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hks0
·أول أمس·discuss
That you think this way (and if like me, it makes you excited!) I think it's because it has clicked for you.

For many that light bulb above their head doesn't flash on, hence they get to dislike the subject or forget it after they are done with their studies. I was lucky enough to appreciate math that much to redo it in my free time after high-school and make it click for me.
hks0
·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
But what if we find the exact same face in different rocks or pixels? I also think the researchers were aware of this issue as the article mentions they were careful not bias their model.

Very interesting point though!
hks0
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
I have a curious question. My local setup has worked for me for ages ever since arch decided to switch to systemd. Same on the servers I deal with, after Debian's switch. At the same time, I can say I'm not involved with inner workings of a Linux system enough, to be affected by init system change and the pain it might bring.

In other means consider me an average Joe of the Linux world.

Hence this question: If it sucks so much, why did it become so widespread?
hks0
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I asked them: twice a day, 10 minutes each. No need to put too much pressure, that is, no need to make yourself uncomfortable during practice. Weight loss & less snoring should appear within a few months ;)
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Sadly the (non-english) whatsapp group is no longer available. There wasn't really more to it; you had to practice circular breathing daily and post an update. But the teacher wanted to create membership schemes and make extra money, so people left.
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Depression
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Just learned from comments here it's called "circular breathing"!
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
A friend of mine started "blowing air into water with an straw" (making bubbles) very seriously. I was very skeptical to say the least; but after a couple of months the effects have been very eye opening. Not only it has helped sleep apnea and snoring but also helped with reducing their weight. They had an online group and most participants reported the same. The wight loss was reverted when they stopped for some personal reasons. I wonder if making bubbles in the water has the same effect.
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I had an old projector; If the film roll stopped for any reason (operator error, getting stuck, etc...), the lamp was so bright that it'd catch fire.
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I'll remove the comment then
hks0
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Off topic, removed
hks0
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Except when I wanted to get ChatGPT or Claude to criticize a religion or religious figure, namely Khamenei. It never backed down and if forced too much and I pointed out its contradiction, it would switch to 2~3-word sentences response mode (i.e. passive-aggressive).

It was a long time ago, Claude 3 or maybe ChatGPT's v3. It felt so dehumanizing that I never tried again.

It didn't seem like trained behavior though, it felt much like hardcoded behavior.
hks0
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
> Locals which the programmer desires to be spilled could be annotated, making the performance cost visible in the source.

> I’ve never heard of anyone asking for such a feature.

Nevertheless we have/had it (for the other way around though): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(keyword)
hks0
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
{Personal experience} many many years when beginning SWE, I used to think the same. I didn't want to admit but it meant I didn't have to learn DSA. There was plenty of evidence to back me up with the same thinking as this article. Life happened and I had to painfully spend time and slowly learn it. Comparing the person before & after, the difference in my software building skills were very tangible. Sadly I cannot point it out and say "I'm wiser and I know how not to make a mess in the codebase, because I learned such & such algorithm and data structures" yet I can fully imagine how the previous person would've been lost in the jungle.

{Less of personal experience but more of a anecdotal observation} I see the same pattern in hiring. Those who know DSA, build systems that cost less overal.

So maybe it's better not to throw DSA right out out the window, but also not stick to either ends of the spectrum?
hks0
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
Proton let's me bring my own subdomain for those random emails and does a pretty good job of tracking which email is given to whom, and also supports hiding your email even if you want to initiate the email contact, not just reply (plus scheme in mail address doesn't allow this). Otherwise you can also use their domain too, to stay fully anonymous.

So far I've been happy. I hope I'll stay happy.
hks0
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I always thought to do this visualization in 3d and maybe with VR. Not sure how useful or pleasing experience it would be. Kudos to the author of the project to get this done!
hks0
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I think it's where one plugs the external world into in their brain. For my daily work, I plug the desktop to my current thought stream (or short term memory?). Anything not immediately relevant to what I'm thinking about is an unnecessary speed bump or stutter in my speech, which means minimal window decoration, no status bars, ... and anything not visible can be summoned by a quick single "label" somehow, not by navigating a structure. This is more similar to what the author suggested.

{And if I'm getting what you said correctly} What you described, is similar to how I organize my drawers in my room. Everything is visible at once, but navigating them usually takes 2 or 3 steps. Without this visual map I'm completely lost.
hks0
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
I declare a `my_die() { echo "$" 1>&2; exit 1; }` on top of each file. Makes life easier by knowing why the script failed instead of having only exit code or having to turn `set -x` on and rerun.

Only if I could somehow mix `if` & `set -e`in a readable way... I wanted it to only capture errors of explicit `return 1` from bash functions, not from commands within those bash functions. But I guess I'm doing
too much* of the job in bash now and it's getting messy.
hks0
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
I agree with your both of your observations; And I also think what's missing is the acknowledgement that connects the two. Students come with the expectation of "chew it for me" and schools have the expectation of "I'm going to throw the material at you, you can & will handle it yourself".

But it doesn't need to be that hopeless. Learning is a skill and schools can help each individual find the ways working best for them. Starting by not packing gazillion number of people in a class.
hks0
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
At the time, the banks weren't app first. It was USSD, SMS and web, so they didn't care.

But yes, the banking and streaming apps too (regardless of their existence being good or bad or even justified) are yet another nail on that coffin.