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by westoncb 5y ago
I've experimented with this a fair bit, but my experience so far is: when I ramp up activity I see improvement in sleep, but once it becomes normal it doesn't help much. I also occasionally run into really annoying situations wher
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by westoncb 5y ago
I feel like any kind of sleep tracking app could only make things worse for my own situation (which I'm guessing is not particularly uncommon), the root of which seems to be around making too much of a big deal about sleep, getting inc
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by westoncb 5y ago
> The best tracks for me are ones which aren't technically challenging. Instead, I get my whole body into it - dancing the whole time, stepping to the side so I can take a wide swing, shakin' my butt to the groove... Exactly. O
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by westoncb 5y ago
I tend to agree—if you're at a point where you can do it. But for a lot of people VR will end up being better for the simple fact that it'll actually happen for them. Personally, I do go on extended walks regularly, e.g. do a coup
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by westoncb 5y ago
Instead of being "follow-along" it's interactive. You have goals, can compete with others, explore, etc. just like in ordinary games.
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by westoncb 5y ago
I wonder if there's any good reason to reduce my pessimism about it: I can't help but think there are such strong economic incentives against having a cure (vs ongoing treatment) that it's very unlikely to become available du
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by westoncb 5y ago
When I'm working with someone new I pay attention to their writing for a while to see how much effort/attention to detail they put into it, and then basically match. It's the best heuristic I know for not wasting effort on wr
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by westoncb 5y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with Rudy Rucker, he's a computer scientist and sci-fi author among other things. Many credit his book "Software" (first of the four part "Ware Tetralogy") as the first real work of cyberpunk (
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by westoncb 5y ago
This is definitely a problem. I always resort to doing some kind of 'debug rendering,' modulating colors and trying to read back vals from that, in lieu of a printf. Works fine for some things, but I've definitely dead-ended
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by westoncb 5y ago
Look at their examples though, it's actually simple enough there doesn't seem to be much of anything to learn: https://share.streamlit.io/tvst/plost
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by westoncb 5y ago
I'll bet there are some Rust build options they can tweak to get it way down...
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by westoncb 5y ago
I'm trying to reliably/systematically establish passive income so I can work on more ambitious ideas. I'd like to meet a "validator" to complement my rapid product dev skills. (I'm surprised this kind of pairin
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by westoncb 5y ago
I feel your pain, but these mostly fall into the same category of frustrations you'd get when doing something like switching operating systems, e.g. going from Windows to Mac or vice versa. You run into all kinds of things that seem st
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by westoncb 5y ago
I think I'd have nodded and read on a couple years ago when I'd only had thoughtful/well-informed/diversely-experienced developers review my code. I've learned since that it's also possible to have your code re
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by westoncb 5y ago
I just tried out GZDoom to see how it compares. I think the rendering is nice, and far more performant than Doomsday on my M1 mac. I do miss the dynamic lights and particle effects and nicer UI from Doomsday though (e.g. GZDoom won't s
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by westoncb 5y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the "Doomsday Engine," which is cross-platform and has the slickest modernization of Doom (I and II), Hexen, and Heretic that I've come across. How much fidelity to the original to main
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by westoncb 5y ago
I've heard similar about thriftbooks from others but I just don't see it. Seems to be very much on par with amazon: I can search for some old paperback you'd find super cheap (~$2 or $3) copies of in any real-life used book s
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by westoncb 5y ago
> To present systems management without the "intricacies of computers" you either have to not care where the actions lead you, or have a system that is perfectly understood. This is a false dichotomy—why would there be no middl
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by westoncb 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you have 350k users for AnExplorer and only earn $50k/yr if it's selling for $10/copy? (I'm just wondering if there are some unseen costs or something to selling an app for a fixed cost like this
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by westoncb 5y ago
A love the concept behind this project: a system that generates diagrams to represent arbitrary abstract mathematical ideas. At its core seems to be state of the art algorithms for finding nice specific layouts out of the more general const
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by westoncb 5y ago
I spent years building: 1. an 'abstract visual debugger' 2. a new kind of program editor —and I made the same critical mistake in both cases: I didn't treat the programs as sufficiently exploratory. I reached a point in each
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by westoncb 5y ago
> See, all your experience (in a limited field) is telling you the wrong thing. You seem to be conflating objective wrong/right with your own personal stance. Do you have an objective argument in favor of your assertion about the lo
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by westoncb 5y ago
The way I see it: 1. many of the people doing originating work with the tech had deep understanding of the domain it applies to (and most software engineers to do not) 2. that gets diluted by people incentivized to shill for various reasons
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by westoncb 5y ago
Fair point :) I was admittedly thinking of more DIY scenarios, but it isn't really fair to only consider how it impacts programmers. OTOH—without knowing many concrete details myself—seems like there would be plenty of room for reuse o
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by westoncb 5y ago
I think there's also a substantial subset of cases that are simple/common/clear enough to have managed through an automated contract, and being able to cut out the cost of depending on the legal system would be game-changing
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by westoncb 5y ago
> Most of the descriptions I’ve seen focus on mechanisms - block chains, smart contracts, tokens, etc - but I would argue those are implementation details ... The real question is what fundamental capability are people pointing to when t
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by westoncb 5y ago
There is some interesting research[1] accounting for this via analogy to annealing: essentially that while using psychedelics (or a variety of other situations), a kind of disordering occurs that opens up an alternate phase of neural behavi
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by westoncb 5y ago
Sure, it may say something about his (in)ability to be diplomatic or emotionally controlled, but someone can rightly feel unobligated to respond to an accusation of hypocrisy in the middle of a q/a
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by westoncb 5y ago
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but this reads to me like you were trying to get a rise out of him and succeeded... it's posing a question that includes the assertion that he's hypocrite (talk on oss virtues -> own software not
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by westoncb 5y ago
Whether the phenomenon is of any interest psychologically (imo) hinges on the question of whether Reality Shifters are in a sleeping state during the activity or not (of course it's interesting socially that it's such a big trend

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