tikhonj

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by tikhonj 5y ago
I used to use Quora a lot and that was pretty much Quora's mission statement. I can't find an explicit comparison to Wikipedia, although I've definitely seen that somewhere. But here are a few highlights from a post the found
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Writing is a great metaphor: there aren't any hard-and-fast rules and there's certainly a subjective quality to it... but also, some writing is clearly better and some writing is clearly worse. Maybe there is no such thing as &quo
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Google's operating income is like $50B. A more proportionate question would be whether I was willing to pay $10 for a reusable shopping bag since it's marginally better for the environment compared to a free plastic bag—and the an
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Yep. The cool thing is that installing a binary version of a source package is totally transparent from Nix's point of view—it's not a different entity, it's solely a matter of caching. If you're building a package that
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> I do think people give the language itself to much grief when the problem is more the library side with the copious override shenanagins and other stuff. I sympathize with this, honestly—the separation between Nix the language and Ni
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Yeah, I've had that similar experience too, and I'd love to see an approach that can fundamentally improve on this axis. The way I see it, it's the foundational ideas that are important—but there are a few key principles beyo
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That's true. I guess I see it as the difference between the system and what I'm doing with the system—it's like having a database system where I'd want the config for the database to be totally reproducible and immut
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I've been using Nix and NixOS for a while and I've seen four core advantages: 1. Nix store: what the article covers: multiple versions of the same package, "virtualenv for everything"... etc 2. Reproducibility: because
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The Tweet you linked seems to have a totally different issue with the announcement. Here's the follow-up Tweet: > It’s so depressing to read about Andy Grove’s brilliant and expert pivot of Intel from memory to processing and then
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It doesn't mean they're wrong , but it means there is no reason to believe they're right either. Doubly so when there are a lot of other plausible systematic reasons for companies to do something!
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I do not think that it is obviously false, I think it is not obvious that it is true.
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People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. > People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've
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I mean, if I were running a small business and needed to run my own Mailman instance, I would pay those prices—or even substantially more!—in a heartbeat. And I'm technical enough that I could manage Mailman myself. It sounds like yo
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My experience has been that systems where people's job is to "finish tickets" actively contributes to this attitude. Even if somebody agrees in principle that it's the team and business goals that matter, what's get
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When I first started working with my psychiatrist, she had me try several different stimulants and I found that the effect was surprisingly different for different formulations. My experience with a generic for Ritalin was a lot like what y
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Velocity is relative, so maybe the real trick is to convince your competitors to use gRPC and Kubernetes :)
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Strikes me that the person not doing good work here is your boss and, probably, your manager. What did the meeting you have actually accomplish? How will it help you or the rest of the team improve? If the project or the timeline are so i
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I've done a lot of Haskell, and my approach tends to be a mix of the two. There's a natural split: • types let me play with the architecture and interfaces top-down • the REPL lets me write more complex logic bottom-up Usually the
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I originally went to see a normal therapist because of some issues I was having; ADHD wasn't even on my radar. She's the one who first pointed me at the issue, and I didn't even believe her at first! Once I read up on ADHD an
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> I’m a professor now and allow students particular freedoms along these lines, like wearing headphones or skipping lecture for the recorded one. I recently had a student who was able to participate more and keep up with the lecture muc
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Everyone forgets things, but amnesia is still a distinct condition. Everyone has times when they're less motivated, but it isn't depression. Everyone bleeds when cut, but that's not the same as hemophilia. Everyone has headac
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You could say "underpaid and undervalued so they leave" which places the agency in the right place and covers strictly more situations. You don't need to be actively recruited in a market with pay differentials this larg
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Emacs has a standard shortcut for moving around in terms of paragraphs, so you don't need to customize anything. It's these semantic(ish) movement commands that really let keyboard navigation shine—moving around in terms of paragr
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It sounds like you're saying that anybody who wastes my time deserves death? Pretty sure busybody neighbors would be far ahead of thieves in that line...
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Seems pretty similar to functional programming in that respect. When I write code in languages like Haskell, I tend to focus the most on two things: 1. The conceptual organization of the code (≈ layout) 2. The interfaces between components
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> Sonia did not allow us (the engineers) to talk to upper management, so she handled the translation herself. In some cases she was worried about macho engineers who competed on how fast they could do something: That strikes me as incr
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At least in CS venues, page limits disincentivize formatting that takes up more space—even when it's more readable.
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Depends on the service? I've maintained a service used for supply chain planning where an outage during business hours needed addressing, but an outage over a weekend or holiday wasn't important. Being able to set up company holid
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I had R working with Nix on my work Macbook, but this was on a version of Nixpkgs from several months ago. Of course, one of the upsides with Nix is that I can look up the exact version of Nixpkgs that was working for me because it's i

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