msaltz

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by msaltz 2mo ago
Yeah that’s fair, that’s why I put the “or arrange things in a certain way” - imo wanting to be observant of thoughts and sensations is a choice one makes that implies a value judgement, i.e. that it’s “better” to to be observant of thought
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by msaltz 2mo ago
This is a great point. This is why I don’t meditate :) It became clear to me at some point that meditation was another way I was creating some standard for good or bad, and comparing myself to it. Would be annoyed at myself if I weren’t “mi
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by msaltz 2mo ago
This version of doing nothing IMO is still “doing something”. It’s clearly not “just existing” to have a standard that you must hold still, not look around the room, not engage in thinking, notice how you’re feeling, etc. It’s clear when yo
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by msaltz 2mo ago
Thanks! I’m most proud of those. Glad you liked them :)
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by msaltz 2mo ago
Hello! It probably doesn’t make much of a difference now that the post is flagged (I assume that it has something to do with people thinking it’s an ad?) but just for the record, I really didn’t intend this as an “ad”. No one asked me to wr
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Using an open model feels surprisingly good(matthewsaltz.com)
326 points by msaltz 2mo ago|141 comments
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by msaltz 5mo ago
I love her. Listening to her album sounds like you’ve opened a time capsule that’s been left undisturbed for years. It’s so unique and the lyrics are so lovely. Talkin’ Like You is my favorite. “I don’t stand in the need of company / w
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LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right(emptysqua.re)
2 points by msaltz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by msaltz 2y ago
I did the first 27 chapters of this tutorial just because I was interested in learning more and it was thoroughly enjoyable: https://mariokartwii.com/armv8/ I actually quite like coding in assembly now (though I haven’
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Nvidia's new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts(engadget.com)
2 points by msaltz 2y ago|0 comments
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No Need for (Internal) Alignment(buttondown.com)
3 points by msaltz 2y ago|0 comments
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by msaltz 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
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Modified Condition/Decision Coverage(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by msaltz 2y ago|0 comments
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Persistent Storage of Adaptive Radix Trees in DuckDB (2022)(duckdb.org)
2 points by msaltz 2y ago|0 comments
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by msaltz 2y ago
Here’s one I’ve actually used/played with (though never measured performance of): https://github.com/lewissbaker/disruptorplus And here’s one I saw linked on HN recently: https://github.com/0burak&
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Coordinated Omission (2021)(scylladb.com)
2 points by msaltz 2y ago|0 comments
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Breaking the Cycle of Anxiety(buttondown.email)
1 points by msaltz 3y ago|0 comments
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Surprising Results Benchmarking Direct IO vs. Buffered IO Using Fio(buttondown.email)
3 points by msaltz 3y ago|0 comments
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by msaltz 3y ago
The Revel app (which is rolling out rideshare in NYC where all drivers are actual employees) has a rating system that’s explicitly labeled something like “Bad - Okay - Good - Great - Amazing”, where the default selected option is “Good”. I
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by msaltz 3y ago
First of all, many people take criticism personally. It’s a very natural thing to do. So there’s nothing wrong with you! And it’s not a flaw. It’s a naturally occurring phenomenon, so if it occurs, there’s really nothing you need to do abou
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The Straight Dope on Cholesterol (Part I)(peterattiamd.com)
4 points by msaltz 3y ago|1 comments
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by msaltz 3y ago
This is part of the system actually - if something takes less than two minutes then just do it. But I think that’s sort of in a separate phase from the initial writing down of something… Like you can write something down briefly when you th
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by msaltz 3y ago
In the book Getting Things Done the author explains that your brain is basically a really bad reminder system. So if it thinks there’s something you needs to do, it will basically keep reminding you of that thing at all times until you do i
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Scientists found internal clock that influences how we perceive time (2018)(arstechnica.com)
4 points by msaltz 4y ago|0 comments
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by msaltz 4y ago
I think two important requirements for good unit tests are that 1) If you look at a particular test, you can easily tell exactly what it's testing and what the expected behavior is, and 2) You are able to easily look at the tests in a
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by msaltz 4y ago
A few years ago my friend stayed with me for two weeks and he was doing “no alcohol August” just to see how he felt, and I joined him. I realized that I felt way better most of the time. I wasn’t drinking much before that, but even one IPA
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Glommio, a Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux(datadoghq.com)
1 points by msaltz 4y ago|0 comments
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A Case Against Nihilism(matthewsaltz.wordpress.com)
2 points by msaltz 4y ago|1 comments
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by msaltz 4y ago
I’ve always thought https://enso.org/ looked cool. It’s a functional language that has both a text representation and a visual representation as a graph that you can edit directly. I still haven’t played with it much though
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Paperclip Maximizer(lesswrong.com)
2 points by msaltz 4y ago|1 comments

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