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the_gipsy
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Comment #49081345
Isn't the folk intuition that "words come after thoughts"? I agree that a stroke cannot isolate language exactly, it's not an ideal approximation of "languagelessness". I think you…
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Comment #49081089
> adults who reported low levels of inner speech
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Comment #49076118
So what is it, then? Some mystical thing?
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Comment #49070103
I'm not saying it is text. But it's not an image.
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Comment #49065875
Picture your last meal. Is it a picture? Pixel or vector, or like a photo?
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Comment #49059960
There are no movie clips in your brain that you replay. You are re-narrating the scene, you just may not notice it.
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Comment #49057829
"We need to move away from text files to something proprietary and lock-in our users, while we still have this moat."
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Comment #49057804
> So I devised a plan to retrieve it. I'm just going to rewind time. I'm going to go back to doing what I was doing when I had that idea, and then it'll come back to me. You narrat…
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Comment #49056835
You just lack (or lacked) introspection, nothing special. Many people claim to have no inner monologue. When pressed, it always comes out. Simply put, it's impossible to function a…
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Comment #48985203
> Senior architect, junior engineer. Sounds great, right? Sounds like a consulting slaughterhouse. Picture Java Enterprise Solutions. As we all know, the pinnacle of software engin…
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Comment #48983917
I've been using tig, written in C, for ages now, never once crashed. And I'm all for safe languages, but a git TUI isn't really as critical as you imply - if I interpreted the sarc…
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Comment #48948571
The new fullscreen UI is really bad. The old one (scrolling) starts to bug out after a while, but it van just be restarted and resumed.
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Comment #48862435
You're right, he said the request is equivalent. Also, take it easy, it was merely a suggestion. The interesting part was comparing a feature/flag/branch to a fork, to me.
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Comment #48857952
It is! It just happens to be one of the worst languages in the world too.
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Comment #48857942
You should address the point Mitchell made: maintaining a fork is roughly the same as maintaining a feature flag.
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Comment #48818237
IMHO this busywork is (mostly) preferrable, because it meant that any package was truly pure Elm, and you could blindly trust it not to be some wrapper that crashed at runtime. It'…
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Comment #48810977
With AI, we can go... somewhere?
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Comment #48810937
What is the reason for thinking "early, not milliseconds" would not mean "early enough for the peeked/victim too? Ultimately the server must decide when to "pop" players, regardles…
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Comment #48803816
I haven't tried it, but Elm might be a really good fit for LLMs, because it forbids taking shortcuts.
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Comment #48785210
Or, you became aware of the agitation and interrupted it. The CO2 was a placebo. You have invested already in the idea, it all clicked in your mind.
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Comment #48749629
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Comment #48684467
"50ft" are 15 meters.
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Show HN: MdFried, the Ultimate Markdown Viewer
This is my markdown viewer for the terminal. It's most notable feature is that it displays headers Bigger™ then other text. This was my main motivation for writing this, as big hea…
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Comment #48617567
It's not that it has been glossed over, or was a mistake. It's a tradeoff in favor of simplicity (and compiler / tooling speed). It is difficult to view Go as a serious language be…
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Comment #48582939
Why would anyone prefer airline transit over a comfortable private jet?