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by wellpast 3y ago
100%. For COVID and other topics there is an unfortunately common mindset of "the public isn't smart enough to sort out truth and make up their own mind" which is patently incorrect and dangerous, really, because the people t
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by wellpast 3y ago
Yes, and I would go further and say that most anything said about COVID in the public sphere is going to be far more a political statement than a scientific one. Even something like "vaccines work" is far more a political statemen
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by wellpast 3y ago
> if you have enough information to accurately estimate a project then you've already done the bulk of the work This is false. I’ve learnt 10s of new UX frameworks in my career and it takes about 20 hours from scratch to become prof
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by wellpast 3y ago
What’s your domain? Are you working on a mission critical system? Are you trying to solve an algorithmic problem that is novel enough to warrant a publication after you solve it? If not, I doubt estimating is innately infeasible. If your be
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by wellpast 3y ago
I might be in a 1% of engineers that believe in estimation. Can you make a step plan for some deliverable? No? Then, sorry, it's not that planning is not possible, it is that you are simply not experienced enough. That's fine. The
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by wellpast 3y ago
When I read the OP's example rewrite ("Calling the Mailer") I find his rewrite to be far less patronizing than the original. Ironically, the original one -- with all of the supposedly "offensive" copy -- reads like
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by wellpast 4y ago
There must be a name for this phenomenon where someone sits in their academic study, spends time smartly and refinedly analyzing some aspects of social behavior, and among myriad possible theories they select the one where mankind, in gener
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by wellpast 4y ago
But Mary does have all this data in her room - she knows every last interaction of wavelength to eyeball to neurons from her studies. What doesn't Mary know in her room? You're proposing that you can codify that in some special (d
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by wellpast 4y ago
Local-first goes beyond privacy and offline, but nevertheless I think it serves those goals better in fairly obvious ways. I'm a programmer and artist that works with various non local-first tools (ranging from project management/
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by wellpast 4y ago
Where does "Web" come in here? All of the links are for local-first principles, CRDTs. One of the reasons I love the local-first movement is that it puts desktop back into the center of things. I want fast, rich creative tools int
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by wellpast 4y ago
But will there be a local-first Renaissance with desktop apps returning to focus? (Not sure - unlikely? - but, man, as a creative, I really hope so.)
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by wellpast 4y ago
Exactly. Totally baffled by the supposed popular reaction to parens. (However I use IDEs that match and color parens so maybe then didn't have such in the olden days referenced here.) Not having S-expressions is weird. Not being able t
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by wellpast 4y ago
I’d go the other way from some of the replies. Don’t go “meta” trying to read director intent etc. Instead watch a lot of movies beyond your normal set. Start acquiring a taste for films with deeper character and emotional complexity. Do th
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by wellpast 4y ago
For broad services and product lines, this is 100% correct. Change is inevitable and having a simple (cute) name allows collective semantics to float with reality as it changes. Of course for less volatile components, descriptive is useful
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by wellpast 4y ago
My circle is 94.2% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
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by wellpast 4y ago
Can/Should writers, actors, etc unions contractually obligate availability? Seems shitty for HBO to drop content just to avoid having to pay residuals.
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by wellpast 4y ago
By whose definition? You don't _have_ to define it that way. To _choose_ a definition that ropes _everything_ under "Physics" is an unnecessary move, it's more magic trick than grounded derivation.
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by wellpast 4y ago
I think what you're doing is just saying "there's stuff we understand" and "stuff we don't understand" and you're calling all of it "Physics". And then you say "some other biological or
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by wellpast 4y ago
Physics is a set of things we understand about the universe and often used to include some mystifying things, i.e. that we don't quite understand (eg Bell's theorem). To just claim that Physics has to do with _more_ than this - th
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by wellpast 4y ago
> that so far isn't identified ... then I don't see what would be left except metaphysic So out of all "that so far isn't identified", there are just two classes of things: (i) biological and psychological proces
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by wellpast 4y ago
You're making an assumption out of thin air here: that consciousness is somehow produced or emergent, or that if it isn't you're in the realm of spiritual or something. What's your basis for that assumption other than ju
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by wellpast 4y ago
Clojure marries the elegance of Lisp and functional programming with an extreme practicality. The practicality of it is precisely _why_ it is hosted on the JVM ecosystem. There is this very common reaction to Clojure (also reflected through
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by wellpast 4y ago
This is the story of our industry. We are so lucky and don't even know it. I've been privileged to pull substantial salary and equity outcomes at various tech groups with "top tier" engineers who get away with murder bec
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by wellpast 4y ago
Going to express a counterpoint. Maintainable/malleable software is mostly to due with the architecture of the code at any given point in time, not the sequence of commits that got it there. (I'll take all N,000 commits collapsed
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by wellpast 4y ago
Your last idea echoes the vibe of 2009's Rape Tunnel art installation: https://web.archive.org/web/20100105065446/http://www.artlur...
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by wellpast 4y ago
I need to know more here. This gentleman has a whole series of “TVShow” episodes, viewership / quantity tiny.
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by wellpast 4y ago
This is great, I love local-first [1] software. Are you using OT or CRDTs for real-time editing? Are you using any specific cross-desktop platform? (Electron?) [1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
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by wellpast 4y ago
Hell House (2001) and Zoo (2007) for presenting disturbing subjects & material that both resist neutral/objective-ish treatment and yet giving it such.
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by wellpast 4y ago
I agree that it can be like this. Acquiring expertise is like climbing a mountain. There are revelations in the process, and it is like reaching a beautiful vista and the joy of seeing things expansively, from a height. I wish I could have
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by wellpast 4y ago
Shame seems not to have disappeared. Contemporary culture wars invoke and wield shame effectively, so it’s still there. Perhaps it’s just become unmoored from its traditional groundings?

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