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Not all psychological trauma is necessarily due to abuse.

When my wife was pregnant and we didn't know the gender yet I did a lot of reading on attachment theory and what truth there is to "daddy issues" etc. in case it was a girl. It's a trope, but there's something to it.

As it turns out we have a lovely baby boy. Now, to avoid traumatizing him...

The Middle Path was "folksonomies".

The Zettelkasten in particular requires an incredible degree of conscientiousness.

I've found that having a whiteboard in my office helps me jot down quick mathematical ideas as soon as they come (but note how simpler this is due to the home office wave), but that doesn't work well for fleeting thoughts of a more philosophical or conceptual nature.

There's a lot of innovation going on for conscientious people to have a better UI to keep notes, but really all innovation can happen post hoc if you have a text editor and devise a quick text language for linking and metadata (maybe based off something like yaml to cut down on parser writing). The open problem is how to stop losing the fleeting thoughts of smart distracted people.

It's a big schlep, cue in Paul Graham essay.

I never get the footgun argument. If you need a gun, you're liable to shoot yourself. Programming in general is more and more accessible to wider audiences, but it hasn't become intrinsically easier.

This is something I don't get. You're supposed to be able to integrate BSD-licensed (or even Public Domain) code into GPL works, right? The fact that something shows up in GPL code means what exactly?

This is like: there are scholarly books that quote extensive from original philosophers -- long, third-of-a-page quotations. Still I should be able to quote something in its original language (translations may be copyrighted) copying from the derived work. Copyrighted work is not supposed to be able to poison noncopyrighted work it originates from.

Came in expecting these to be like an exotic kind of option.

Excel files are shareable and everyone's able to inspect them. (drops mike)

Having hundreds of developers work on the same code repository seems insanely complicated. What are the advantages? Where can I read more about monorepos?

My (unorthodox and somewhat rickety) note-taking gizmo uses Poisson's equation to classify (continuously) entries.

Basically the note-taking gizmo is a graph. Nodes are given conceptual masses either through pagerank or betweenness centrality (i.e. either through how many random walks or how many shortest paths cross a node). Then we calculate a potential energy (gravity potential) if we by inverting the graph laplacian (a few methods are available). Special attention is given to nodes that "float the most.

E: forgot to link to it! https://github.com/asemic-horizon/sursis/

I wish Musescore did this...

Jeremy Kun's blog is a treasure.

> Trying to review the "what you did" with all the random false starts, bug fixes, and who knows what, would be a nightmare;

At some point there was a plugin for Google Docs where you could record the actual typing of a document; supposedly if good writers (even on the order of Spolsky/Graham) did it, we could stand to learn a lot.

> each team owns the entire vertical from concept and design through full stack, and there are, gee, 40+ services working in concert with more planned. All of these merge into a single web application.

My startup is developing that way, although with more like 9 services owned by 3 developers. (We have no bus factor). Is there anything interesting I can read about your methodologies -- I mean standard references, books, tutorials? (Lerna? Yalc?)

It's an empirical regularity, dude.

It's probably due to hidden third causes (the kind of personality + circumstance + challenges that cause people to abstain from TV are the same that cause this and that positive outcome), but it's there, at least according to lots of anecdata in this very same thread.

I recommend Manuel de Landa (stylizes his name to Delanda these days), particularly “Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy” if your flavor is Anglo style analytical philosophy.

The relevant Deleuze texts (A Thousand Plateaus) can be infuriating if you’re not open to this whole other style of thinking, but Deleuze is no postmodern, he’s a realist and a materialist and sort of a science worshipper, albeit from an angle that would make Neil deGrasse Tyson start bleeding from his nose until he passed out, if he ever grokked it. Start with Delanda, probably.

[googling a little, this isn’t great but isn’t bad for something readily accessible: http://dar.aucegypt.edu/bitstream/handle/10526/3534/DeLanda%... ]

Eh. Brazil (the government! same one that botched the response to Covid) instituted an universal mechanism to wire any amount of money instantly for free — there goes your use case, not to mention Venmo, etc.

Of note: INSTANTLY. You can pay a random handyman you need in an emergency, or split bar tabs, or pay out-of-pocket expenses with doctors, whatever. I use it in lieu of credit cards for e-commerce too.

https://www.paymentsjournal.com/why-pix-is-the-revolution-of...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(electronic_payment_syst...

https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pix_en

Oh man, I have a rabbit hole for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)

I'd argue that bad content shouldn't be posted anywhere.

In jazz, this is the album "The world of Cecil Taylor". Previously he's doing Coltrane-class stuff; there's even an album that's alternatively credited to Coltrane or him depending on pressing. Afterwards who knows what the hell is going on. But "Lazy Afternoon" with Archie Shepp on the sax, man... that's my speed.

Try Sartre's "Le Sursis". The novel follows several groups of young people as the news that the Germans invaded Prague and war is probably weeks if not days ahead. But it switches focus between groups mid-paragraph and sometimes mid-sentence. Sartre's not known for experimental fiction, but whew.

The problem I have with Infinite Jest (I have a paperback edition; USD/my currency is expensive and I'm not made of money) is that the tome is too big for its binding and will seemingly fall apart at any time; and too heavy to hold in your hands in a reading chair (as opposed to propped on a table).

PUC-Rio (birthplace of Lua) does an intro to programming with Scheme (kind of a watered down SICP-type course) and then data structures in C.

We live in a society. https://asemic-horizon.com/2019/12/18/we-live-in-a-society/

It's not good manners to point out spelling mistakes, but it took me a while to go from "acetic" (vinegar-like?) to "ascetic".

"All you need considered harmful"

Stuff like this is so cool.

I have this desire to create a (maybe domain-specific / not Turing) programming language. I have some use cases involving constraint satisfaction but basically it's a rock'n roll dream kind of thing for me.

How does Dash compare to Streamlit?

In the same exact sense the death penalty is murder. Kind of, but excused by state power.