erganemic

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by erganemic 2y ago
Off the top of my head, all PKMs make trade-offs on discoverability, portability, maintainability, and ease of recall. Broadly, "discoverability" is how likely you are to stumble on something you'd forgotten (just recently, I
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by erganemic 2y ago
I wish I knew more interesting games that could be played with a standard deck. My wife and I travel a lot and there's something I find deeply appealing about being able to walk into any gas station, corner shop, or airport store anywh
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by erganemic 2y ago
That's interesting! My wife and I both pictured him as masculine. In my case, as a cis, bi man who's honestly evaluated how I play my gender, it was because a lot of the way Murderbot feels about being amidst humans is IMO just de
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by erganemic 2y ago
Contra to a lot of what's being said in this thread, I think a lot of smart people get stuck in the trap of overvaluing quality of input relative to quantity of input. Put another way: the bitter lesson applies to the AI inside your sk
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by erganemic 4y ago
People aren't angry/worried because they don't have a competitive advantage any more--people are angry/worried because they sense (I think correctly!) that AI will eliminate the part of their work that they find enjoyabl
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by erganemic 4y ago
I'm really impressed with the strides Emacs has made recently: native compilation, project.el, eglot, and now tree-sitter? As a user who hadn't kept up with development news until recently, I'd always mentally sorted Emacs in
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by erganemic 4y ago
I adopted GTD right before I left college, and I sometimes wonder how I ever would have managed to adapt to the explosion of tiny, attention-grabbing tasks that adult life supplies without it. Admittedly, it feels a little clunky and "
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by erganemic 4y ago
" The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of
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by erganemic 4y ago
Think of the distinction between "over the board" and "online" as kind of like the distinction between "NBA game" and "pickup game". Even that might be understating it. The levels of importance are ra
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by erganemic 4y ago
I can second the comments that a solid E ink device makes reading pdf/epub stuff a lot more enjoyable, and I greatly prefer it to reading on a traditional screen. That said, for exactly the class of books (didactic/reference) that
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by erganemic 4y ago
I used Corpspeak pretty much exclusively for the year I spent as an entry-level analyst at a consulting firm, because--as a consequence of all the points mentioned in this article--it was cognitively easier . If writing is like creating a
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by erganemic 4y ago
I'm not sure how you read my previous comment and concluded my objection was to people having fun in a way I don't like. To be super reductive: I think it's better to not play D&D at all if the only way you can see to hav
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by erganemic 4y ago
The specific person I'm talking about was telling their players that the stakes were real: they were calling for rolls (not attack rolls or saving throws, mind: those are too complicated, just anonymous rolls that were immediately igno
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by erganemic 4y ago
I've heard people accusing Suckless of gatekeeping, which is fair--when you consider their decidedly /documentation-lite/ approach, it'd be a stretch to call them accessible. However, I'm starting to increasingly be
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by erganemic 4y ago
Coming up with algorithms on the spot isn't a viable strategy for technical interviews any more, even if you're a super-genius. Here's a question that the page author claims took Donald Knuth 24 hours to solve [1], which is c
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by erganemic 4y ago
I've had a background interest in getting involved in CTFs for a while now, but haven't yet made it a point to overcome the activation energy to do anything beyond Overthewire's Bandit. I'd be interested in hearing how o
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by erganemic 4y ago
I commented on the last post about Google hiring slowdowns, hoping that it wouldn't hit technical workers as hard, but it looks like that's not the case. I've got an L3 interview literally tomorrow. Can anyone with more insig
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by erganemic 4y ago
Oof, I've got an L3 interview with Google in a little over a week. Hearing about hiring slowdowns like this is making me wish I'd been more aggressive with my interview timeline, but I'm not sure I've prepared enough as-
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by erganemic 4y ago
I see the view you express here pretty frequently--that older generations have /always/ viewed any new cultural development as a sign of moral/intellectual degradation, and--surprise!--it never really is. I do tend to agree t
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by erganemic 4y ago
I also had to adapt my handwriting - halfway through my math degree, my inability to tell symbols apart genuinely started to become a problem. I ended up having to use a horizontal bar on 'z' to tell it apart from '2', a
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by erganemic 5y ago
This is something I've thought about a lot; I ended up compiling tips on learning from a variety of different sources into a master document that I go back to every once in a while to see if there's any new things I can implement
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by erganemic 5y ago
Every time this topic crops up I'm struck with the seemingly-impossible challenge of people comparing qualia (especially through a text medium!). I've had conversations with friends before - some of who are artists - who had heard