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by teucris 6y ago
The central thesis is excellent, but this really caught my eye: > Depression is usually catalogued as a mental illness, but it’s as much a metabolic illness as cardiovascular disease, which itself has significant mood-related symptoms. T
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by teucris 6y ago
I get curmudgeonly about the concept of “BLUF” (bottom line up front) as it works with most people but can be an absolute disaster in situations where (a) the decision makers want to have a say in the genesis of a solution or (b) the amount
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by teucris 6y ago
Something has been bugging me about x86’s lack of boundaries...could the boundaries be computed ahead-of-time and passed to the processor?
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Code.org receives $15M for equity-focused CS A curriculum(codeorg.medium.com)
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by teucris 6y ago
I agree with this and will add that a similar thing can be said for non-technical colleagues. The humanness is critical for maintaining good relationships.
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by teucris 6y ago
> Paradoxically, I think Flowrite could improve communication by making authors and readers do MORE cognitive work rather than less. I would love it if I could get recipients to actually devote cognitive work to my communications. Unfort
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by teucris 6y ago
Text is using a series of efficient pictures to communicate. I liken it to radix-based numbers. I could write 1,749 tallies on a piece of paper, or I could write the base-10 number. I have to learn decimal numbers: my intended audience need
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by teucris 6y ago
Yes. Not to say nothing exists though or that there is no meaning. To get really out of the realm of HN, no one thing can be proven to exist outside of our collective hallucination. That hallucination has reliable rules, thankfully, so thin
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by teucris 6y ago
I think facts, truth, unity, etc, are fundamental building blocks of our perception of reality, not reality itself. That doesn’t make truths or facts invalid. We all share some common perception of the universe, at a very low, fundamental l
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by teucris 6y ago
> One-ness is a physical property and that's why we can see it. We can see it, but does that make it a physical property or something that we impose upon the universe? For the rest of your statement, I don’t know if we can easily de
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by teucris 6y ago
Sure, but metaphysically, I’m positing that the whole concept of a unit or particle is a human thing.
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by teucris 6y ago
It seems you may have misunderstood my conclusion. All I meant to posit was exactly as you state: > Whether it’s still an apple is a question of categorisation and a human construct
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by teucris 6y ago
I don’t. I’ll do some research. The origin of this concept comes from discussions I had on identity, specifically the ability to separate the “self” from the rest of the universe, or to isolate some quantity of stuff and claim it’s an apple
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by teucris 6y ago
> assuming the idea of increment by one is solid. Therein lies the rub! Succession is a human concept. All math is a magnificent city built upon that one stone.
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by teucris 6y ago
That’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m glad you like it!
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by teucris 6y ago
“God made the integers, all else is the work of man” I’m not sure if even that is true. Integer counts and succession seem like human constructs to me. An apple isn’t fundamentally a single unit. If I take a bite out of it, is it still one
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by teucris 6y ago
I felt a tinge of elitism as well from the article - not quite as much as OP but it was palpable. I think stems from the fact that the author is instructing the reader on how to be part of the elite class of information connoisseurs, rather
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CellSol – A Network for Unity and Resilience(f3.to)
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by teucris 6y ago
Maybe it depends on the city and its situation. I’m in Seattle, and I feel like the areas with sharrows are consistently the streets where I am (as a commuting cyclist) tailgated by cars or finding myself (as a errand-running motorist) unab
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by teucris 6y ago
Being a cyclist and a driver, I see sharrows as a middle finger to cyclists. They are worse than nothing as they cause confusion, which then leads animosity between drivers and cyclists. I’m all about incremental measures to test theories.
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by teucris 6y ago
I don’t see how exposing a corporate scandal helps politicians whose job it is to pass laws to keep this kind of thing from happening. The article itself says that these companies sold their products in the UK because the regulations were
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by teucris 6y ago
I like maccard’s response better than mine: > measuring two developers and saying one is 10x more productive than the other doesn't mean that the first is 10x better, just that they are 10x better at what you are measuring under the
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by teucris 6y ago
There can definitely be a 10x difference in “full potential”. I think it’s super rare, and our ability to assess full potential is massively overshadowed by other factors.
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by teucris 6y ago
> 6. Not all programmers are created equal [...] In actual fact, the performance of one developer can be 10x or even 100x that of another. The author points this out as controversial, possibly because it might make people feed bad. I thi
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by teucris 6y ago
> "It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.
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by teucris 6y ago
There are tons of reasons to be having a hard time with kids at home during the pandemic. I don’t know if trying to control them is even in the top five for most parents.
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by teucris 6y ago
1) The launch grid (I forget it’s proper name) is an increasingly common pattern in touch-based music apps; I want to touch the Ableton one. Especially in live performance. 2)The form factor of an iPad makes more sense in my music setup, in
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by teucris 6y ago
I have been using Ableton Live for music production for over a decade, and I can say that if it were ported to work on my iPad, I’d use it every day.
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by teucris 6y ago
I think the key desire is that the intellectual property, built from publicly funded research, should not be owned by a single corporation. Production and distribution are of tremendous value and these companies should be rewarded for provi
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by teucris 6y ago
Also in the Pacific Northwest - a doctor once told me that at our latitude, the sun never gets high enough in the sky for humans to be able to rely on sun exposure alone to meet our needed Vitamin D levels.

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