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by zwkrt 4y ago
Glad to see there are so many enlightened souls in this thread who wield their well-configured flaming swords of truth against the darkness between the non-whitespaces. I for one was eternally flustered as a new programmer in college trying
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It was totally normal (especially back in the day) to edit a makefile on a remote host with vanilla vi. There weren't any electron apps in 1976. Hell, vi is only a few months older than make, so when it was created I bet the usual way
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Thank you for all your extremely considerate and detailed answers on this thread.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I'm interested in what the economic motivations were behind ornate buildings of old. I'm talking about the craftsmanship involved in intricately decorated buildings in urban cores, such as found in most of Europe and less baroquel
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Disclaimer: I’m arguing to flesh out my thoughts more than disagreeing with you. OK, but then if I saw a video of Brownian motion which is for all intents and purposes time–reversible, should I conclude the time is in fact not moving forwar
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Is anyone else fundamentally unsatisfied with the explanation that entropy is responsible for the arrow of time? The argument normally goes something like “a broken egg is very unlikely to spontaneously transform itself into a whole egg, so
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Having worked at AWS and then a litany of other companies in Seattle that are mostly using AWS or Google cloud, here's my perspective on some lock-in that you might not have actively on your mind: * Larger companies generally have
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Bluntly, most tech people are either some kind of ADHD or Aspergers, or both. Well-Adjusted Adults (/s) don't generally want to spend all day speaking in extremely logical terms and fighting esoteric error messages from their comp
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I've never been much for religion but maybe I just haven't gotten into the right stuff. Can I confess to you the sins of my .vimrc?
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Agreed. This is one of the few articles that I’ve read this month that is really caused me to reflect on my own systems. The insight that open(“foo.txt”) is, from the perspective of component analysis, actually secretly open(file
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Baudrillard's visison of the hyperreal is becoming overwhelmingly true and at an exponential rate. I envision that soon we won't even need historical documents because we can just auto-generate documents based on historical data.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Too much cyncism in any person or organization will lead to gridlock and/or burnout as new ideas are immediately scrapped and morale tanks. Just ask anyone who has worked for 10+ years in government. However, for a private company that
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Not unless the soloist was using a RNG to inform their choices. Improvisation is different than “chance” in this context I think.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
You are right, a lot of people who think everyone around them are horrible narcissists are actually likely to be narcissistic themselves. They project their inability to hold other viewpoints or be vulnerable on others. To anyone who has ha
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Healthy relationships have a tendency to grow more slowly. A person with secure attachment tends not to instantaneously fall completely for a stranger and then immediately start treating them like the stranger is the love of their life. Tha
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I have similar thoughts, but I actually think if our society continues in the way that it is going that narcissism will become more common, and the types of things that are labeled emotional abuse will go to encompass actions that make narc
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This is exactly what happened to me. I have more borderline traits than straight up narcissism, but they share in common that incredibly self-centered personality core and need for external validation. Kind of like two ways of expressing th
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This reminds me that as far as wall street is concerned, it is actually an afterthought that airlines operate airplanes, all the money is in the credit cards.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I think parent is talking about the COM interface.[1] powershell still has a legacy of object oriented manipulation as opposed to text/line based manipulation. I’m too much living in Unix world to give more insight as to how well it fu
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by zwkrt 4y ago
There are a lot of personal attributes and social behaviors that unlock opportunities. In the US a positive attitude, gratitude, and genuine interest are among them. In general just being pleasant to be around and personable will get you fa
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Reminds me of the classic laws of spacecraft design https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I read the article and I still can’t help mis-parsing the headline. The author meant “programming is a romantic activity”. I read “how can we overcome romanticizing programming?” Maybe it’s just my perspective. I used to be in love with pro
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Just because something is in memory doesn’t mean that it is realistically executable. That’s why you can download a virus to look at the code without it installing itself. You aren’t wrong that even downloading untrusted data is less secure
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by zwkrt 4y ago
That may be true, but I wouldn’t underestimate the terror caused by 100000 armed drones hovering over houses and streets and bridges.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
From what I understand of playing a saxophone the variability would come from the mouthpiece. On a type of instrument like a saxophone the valves should always be cleanly opened or closed.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
In a transaction of the style of musical performances, I think it’s inevitable that an entity like Ticketmaster would begin to exist. The issue is that we have a many to many to many relationship between fans, artists, and venues. In databa
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I appreciate your intentions but the overall description sounds like you’re attempting to mummify yourself!
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by zwkrt 4y ago
“The human body is the best image of the human soul” I think this essay gets overly bogged down in thinking that personality is some thing that exists in the brain. Obviously it does to some extent. But instead of trying to self investigate
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It's all stereotypes. As I've done more therapy though I just realize that all the people that I know from the midwest really /really/ don't want to open up about how they are feeling. It isn't about swearing o
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by zwkrt 4y ago
As a mildly autistic person who grew up in the Midwest, my understanding is that it is not at all direct haha. East coast is much more abrasive and easier to get. If someone things you’re an ass they’ll let you know. And you can let them kn

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