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i create new notes, put interesting and shiny texts in them, and weave from them for fun and intellectual or aesthetic inspiration

I maintain a less featureful but easier to use and less janky Loom implementation as an Obsidian plugin: https://github.com/cosmicoptima/loom (Why Obsidian? Because then I don't ha…

SEEKING WORK | New York | Remote Technologies: Python, Haskell, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQLite, Redis Résumé/CV: https://github.com/cosmicoptima/cosmicoptima/raw/main/resume.…

Location: New York Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Python, Haskell, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQLite, Redis Résumé/CV: https://github.com/cosmicoptima/cosm…

What do you mean by "pronoun-hedonism"?

This means that NFTs still don't denote much without a centralized authority. Doesn't that defeat the point? (That might not make them worthless, since value is socially constructe…

I often criticize designs for being overcomplicated. I wouldn't level that criticism towards this seal, though, and I don't have the skill to make it.

I would be interested in talking about it if you or anyone else came up with it. I find the seal very aesthetically pleasing.

It's possible to think that astrology is useful even if the positions of celestial bodies don't actually matter.

Location: Oklahoma Remote: yes, ideally Willing to relocate: no Technologies: - Python (Flask, NumPy, BeautifulSoup etc.) - Haskell, Rust - HTML/CSS/JS, Bootstrap - SQL (SQLite), R…

I said I use VSCode all the time, which I suspect is the reason I got access. (I never use VSCode.)

network effect

Yes.

I forgot I had linked it; thanks.

Location: Oklahoma Remote: yes, ideally Willing to relocate: no Technologies: - Python (Flask, NumPy, BeautifulSoup etc.) - Haskell, Rust - HTML/CSS/JS, Bootstrap - SQL (SQLite), R…

Not all of us are professional programmers, and especially not all of us are only professional programmers.

> (And often when you ask people to be more forthcoming and give their formal definitions they wave their hands and say that software development is art not engineering and that it…

As far as I can tell - correct me if I'm wrong - management is just easier compared to (say) manual labor in a factory. They're also paid more per expected hour.

What?

Why did you get in trouble? (That is, what was the stated reason)

Even with the example you mentioned - cmd+backspace 5 times vs. "5dd" - I'm surprised that you can't see why some people would prefer the latter. (Also, if you're on the last line,…

It would be nice if the default keybindings were listed somewhere in the wiki. Did I miss them?

That's fair. I just sometimes get the sense that people equate being "logical" to being very hardheaded and skeptical, only preferring well-established solutions. There is nothing …

> He considered himself a logical rationalist with a self-described “zero tolerance for woo-woo,” so when his search for social anxiety treatment lead him to a psychospiritual retr…

This principle seems like it extends far beyond site traffic, especially since something like life satisfaction is much harder to measure.