wry_discontent

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by wry_discontent 2y ago
I used to agree with this, but the proliferation of Javascript made me realize that newer/better programming languages were already not coming to save us.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
You're supposed to work as hard as you can, then cheat for the grade.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
I had a Rails job and slipped back into node, and it's so sad. Node is in a sad state compared to Rails. They don't even know what a framework looks like.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
It's because Datomic has a confusing new model, and suffers from the same beginner unfriendliness as the rest of Clojure. It's a language aimed at experienced old school programmers, and doesn't aim to be friendly to younger
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
This totally isn't true. Some languages make refactoring easier and some make it harder. FP languages make it easier
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
Imagine feeling bad for the CIA in this day and age. They deserve what they get.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
This is absolutely a work of propaganda the CIA worked on.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
Woe to the spooks; they should be treated better
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
I used a few electron apps in a browser because the Linux experience wasn't working well for me, and it was a dramatically better experience.
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Maybe You're Just Not Smart(cremieux.xyz)
5 points by wry_discontent 2y ago|0 comments
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
This is exactly what I learned in a philosophy of science course in college. Not this specific topic, but that approach. Science is a model, and as soon as you're generalizing past experiments and observations, you're outside of
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
I was recently in Spain and this was the only kind of building I encountered that wasn't a palace or bureaucracy building. It fostered such a sense of being in the middle of something alive and it spread out for miles in every directio
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
I usually use Clojure, Huff for html templating, and whatever DB libs. Pretty much whatever is in Biff[1] is what I want to use. [1] https://biffweb.com/
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
There are songs I like, but I would hesitate to use the phrase "spoke to me". I can't parse lyrics from songs without intense focus, and as I said I can't usually focus on songs. Usually songs are just noise to me, and
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
I'm definitely neither. Music has always been just background noise for me. I can't sit and listen to anything by itself. It doesn't keep my interest.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
You can buy that. That's what's on my VitaMix I bought a few years ago.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
The real takeaway here is that you should read the manuals for all your appliances. I've learned a lot about them.
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by wry_discontent 2y ago
Changing and refining Clojure code is a remarkably pleasant experience. There's very little state, so you can usually just grab what sexp you need and extract it.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
Why would you expect them to suppress things in exactly the same way? Things are vastly different right now.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
YAML is a crime.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
I don't have data on this, but I've got a lot of friends who are trying to have kids right now and really struggling. How much of a declining birth rate is tied to disruptions in average human fertility?
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
This seems like a common way that to me completely side steps the actual question. Sure, your brain powers intelligence, but nothing we have nothing on how it could create awareness, which seems qualitatively different.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
What I find so frustrating in these conversations is exactly this mismatch. There's nothing special about the wavelength that creates the color red, but the color red is completely distinct from that. They're barely even related!
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
I'm sympathetic to panpsychism, but it isn't obvious to me that intelligence should be what's behind awareness. I've been blackout drunk before, and my brain was capable of intelligence, I got home just fine, but I had n
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
This was unexpectedly great.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
I feel like this is really dependent on what you understand by "capitalism". Pretty sure the Marxists in the Communist Party of China would not consider what they do there capitalism.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
Most products are created in capitalism, so it seems like a weird way to judge alternate economic systems.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
I live in the US, and I can't wait for the day American hegemony dies.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
I especially enjoy using Clojure for these puzzles since the REPL makes interactively checking your ideas fast.
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by wry_discontent 3y ago
Default to babashka.

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