mithametacs

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by mithametacs 1y ago
The withdrawals are fucking garbage from even mild abuse (3x prescribed). I passed out and cut my head. And was anhedonic. And lethargic. And I started taking it as an adult. So I had 4 or 5 ADHD diagnoses under my belt.
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by mithametacs 1y ago
I literally did the thing you’re not supposed to do. my psych kept giving me everything by Adderall. So I went to one of those online doctors and got Adderall through her. Then I just told my psychiatrist that I have Adderall prescription
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by mithametacs 1y ago
Awful take. Everyone is capable of murder in the right circumstances. That doesn’t make everyone a murderer.
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by mithametacs 1y ago
Why didn’t I have you in my English classes peer reviewing my papers. Nicely done.
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by mithametacs 1y ago
You just put a text file with the names of the team or developers who own the directory.
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by mithametacs 1y ago
What research?
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by mithametacs 1y ago
You don’t hold onto it. It’s just lost when you die. Heaven has no bitcoin ATMs.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
now we have a benchmark
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by mithametacs 2y ago
The dumber the technique, the less it should be used for this.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
Not everything is a functional program though and side effects are important. Types can’t* represent this. *Not for practical programs
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by mithametacs 2y ago
Sure code can be cool for the same reason hip-hop is more than just the meaning of the words. The typing is the rhyme scheme. The algorithm is the rhythm.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I don't want to write any code. I want to think about the design of the program and have it pop out of my head fully formed. The latter gives me dopamine. The former gives me carpal tunnel.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I’m satisfied bouncing between the free tiers of Claude and ChatGPT I usually only have like a few hard questions per day, where I have lots of unknown unknowns. If the LLM doesn’t get me an answer within the free tier number of messages, i
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I had no choice most of my career doing Rails. Now I do C++ and I would fight to the death to keep autocomplete. But Copilot I bought a license for a got a refund for after a few months. In the net, it wastes your time. And I mean, copilot
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by mithametacs 2y ago
they’re still bad for generating any significant body of code. They’re a little bit better about deciphering errors. They’ll still bullshit* you and send you on wild goose chases. *hallucinate if you prefer
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by mithametacs 2y ago
The Senate is quite deliberately there to protect the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
But they should also have foreseen the routes for abuse. That's also their job. The DMCA is a disaster.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I/O is just built on top of the tape. Real computers reserve a map of memory to I/O. This is like saying a CPU isn't a computer. It's sort of right but sort of wrong, you know?
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by mithametacs 2y ago
An algorithm designed for translating between human languages has now been shown to generalize to solving visual IQ test puzzles, without much modification. Yes, I find that surprising.
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I've never thought of a micro-lookup-table! That's cool. What have you used those for?
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I read that and the followup. It’s good writing but I slightly disagree. Imperative is actually a closer mathematical formalism for some things. I find imperative better for expressing state machines. I find declarative better for backtr
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by mithametacs 2y ago
Sounds like a page worth another search if you don't mind. I'll give you Internet Points in return! -- my attempt: Imperative defines the order and semantics of each step. Declarative defines the prerequisites and intent of each
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by mithametacs 2y ago
That's the hard part of project management. Is it worth spending a bit more time up-front, hoping to prevent refactoring later, or is it better to build a buggy version then improve it? I like thinking with pen-and-paper diagrams; I d
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I agree with the distinction in approaches. In other words, it sounds like you're distinguishing agile and waterfall. I just find it odd to analogize: > agile : waterfall :: imperative : declarative
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by mithametacs 2y ago
Yes you can, you handle every case equally. You don’t even need the reflection mechanisms to be visible to the user with a good type system. A good type system participates in codegen. for a really simple example: languages which allow n
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by mithametacs 2y ago
Grandparent was such a good post otherwise! I love strong types. I love for loops. I love stacks. GP! Try Rust. Imperative programming isn’t orthogonal to types. You can go hard in Rust. (I loved experimenting with it but I like GC)
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I find the most interesting possibility: - life finds a way - life gets too smart - life kills itself - life finds a way
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by mithametacs 2y ago
We've set foot on only 1 other stellar body. Luna is sort of made from the Earth. And it's so close that Earth has a stronger pull on it than Sun. So we have set foot on another stellar body, sure. But we also... kind of haven&#
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by mithametacs 2y ago
Beyond the stars, a static void. Ions, but no aliens. Till one day SETI finds a 5k line template compilation error! Rejoice! We are not alone! Aliens have to deal with C++ too!
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by mithametacs 2y ago
I've undergone psychiatric care for things not related to psychosis. As for psychosis, I am mentally healthy. As a child I was obsessed with math. I had a pseudo-religious obsession with Platonism, connected with my childhood fear of

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