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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Google “Dasein”
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
You can override the relevant dunders, but why would you.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Zizek’s “Less than nothing” makes the best case for Fichte. If you know Zizek as the media clown he presents himself as, Graham Harman’s “Tool-being” (a book about something else entirely that briefly surveys other philosophers and gives a
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I have a blog that doesn’t get that much traffic but is easy to find on Google (and I use the same pseudonym on GitHub which is work visible). I’d say it’s “off brand” (I’m supposed to be a business consultant on data wadda wadda wacca) but
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I alias cd to pushd but half the time I forget to popd. It would be cool if there was a tool like this that would produce a menu from my pushd queue.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Android Karenina did it for me.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I find the whole dominant submissive thing misleading. I’m sexually submissive (or at least that’s what populates my fantasies) but tend to be more dominant in real life. Then: women tend to manage day to day life with me and “tell me what
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I expected this to be about Shark Tank somehow.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I was expecting Claris…
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
> not trying to pull fans away from the NY Yankees In this thread we’ve learned there’s a New York Red Bulls and a New York Football Club.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
As a South American fútbol fan: the <City> <Random GRR word> is very annoying. Just say “New York Fútbol Club”. See, it breathes already. Also make way for teams that are just called “Sports Association Firebug” for historically
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Docker?
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
“the math that I know is THE math to explain inflation, political instability and more”
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
You’re glowing, man.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Grows more relevant each year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy?wprov=sfti1
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Far-Right Anime NFTs(coindesk.com)
1 points by syntaxfree 4y ago|1 comments
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Side question: what’s something as simple as SQLite, but more of an unstructured key-value store? I’ve been using (locally) a Redis container for a very early prototype because it seems to be simple enough to use. I know you can query json
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Why?
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
The real L, as they say on Twitter now, is that we went so far on making scientific knowledge the only valid kind of knowing that fabulists must now come disguised as science (whereas in the past we all knew what Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, von D
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
Can you define custom syntax highlighting as easily as in notepad++? My use case was that I had one big text file for everything with some ad hoc format.
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by syntaxfree 4y ago
I loved “The Fabric of Reality”, but I fear (granted, from his Twitter, which can be less representative of his Good Ideas) Deutsch is at risk of going Dawkins.
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
Please divert all of your charity spending to archive.org
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
Theater classes, as a teenager. About 3/5 of the people were shy people; only 2/5 were looking to get into acting.
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
Context can be expresses with thin, somewhat redundant interfaces that group code around how they map to desiderata. Eg the meat in “matrix pseudoinverse” and “linear regression” is the same, but you can expose domain-meaningful abstraction
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
What you describe sounds like top down development (“in the small”). When you try to use it for bottom-up reasoning, you get Jupyter notebooks.
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
This is a cool idea. Also so if you switch tools like WMs you know what you used to have even if it takes some work to reconstruct what that was. But have such a tangle of glued together and custom written tiling WM rice that I can never sw
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
Overloading the asterisk is always weird because multiplication is expected to be associative etc etc.
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
Bravo! This comment might as well be Peak Hacker News.
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
Pattern clusters would be better. Like “… so you want to design a programming language, this is the Visitor pattern, the Dispatch…”
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by syntaxfree 5y ago
I keep having to repeat this: in my experience, fasting and food quantity restriction is seriously prodromal for mania. And a good unrestricted euphoric mania can ruin your life.

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