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Thanks for the interesting read! How did you support yourself through all of the failed startups?

So going by your definition what would be a true black box?

> How did we let discord take over is a mystery to me, or rather a tragedy. The fact that you're baffled why discord took over is exactly why it took over. You can't even acknowled…

I've tried to start meditating a couple of times in my life but every time after a couple of days instead of being introduced to gradual calm/bliss/joy/whatever I get met with an e…

When this doesn't work, does it mean that you're simply stupid? Asking for a friend.

Explosions

"It is useless speculating about things we can't ever know of." And how do you know which things we can know of and which we cannot? Trusting your gut instinct on that isn't scient…

We have a ton of examples of great mathematicians who also happened to be great philosophers and vice-versa. Some philosophers also tried to incorporate mathematical symbols and su…

> I think that if someone is completely unable to justify an observed truth to others, then it might not be a truth at all. What if the observed truth that someone is trying to com…

Which studies? I've checked a few Google results and none of them showed health-care even near the top, which is suspiciously surprising to me.

I wanna know more about the from scratch GPS receiver

You can find most books for free on the internet :) Please do support the authors though.

Comment the title is base64 to avoid spoilers because ChatGPT does not recognize what book this is.

"Time drunks deeply intuit this, and their procrastination-induced state of timelessness should not be considered a terrible character flaw but rather an act of spiritual rebellion…

But what if little timmy asks it how to make a bomb? What if it's racist? Then what?

Now do an article on how to get the discipline to keep this going.

Can you cast a fireball now?

I probably should know but I don't even have the vaguest of ideas. What do consultants actually do?

Maybe we're just bike-shedding on the Sunday quote itself but I generally don't want to be reminded that I'm staring at a terminal on a Sunday ):

I'm not disagreeing, but we also must be aware of ideological tautolagies (not sure if the term is correct, but it's a kind of circular reasoning). Where an intelligent and skilled…

Maybe a naive question: but is there any way at all (impractical or not) to implement stateless revocation? In my mind JWT is already non-stateless in the sense that the server at …

https://archive.is/MfHFY

> The author argues a reducing the size of a function of "a few dozen lines" likely won't improve the readability of the code. That's not even defensible! I would fail any (profess…

ok!! this is quickly! surprising!! "The average professional engineer (more than 200 PRs a year) authors nearly 600 PRs a year (590) with a median time to review of 1.34 days." are…