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by sgentle 7y ago
The feeling you're describing is called anxiety. Some anxiety is normal, but constant anxiety that interferes with your life is a problem. I think it'd be worth trying that label on: call it anxiety, and ask "how do I reduce
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I think the premise of art as a constraint satisfaction problem is probably incompatible with "getting it", at least in as much as there's anything to get that can't be got by import scipy.optimize In any field where peo
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This looks like it: https://github.com/nortd/driveboardapp
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This cluster is pretty spectacular: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=DarkFuturology Edit: oh wow: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=Jung
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I liked this article, but for anyone who suspects they might have ADHD and is looking for a more concrete plan of action: 1. Take the ADHD Self-Report Scale screening survey. It's been extensively validated and it's only 6 questio
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> I think it's still a form of sexism to assume women are the ones who need to care for a child. Well, certainly nature is sexist in that only one of the sexes is able to gestate a child. Perhaps that will change someday. However, f
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I was curious so I put together a chart comparing Baker, Eich, James Cook (the treasurer, not the explorer), and a baseline of 500k with a 10% raise per year: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR
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If it helps, remember that paradoxically the better you're doing the blunter the criticism will be. If this were some fledgling little podcast run by a nobody, it would feel cruel to criticise too harshly. But this is the freakin'
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"publishers across America make significant investments, at no cost to taxpayers" is an interesting claim. As I understand it, the majority of journal subscription revenue is from libraries and universities. Are they not taxpayer-
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I can only aspire to build something worthy of such a waffling, incoherent takedown. The author seems confused about what Brave does (it doesn't inject ads into websites), confused about how its ads are different (private because the t
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Competitive gaming is a particularly good example of this. I followed most of the rise of Dota from trashy Warcraft 3 mod to Valve's multi-million-dollar-prize-pool juggernaut. The first few crops of Dota millionaires all had the same
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That may be true, but is not the language used in the phone legislation: > (1) The driver of a vehicle must not use a mobile phone while the vehicle is moving, or is stationary but not parked [...] http://classic.austlii.edu.a
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Okay, I think I've got this figured out. Can someone check my working? https://imgur.com/a/GVdsG7r Color key: Green: Apple set-top box Yellow: App for Apple set-top box Orange: App for other Apple de
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If I'm reading the issue thread correctly, it seems that a big revision of the hit testing code was being field trialled (ie enabled for 1% of stable users) and a fix to that code in Chrome 77 caused a bug for the other 99%. Unfortunat
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I am very excited about this update. ZeroTier is a great project that, at least as I use it, would be best described as "Hamachi for sysadmins". Just one command, zerotier-cli join <id>, connects your machine to a layer 2 VP
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I've noticed a pretty heinous conversational pattern develop out of interruption sometimes. In theory, the best way to conduct a church-of-interruption exchange of ideas is big-endian: you begin by summarising your idea and only then f
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I'm not cheering. I would much rather live in a universe where Stallman didn't "I'm just saying" himself out of his own organisation. I don't even like him that much, but I think he represented an important voi
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That analogy is the digital equivalent of breaking into my house and relieving yourself on the carpet. Any time someone is paid to say something to me, I reserve the right to not listen. If I value what someone has to say, that value is non
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I feel like the role of a standard library has become kind of overloaded. Back when you had to manage all your dependencies yourself, having that baseline of functionality bundled with the language and maintained by its authors was a logist
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I wonder if the privacy threat model includes being able to prove that you used incognito mode at all, when, or how much. I can imagine all sorts of leaks in that regard (how many incognito disk files were created, size/ctime/mtim
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> I do not assert superiority and I also don't make baseless assumptions about strangers on the internet. > I am in management, possibly longer than you have held your career. I'm afraid these two statements are not compatib
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> as simulated beings improve their own efficiencies, the savings from improved algorithms reduces for the simulators. That is such a fascinating idea. A universe only running at the level of abstraction we can understand it. Perhaps New
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From observing this interaction, it seems to me that your quickness to assert superiority is a likely explanation for your criticism being taken badly. Constructive criticism makes the other person better. Do you want them to be better? Or
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I use "double and add 30" (or "minus 30 and halve" for F->C). The accuracy isn't that great, but it's within single digits between freezing and boiling. More than good enough to parse "oh my god it was
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I'll always upvote Dave Ackley. His vision for computing is so audacious it seems unbelievable. Global consistency? Don't need it! Determinism? An illusory safety blanket for wimps and suckers! Sure, everyone talks a big game abou
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Your honour, I did not sign this contract. My pen signed it – I merely held the pen.
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> we can’t say anything more than "roughly order of magnitude" This, to me, is the core of it. "10x" is just a shorthand for the compound interest of good decisions. Nobody would be surprised to learn that teams with
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More general questions I would consider asking: 1. It appears there was a safe path with more safety and scrutiny, and a fast path with less. In this case, over time, the fast path became routine. Are there other places where this pattern c
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If you want to get off at every stop on the nostalgia train, Slashdot keeps a story archive going back to 1998: https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keyword=&year=1998 Stand-out titles include: "Nintendo-6
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I would be jaw-on-the-floor shocked if you were banned for your comment, and I think the suggestion otherwise gives your ideas a "too hot for HN" cachet that they haven't earned. There is no evil empire hunting down the reneg

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