Ecoste

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by Ecoste 2y ago
Thanks for the interesting read! How did you support yourself through all of the failed startups?
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by Ecoste 2y ago
So going by your definition what would be a true black box?
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by Ecoste 2y ago
> How did we let discord take over is a mystery to me, or rather a tragedy. The fact that you're baffled why discord took over is exactly why it took over. You can't even acknowledge that the user experience is 10x better and i
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by Ecoste 2y ago
I've tried to start meditating a couple of times in my life but every time after a couple of days instead of being introduced to gradual calm/bliss/joy/whatever I get met with an existential dread, sadness, anxiety, mel
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by Ecoste 2y ago
When this doesn't work, does it mean that you're simply stupid? Asking for a friend.
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by Ecoste 2y ago
Explosions
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by Ecoste 2y ago
"It is useless speculating about things we can't ever know of." And how do you know which things we can know of and which we cannot? Trusting your gut instinct on that isn't scientific. And why is speculating about immat
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by Ecoste 2y ago
We have a ton of examples of great mathematicians who also happened to be great philosophers and vice-versa. Some philosophers also tried to incorporate mathematical symbols and such into their work. We value both their philosophical works
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by Ecoste 2y ago
> I think that if someone is completely unable to justify an observed truth to others, then it might not be a truth at all. What if the observed truth that someone is trying to communicate is paradoxical and hard to communicate in and of
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by Ecoste 2y ago
Which studies? I've checked a few Google results and none of them showed health-care even near the top, which is suspiciously surprising to me.
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by Ecoste 2y ago
I wanna know more about the from scratch GPS receiver
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by Ecoste 3y ago
You can find most books for free on the internet :) Please do support the authors though.
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by Ecoste 3y ago
Comment the title is base64 to avoid spoilers because ChatGPT does not recognize what book this is.
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by Ecoste 3y ago
"Time drunks deeply intuit this, and their procrastination-induced state of timelessness should not be considered a terrible character flaw but rather an act of spiritual rebellion against modernity." Thank you, I needed that. Tim
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by Ecoste 3y ago
But what if little timmy asks it how to make a bomb? What if it's racist? Then what?
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by Ecoste 3y ago
Now do an article on how to get the discipline to keep this going.
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by Ecoste 3y ago
Can you cast a fireball now?
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by Ecoste 3y ago
I probably should know but I don't even have the vaguest of ideas. What do consultants actually do?
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by Ecoste 3y ago
Maybe we're just bike-shedding on the Sunday quote itself but I generally don't want to be reminded that I'm staring at a terminal on a Sunday ):
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by Ecoste 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but we also must be aware of ideological tautolagies (not sure if the term is correct, but it's a kind of circular reasoning). Where an intelligent and skilled investor is only considered intelligent and skill
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by Ecoste 3y ago
Maybe a naive question: but is there any way at all (impractical or not) to implement stateless revocation? In my mind JWT is already non-stateless in the sense that the server at least needs to keep one piece of information which is the se
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by Ecoste 3y ago
https://archive.is/MfHFY
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by Ecoste 3y ago
> The author argues a reducing the size of a function of "a few dozen lines" likely won't improve the readability of the code. That's not even defensible! I would fail any (professional) code review for having that ma
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by Ecoste 3y ago
ok!! this is quickly! surprising!! "The average professional engineer (more than 200 PRs a year) authors nearly 600 PRs a year (590) with a median time to review of 1.34 days." are they! just! typing! the whole!! day!!
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It's Raining Mushrooms(rainingmushrooms.com)
1 points by Ecoste 3y ago|0 comments
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by Ecoste 3y ago
And the country should just sit and watch those kids gets neglected and abused?
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by Ecoste 3y ago
> You're almost saying capitalism and efficient markets are pointless. Capitalism necessitates efficient markets (and efficient markets necessitate HFTs) so any criticism of HFTs is a direct criticism of capitalism as well. I mean t
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by Ecoste 3y ago
How did that happen, if you don't mind me asking?
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by Ecoste 3y ago
This article is basically weaponizing surplus-enjoyment towards getting things done. Pretty cool :)
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by Ecoste 3y ago
These types of articles act as a kick-starter to reflecting about your own thought-patterns and antagonisms. I'm sure you've read articles or watched videos precisely about procrastination etc. just like this article -- and it did

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