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I paused a bunch of times and I forget the details, but I remember everything always looking good, especially his brainstorming about the site and making notes about pgp and onion services and the like.

I also loved them knowing Lenny wrote some code, as he was the only person in the world who uses snake case in javascript, because I’m also a snake case heretic.

Every post I see from young people trying to get tech jobs is about applying to 500 places to get one interview. It’s a lie.

Hmm, I wonder why the title of the article doesn’t say the lawsuit was dismissed or why.

I don’t have any problem with my name, and it feels manipulative and overfamiliar and I assume someone’s trying to Carnegie me into something if they use it.

Doc Rivers is an awesome name though.

This seems very cool. Was going to suggest submitting it, but I see there was a fairly popular thread 5 months ago for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492803

Just moving my jaw doesn’t affect mine, but moving it to the side and flexing whatever muscles involved in that motion are definitely makes mine louder, just for a second.

I’ve always wondered if that implied there must theoretically be a way to cure or reduce it by reducing pressure in there through surgery or stretching or something. I’ve done a bunch of neck stretches in the past that I think mostly relieved my anxiety about it, but may have helped. My motivation to fix it has gone down a lot though as I’ve gotten used to it.

A plumber working on my pipes is upset, his wages are suppressed by competition from illegals getting paid under the table, while his rent has skyrocketed, and his taxes are paying for his illegal competitors food and rent and healthcare.

Doing their own rendering is one of the most attractive things about it imo. I am on macos though.

I thought it was supposed to solve the problem of being kicked out of the banking system if you offend the wrong people?

I wouldn't be surprised if there is something to it, but I suspected they didn't use legitimate coin flips (because it seems like a large amount of people can't really flip a coin), and looking at the videos confirms it, at least for the flips done by Bartos:

https://osf.io/6a5hy/

They're very low RPM and very low time in the air. Nothing I would accept for any decision worth flipping a coin for.

Have you seen this?

``` You will be given a name of an object (such as Car, Chair, Elephant) and a letter in the alphabet. Your goal is to first produce a 1-line description of how that object can be combined with the letter in an image (for example, for an elephant and the letter J, the trunk of the elephant can have a J shape, and for the letter A and a house, the house can have an A shape with the upper triangle of the A being the roof). Following the short description, please create SVG code to produce this (in the SVG use shapes like ellipses, triangles etc and polygons but try to defer from using quadratic curves). ```

``` Round 5: A car and the letter E. Description: The car has an E shape on its front bumper, with the horizontal lines of the E being lights and the vertical line being the license plate. ```

Image generated here: https://imgur.com/a/Ia4Q2h3

How does it "just" predict the letter E could be used in such a way to draw a car? How does it just text predict working SVG code that draws the car made out of basic shapes and the letter E?

I don't know how anyone could suggest there are no conceptual models embedded in there.

My friend showed me a cool series of photography books he'd backed on Kickstarter called Vanishing Asia. Only after we'd finished flipping through them did I realize they were by Kevin Kelly. I just looked up the campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kk-org/vanishing-asia): 2,348 backers pledged $603,420 to help bring this project to life.

I agree, and people should probably ignore advice from people who haven't reached it, unless they'd be content with being b2, which is a lower level than I think people realize.

Anyone who learns enough vocabulary to be something resembling fluent (say, can comfortably watch tv shows or read books in that language), will be good at grammar far before they learn the 10k+ words they need to know. You can't consume enough of the language to acquire that kind of vocabulary and not have a decent intuition for the grammar.

I don't advocate ignoring grammar, but you really just need awareness of the basics, not to spend time doing drills or filling in blanks.

I feel like I once heard of Jay Rubin say something like, if you don't know japanese, you've never read a word of Murakami, you've read Rubin. I suppose it's obvious but it did make me stop and think about how distant japanese actually is from English.

I can't actually find any reference to him saying this though.

This post is making me wonder if I did something wrong, but I hated the low resolution in the quest 2 for programming when I tried it.

I just always use let because it looks better. Const provides pretty much no value in js anyway.

What the hell is water?

People can't even see politics anymore they're so steeped in it.

I do think going through a basic textbook is important but imo they shouldn't be a part of your plan once you get through one or two. I learned all the rules of spanish grammar more or less in a few semesters in college, but it's just a stepping stone to help with getting tons of input. Like now that I've listened to hundreds of hours of spanish, i just get the subjunctive. Occasionally youtube will recommend me a youtube video explaining it and hearing the rules people throw around seem pretty useless. You hear them and think about them and go, huh, i guess that is true, but for learning I don't think it helps beyond having in the back of your mind as you consume the language, I wouldn't spend any time doing grammar drills or anything with them.

Something else people should keep in mind (i don't mean for this to apply to you, i just don't want to make a separate post) is that people will give you language learning advice and claim to speak a language when they can't watch tv, listen to podcasts, or read books in it. If you aspire to this kind of level (no judgement if you don't) do not listen to anyone who hasn't reached it.

Nice graph of syllables per second vs bits of information per second here:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/09/28/why-are-...

I guess you could frame being unwilling to go outside and/or exercise as a chronic illnesses in and of themselves, but otherwise I don't see how anyone would consider this plausible.

I suspect you learn less by doing nothing. This kind of advice is probably good for normal people, but the people who need it least seem to be the ones most paralyzed by it.

Scrape the doc sites with httrack or something. Don't turn the internet on unless you actually hit that library problem, I think it's generally pretty clear when a significant problem has already been solved. Or move on and solve that problem tomorrow, and go do deliberate research on it and download everything at night, and then work on it again offline the next day.

Are you offended the idea of a master key or say, mastering C++? Remastered albums?

Something I've seen Jonathan Blow do that I like is tag things // @Speed when doing a quick to type but slow to run kind of first pass.

It seems nice to have tags for places to jump where the improvements are obvious, rather than hoping to just remember/spot them later.

Ensuring a gpg key isn't lost seems pretty obnoxious.

I used to be a Haskell type and now enjoy Go greatly for this reason.

There was a thread on the Rust reddit where someone was asking how to do something relatively simple using some elaborate combination of map/reduce/filter/continuations/who-knows-what, and someone said "just use a for loop", and the OP was enlightened.

People don't know how great the burden of trying to model their problem to fit a fancy language is until it's gone. I didn't.

I want generics and sum types, but I miss them less than I would have predicted.

they are convenient solutions

It makes me think of signing inescapable contracts with demons, which seem convenient but ultimately doom you for eternity.

I don't know what you people get out of pretending you can't derive much from being told what language something is written in.