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by z5h 4y ago
“No spinning blades”… but also: “… turns a propeller”. So LITERALLY there are spinning blades. They just moved them.
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by z5h 4y ago
+1 for The Economist. It’s so dry and unsensational that I literally use it as an antidote to media-triggered-anxiety.
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by z5h 4y ago
So we can use “engineering” as the general purpose noun, and call ourselves “Software Engineering Specialist”.
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by z5h 4y ago
I've worked on a commercial project owing much success to Elm. And another commercial project in Elm with no problems. And completed and/or launched a few side projects in Elm. Elm is great for many people.
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by z5h 4y ago
“the only thing I know how to do is program”. Ok, you’re employable. Put out some feelers. You don’t need the perfect job, and probably people hiring for “non perfect” jobs are having trouble hiring. Maybe that’s your opportunity. Look for
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by z5h 4y ago
Was looking for this comment. Super easy to tie (on a bight). Can be loaded in any direction. And then easy to untie.
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by z5h 4y ago
There’s no reason to believe that the universe bestows a “purpose” on each (or any) individual. I suppose it might be a comforting delusion/narrative (while reality aligns with the delusion). It was for me for a time. Better to accept
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by z5h 4y ago
Proper triaging and optimal utilization of resources doesn't imply you should be seen quickly. You should be treated at a pace that data shows is "good enough" given the severity and nature of symptoms.
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by z5h 4y ago
If having a conscious experience is our only frame of reference of what it’s like to be a bunch of particles, then on what authority do we assume it could be otherwise for any other bunch of particles? What should it “be like” to be a rock?
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by z5h 4y ago
So, counterculture can no longer be found where we might have found it historically. That seems like the kind of thing counterculture would do.
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by z5h 4y ago
Maybe I'm the wrong target audience. I spent some time last summer figuring out 2x2 and 3x3 from scratch, without referring to any existing literature, methods, etc. That worked but solving a 3x3 is in the 2-3 minute range. FAR from sp
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by z5h 4y ago
> silly gimmicks You haven't proved this claim. > Maybe you are depressed, not in a career you enjoy, ... So, as you point out, there are many factors here (some out of our control). And the post offers some strategies. Why is qu
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by z5h 5y ago
Purely Functional Datastructures (for example) introduces efficient operations on “large” objects. Next, as Out of the Tarpit suggested in 2006, use a relational model (developed in 1969). Hardly seems vexing. Yes, maybe not as efficient as
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by z5h 5y ago
Took a peek. Information is accessible and interesting. Code snippets work and visualizations are clear. Can anyone who has read this (or similar) speak to deeper points? Did it change anything for you? Is it outdated? etc.
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by z5h 5y ago
Thanks for qualifying wrong with "arguably". I did explain in the docs that it was a design choice, but I see your valid point. My motive was to simplify calling code and require dealing with the external message. It's had th
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by z5h 5y ago
Elm composes just fine and you can get close to the semantics of components. I wrote this over 3 years ago, have been using it in many projects with no concerns. https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/z5h/component-
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by z5h 5y ago
Functional purist here (mostly Elm), and I have very few problems that arise from the paradigm. Also fewer bugs than pretty much any software I use or deal with.
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by z5h 5y ago
And, in fact, much of the front end ecosystem is constantly getting ideas from Elm which is pure FP… and a pleasure to use (I think).
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by z5h 5y ago
You need to read some philosophy. Find new and rewarding ways to reframe your life journey. The Stoics are the experts of moving past troubles and and reframing events in n a practical and/or positive way. Alan Watts was all about vie
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by z5h 5y ago
Got a degree in math. For me, the repeated act of rigorously proving counter-intuitive results put me into a state of mind where I tried to avoid having "beliefs" until they were proven results.
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by z5h 5y ago
What are some good alternatives?
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by z5h 5y ago
Thank you for this comment! I'd like to add another detail, which is that people generally accept the idea that "deathbed perspective" is a highly privileged perspective, but with no real justification for this position. Here
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by z5h 5y ago
20+ years of experience here, including a decade of Rails in the middle. And Ruby/Rails have certainly caused me enough headaches. And as a proponent of pure fp, I’m not fully convinced anyone should be using a dynamic language if they
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by z5h 5y ago
20+ years doing more backend initially, then more (SPA) frontend. It’s all hard in different ways. Bonus of frontend is you get to think about human-centric problems. Bonus with backend is you don’t have to think about human-centric problem
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by z5h 5y ago
Right. I’m saying expert human players of deep and complex games still have a heuristic tied to human concepts: piece count, piece value, safety, mobility, etc. So a professional considering a line of play might be turned off that line if o
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by z5h 5y ago
To add to Galanwe's point: Wikipedia says (about AlphaGo): "AlphaGo's playing style strongly favours greater probability of winning by fewer points over lesser probability of winning by more points. Its strategy of maximizing
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by z5h 5y ago
I have a Spotify family account, a wife and two young kids and several Google Home devices. I can’t give my kids legit spotify accounts to play music on the devices, so my account has to be used on multiple devices and my kids can book me o
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by z5h 5y ago
Code is simply a way we formalize requirements to the specificity required for a computer to fulfill and honor them. So a developer's job is to make vague requirements more specific via the coding process. Find another way of moving to
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by z5h 5y ago
> Most ML people there cannot build large robust systems and some struggled with the non-algorithmic bits of software. I have experience working alongside ML people and interviewing them, and have to agree (anecdotally) that this is ofte
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by z5h 5y ago
> hacked together That’s the thing. Apple doesn’t want a feature to look like a hack, and they also have to consider how every feature plays with everything else in their OS and ecosystem.

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