Judging by your post history, you might be a software engineer. As such, you might benefit from a few specific tactics I haven't seen in other comments yet: 1. Being an interviewer. 2. Being a mentor. (onboarding…
Not disagreeing with your point, and I'm sure you already know this, I just wanted to point out (for the benefit of people that don't have other options) that it is possible to build "webhooks" in such a way that you're…
Yep -- under the hood, "immutability" in Clojure is implemented with data structures that provide pretty good performance by sharing sections of their immutable structure with each other. For example, if you have a…
w.r.t. long-form writing, two suggestions -- depending on whether you prefer keyboard or handwriting: - Keyboard: With a phone that supports USB host mode, you can plug your keyboard of choice into the USB port and use…
I've been involved in rewrite-from-scratch projects that worked, because the scope of the system being rewritten was relatively small. So, I've concluded "rewrite from scratch" projects get a bad rap because they tend…
As someone who's experienced something very similar, I've built a theory around why it happens: 1. The floating from task to task is almost always avoidant behavior. The experience is usually accompanied by a "slippery"…
Not a theory per se, but my "lightbulb moment" with jq came when I thought about it like this: jq is basically a templating language, like Jsonnet or Jinja2. What jq calls a "filter" can also be called a template for…
Sure! I don't have the GergoPlex keymap on Github yet (still a WIP, that one...) but I used the modal chords concept in my Faunchpad keymap as well. Here's the .def file with "modal chords" in it (the first parameter is…
I recently got a GergoPlex and it's so fun to be able to actually reprogram the keyboard itself. In fact, I got so addicted to keybindings that I tweaked the chording engine to make chords QMK-layer-dependent. The…
I think of this as an optimization kind of problem. The word "efficiency" itself is only meaningful in context of what's being made more efficient. A system could be "more efficient at becoming stable," for example. But…
Good point, thank you! It's an interesting thing, because I also take caffeine, and exercise, and meditate. Maybe it's just a matter of degrees, a sliding scale. But "too much of a good thing" isn't unheard of, and I…
That makes sense, thanks. I was definitely thinking in a nearer-term context. Even in that distant future though, wireheading would be a practice that fundamentally damages the emotional feedback loops that led to that…
Interesting article. Are there any wireheading proponents in this crowd? I'm curious to understand the phenomenon. The following quote in the article illustrates what they describe as "Wireheading done right": "Their…
I don't know. I suppose the simplest thing way to put it is that I don't know who is the target audience. My feeling is that the people who could use this are, basically, people who are trying to get their first job as…
I believe their point is that it doesn't look like the text was written by a native English speaker -- there are spelling and grammatical errors. For a business, having spelling or grammatical errors is sometimes seen…
Interesting, it sounds like I should read the book. For what it's worth, the "death wish" thing wasn't meant to be pejorative -- maybe I should have used a different term. I like your "life-wish" phrasing better, thank…
IMO (having only watched the film), preparation was meaningless because McCandless had a mentality that led him _toward_ risk -- a kind of death wish. He escalated his personal risk more and more, and eventually…
Making plain-text diagrams isn't as hard as you might think, especially using "overwrite mode" (that weird thing that happens when you fat-finger the insert key!) But many of these tools work by allowing you to express…
I'm in my late 20s, and went through something similar when I left my first job a few years ago. I'm sure that has both positive and negative implications for my advice! The book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal…
I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems. I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2". Worked surprisingly well.…
I like dependency injection even when I'm not writing tests (which I usually skip for side-projects.) I find it natural and convenient to think about "What dependencies on other parts of the system does this code have?"…
Are you referring to the "Sarno method for psychosomatic symptomps" (e.g. https://www.morrisonhealth.com/sarno-method-psychosomatic-sy...)? This is the first I've heard of such a therapy, it sounds fascinating.
> In a well-chosen book, such as the ones in the submitted article, doing the exercises is not to test your memorisation, it's to develop your understanding. This is a great point and example of the problem with a…
I've tried a few things recently that help with that: 1. Don't do exercises unless you want to. Completionism is a trap. 2. Take notes. Rewrite things in your own words. Imagine you're writing a guide for your past…
Gotcha -- that makes total sense. Thanks! (P.S. Sorry for putting words in your mouth -- I don't want to imply you said anything you didn't. My bad there.)
