jazzyb

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by jazzyb 6d ago
It's a good start.
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by jazzyb 2mo ago
For early compilers in certain contexts, this was once true.
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by jazzyb 2mo ago
Same. I've been told I'm a "high metabolizer". I can drink a cup of coffee/tea/soda before bed and pass out. No noticable effect. It's weird that you mention the runner's high, too. I've run
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by jazzyb 3mo ago
Learning language is like learning poetry. Your appreciation of the thing grows proportionally with the practice. Which means you don't need to learn to fluency to appreciate Arabic. Even modest practice, just learning to write the
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by jazzyb 5mo ago
Yeah, saying "I don't daydream" sounds like "I don't have thoughts" to me. Am I always daydreaming, or have I never daydreamed?
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by jazzyb 5mo ago
That sounds like the CCIE.
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by jazzyb 5mo ago
Stephen King said something similar (but I'm sure I'm misquoting): Every writer begins with one million terrible words inside them. The sooner you get those words out, the sooner you get to the good stuff.
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by jazzyb 7mo ago
That is so different than I expected. Thank you for the link.
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by jazzyb 7mo ago
> How many developers are using VSCode? How does that number compare with Emacs/Vim? Perhaps I'm in some sort of "TUI bubble", but I'd bet good money that Emacs/Vim users outnumber VSCode users by an order o
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by jazzyb 7mo ago
My biggest concern with AI is that I'm not sure how a software engineer can build up this sort of high-level intuition: > I still have to deeply think about every important aspect of what I want to build. The architecture, the trade
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by jazzyb 1y ago
I recommend Paul Kingsnorth. Insightful analysis of the modern world and the Christian response to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3hMSZqatHI He also has a new book out, Against the Machine, which has good reviews, but I
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by jazzyb 1y ago
> But it's not Google or TikTok that did this: it's the content consumers. Given the intentionally addictive algorithms and psychological manipulation used by the big tech companies, I think at least some of the blame can be pl
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by jazzyb 2y ago
Granted: If you live in America, depending on your situation, you may need wealth or a good job to have access to decent healthcare. But, "They will never have a family... hobbies, or respect from their community." This is compl
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by jazzyb 3y ago
As always, the Germans have a word for this feeling: Sontagsleere.
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by jazzyb 3y ago
You might be interested in reading Socrates (Plato): https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...
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by jazzyb 4y ago
I think you mean _Bowling Alone_.
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by jazzyb 5y ago
Women shouldn't speak in church: https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/14-34.htm Homosexuality is unnatural: https://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1-27.html
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by jazzyb 6y ago
In addittion to The Fire Next Time, my personal favorites are a series of essays he wrote from the South during desegregation: A Fly in the Buttermilk Nobody Knows My Name Faulkner and Desegregation
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by jazzyb 6y ago
My sentiments exactly. From "Nobody Knows My Name": > Now, I talked to many Southern liberals who were doing their best to bring integration about in the South, but met scarcely a single Southerner who did not weep for the pas
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by jazzyb 6y ago
(IANAL. As I understand it,) Precedent is generally followed unless there is a difference of circumstance, which could include changing cultural mores. The most recent U.S. Supreme Court nominee briefly talks about some of the nuances rela
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by jazzyb 8y ago
I don't understand how the author is judging complexity. The top one, Huli, is a base-15 number system but looks quite regular otherwise. French, on the other hand, switches from a base-10 to a base-20 at 80 and then switches things
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by jazzyb 9y ago
Because people are more likely to pay for the more recognized name.
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by jazzyb 9y ago
That's easy for someone who's worked at many different companies. What about the applicant who's primarily worked for a single company for many years? This is much more likely to be true for an older applicant. Do you lie
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by jazzyb 9y ago
However, checking the past experience of the applicant -- which seems perfectly reasonable for the hiring company to do -- would still allow discrimination against older Americans and foreigners. I'm not sure how that could be fixed e
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by jazzyb 10y ago
Relevant Mitchell and Webb Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
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by jazzyb 10y ago
The window of comprehension is a (probably) over-generalized concept. It was first mentioned in the 1985 paper "Intelligence and personal influence in groups: Four nonlinear models" by Dean Keith Simonton with respect to "le
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by jazzyb 10y ago
> I can't tell you what the opportunity will be, but there are opportunities if you participate pro-actively, even if you think of opportunities only as job opportunities. I agree. However, I think it's worth noting that this
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by jazzyb 10y ago
> you must must must find a place in the internet world that you can stay at (e.g. some FOSS 1990 style mailing list) and at least find some way to use social media (gnu social or G+ anyone?) in some reasonable way and have some kind of
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by jazzyb 10y ago
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
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by jazzyb 10y ago
If the key is the same length as the plaintext, wouldn't even a one-time-pad evade any adversary? I wasn't clear from the article: Were Alice and Bob sharing any algorithm details, or was it just the secret key?

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