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SnowHill9902

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SnowHill9902··on Young people are flocking to astrology
You think that by studying engineering you see the world as it is?
SnowHill9902··on Stem Formulas
Formulas are like magic spells. You don’t get to use them without understanding what they mean, and more importantly what they assume.
SnowHill9902··on Confronting failure as a core life skill
Read the book of Job.
SnowHill9902··on StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100
“You have to be prepared to walk away.”
SnowHill9902··on Telling the Bees
Except that life is not for enjoyment and entertainment.
SnowHill9902··on Telling the Bees
“Yes, and?”

—- that’s a Zen response not a snarky question.

SnowHill9902··on The real lesson of The Truman Show
The answer is that good and evil are just human perspectives. His plan is beyond our understanding and is neither good nor evil.
SnowHill9902··on Mental Liquidity
Stay humble.
SnowHill9902··on Lung cancer pill cuts risk of death by half
Increase your natural T. Doubt you maxed it.
SnowHill9902··on Why Is GPS Free?
Pharmaceutical companies are not charging for the cost it took to develop that drug, but for the rolling cost it’ll take to develop future ones.
SnowHill9902··on Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
Ideas prove their worth by fighting back.
SnowHill9902··on HBO Max new Captcha system
For captchas you don’t have to be right in the strict sense. You have to do as most humans would do.
SnowHill9902··on Unnatural Keys – Nature doesn’t come with identifiers
This is not true. Given two songs A, B, an informed human can tell whether A and B are the same song or not. Now you’ve created a UNIQUE constraint on your data, so you have a unique identifier.
SnowHill9902··on Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
By not taking it personally.
SnowHill9902··on The hypergamy hypothesis: much more than you wanted to know
This can be deduced from the mere fact that reproduction and raising is extremely asymmetric between male and female.
SnowHill9902··on A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
So it’s not gray, it’s melange.
SnowHill9902··on Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
“Tricholoroethylene strongly linked to Parkinson”
SnowHill9902··on Monte Carlo methods
Can you link to some projects? Ideally also Haskell or also functional?
SnowHill9902··on The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Familiar (Rich) Winners
Buy, borrow, die.
SnowHill9902··on I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
The world is always 6NF.
SnowHill9902··on The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
People care. Hiring managers can be nerds too.
SnowHill9902··on Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone
Yes if you are already dead.
SnowHill9902··on Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
Parkinson’s does not prevent any of those.
SnowHill9902··on Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone
Doesn’t make sense. They sure won’t be unlocking the iPhone now.
SnowHill9902··on YouTube, the jewel of the internet
It’s your responsibility to guide them.
SnowHill9902··on The layoffs will continue until (investor) morale improves
Lol. It’s a name.
SnowHill9902··on SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)
The only database you’ll need 60% of the time every time.
SnowHill9902··on Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
It’s cute but it doesn’t mean what people think it means. It’s not a call for hedonism or short-term happiness, but the complete opposite: a call for transcendence and meaning and good deeds reflected in eternity (i.e. after you die today).
SnowHill9902··on Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker, has died
It was mainly Taiichi Ohno who thought and created their production system and philosophy, not Toyoda.
SnowHill9902··on WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation
Has nothing to do.
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