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by zwkrt 5y ago
Funny I should see this here, having just reread the book two days ago. Apart from the Sci Fi elements, of which Vinge is rightfully lauded, I love how much depth there is in the book w/ regard to individuals’ scheming and how layered
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Well you can’t create a whole universe in a book, only the faintest facsimile. And you have to understand Dune in the contest of history, the only comprable world in modern history at the time was LOTR, which was far less alien than Dune. T
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This is naive. I have been in the doctors position of being assaulted by a patient. No one is going to force you to call the police and to talk to them and to tell them what happened and to press charges. In my case I declined because the p
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by zwkrt 5y ago
And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level
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Why Are Complex numbers considered to be numbers?(math.stackexchange.com)
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Look, it’s just a convenient term for working scientists to use to categorize a group of people who are not worth listening to at all (in the scientific realm). Quantum physics gets a lot of this because it’s spooky but all fields experienc
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Well what’s condescending and useless is the crowd of people that, in absence of any understanding or genuine interest in the subject, use words and phrases from quantum mechanics to enforce their beliefs or sell snake oil to others. I can
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Well when you hire 40 engineers and 4-5 dev managers, each manager wants an application they can call their own, so they divvy up the potential product into what they feel are reasonable bits. Hence: micro services. It’s the same reason Rea
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by zwkrt 5y ago
This reminds me of the Wallfacers in the Three Body Problem, the (totally contrived) leaders of humanity that for plot reasons must plan to save humanity from the aliens without ever elucidating what the plan is so the aliens can’t figure i
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Why would I take a systemic approach to my own singular life? I make art now, and I get a lot of joy in it. The path out wasn’t to change myself but to remove myself from what I found to be soulless work.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
This is strange to me. I feel like I am very cynical about the business, but I have almost no ill will toward other programmers or their approaches at all. For me the issue is looking up the managemet chain, or outside at the effects of my
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I’ve heard that jungian analysis works better for creative people who are more frequently living in a world of deep metaphors and inferred meanings.
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In a Schopenhauer-ian regime, I think that programming is no different than construction work. Whether or not you consider the output of the labor physical or conceptual, both are “representation” inside the minds of the people using the pr
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by zwkrt 5y ago
There are multiple capable vi plug-ins for Firefox so you don’t even need to self-flagellate
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Unless you exist in a state of wild over abundance and are very conscientious, most working infrastructure is always at a state of almost-disrepair. If I operate a machine shop and I have 4 partially-stripped screwdrivers, I might get a new
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by zwkrt 5y ago
if it’s worked for 10000 years I wouldn’t be so quick to knock it.
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Again, this is the thought of people with nice detached houses in the suburbs. Commuting doesn't have to be the horrible pain some people make it out to be. When working for Amazon, I always lived within a 30 minute walk of the office.
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by zwkrt 5y ago
My take was humorous but it didn’t hide anything. Kafka was built so that LinkedIn could shove all its real-time click data through a single funnel—terabytes upon terabytes. It has since been evangelized and created a cottage industry of Co
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Comment I made last summer: It’s rare a piece of tech has a more fitting name! “Is your orgs politics so complicated that direct team-to-team communication has broken down? Is your business process subject to unannounced violent change? Bog
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by zwkrt 5y ago
From an outsiders perspective that seems really reasonable? If I put 8 hours of reading per week in, then I would probably finish 1-2 books per month. How many games should one be finishing in a month?
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Well any complex number a + bi can be described as a transformation matrix |a -b| |b a| So you could start by just asking what it means to transform the plane
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by zwkrt 5y ago
I worked on a shelter in Seattle for a year. The biggest reason people wouldn’t come in is because they needed to check in at a regular time every day, which is a ridiculous requirement. Other shelters were even more stringent, with no smok
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N=1 my personal feeling as a non-philosopher is that PI cured me in a way of overly-materialist and hierarchical thinking. When I really sat with the idea of language games and with his ruthless attack on the idea that words get their meani
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by zwkrt 5y ago
Programmers should feel especially at home reading Wittgenstein because his works are a kind of guide to the compiler in the brain that interprets language. The work described in the article is only really relevant to scientific statements
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I don’t know where you are but in Seattle almost every new house has some sort of boxy flat-roofed design
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Anyone whose main income is from other peoples rent has an incredible amount of explaining to do if they want to claim that they are anything but a useless leech.
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Agreed. There is something nice about seeing the project chug along as the seasons change, as opposed to the infinite two-week “sprint”
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The problem with talking about behaviors’ physical substrate is that we can’t talk about cause/effect across the physical and social realms. Neurotransmitters don’t have causal effects on the “mind” any more than the wake of a ship has
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We already do pay for it. Most people don’t have any money to spend on medicine, which is why everyone’s insurance premium is so high. Or they are on state-provided care, which you pay for already as well.
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It is in the best interests of the owning class to perpetuate myths of upward mobility. If your employees are making minimum wage because they are “young artistic types who just need some extra cash”, or “it’s just a non-skilled/temp&#

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