sixo

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by sixo 10y ago
If each of us bore all the suffering in the world at once, we'd never get anywhere. You've inserted yourself in a conversation occurring a tremendous distance from the events, and it's not like the comment was even making lig
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by sixo 10y ago
3 fields, but each only at an introductory level.
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by sixo 10y ago
Speaking of reference, why don't you provide one?
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by sixo 10y ago
It just feels like 20th century americans didn't really value their time. They were the weird ones, apparently content (I don't really think that) to do all the pointless stuff they did.
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by sixo 10y ago
This is really good!
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by sixo 10y ago
Short text understanding? God, I just want a decent thesaurus.
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by sixo 10y ago
Two responses to my comment, opposite recommendations. I'm inclined to agree with you in general, but the contradicting opinions can't be good for newcomers.
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by sixo 10y ago
Civ seems to basically survive on its ability to capture the imagination, but doesn't offer much in terms of strategic depth, competitive multiplayer, or verisimilitude. It feels like it's open to a disruption by a more adventurou
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by sixo 10y ago
Not the parent, but when I was trying to learn R+R I kept getting confused by what they meant by 'state'. React state belongs to some component (whichever can mutate it) and is passed to children via props, and generally seems to
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by sixo 10y ago
Well, this sounds like what I keep wishing existed. I want it!
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by sixo 10y ago
His writing doesn't seem to convey that to me. On the contrary: there's a kind of pretentious of style that I find uniquely intolerable. Which is too bad, because I'd otherwise probably be pretty interested in some of what he
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by sixo 10y ago
Same. DFW at least plumbed some of the psychological deep-end that I (apparently) have as a white male nerd. Such as: some confusing feelings about class and the relative merits of high- and low-brow art, and this strong un-expressed emotio
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by sixo 10y ago
On a couple occasions I've tried narrating vignettes from my own life in a detached omniscient candid way, which a) makes me feel ridiculous, like I'm making fun of myself, but b) is sort of therapeutic, like I'm forgiving my
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by sixo 10y ago
Just for the record, reddit ran with it after picking it up from (I think) the police scanner.
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by sixo 10y ago
I think DC-style brutalistic buildings could look fantastic ... if they were covered in vegetation. That'd be so cool.
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by sixo 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if, except for cases of extreme violence, if video games (especially, much more than TV since the audience takes part in the action) and the like serve to pacify their audience in the long run. Perhaps a pacifis
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by sixo 10y ago
Better to take the gamble that your environment provides that nutrition! It's a good thing the gods made this world just-so for us, so we can leave in their hands the meeting of our basic needs. Better that half your community devotes
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by sixo 10y ago
But the coffee's bad, the shops, wifi, food, and drinks are overpriced and lack variety, the piano is off-limits, and nobody's rooted here long enough to invest energy in it as a place for community. What you describe would be gre
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by sixo 10y ago
One thing worth considering is that not everyone considers the same things to be worthwhile, but popularity is too coarse a metric to use to choose what to read. IJ was one of the most valuable (to me) books I've ever read, and I final
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by sixo 10y ago
A book of Garrison Keillor short stories from early in his career, called (I think) "Happy to Be Here". Pure hilarious americana, where everyone is fleecing everyone else all the time but they're always polite.
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by sixo 10y ago
I found that redux only made sense once I started using redux-thunk to dispatch and handle quite a bit of logic inside the action-creators.
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by sixo 10y ago
It might be an ideology of apathy if, once finding a plausible evolutionary cause for psychological phenomenon, you cease the investigation. Which you shouldn't. Shutting down a line of inquiry with criticism like this does nothing to
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by sixo 10y ago
What you've quoted of the parent, they were quoting to refute.
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by sixo 10y ago
I don't mean to be rude by saying this, but the truly-difficult advanced math - the stuff that's really hard to build an understanding of by yourself, because it's fairly distantly separated from any obvious applications or a
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by sixo 10y ago
I think it's housing, although there's a big hurdle to make it valuable since you need stuff for people to do first.
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by sixo 10y ago
I (like, I imagine, many people here) have never been interested in sports but managed to get very interested in eSports - itself a blasphemy to sports-culture - for a little while a few years ago, which has made me more sympathetic to spor
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by sixo 10y ago
I feel more creative after depressed periods, not during. The depressed period seems to provide me with a lot of like, empathic vocabulary to draw on afterwards.
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by sixo 10y ago
This is just about all the tech there is, right?
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by sixo 10y ago
Yeah. The notation should ideally have some obvious spatial symmetries/structures that correspond with the symmetries of the operation (sticking a smaller triangle in the corner doesn't LOOK like it cancels out, and it should.)
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by sixo 10y ago
Supposedly people who speak multiple languages can have dramatically different personalities in each.

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