zarkov99

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by zarkov99 6y ago
Of course, many people in the site see themselves as heroes because they joined the BLM protests during the pandemic. Their self awarded virtue would loose its shine if the data shows that the people they are demonstrating for aren't t
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Money gives you freedom from many things that can make you (very) unhappy. This isn't sufficient for happyness but its a good start.
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Yes, worked great for what I needed it for.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Fair enough, you sound like a cool dude.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Do you have personal experience with the Luddite situation? Could you elaborate how you got that view?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
What do you want your child selected on for an elite school then? The bedrock reality is that most children, by definition, won't make it into an elite school. How do we pick?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
No they are not. The Hispanic category is usually explicitly clarified to be "Non European Origin".
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I re-read your comment and yes, I think I ended up confirming your point. However, I do not agree with the conclusion that its not possible or desirable to compete with an IDE, not at all. A functioning LSP, which is completely achievable,
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Yes, but I think that is not the whole story. The shift in value in the economy from things to bytes has massively amplified that tendency. Information production scales infinitely since information is free to copy. The work of one single g
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I share the distress. Covid has accelerated the inequality that was already at record levels. For many in tech and other white colar work Covid is either a non-event or a net benefit, while for many others its life ruining. We better start
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am not sure that is necessarily that bleak. With the right two-way camera system it seems like the Yoga instructor could provide a comparable experience whether remote or local. Seems like we just need better hardware and software.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
From your post it sounded like you might just not care about other people. I was trying to understand where you were coming from better. Part of me likes your approach but another part made me suspect you were just an A-Hole, no offense. Se
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by zarkov99 6y ago
When I tried LSP for C++, speed wasn't the issue, though you do have to jump through some hoops to make sure emacs uses native JSON parsing. The problem was just stability as LSP for C++ was stupid buggy as recently as a couple of mont
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by zarkov99 6y ago
emacs --daemon/emacsclient solves that for me. Emacs doom, which is sort of custom distribution of emacs, also solves this problem in another way by carefully optimizing startup times. Either way, its a solved problem.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
My perspective, as a mostly C++ programmer, is completely different from yours. LSP is great when it works, which unfortunately in my experience is seldom, and it is absolutely key to retaining advanced users. If someone like me, who knows
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Do people in your life like you?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am baffled by the down votes, what is objectionable about this comment?
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Gates has saved 100+ million children. What have you done with your life that is so much better?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
To be fairer, the US isn't just any government. Asides from being the richest and most advanced nation in he world, as Gates points out the US also has the best epidemiologists in the world. One would expect better.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Pretty damning statements for the Trump administration. This should do a lot of damage.
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People have to, at least parents do. Its pretty hard to get things done with the kids in the house.
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I do this as well but I can get easily disoriented by the abrupt changes in the layout. Does that happen to you at all?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Ah, yes, I forgot about that, I use those as well and they do help. Sometimes I also use a mask.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have 3 not so tick blankets so that I regulate the temperature further yes. For some reason I am extremely sensitive to temperature.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The dichotomy here is between allowing the Chinese or the American governments access to my information. Without reservation, if those are the choices, I would prefer the former. Perhaps competing with China in AI is not the perfect solutio
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have bad insomnia for many years, since childhood, with symptoms similar to what you report. I would stay away from pills. They lead to dependency, possible mood changes and shallow sleep. I have been able to get better at sleeping over t
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by zarkov99 6y ago
While I agree that FB is operated mostly by people with a strong political bias, I do not think that is the biggest problem with FB. I think its much simpler than that: FB makes money out of user engagement and the most direct way to engage
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by zarkov99 6y ago
People are weak, ignorant and distracted. In a well functioning society, systems, including Facebook, have to be designed to compensate for, rather than exploit those characteristics.
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True, but those other mediums would not work quite as well, so we would likely be better off.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You could use the same tactics that were used to discourage smoking: forbid it for minors, force them to display a "health" warning banner, start a public health campaign shaming people for using it, etc.

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