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soledades··on The melancholy decline of the semicolon
You tell it what you want to find and replace with and then it automates the rest.

My point being that where you draw the line between what you consider automated vs not is pretty arbitrary.

soledades··on The melancholy decline of the semicolon
No find and replace, either? ;)
soledades··on Teach Yourself Computer Science (2020)
Yeah, this is pretty comparable and does a decent job aggregating what you might find by doing that.

Also helps with the kind of decision paralysis and tendency to wander off course I’ve often experienced when doing the aggregating myself.

This syllabus has been instrumental in keeping me focused over the course of a year+

soledades··on The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader
The lack of backlighting is the one and only reason I went with Onxy Boox Note Air 2 over Remarkable2.

Is it really on the way? Is there an ETA?

soledades··on Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
Goblin?
soledades··on GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim
So it looks like for neovim there is not yet the option to cycle through suggestions?

Looks like for VSCode the shortcut on Linux is Alt-], see: https://github.com/github/copilot-docs/blob/main/docs/visual...

But for neovim, it doesn't mention anything about it in the docs: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/doc/copil...

And, nothing happens when pressing Alt-].

soledades··on ‘When We Cease to Understand the World’
I think another interesting factor is that hardly anyone dies before a reasonably ripe age these days. We take for granted that we will have the full course of life.

When (e.g. in the 1800s) a typical person has at least one sibling die before adulthood, it throws the fundamental uncertainties into sharp relief.

Not saying that's a good thing, but it is different.

soledades··on ‘When We Cease to Understand the World’
There's also faith in humanity and its capacity to renew itself throughout the cycles of civilization. You can look at the world and think tomorrow looks grim, but the morning after can be better.

Faith that tomorrow is going to be better is just one of many types of faith, and it may not even be the healthiest.

The prophets had faith, but they often saw dark tomorrows.

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'Hysterical' Realism seems like a caricature, 'safely ignored' suggests the book is alarmist or clawing for attention. Based on the review, the book is anything but.

It seems more just a vividly imagined meditation on the massive gravity of our tangling with reality, and one that could expand a persons sense of awe at the universe and our place in it.

soledades··on The mutation that helps Delta spread
There is a material difference between a world of masks and a world of faces.
soledades··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
FWIW noise-cancelling headphones and earplugs are not mutually exclusive, and are actually a pretty good combo for living next to a train track.
soledades··on Ask HN: Mobile phone addiction help?
You might also try a monitor arm that allows you to swing your monitor away to the side. Mine is set up so that it swings behind my paper file stand and I hardly feel it's presence when I'm taking pen to paper.
soledades··on Ask HN: Mobile phone addiction help?
When they set up screen time passcode, have them enter their apple id and password. Then you will not be able to reset it with yours.
soledades··on “No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landmark Homelessness Ruling
The notion that this reasoning would apply to an absurd (for your reductio ad absurdum) variety of cases is just a slight reframing of the point of contention.

By way of example, assume, for the sake of contradiction, that your argument is valid. Then, by similar reasoning, I could argue that any argument I disagree with can be taken to unreasonable extremes, and is therefore invalid, etc. etc. :P

soledades··on “No Defense of the Indefensible”: L.A. Judge Makes Landmark Homelessness Ruling
This is somewhat begging the question, which is, at its core: “is the gov’t directly responsible for the humanitarian crisis at Skid Row.”
soledades··on Research: Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think
I think it's better to avoid casual gender stereotyping of behaviors, but I have to raise my eyebrows a bit at the notion that there is a large contingent of people who think it is "ethically monstrous." I suppose it might come down to circles though as you say. Good luck out there.
soledades··on Research: Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think
I think most people who are interested in male/female equity would not tell you that men and women are identical.

Any measure along the lines of (1) comes to us through the filter of a world who narratives and institutions have been shaped around the abilities and preferences of men, such that it comes off as a little obtuse to use them to justify disparate outcomes, which is most often what is happening when this comes up.

soledades··on Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama
Unemployment -> desperation -> crime
soledades··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
There is such a thing as chronic starvation, and the smaller bones reflect that, not mineral deficiency.

The linked article addresses famine more specifically.

soledades··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
This is incorrect:

> "The bones of 'domiciled' Homo sapiens compared with those of hunter-gatherers are also distinctive: they are smaller; the bones and teeth often bear the signature of nutritional distress, in particular, an iron-deficiency anemia marked above all in women of reproductive age whose diets consist increasingly of grains"

from Against the Grain

see also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917328/

soledades··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
You would be correct.

Preagricultural peoples exerted reproductive control so they were not vulnerable kind of population crunches that affect other species.

Diverse food webs were also more reliable and nutritious than what was available to the early agriculturalists, as you say.

soledades··on Meetings, Bloody Meetings (1976) [video]
This makes for fantastic background music for working at home.
soledades··on “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
> Every idea is vulnerable to the monster understatedly known as "business rules."

Cool take

soledades··on “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
>In 2017, an average U.S. consumer spent 238 minutes (3h 58min) daily watching TV.

...more or less a humanitarian catastrophe

soledades··on “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
What you call a root flaw (in your previous comment) I see as being neither root nor a flaw, but that is not interesting to me.

If you take a plant out of the ground, and toss it into the sea, the plant dies. The 'root flaw' is that the plant is a vulnerable living being. The more relevant fact is that the plant is better off in the ground.

soledades··on “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
Telling people to be different is simply not a viable mechanism for making the world a better place.

You can inquire after however many chickens and eggs you like about why the world is the way it is, but I think most people are more interested in what can be done to improve things.

soledades··on Ask HN: Why is it ok for my uni to have a Marxism society but not a Fascism one?
There is also considerable room for argument as to the extent to which Marxism is inextricable from the crimes of Stalin or Capitalism is from the crimes of the Belgian Congo, whereas Fascism is defined to a considerable extent (at least in the minds of people) by its association with with mass murder.
soledades··on Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)
FWIW, most mathematicians surveyed are "Mathematical Platonists," meaning they believe that mathematical objects exist in a way outside the human mind/the physical universe.

This mathematical "realm" is a very natural home for the variety of God a mathematician is likely to imagine.

Alternatively, if you like, God is one of the most powerful metaphors we as humans have.

soledades··on Association between egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular outcomes
Same, good egg to you my friend.
soledades··on Python's Type Checking Renaissance
I think the way to parse it is as "a renaissance of type checking, in python," i.e. in the same sense that "The Renaissance" was "a renaissance of classical culture, in Italy."
soledades··on Rust is a hard way to make a web API
"Medium" is a much more general term than "tool," the edit you suggested adds nothing to anyone's understanding of gp's point, and to suggest they actually 'meant' something that means the same thing is... strange.

Also, they are tools in a much more narrow sense as well, but that is left as an exercise.

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