pfkurtz

7 ms·

1.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
We have 2 options for dangerous things: 1) Regulate. 2) Criminalize. If lots of people do it, (1) is better, even though it normalizes the danger, because we get seat belts and pharmaceutical controls and the ability to innovate and discuss
2.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Isn't the suggestion that if there were not police/criminals as an interface to getting high, there would be a) the ability to know whether the drug one is purchasing contains a Fentanyl OD (labeled contents from auditable sources
3.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
It's because Iran is currently undergoing a large rebellion that might topple their human rights abusing government, and those other countries aren't.
4.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
If I were mostly mobile I would buy one of those 2-way screen extenders that attaches to the back of the laptop and gives you 3 monitors, and/or a large vertical touchscreen to use alongside. Trackballs are nice to have in addition to
5.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Very disappointed by this. I've got mounted vertical monitors surrounding an extra wide curved monitor on a desk that has 3 distinct surfaces at different heights and a hidden shelf beneath, with a pull-out Kinesis keyboard and both a
6.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
There's a wide range of symptom-clusters called "depression" and other mental health issues that pair nicely with feeling terrible. If it's not that bad, and/or if you have sufficient willpower or support you can ch
7.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
LSD: Multiple times I did it with others and profoundly deepened my relationship with those individuals. Another time I did it by myself and saw the face of evil and I've never been so terrified, but I survived and wouldn't change
8.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Frege is all over analaytic philosophy, as I experienced it as an undergraduate in a top department. Many of the most important papers and books (Dummett, Kripke, Evans, etc) in philosophy of language, logic, mathematics take various of his
9.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
That he took a walk everyday is somewhat informative, given how much of his philosophy is centered on normativity, but I prefer the anecdote about how he was a billiards hustler as a student, because even more pointedly, Kant's philoso
10.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
To unite our points, I might be thinking of something like: the immensity of sensory and cognitive data that pass through (sub)consciousness during the learning task are sifted and sorted in the unconscious while not learning; one might cal
11.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
That's sometimes true but I think my point still stands. When I'm studying a foreign language, I learn some words and they stick, but I'm exposed to a bunch more that I don't remember next time. I forget those meanings,
12.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Learning is as much forgetting as remembering. When I study something, I go for awhile, but eventually it becomes difficult, confusing, hard to see the forest for the trees. Particularly with technical information and skills like programmin
13.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Really, I have little piles everywhere around the house I tend to park for any length of time; I've never been able to do flashcards since my mom made me do them a ton when I was little, one of the ways I just do not learn.
14.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
I'm studying Programming Rust (O'Reilly, 2nd edition one year old, 800+pp) and I think it's fantastic. I am a better programmer for it. 4.6 stars wtih 200+ reviews on Amazon, for what it's worth. (owner of Knuth and TLPI
15.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Leaving technical books in the bathroom is a crucial hack for lifelong adult learning.
16.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
The people who are unwelcoming on HN and the people who post interesting/challenging responses... do not seem to overlap.
17.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Those are not places I suggested leaving books, because I'm not stupid. I suggested: by the toilet. So you can learn something every time you poop. Then there's these other things called shelves... I own a few.
18.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
There's an obvious example in programming: one might read a lot about machine learning, without becoming a practitioner. Without actually doing some work, one's opinions about building AIs wouldn't be worth much. What breaks
19.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
What the heck are you even talking about? I gotta say, Hacker News is probably one of the least welcoming communities on the internet.
20.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Not even close.
21.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
If you triple majored in 3 technical subjects, I submit that your aim was not what I am talking about. I am talking about how you fit in learning the real knowledge of our collective culture over a lifetime, no matter what else you do.
22.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Lol. Read my first line. I'm a software engineer posting on Hacker news. I know how to learn a skill. This is something else, that you can have, if you read lots of books and learn more languages. Becoming smart is, in part, about bein
23.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
A lot of people here are going to talk negatives and prioritization and purpose, but I personally also want to be practically omniscient, and you should strive for it too. You need strategies if you want to know a lot. Certainly focused thi
24.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Thank you for this recommendation, I'm on a DynamoDB contract job and... really learning to think hard about key structure and designing for efficient querying, rather than efficient storage.
25.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
The opinions on this thread...
26.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
I keep a few math books and a variety of dual-language paperbacks in the bathroom. It's become a really important part of my intellectual diet.
27.
by pfkurtz 4y ago
Hi! I have no idea, just a lone guy on the internet. Rust seems cool. Thanks for the tool I use every day.
28.
by pfkurtz 5y ago
No she isn't, and if you're going to come out with specific accusations: fucking prove it. 8 arrests. Wow. Looks like they burned your whole town down. Except that didn't happen, and the police won. The Democrats did this to
29.
by pfkurtz 5y ago
The tiny minority of black bloc protesters aren't anyone American politicians constituents, and you're attempt to associate them with anything I've said just shows your bad faith in taking the rest of my words seriously at al
30.
by pfkurtz 5y ago
And there was a silence in Heaven about the space of an hour...

More ›