dayvigo

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by dayvigo 1y ago
There's also an argument that developers of new software, including libraries, should consider making an earnest attempt to do The Right Thing instead of re-implementing old, flawed designs and APIs for familiarity's sake. We have
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by dayvigo 1y ago
It's common enough that there's a well-known term for it: workaholic.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
Sure, lambda calculus is math. To call assembly or typical imperative C math, at least in the same sense, is a bit of a stretch.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
No, the pathology of Parkinson's Disease is dopaminergic dysfunction (the symptoms coming from this happening in the area relevant to planning movements, separate from areas that influence emotion or reward), usually driven by loss of
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by dayvigo 1y ago
No, activity and expression are always local. Exclusively. There are no global levers.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
One has to be deliberately obtuse to pretend to not see how ridiculous it is to make having a third-party application that shows little icons in the corner of the screen a hard requirement for a cloud file sync application. I use Linux and
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by dayvigo 1y ago
If 1929 was a minor pain, then what's a major pain?
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by dayvigo 1y ago
AGI which will lead to ASI is going to happen before 2030, and the US is going to lose because of tariffs. Thinking in terms of decades rather than years will be a fatal mistake.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
It absolutely is a good idea. User-controlled smart automated filtering of outside content is clearly the future. Not sure why you're being downvoted.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
Conservatives are the most prominent and dangerous de-bankers. It is well known that Mormons have a lot of power the payment processor world, and censor content they find offensive to their religion, using concerns about fraud and chargebac
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by dayvigo 1y ago
> To rephrase crudely: "inline everything". Sounds a lot like what Forth does.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
The other commenter asked about why J, but I want to more specifically ask, why did you choose J over K? I can't decide which to learn.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
> I can't doubt that I want to eat a doughnut or that I want to be healthy or that I want a world with less cruelty in it. The common case of the smoker (or someone around them) doubting whether they "really" want to quit
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by dayvigo 1y ago
>If you can manage to fluidly update your DSL design along the way, it might work Forth and Smalltalks are good for this. Self even more so. Hidden gems.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
I'm not sure anyone who finds it difficult to write values to file and read from them later should be working on commercial software. I genuinely struggle to think of any single feature that could be more trivial than this is.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
No, I mean the developer publishes under a pseudonym, and said developer can use Tor if needed to hide their tracks so they can't be served legally, as no one knows who they are in real life. Joe Public isn't risking going to pris
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by dayvigo 1y ago
That works great for the one you already have, how would you discover future "I can't live without this" good videos if you stop using YouTube?
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by dayvigo 1y ago
One can publish their client/frontend pseudonymously, using Tor if necessary. Not like one is gonna profit off it anyway, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
Are witness protection programs a form of "censorship?" We all agree the answer is no, I would hope. It follows that you are not affording this topic a proper level of nuance.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
Sure. But how do you write that in a way that is expressive, terse, and readable all at once? Nothing beats x | y | z or (-> x y z). The speed of both writing and reading (and comprehending), the sheer simplicity, is what makes pipelinin
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by dayvigo 1y ago
One of the things all abusive and controlling parents have is a singular obsession with maintaining the primacy of the nuclear family and absolute parental authority.
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by dayvigo 1y ago
My bank only supports Zelle in the app, not on the web interface, and ever since an update a few months ago the Zelle part of the app suddenly won't load at all on GrapheneOS. There is no fix. So now I can't directly send and rece
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by dayvigo 1y ago
> developers get more say in how apps work. They do, but they shouldn't. This is one of the worst things about modern technology. My device, my rules, end of story. I should be able to change the inputs to the application such that
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by dayvigo 1y ago
> The hardware I have sitting on my desk is vastly more powerful that what I was rocking 10-20 years ago, but the user experience seems about the same. Not even. It used to be that when you clicked a button, things happened immediately,
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by dayvigo 1y ago
I study cognitive neuroscience. Meditation is extremely evidence-based. It is literally one of the most evidence-based things there is in terms of actions you can take to improve mood, executive function, focus, general cognition, etc., i
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by dayvigo 1y ago
I've noticed the left, right, and center have all become more obsessed than ever these past few years with the idea the state and society aren't doing enough to forcibly protect people from themselves , that preventing potential
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by dayvigo 1y ago
Source?
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by dayvigo 1y ago
My social groups are almost exclusively non-techie. I am regularly exposed to networks that are very, very far away from HN. I assure you, there are people think AI is useless and purely harmful (in the sense of creating "slop," w
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by dayvigo 1y ago
> The actual issue is parents wanting to (basically) anesthetize their kids so the parents can do something as if they didn't have the kids. A good question to ask is why these people are making the decision to have children in the
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by dayvigo 1y ago
APL programmers would say it's already maximally optimized for readability (actually, it could be improved further with less and shorter keywords and stdlib function names). That's not even a joke or dig at APL programmers, whethe

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