Judging by your post history, you might be a software engineer. As such, you might benefit from a few specific tactics I haven't seen in other comments yet: 1. Being an interviewer. 2. Being a mentor. (onboarding…
Not disagreeing with your point, and I'm sure you already know this, I just wanted to point out (for the benefit of people that don't have other options) that it is possible to build "webhooks" in such a way that you're…
Yep -- under the hood, "immutability" in Clojure is implemented with data structures that provide pretty good performance by sharing sections of their immutable structure with each other. For example, if you have a…
w.r.t. long-form writing, two suggestions -- depending on whether you prefer keyboard or handwriting: - Keyboard: With a phone that supports USB host mode, you can plug your keyboard of choice into the USB port and use…
I've been involved in rewrite-from-scratch projects that worked, because the scope of the system being rewritten was relatively small. So, I've concluded "rewrite from scratch" projects get a bad rap because they tend…
As someone who's experienced something very similar, I've built a theory around why it happens: 1. The floating from task to task is almost always avoidant behavior. The experience is usually accompanied by a "slippery"…
Not a theory per se, but my "lightbulb moment" with jq came when I thought about it like this: jq is basically a templating language, like Jsonnet or Jinja2. What jq calls a "filter" can also be called a template for…
Sure! I don't have the GergoPlex keymap on Github yet (still a WIP, that one...) but I used the modal chords concept in my Faunchpad keymap as well. Here's the .def file with "modal chords" in it (the first parameter is…
I recently got a GergoPlex and it's so fun to be able to actually reprogram the keyboard itself. In fact, I got so addicted to keybindings that I tweaked the chording engine to make chords QMK-layer-dependent. The…
I think of this as an optimization kind of problem. The word "efficiency" itself is only meaningful in context of what's being made more efficient. A system could be "more efficient at becoming stable," for example. But…
Good point, thank you! It's an interesting thing, because I also take caffeine, and exercise, and meditate. Maybe it's just a matter of degrees, a sliding scale. But "too much of a good thing" isn't unheard of, and I…
That makes sense, thanks. I was definitely thinking in a nearer-term context. Even in that distant future though, wireheading would be a practice that fundamentally damages the emotional feedback loops that led to that…
Interesting article. Are there any wireheading proponents in this crowd? I'm curious to understand the phenomenon. The following quote in the article illustrates what they describe as "Wireheading done right": "Their…
I don't know. I suppose the simplest thing way to put it is that I don't know who is the target audience. My feeling is that the people who could use this are, basically, people who are trying to get their first job as…
I believe their point is that it doesn't look like the text was written by a native English speaker -- there are spelling and grammatical errors. For a business, having spelling or grammatical errors is sometimes seen…
Interesting, it sounds like I should read the book. For what it's worth, the "death wish" thing wasn't meant to be pejorative -- maybe I should have used a different term. I like your "life-wish" phrasing better, thank…
IMO (having only watched the film), preparation was meaningless because McCandless had a mentality that led him _toward_ risk -- a kind of death wish. He escalated his personal risk more and more, and eventually…
Making plain-text diagrams isn't as hard as you might think, especially using "overwrite mode" (that weird thing that happens when you fat-finger the insert key!) But many of these tools work by allowing you to express…
I'm in my late 20s, and went through something similar when I left my first job a few years ago. I'm sure that has both positive and negative implications for my advice! The book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal…
I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems. I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2". Worked surprisingly well.…
I like dependency injection even when I'm not writing tests (which I usually skip for side-projects.) I find it natural and convenient to think about "What dependencies on other parts of the system does this code have?"…
Are you referring to the "Sarno method for psychosomatic symptomps" (e.g. https://www.morrisonhealth.com/sarno-method-psychosomatic-sy...)? This is the first I've heard of such a therapy, it sounds fascinating.
> In a well-chosen book, such as the ones in the submitted article, doing the exercises is not to test your memorisation, it's to develop your understanding. This is a great point and example of the problem with a…
I've tried a few things recently that help with that: 1. Don't do exercises unless you want to. Completionism is a trap. 2. Take notes. Rewrite things in your own words. Imagine you're writing a guide for your past…
Gotcha -- that makes total sense. Thanks! (P.S. Sorry for putting words in your mouth -- I don't want to imply you said anything you didn't. My bad there.)