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by sevensor 2y ago
Having a consistent code style and adhering to a set of linting rules is important, but that they exist is far more important than their particulars. I get bored very fast when people argue about the visual presentation of their code. Use
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by sevensor 2y ago
Although I love Arch and use it on my main laptop, if you’re like me and you have a closet full of geriatric thinkpads, Debian is great. The one thing Arch / pacman struggles with is long intervals between updates, so if I boot a machi
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by sevensor 2y ago
Also doctors can be compelled to sign enforceable, legally binding noncompetes. Unlike most of us, they have to move far away to change employers, thereby making competition in the health care space very difficult.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Every summer, my community pool has a cardboard regatta. Kids can use as much duct tape as they want to waterproof a cardboard box and paddle it 25 yards to the other side. Half of the vessels sink within a length or two and the kids have t
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by sevensor 2y ago
The point about edge cases intersects with the one about automating good practice: automate finding edge cases! Property based testing is way more fun than trying to dream up all the gnarly ways things could go wrong, and it’s better at fin
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by sevensor 2y ago
The misleading thing about this approach is that the decorated function is no longer Python at all . It’s another language with Python syntax. Which is a neat way to get a parser for free, but it’s going to set up expectations about semant
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by sevensor 2y ago
Stephenson at the time Snow Crash was published could write brilliant sentences, so he took ten thousand of them and strung them together into a novel. He matured a lot after that, although I think it took writing the Baroque Cycle to work
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by sevensor 2y ago
Beautiful
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m convinced Dan Brown read Foucault’s Pendulum and thought “cool idea, I’ll write two dozen sequels where the Plan is real and nobody is punished for their epistemological sins. Also what the hell is a semiotician? My hero will be a Sym
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by sevensor 2y ago
Not to mention the parallels with ancient fringe philosophical schools like the Cynics and Cyrenaics spinning off from the Socratic tradition.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Agreed, I wouldn’t call it the end either. But it’s a problem for our system of government and I think it’s worth calling attention to.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Balance of powers has nothing to do with party; it’s about the ability of one branch of government to operate without constraint by the other branches of government. It was instituted in the US by people who were trying to take lessons from
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by sevensor 2y ago
It may be easy to get mad as the Republicans for this, but there’s a clear bipartisan precedent here. Remember DACA? Might have been a good policy if Congress had enacted it. Bad precedent as an executive action though, because it establish
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by sevensor 2y ago
The evil genius of this move is that it gets everybody arguing about DEI, and we’re letting the continued expansion of absolute executive power centered in the president go unchecked. It’s not even about party; this started with FDR or even
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s the closing of the frontier. Pioneers opened up new territory, but now it’s mundane. Bankers, grocers, and town councils have all moved in. Streets have been laid out, fence wire strung, and the railroad has decided how you’ll get from
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by sevensor 2y ago
Python’s typing is so different from C’s that there should be a different word for it. Typing in C is about storage. Move the stack pointer 8 bytes to make room for my integer. Move it another 8 to make room for a pointer to a character. Wh
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’ve made friends with hunger, and it’s a weird head space. You begin to look forward to a good hunger the way you look forward to a good meal. Not any healthier than overeating in my estimation, and it puts you outside a lot of food orient
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by sevensor 2y ago
Could it have anything, anything at all, to do with cops hassling people who congregate in the street?
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by sevensor 2y ago
Determinism is interesting; I’ve often wondered how much benefit we actually obtain from pseudo-randomness, versus it being a way of coping with the fact that we don’t really have a convincing account of why GAs work.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Thanks, I’ll have a look!
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by sevensor 2y ago
Benchmarks. That’s one of the big problems in the field; since it’s so hard to get people to agree on what we’re even trying to accomplish with an evolutionary search heuristic, it’s difficult to measure performance objectively.
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by sevensor 2y ago
The Unix integration is so very good. I have keybinds to fmt for line wrapping and date to insert timestamps, and I like being able to pipe a selection to dc to do some quick math. It’s so easy, I do it without even thinking about it.
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by sevensor 2y ago
This already happened, decades ago. Xemacs was widely deployed for a while. For that matter, vim is the most popular of several editors that did this to vi. (Elvis, stevie, nvi, others probably.) At any rate, I think Xemacs is still more or
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by sevensor 2y ago
Kakoune does this too, and it’s amazing with a tiling window manager. On a big monitor, I can get 4-5 terminal emulators across, and in any of them, at any time, I can attach a kakoune client, copy and paste between buffers in different win
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by sevensor 2y ago
Talk to some retired people. The loss of identity can hit you right in the ego. You might think retirement sounds great, but I’ve known several people who thought that, and then un-retired. Other people seem to do just fine; I’m not sure if
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by sevensor 2y ago
What I found striking about Seoul was that there would be three rows of potatoes in between a ten story apartment block and a busy highway. Not a square meter wasted on unproductive grass.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Broadly speaking, the evolutionary computation literature is in a dire state. Terrible methods sections, nonsequitur results, endlessly tortured biological analogies. The real successes in the field are old at this point and a lay person wo
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by sevensor 2y ago
The article makes one of my favorite points about types: types aren’t there to constrain you; what they constrain is the complexity of the program.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Vtk is fine as long as you’re trying to build a visualization that looks like the ones Vtk anticipates you wanting. It becomes a pain when you want to draw things Vtk doesn’t expect. I do not recommend trying to embed it with complex Qt wid
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s not exactly overqualification, more misqualification. If all you have to say for yourself is “I have completed 23rd grade, look at all these papers I wrote,” your skills and experience, no matter how deep, have diverged from the needs

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