wellpast

16 ms·

121.
by wellpast 5y ago
Visual perception and perhaps touch because there is a general mutual exclusivity of visual and tactile 'things' (once you draw a boundary around them.) But taste, smell, and sound ... you can't so readily and purely taxono
122.
by wellpast 6y ago
This is a great tip, thank you.
123.
by wellpast 6y ago
I think you've already fallen for literalness as the only way to interpret or value anything. Which is unfortunate because all of the momentous truths in life (ie, that matter to corporeal beings, to us ) are not of the literal vari
124.
by wellpast 6y ago
Many a “writer’s” audience is a majority their mother. Sure, producers and consumers “find each other” but that’s no where near the end of the story. You have a flaw in your reasoning here. Not all that is true is falsifiable.
125.
by wellpast 6y ago
Wow. My oldest link is 2006. Was a bit of an accurate diary of that time for me. Cool.
126.
Learn Clojure by Example: Cljfx(blog.matthewdmiller.net)
2 points by wellpast 6y ago|0 comments
127.
by wellpast 6y ago
I went to Action Park (New Jersey) park back in the 90s. I recall “reverse bungee jumping” (you are launched up & pulled back by elastic bands), and cliff jumping (just a high plank over water—that’s it; pretty sure there were some ma
128.
by wellpast 6y ago
Yep, brilliant. I wish there were a tool that could go lowercase all my passwords out there so I could get that extra security.
129.
by wellpast 6y ago
> Zach Tellman is basically Microsoft's idea of a smart person. To be fair (and to contradict your point), you are better and smarter for saying this, it's hilarious. > In reality, of course, the author has no claim to judge
130.
by wellpast 6y ago
To the ‘ad hominem fallacy’ people: the opening paragraph states its entire motivation and thesis: Pg’s recent ‘reactionary’ political views and then purports to figure this out. Then it mentions nothing more about said views instead - yes
131.
by wellpast 6y ago
I'd be more inclined to take your point if the lede wasn't PG's current political essays, and the meat wasn't an extensive berate of his naive ideas about programming from 20 years ago. Anyone that needs to be 'told
132.
by wellpast 6y ago
> When it comes to politics, his opinions are poorly-thought-out, self-serving, and generally worthless. As are 99.999% of everybody's. Except what you're saying (ie your judgement about PG's 'poor' political thi
133.
by wellpast 6y ago
I don’t understand the motivation for categorizing someone like PG as a un/serious intellectual. Are we to ‘believe’ all ‘serious intellectuals’ and disregard the ‘unserious’ ones. There’s a clear attempt at this weird kind of classifi
134.
by wellpast 6y ago
Winston Smith?
135.
by wellpast 6y ago
Lots of votes, but little ‘attention’, as in: little discussion. Why? Not because of “monarchy” but because there’s little intellectual material in this hit piece. It’s pure ad hominem.
136.
by wellpast 6y ago
I haven't followed PG much either of late but it was recently brought to my attention by a coworker that he is now on the side of the 'bad guys'. I'm all for substantial criticism and discussion, and am always desperatel
137.
by wellpast 6y ago
You need both. If you make a bunch of art but don’t try to make it quality, you’ll grow very little. You need to try hard many times and fail, then you get to mastery and quality.
138.
by wellpast 6y ago
Hmm... Methinks your missing sense of humor would disqualify you from the same 99%.
139.
by wellpast 6y ago
> Presidential Plinko takes that uncertainty and translates it into Plinko boards with similar uncertainty, so that you can experience just how uncertain predictors’ forecasts are. Nope. To fully demonstrate how uncertain predictors’ for
140.
by wellpast 6y ago
I think this is all contextual to our times. We just have so much disagreement on what we are sure is moral/immoral. If the different political sides had more balance, I think it'd make sense to permit a modest bit in the workplac
141.
by wellpast 6y ago
Your Google skills must be short. Clojure community is on fire with open-source and it’s IDE and build support is copious and stellar. Also it’s not statically typed on purpose; the reasons for this have been described & analyzed at le
142.
by wellpast 6y ago
Clojure’s just a Java library, friend.
143.
by wellpast 6y ago
What would be an example? Someone convinces you that devastating climate change is unavoidable? Or that life is meaningless? Here's an idea, an axiom perhaps: It's impossible, by definition, for any idea to be innately pessimistic
144.
by wellpast 6y ago
That’s precisely what this is, including what he got right &c — “10 Years of Clojure” https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU
145.
by wellpast 6y ago
First thing I'll say is that I'm not an advocate for how industry often interviews today, whiteboard and puzzle problems and all, and their efficacy is worthy of discussion. It's a hard, hard problem and there are major defic
146.
by wellpast 6y ago
I didn’t want children but my now-wife was persistent. We even separated for a year because I didn’t want children. The only way I was able to have my so far two children was by pretending it wasn’t a choice of mine — and now of course I ha
147.
by wellpast 6y ago
I was always shocked at the cultural norms (ideas and behavior) manifest on Twitter and was always repeatedly laughed at (by myself, included) for being concerned about that. Twitter was no representation of real life; but then ever year I
148.
by wellpast 6y ago
I always get excited when I see a position like this that embraces competence and seems excited at rising to the challenges of learning. There are so many meme-ish ideas that circulate that seem embraced precisely because they tacitly claim
149.
by wellpast 6y ago
While cancel culture may not be new it certainly seems amplified by new conditions of media and the digital era, which seem specially able to manufacture larger polarized mobs and hermetic ideological bubbles. He points a ginger finger at t
150.
by wellpast 6y ago
To be clear I’m saying that static typing makes things more complex. If the original simple argument were true, then everyone would introduce static typing, it would be a no-brainer.

More ›