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by wadd1e 4y ago
>It is entirely possible to tell if person speaks clearly, easy to understand, or not. Just thinking out loud here, but isn't correctness(grammar and spelling) the only thing we all(mostly) agree on? For example, someone well versed
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I am also confused about the "spatial disorientation" argument, I'm not a pilot but I know there's a good reason there's a primary flight display with an abundance of information( including vertical speed, indicated
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by wadd1e 4y ago
it took a revolutionary product(chatgpt) to even get to a point where we can think about using english as a "programming language". "Classical" programming languages have been around for way longer and have been alright
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I've been reading your replies in this thread, and I'd highly recommend you to just take a moment and reflect on what you've been suggesting to other commenters. Your replies have been ignorant at best and pure nonesense at w
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Oh no! he showed.... gasps emotion! Surely you can't rely on someone who shows emotion? The stereotype of "the man cries = we're doomed" is perpetuated by people who think like you. It's not like men are designed t
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Good lord, what's wrong with people? Why vandalise the project on Github? Everything about the situation, right from folks not understanding an obvious joke to vandalising the issues page is anger inducing.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I don't think the person you're replying meant "Any human" to be taken literally, but I agree with their notion. I think you're confusing wanting to do something and having the ability to do it. Enough people don&#x
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Thanks for the link! I'm definitely more inspired to write now than I was before.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
does it not have to represent a rational approximation of Pi? Real numbers in the set theoretic sense are defined as limits of Cauchy sequences[0], and since we can't quite store an infinite sequence, it has to be a finite approximat
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by wadd1e 4y ago
That's certainly the plan, I'll definitely keep that in mind, thanks.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Good point on the bit about getting involved in smaller communities. Thanks for the advice.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I did want to write tiny pieces once in a while to have a nice record of random stuff I get up to, but there was a post from a few days ago that about how much more difficult it is to get your writing out there that summed up my own problem
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by wadd1e 4y ago
That makes a lot of sense, I do attend clubs related to my interests once in a while but I suppose I should be a little more proactive about those.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Yeah what you said seems to reflect my own experiences so far, thanks for the perspective.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Thanks for the wonderful advice, I'll definitely be on the lookout for hackathons, that does sound like fun.
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Ask HN: How did you connect with passionate people?
14 points by wadd1e 4y ago|19 comments
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Yeah I see your point, but is that a product of an unideal work environment or a lack of passion? Mabye even both to be honest.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Reading this just made me question why there isn't a shift from typical leetcode style interviews to interviews where you're asked to do do things like find places to optimise code from a tiny toy app and debug it etc. It seems li
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I find solace in the fact that most of these people will not "succeed"(by that I mean becoming respectable, competent engineers who will have good opportunities readily available to them). CS is hard; quite a large chunk of these
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I wish this sort of thing was realistically possible; I think history has taught us that we cannot have nice things one too many times to pretend like this time is any different. Whoever owns ChatGPT/equivalent product in the future wo
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by wadd1e 4y ago
That reminds me that even now, in the UK, rape is legally defined as "when a person intentionally penetrates another's vagina, anus or mouth with a penis, without the other person's consent."[0] So biological females lit
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I think you and the person you're replying to just have different ideas of what you mean by "people". I think they'd be right in saying you can't speak absolutes and get away with it in a group of curious and non-im
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I'm not complaining about the visual appeal of the UIs, I think they look great. I think MacOS is a good example of iterating on your UI experience and improving it, but not changing it to the point where half your OS ends up looking o
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I have a bit of a perfectionistic tendency to 'start over' things over and over and do them again as perfectly as possible; the Windows side of MS feels like a corporate embodiment of this habit. They've done this sort of thi
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by wadd1e 4y ago
>The reflective attitude that similar terms are comparatively cleaner as they exist in a sort of bubble as "pure insults with no meaning" is a fantasy. You do raise a very fair point. I did want to argue that idiot and other su
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by wadd1e 4y ago
In my opinion, the "it's just a word" mentality can often be harmful. There's a reason we use words and language, it s how we communicate our thoughts to others and hence our choice of language is very important. As it t
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by wadd1e 4y ago
I wonder if it's worth adding a new `import lazy` statement for the next major release? I was about to suggest `import` being lazy by default and introducing an `import strict`, but that would fuel another 2->3 style nightmare.
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by wadd1e 4y ago
>Which becomes the same thing in airplanes. Pilots don't really know how to fly without instruments anymore. Well that's just a blatantly wrong generalisation you made there, curious as to where you got that from. Consider look
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by wadd1e 4y ago
Not the person you replied to, but I've thought about this question myself and I think I've come up with a half decent analogy to explain it. (Someone more qualified can help me iron out any flaws). Let's say there's a
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by wadd1e 4y ago
If you want some excellent(the best I've ever seen) resources to learn about mathematics in general, https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown arguably has the best content for learning about maths. His videos singleh

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