model. I wouldn't recommend it as the basis for any argument or position concerning real world phenomena.
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by sethrin 4y ago
> full resolution What, generally, do you think this might mean?
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by sethrin 4y ago
Mentioning Al Gore in the context of climate change is unserious, although I'm sure it's good fodder for Facebook memes.
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by sethrin 5y ago
I like spacevim[0] and the vim plugin for VSCode. [0] https://spacevim.org/
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by sethrin 5y ago
Why stick with Java when Crystal exists?
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by sethrin 5y ago
Many people have a concept of human rights, which we contrast rights which are considered to be legal creations (legal rights). Frequently people are considered to have a natural right to life, whereas the right to vote or own a business wo
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by sethrin 5y ago
Thanks for the news flash from the 1970s. You may want to acquire some talking points from this century.
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by sethrin 5y ago
> A negative production value society member needs to be carefully balanced against a positive production value society member. This is overly simplistic. Someone providing child or elder care is providing social value in a way which sh
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by sethrin 5y ago
There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio. The "memory palace" technique is pretty useless to a person with aphantasia. Some people do, in fact, have different minds.
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by sethrin 6y ago
Mentioning that those charges were dismissed without providing the reason or context seems rather incomplete, at best.
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by sethrin 7y ago
Spacevim is very user-friendly. Or at least as close as vim gets.
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by sethrin 7y ago
Crystal uses llvm, and should be able to cross-compile to platforms llvm supports, presumably not without some trouble.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Thank you for being wrong--I learned things that I would not have learned otherwise.
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by sethrin 8y ago
WordPress can't really become better without becoming incompatible with itself. It was written just after PHP acquired classes, but chose to preserve compatibility with a codebase that predated that. It's its own ecosystem at this
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by sethrin 8y ago
I've used both Rails and Laravel fairly extensively. The Psy shell and Laravel collections library are quite nice, but not quite as versatile as Rails/pry. However, Ruby has a long way to go to catch up to the PHP interpreter&#x27
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by sethrin 8y ago
Rails is a web framework. It's an easy one to use, and often the way to express something is concise enough that I would feel okay saying that "Rails is a DSL for web applications". That would be a simile, however, and not li
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by sethrin 8y ago
I'm not aware that this has caused much consternation. I disagree that DSLs are a defining feature of Rails. There are other ways to implement DSLs besides `method_missing`, and rubocop and other style guides warn against using this me
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by sethrin 8y ago
Ruby does lend itself to writing a lot of functional code. One can write Ruby so that it looks very similar to Bash or other Algol-derivatives, but it's also possible to write code which avoids side effects, mutable state, or variabl
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by sethrin 8y ago
You can change the inflections if you need to do so. ActiveRecord by default considers fish to be an uncountable noun, so the plural would be "fish".
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by sethrin 8y ago
I used the same technologies, but neo4jrb did have a few rough spots. The change from v7 to v8 was a large, breaking change, and I ran into a number of (minor) compatibility issues with other libraries. As you say, the appropriate use of a
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by sethrin 8y ago
The issue is not whether Linux can be made to run, the issue is whether you are subsidizing Microsoft for that privilege.

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