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by souprock 6y ago
Real life sine wave: ocarina Real life sawtooth: violin
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by souprock 6y ago
OK, done. I read up on both. (and had earlier; I'm not unaware) Still I see no difference. There is none. Superficial syntactical differences do not matter, unless you'll agree that LISP can't do addition. BTW, in LISP, actua
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by souprock 6y ago
You aren't calling them strings, but they are. I didn't specify "NUL-terminated ASCII" or anything like that. Call them S-expressions if you prefer. It makes no difference. C++ can manipulate itself. Granted, you'll
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by souprock 6y ago
There is a fun program that can display this sort of data as you play notes with your ordinary QWERTY keyboard: https://github.com/kevinacahalan/piano_waterfall It's portable to Linux and Windows at least. It won&
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by souprock 6y ago
You mean a toy LISP or Scheme? Any serious LISP system uses a compiler. It compiles and runs strings. The "eval" creates native binary executable code. No decent-performing system totally skips compilation. You just don't not
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by souprock 6y ago
It's my anecdote, which is every bit as valid as your anecdote. I don't know or really care how much my employer pays for the health insurance. My pay went up, not down, when they started paying 100% of health insurance. I skip mo
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by souprock 6y ago
It's really not different, particularly the first example. If you're going to claim it is different, then I claim that LISP can't do addition. When you have (+ 1 1) that is something completely different, because you have the
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by souprock 6y ago
Doing "code as data" doesn't seem too difficult. The obvious way for C++ would be to link with llvm. That would let you generate strings of C++ that you can then compile and run. Being less strict about the requirements, it i
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by souprock 6y ago
Not sure how else to make sure you saw this, but FYI there is an answer to your comment on a different HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285917
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by souprock 6y ago
FDR supplied the Soviet Union with lots of Western tech, including aircraft.
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by souprock 6y ago
So, to fix the Big 5 tests: 1. Write up 32 profile descriptions, each with an inoffensive name. 2. Come up with less-offensive names for the Big 5 traits. You can't politely call somebody neurotic, even if it is true. Most people would
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by souprock 6y ago
It was changed the other way. I originally posted with your suggested link, but then moments later it was a "404 Not Found" error page. Your web site might be unreliable. Also, until I found the other link, I was unaware that ther
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by souprock 6y ago
The article covers reproducibility. The test does reliably reproduce results, at least if you don't quantize to boolean. Jung doesn't matter. Being a cash cow doesn't matter. There is nothing in the field of psychology with b
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by souprock 6y ago
Not that correlation with Big 5 should be a determining factor, but... The chart in the article shows that E/I is strongly correlated with extraversion, S/N is strongly correlated with openness, T/F is moderately correlated w
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by souprock 6y ago
Check the math in the article. (the correlation tables especially, both against the "Big 5" and for repeatability) If Myers-Briggs is not science, then the "Big 5" personality traits are also not science. They are tied t
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by souprock 6y ago
I think the naming is intentional. The titles have to be short and simple, and none can be shameful. If you pick a shameful-sounding title like "neurotic" in the Big 5, few people would willingly admit to it and you certainly can&
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by souprock 6y ago
It moved, and I can't change the link. I need dang to help. Here: https://dynomight.home.blog/2020/06/12/in-defense-of-meyers-...
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by souprock 6y ago
This now works: https://dynomight.home.blog/2020/06/12/in-defense-of-meyers-... I think they just happen to be reorganizing at the moment, without leaving a redirect.
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by souprock 6y ago
tl;dr is: this holds up as well as the "big 5" mathematically, but the naming avoids unpleasant terminology and the usual binary bucketing makes discussion quick and easy
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In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)(dynomight.net)
136 points by souprock 6y ago|332 comments
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by souprock 6y ago
Well, those are my costs, as paid by me. I suppose my employer could have given me a raise instead of deciding to fully pay for the health insurance. The line item on my paycheck is gone now, and I didn't take a pay cut to make that ha
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by souprock 6y ago
Eh, how many hours is your build? Is a daily build possible, given a normal day on planet Earth? When I worked at a place that normally had 8-hour builds and sometimes had 30-hour builds, it wasn't bad. Building the software could be d
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by souprock 6y ago
If the GMail team understands how to write performance critical code, then there must be something else to explain why they no longer do. Hmmm... by making old hardware unusable, they cause hardware upgrades, and somehow that drives licensi
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by souprock 6y ago
IMHO, neither is the most interesting work. There are some really interesting jobs writing software for machines with life-and-death consequences. Imagine knowing that your software is implanted in a human, or that we rely on it to prevent
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by souprock 6y ago
I feel like human noises within your apartment should not be cause for eviction. If other people can listen to you, then the apartment is substandard and your privacy is at risk. Those walls are supposed to protect you from having neighbors
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by souprock 6y ago
Well, that's your anecdote. My anecdote: Health insurance went to zero. Back in 2001 there were copayments and my employer would deduct from my paycheck to purchase coverage. Rent went to zero, or $266 if you count property tax. Back i
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by souprock 6y ago
TI calculators often have suitable hardware. If you get a TI-84 Plus CE with older firmware (not locked down) you have a particularly good device. It has an EZ80 processor. You can put the EZ80 in a Z80-compatible mode. You could even pop i
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by souprock 6y ago
power supply fan, case fan, cpu fan, gpu fan, etc.
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by souprock 6y ago
It's explained at the end of the Eagles song Hotel California: We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!
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by souprock 6y ago
Want to help? This would matter: SDCC still doesn't really support the EZ80 chip found in things like the TI-84 Plus CE calculator. You can generate code for the Z80 emulation mode, which only has a 16-bit address space. The EZ80, in n

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