tygorius

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by tygorius 15y ago
I used to have the same view of where emotions come from. But after getting brain snapshots and diagnoses from medical doctors and a psychologist, I had to confront my personal history and conclude that habits of thought were only part of t
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by tygorius 15y ago
Sorry. No aspersions on your mental health were intended. I was using "you" in the general, hypothetical sense. You and I are not the only ones reading this thread. One of the things I learned from depression was that one (not "you") could
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by tygorius 15y ago
Been there, done that, got the meds. It taught me the valuable distinction between normal mood swings and out-of-whack brain chemistry. Seriously, if you have a strong bout of suicidal thoughts in reaction to flippant remarks such at Torval
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by tygorius 15y ago
Even magnified it's hard to tell from that photo, but I agree that honking big blue electrolytic capacitor indicates filtering of traditional low frequencies rather than the smaller caps you'd expect for a switcher. Still, if you're shippin
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by tygorius 15y ago
As a member of the last slide rule generation, I agree. The trusty slipstick was a calculation and thinking aid only. By not automatically handling units, for example, it forced you to think through the steps of your calculation. Back then
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by tygorius 15y ago
Heh. The ghost of Sam Clemens might beg to differ: "Among the first users was Mark Twain, who fiddled around with it before putting it aside. Yes, Twain did become the first person to submit a novel in typed form to the publisher, but that
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by tygorius 15y ago
In Portland, OR they can be found in convenience stores and Walmarts for 99 cents/bottle. If I recall correctly, the employee-owned Winco food stores carry them for 88 cents. I haven't checked to see if anyone will give a price break for bu
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by tygorius 15y ago
Thanks for the tip! I let myself get miffed at the "grow up" message and forgot one of the prime rules of the intertubes: there are probably smart people out there who have already solved your problem, you just have to remember to look for
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by tygorius 15y ago
Or with NoScript running in Firefox. Is requiring Javascript to read a directly-linked blog post a new blogspot thing? Hard to figure why it's necessary to just read some text. Agreed on the assessment as ridiculous.
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by tygorius 15y ago
Hmm, I seem to remember that story, but have it filed under 'Damon Knight'. I most clearly remember a scene set in the bathroom where the protagonist, the inventor who has realized the implications, shaves and then flips the bird to the mir
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by tygorius 15y ago
Sometimes my muscle memory winds up telling me it needs. That's how I wound up mapping both jj and ;l to Esc. The first gets used when I've finished an insertion and am about to pause to think (it feels more emphatic) while the second gets
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by tygorius 15y ago
I don't know that it's a right-brain vs left-brain thing so much as a preference in learning style: do you prefer to get the big picture first and then make it real with small chunks, or do you prefer the small chunks first and building the
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by tygorius 15y ago
It would be nice to see the article itself. I would be curious to see how/if they controlled for selection bias. That is, the summary indicates they took images of the brains of novices and experienced meditators. It does not indicate tha
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by tygorius 15y ago
> It's strange that nobody in this story seemed interested in studying why the program crashed. You are presuming the terms "never never land" and "just thrashed" refer to a crash, i.e. an abnormal termination. I read them to refer to
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by tygorius 15y ago
I agree that the fundamental concern was how to show something conceptual in a visual context where books and printed papers would be considered ancient artifacts. After watching a couple of scenes with Picard having several PADDs on his de
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by tygorius 15y ago
it is a task done so fast and effortlessly by the human brain, that we don't even think about it. It would be more precise to say those are the capabilities of one of the systems that comprise the brain. I think it's a mistake to lump the
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by tygorius 15y ago
This has nothing to do with AirBnB Yes, so far as we know, the persons who robbed and trashed EJ's home were not employees of AirBnB. In just about every other respect, however, this has everything to do with AirBnB. Four big points tha
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by tygorius 15y ago
Well, the context was smartphones. And "biggest" isn't necessarily a sign of health, as quite a few Finnish software developers recently found out. Given the huge lead that Nokia had in smartphone tech and their current trendline in the sma
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by tygorius 15y ago
Here's the thing, if you have no idea what their plan is, is it your fault for not understanding it or their fault for not articulating it well? I submit the pgbot scenario provides a third alternative: people can't understand their plan be
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by tygorius 15y ago
suggesting they're "character builders" is painfully pretentious. No, it's just clear that the author has a wider understanding of the issue (and more compassion) than you display. It's like criticizing people for only being able to do a
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by tygorius 15y ago
As has been pointed out you can always do what you want with your work, the question is whether you should be able to control copies of your work. While there is some romantic appeal to the notion of a Galt's Gulch where the special creat
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by tygorius 15y ago
No, the last sentence of the first quote from the judge's order says Oracle can't use any of those claims for existing products. As soon as Oracle comes up with a new product those claims are possible again.
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by tygorius 15y ago
Thanks for the links! This is one of the reasons I love HN: even an article that I have a <meh> response to can generate lots of useful responses and great links. (He said, awaiting the inevitable Vim post that will once again provi
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by tygorius 15y ago
It seems to me that you're conflating two assertions: 1) the original, "the US was behind the 9/11 attacks", and 2) your offered alternative, "the VP and a handful of others had specific, actionable information on al Qaeda's attack and did
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by tygorius 15y ago
Indeed, at least one of the lines was lifted directly from a film. When I ran across that all-caps line at the end of the please-don't-reply-all section, I couldn't help hearing it in Gene Wilder's voice ala Willy Wonka.
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by tygorius 15y ago
“We’ll just block all of EC2” seems not only excessively broad but, well, lazy. This conclusion bugged me a bit, in part because I'm old enough to remember when programmers considered laziness to be a virtue. But also because it's not evi
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by tygorius 15y ago
You might be interested in Lustig's lecture on YouTube then. About 2/3 of the way through he goes into how HFCS is processed in the brain. In short, you get many of the disadvantages of alcohol, without the pleasant side-effects.
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by tygorius 15y ago
While I think there's something to be said for Wadhwa's point in the context of the engineering field, in the larger context it seems pretty clear we've peaked in an education market bubble. Think about all those kids with liberal arts degr
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by tygorius 15y ago
This brings to mind Arthur C. Clarke's first law[1]. There's a difference between making the case that someone can do something because you have experience in doing it and making the case that someone can't because you haven't. There are pr
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by tygorius 15y ago
Ah, but for Dan it's not just a golf thing, it's a dedicated practice thing as well. Whereas before he had tried things as experiments and (at least in the field of commercial photography) become competent, this time the measures of success

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