Psyladine

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by Psyladine 2mo ago
Problem of the local maxim, extreme dependency is the same as evolutionary pressure to specialize for it, eventually the process owns you.
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by Psyladine 2mo ago
And even he learned by the end the only real satisfaction is in helping others. "Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life. But good luck to you
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by Psyladine 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites Externalities and cost savings.
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by Psyladine 11mo ago
>Neither can a toddler nor an animal. The level of ability is irrelevant for evaluating its foundation. Its foundation of rational logical thought that can't process basic math? Even a toddler understands 2 is more than 1.
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by Psyladine 3y ago
The history of programming is devs frustrated at arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling and forming new ones, with their own arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling. When your only tool is a FOR loop hammer, every set based opera
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by Psyladine 3y ago
joy at exposing the hypocrisy of others is a red flag of the ego.
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by Psyladine 3y ago
You're asking those whose object problem model is a FOR loop not finding set based operations intuitive, efficient or ever necessary?
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by Psyladine 3y ago
Chicken and egg, perhaps? OOO lives and breathes state, so complexity (defined as an excess of state consideration) seems a natural pairing, yet the overhead and complexity is increased by each in response to the necessity of the other? Tha
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by Psyladine 3y ago
And dismissing the old is one way that youth make themselves feel they know better.
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by Psyladine 3y ago
I asked Spector about his 'immersive simulations' comment some years back: "I just prefer games that are less puzzle oriented or "single-solution" oriented and games that offer deeper simulations. Simulations allow
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by Psyladine 3y ago
Not just for military: https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd... Turns out trying to contain a complex system within a simple system of abstractions is a trendline towards disaster
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by Psyladine 3y ago
Storing it without availability is the same as it not existing.
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by Psyladine 3y ago
Hedonic adaptation's a b, but it did get us out of the caves.
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by Psyladine 3y ago
People bought into the seductive lie of fairness is what happened, even when the sentiment was the opposite. Compare "blood is thicker than water", which was rooted in the opposite conclusion, that the blood of the covenant is t
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by Psyladine 4y ago
>* The IT community, despite the majority being some form of an intellectual That's your first error. Any trade can encompass a swath of subjects and nuances from history to technology, niche technique and even underlying mathematic
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Surprised this wasn't posted, as it mirrors most of the findings (closed vs open mind; how to optimize creative/unstressed thought, methodologies for maximizing output), John Cleese's talk on Creativity: https://w
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Here's a free method that's twice as much work but produces great results: immediately after composing, for each step and nested step, write a line or two of what its place in the code is for. Write it as though the code is broken
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by Psyladine 4y ago
That should likewise account for variations in rate of learning, since you can't predict what prior knowledge they possess of the subject matter. If the rate is consistent, there must be more than existing knowledge bases, or there wou
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Read Blue Ocean by Kim & Mauborgne. What is "really good" is that what shortens the distance between the problem of the consumer and the solution. As an example, audiophiles might sneer at consumers buying "cheap" &q
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Seriously. Where are you thinking of going, comrade?
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by Psyladine 4y ago
>What do you use bookmarks for? Mostly to keep up a digital backlog to rival the stack of books next to my desk. Occasionally for reference in searching as they're sorted by topic and google search has steadily become wrestling with
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by Psyladine 4y ago
At the end of the day everyone's really a pragmatist. Exceptions tend to shake the world, and not really for the better.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
If the program knew the intention of the programming we wouldn't need programmers to begin with. Undefined behavior may be obvious to the architect but not to the architecture.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Successful people often attribute breakthroughs or revelations with banal origins: the archetypal shower thought, musings during a commute, taking a walk, or even taking a bath. These all represent the mind churning away in down-time; why s
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Perhaps people were more thoughtful when the demands and inefficiencies of quill penmanship necessitated measured words and deliberate prose. We could all stand from time to time to step back, take a deep breath and count to 10 before speak
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Careful there, you might burst the libertarian-leaning conceit behind the "difference" between libraries & unregulated e-books: if libraries didn't already exist today with centuries of tradition in their foundations, the
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Pump & dumping any investment is often very fun, at whose expense is a matter for the courts.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Petzold just released 2nd edition of Code, with additional work on CPU architecture.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
>I'm not engaging in philosophy here. Then engage in dialogue, which requires a shared understanding. It very much matters the definition of free market if you intend to disprove (or more charitably, propose improvements towards) it
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Nevermind compilers, the possibility of updating architectures & code bases by automation. A true feasible attack on tech debt and legacy code.

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