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Goddamnit, geeks have been righteously complaining about "feature-itis" and retreating to their hermit kingdoms for so long. Here is one such complaint all the way back in 1999 (!) www.com…
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"Systems at scale", w.r.t. money laundering: www.propublica.org/article/c...…
On creativity, failure, and progress
Wisdom from Kourosh Dini: > Any creative act is, by definition, one in which we don’t know what the thing will look like in the end. > Instead, we discover what we are making in the act of its…
"Intelligence beyond the brain"
www.youtube.com/watch * Single-celled organisms are intelligent too * "Intelligent problem-solving in morphospace" * We can bio-engineer at a low-level, but not at a high-level * Cells…
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Quote from James Clear: > Simple mindset shifts: I'm not hurt, I'm healing. I'm not losing, I'm learning. I was not rejected, I was redirected. > Negative things happen. Neg…
Who made who
From a HN comment > Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made…
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NeoVim is now just as much of an extensible editor github.com/ggandor/l... (the easy use of Fennel for config has created an Emacs-Lisp counterpart !)…
Monthly Recap (September 2022)
Major update(s) * Went for a 10k run * Dental implants Minor updates * AC stopped working on the hottest weekend of the summer, had to get a whole new one installed * Various meeting-peopl…
Monthly Curations — September 2022
* A look at the engine that made the SR-71 Blackbird possible * Some words from a HackerNews post: The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that the soft skills are much…
Running again
Many ups and downs with running in my life: I was a couch potato for 25 years, then ran my first 5k, then stopped for about five years. I ran a half-marathon ten years ago, then repeated this every…
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Was missing a Steve Yeggae rant: about.sourcegraph.com/blog/intr... Having tried and wanting these tools to succeed, I wish em luck.…
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A quote from this HN post > Programming has turned into gluing together mystery meat. You can't make a business case for essentially writing every library you need. It would take too long to h…