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by thefaux 4y ago
> It will have been created through scientific research and engineering, just like our own technology. It seems a touch hubristic to assume that an advanced civilization with technological capabilities far exceeding our own would have us
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> every program is either a compiler or a database or both!
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by thefaux 4y ago
I have read that North American indigenous people were known for having great teeth. Here is one random citation I found searching for indigenous teeth: https://drscottgraves.com/the-secrets-to-healthy-teeth-from-...
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by thefaux 4y ago
That's amazing. But luck is still important. I have a non tech background and got my first tech job through a friend I knew from a completely unrelated hobby. Less than a year later, our startup was acquired, making my unvested options
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by thefaux 4y ago
> Historically, that hasn't been an option. What about hunter gatherers? Even in the history of our more recent western ancestors, people have always made radical decisions to live lives outside of the mainstream. Religious fanatics
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That is a reasonable personal position but it's not universal. It implicitly seems to assume that a long life of relative ease and physical health is best no matter how that is achieved. Personally I'd prefer a relatively short li
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by thefaux 4y ago
> You get a massive bug catcher for free with TypeScript...it tells me their philosophy/priorities are completely backward. This is a superficial take. TypeScript is not free. You are adding a compilation step that takes time, slowi
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by thefaux 4y ago
> I don't know a single person who is an intellectual, scientifically minded, and openly religious. But you may well know people who are intellectual, scientifically minded and closeted religious. As this thread can attest, there is
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> arch support all the time only takes away from the muscle strength needed to keep them that way Years ago, I suddenly increased my walking and started having horrific pain in my arches. In response, I started wearing arch support insol
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It seems obvious to me that eventually someone is going to write a compiler for a language that delivers on rust's main value propositions (fast native code/memory safety/data race protection) but that compiles at least 10x f
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It is significantly easier to write a parser if you assume names don't have spaces in them. I also tend to think that names with spaces would be confusing to read as well: you'd end up with statements like this `x = foo bar baz (b
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> I meant it more like “but you’re not in prison, because you’re distinct from those who are”. This is a wretched assumption that dehumanizes everyone in prison by implying that they are a part of some lesser subspecies that does not des
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This sounds like a pretty clear message from your subconscious...
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Schopenhauer touches on this in his distinction between genius and talent: talent is the ability to hit a target others cannot hit; genius is the ability to hit a target others cannot see. Whether or not we want to elevate them to the categ
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This is interesting. It strikes me that if you think that you know a better language for writing a program than whatever your organization uses that there is nothing stopping you from writing your prototypes in that language and then portin
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> The concept of banning one tech or another in this way is backwards thinking and stems from ignorance of the power and beauty of market economics. This is a one-sided view of markets. One can both recognize the power of the market whic
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> Nobody cares what your code looks like. Nobody cares what your architecture looks like. Do I not count as somebody? ;) > Now it's your job as an experienced and intelligent engineer to make quick, thoughtful decisions on how to
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I use this technique of dropping things that I enjoy modestly but suspect may not be worth the cost. Among other things, it got me to stop keeping alcohol in the house. The nice thing about these experiments is that you realize that there a
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by thefaux 4y ago
I was recently reading Richard Hamming's The Art of Doing Science and Engineering which has a quotation (page 25) allegedly from the Buddha which I think gets at the heart of many of the issues described in the article: The Buddha told
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by thefaux 4y ago
> I feel startups are not like they used to be. I've had a similar epiphany over the last five years or so. Once you take money from the VCs, you are essentially just an R&D department of the VC collective with perhaps a bit mor
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Wait, people exit vim?! ;)
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The connectionist approach is disturbing to me when taken to its logical extreme, which for me is essentially a variation of the paperclip maximizer only the target is "consume as many resources as necessary to build the best approxima
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The truth of a statement is what matters, not who uttered it.
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Yes, I had a similar experience with a clavicle fracture 15 years ago. I saw a surgeon but somewhat surprisingly, she wanted to let it heal on its own if it could. Today my left shoulder is an inch shorter than the right and I have a knob w
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by thefaux 4y ago
This is incredibly impressive but I also simultaneously find it kind of depressing. In my not so humble opinion, typescript is already way too complicated and getting worse thanks to its velocity. A better approach would be to kill typescri
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Do we even have civics in most schools anymore?
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Physical sports also have a purpose that esports cannot adequately address: the need to discharge physical energy and aggression. There is something primally satisfying in defeating someone in say basketball that cannot be matched in my exp
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Reaction time and perception time are not the same. I can perceive latency at a much finer resolution than 150ms and find high latency bothersome.
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Interesting analogy. It is true that much, if not most, high end art is purchased as a speculative investment, just like crypto.
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I understand that and am challenging that mindset. We are all seemingly in a hurry to diminish ourselves on the basis of external value judgments that are often arbitrary or unbalanced. Why do we value extraordinary athletes over extraordin

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