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For early compilers in certain contexts, this was once true.

Same. I've been told I'm a "high metabolizer". I can drink a cup of coffee/tea/soda before bed and pass out. No noticable effect. It's weird that you mention the runner's high, too…

Learning language is like learning poetry. Your appreciation of the thing grows proportionally with the practice. Which means you don't need to learn to fluency to appreciate Arabi…

Yeah, saying "I don't daydream" sounds like "I don't have thoughts" to me. Am I always daydreaming, or have I never daydreamed?

That sounds like the CCIE.

Stephen King said something similar (but I'm sure I'm misquoting): Every writer begins with one million terrible words inside them. The sooner you get those words out, the sooner y…

That is so different than I expected. Thank you for the link.

> How many developers are using VSCode? How does that number compare with Emacs/Vim? Perhaps I'm in some sort of "TUI bubble", but I'd bet good money that Emacs/Vim users outnumber…

My biggest concern with AI is that I'm not sure how a software engineer can build up this sort of high-level intuition: > I still have to deeply think about every important aspect …

I recommend Paul Kingsnorth. Insightful analysis of the modern world and the Christian response to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3hMSZqatHI He also has a new book out, Against…

> But it's not Google or TikTok that did this: it's the content consumers. Given the intentionally addictive algorithms and psychological manipulation used by the big tech companie…

Granted: If you live in America, depending on your situation, you may need wealth or a good job to have access to decent healthcare. But, "They will never have a family... hobbies,…

As always, the Germans have a word for this feeling: Sontagsleere.

You might be interested in reading Socrates (Plato): https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...

I think you mean _Bowling Alone_.

Women shouldn't speak in church: https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/14-34.htm Homosexuality is unnatural: https://www.biblestudytools.com/romans/1-27.html

In addittion to The Fire Next Time, my personal favorites are a series of essays he wrote from the South during desegregation: A Fly in the Buttermilk Nobody Knows My Name Faulkner…

My sentiments exactly. From "Nobody Knows My Name": > Now, I talked to many Southern liberals who were doing their best to bring integration about in the South, but met scarcely a …

(IANAL. As I understand it,) Precedent is generally followed unless there is a difference of circumstance, which could include changing cultural mores. The most recent U.S. Supreme…

I don't understand how the author is judging complexity. The top one, Huli, is a base-15 number system but looks quite regular otherwise. French, on the other hand, switches from a…

Because people are more likely to pay for the more recognized name.

That's easy for someone who's worked at many different companies. What about the applicant who's primarily worked for a single company for many years? This is much more likely to b…

However, checking the past experience of the applicant -- which seems perfectly reasonable for the hiring company to do -- would still allow discrimination against older Americans …

Relevant Mitchell and Webb Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw

The window of comprehension is a (probably) over-generalized concept. It was first mentioned in the 1985 paper "Intelligence and personal influence in groups: Four nonlinear models…