samiskin

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by samiskin 2mo ago
In the west we tend to think of meditation as just the specific type of mindfulness practice that happened to catch on here, but there's really a whole plethora of meditative practices and traditions and different practices will resona
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by samiskin 2mo ago
Fun game though I wish it left more time for the longer words, also wish we could have the letters in one line and shuffle them
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by samiskin 1y ago
I think this capture’s the essence better than anything else, “try and” simply behaving as “try and see if I can” (or whatever fits instead of “I” here)
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by samiskin 2y ago
Language is definitely a significant part of thinking, but when I remember how cold it was outside yesterday to figure out if it was colder than today, I'm not bringing words to mind. I'm bringing up some other non-discrete inform
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by samiskin 3y ago
Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself
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by samiskin 4y ago
This all makes sense given "for the contexts I care about (small web applications largely written by solo devs)". Unfortunately for you most software (and therefore what most developers work with) isn't for those contexts, b
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by samiskin 4y ago
This makes a lot more sense than anything I've read about this in the past, thanks for the explanation!
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by samiskin 4y ago
This seems like a more restrictive version where the "Actors" must also be entirely deterministic and single threaded without really blocking in the middle of processing something.