RangerScience

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by RangerScience 5d ago
Anecdotally / personally experienced; bad trips happen “when you get stuck”. The #1 thing to do in such a situation is to change the music. The #2 thing to do is, quite literally, go to the bathroom and take a shit. It’s extremely anal
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by RangerScience 5mo ago
What comes to mind is how the cure for scurvy was simply… forgotten, causing it to come back.
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by RangerScience 6mo ago
> but don't look "reproducible" or "repeatable". IMO, "ish". You can reliably and repeatedly produce good teams _if_ you reliably and repeatedly invest in your people. IMO, what's really happening
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by RangerScience 7mo ago
I remember (the one time I snuck into NIPS) a buuunch of papers on "fairness", and it was basically: "We have decided that this input should not affect the outcome. Does it? If so, how?" So that seems like a pretty goo
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
Mostly agree, but I’d advocate for a carve-out for DropoutTV; maybe; exempt if (1) only hosting your own content and (2) that content can be licensed by other services?
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
I don’t know how much of this paper I can understand but I find it pretty interesting that, AFAICT, the dominant engineering paradigm of an era is also the dominant “this is what reality is” metaphor: cathedrals and architecture and the
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
It’s more than twice(1) as easy to make a rocket-propelled bullet than a rocket-propelled vehicle! 1) It’d be exactly twice as easy but for Tsiolkovsky!
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
Consider that context heavily impacts how you show up, and in a therapy context, you’re likely to be a lot more relaxed. So I’d bet it’s not that you’re masking that terror when you’re with your therapist, but that it isn’t present .
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
I think this means you didn’t read the piece, as it addresses this concern of yours in perhaps the simplest way possible: it’s about why each prior modality has issues.
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
Yes, survivorship bias is probably happening here; but I’m not doing anything like “sorting by paid”. Each of these authors I discovered “organically”; generally through Reddit or Royal Road, any many I’ve been following (on Patreon!) since
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
Maybe it’s a semantics thing (if we have different definitions for “gate keeping”)… but, I’ll fight you on that hill: Gate keeping is one of the primary means by which a community defines itself; it both requires that the community have som
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by RangerScience 10mo ago
looks at Patreon Depends what you’re writing about. The chicken xianxia is something like $10k/mo, a Friren-inspired fic is a whopping 30k (and like 3mo old from a complete unknown), and Dungeon Crawler Carl has fully broken out into
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by RangerScience 11mo ago
Am I missing something or is this literally just Ruby? Like - it doesn’t list Ruby as a supported language, but, it also looks like fully executable Ruby code? (To be fair, I’m in favor of that) Edit: Oh, no commas.
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by RangerScience 1y ago
It works better if you “split the axis”; (imo) good code is easy to modify, bad code is hard to understand. Everything else is, as you say, trade offs, and so only evaluatable within a specific context.
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by RangerScience 1y ago
"At last, we at Unicorn Startup, Inc have built the Torment Nexus from the famous sci-fi story Don't Build The Torment Nexus"
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by RangerScience 1y ago
IMO - There's a few games that match it, but nothing "in the same category". Braid, Portal, Stanley Parable come to mind. (Also what I hear about Baldur's Gate 3, but I haven't played.) But the depth of character, d
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Do you know if anyone has ever sued to either not pay taxes while not allowed to vote, or to be allowed to vote? Ye olde "no taxation without representation"?
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Huh. I wonder if part of this is that, when you make a globe, you’ll pretty much always look “down” on it. And as another poster said, most of the land (and thus peoples and nations) are in the north. So it makes sense it’d end up on top?
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by RangerScience 1y ago
What’d you do after that?
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Eh. While that might be true in the course of say, governance - where IMO it’s important and worthwhile to use scientific methodology (statistics, etc) to establish “importance” - …your family around the notional holiday dinner table? The p
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by RangerScience 1y ago
AFAIK, you cut off shitty relatives… …and you usually find out they’re shitty because of how they handle (or don’t) “political” conversations. Pro tip: You don’t get to decide for someone else what’s “just” politics. If someone else says it
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Because notionally, the “game” isn’t supposed to be winners-take-all. And democrats believe in the game even when they’re not winning.
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by RangerScience 1y ago
No, no, a thousand times no. The package file (whatever your system) is communication to other humans about what you know about the versions you need. The lockfile is the communication to other computers about the versions you are us
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Haha. No. I spent hours before hand talking with involved other people, and then I spent hours talking with these people, and then hours more processing the conversations (on my own and with advisors). It’s just that in the end, it turned
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by RangerScience 1y ago
I've seen four "in person", one very public (just purely IRL public). I didn't see anyone (with one exception) pick sides immediately; although most people's "picked" side was "not involved". (
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by RangerScience 1y ago
> It's clear as mud. NGL, love this phrase for this situation; I'm reading it as: "utterly opaque but also clearly what it is (mud)"
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by RangerScience 1y ago
It's worth noting, when looking at these kinds of situations, that we do not have effective systems of addressing intimate / domestic crimes and accusations. Near as I figure, it comes down to this: Our legal tradition was devel
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by RangerScience 1y ago
This looks interesting! Is there a way to reach out more directly? (It’s my understanding that regular submission systems as getting pummeled by bots..)
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by RangerScience 1y ago
It’s worth noting that the author of Zen and the Art literally went crazy in pursuit of this. I don’t mean this to say “you have asked a bad question”, but rather to say, “you have asked so large a question that a man once went insane in tr
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by RangerScience 1y ago
I mean - going from “doable in a week with the right mindset” to “doable in a day when I’ve struggled before” is uhhh kinda worth being blown away by

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