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Did you read the article?

It’s an enjoyable read mostly. It doesn’t claim to contain profound social commentary in every character and subplot. Of course his persona makes a difference because it’s a fiction born of his imagination. DFW did have a point though, about how we would become addicted to instant gratification, and you can see a grain of truth to this in the contemporary internet and the “attention economy”.

The blockchain isn’t a messaging hub, it’s more about identity management

Science does take place within consciousness, but also outside of it, since there are discreet conscious entities that can be studied.

Not only that, but React’s new API direction replacing component classes for functions is very monad-like. It uses a magical hidden context which gets switched out behind the scenes.

It doesn’t make sense to think about a maximum number of lines.

There may be a complex function of many variables which is not simplified by splitting into multiple functions.

Most often though, the code in a function has several logical parts which have their own temporary variables and are good candidates for splitting into separate functions.

Generally it makes sense to split code up so that it can be encapsulated at different levels. For example if you have a validation routine for a record, it may make sense to have different functions to test different properties, so that you can see which validations are being performed at a high level and then zoom in when you need to.

Encapsulation should be done to manage scope of temporary variables, and to make the code easier to read and to test. But there’s no hard and fast rule, really.

Seems like IGG doesn’t have the best reputation...

It’s not about about being cool or making a hip new website. The point is that people won’t choose to pay for services when free ones exist. It requires a monetary obligation in the form of taxes. Countries don’t function because everyone decides they’d like to pay for the infrastructure that benefits everyone. They function because that money is collected in the form of taxes.

More likely, time to move to governed cyber communities, where taxes will go towards providing infrastructure and maintaining rights.

USD bills can’t be easily transferred over the Internet.

Do you have any examples of such books?

What in particular do you find to be lacking in the linux kernel?

It seems to be quite common.

Presumably because it would require actively polling patients to monitor their outcomes. Its quite common that you don’t hear much from those who get better, only from those who continue to seek treatment. And of those who stop seeking treatment you don’t know how many are actually better either.

I have one with a DAC running shairport-sync to recieve audio from iPhone and one running pihole.

Not so sure you’d be “cured”, since PTSD can alter the body’s stress response.

Its a bit domain specific to describe as a programming language. The blog post didn’t describe and control flow features for example. I suppose computation because it is able to incorporate diverse computational algorithms. The unit aware resolver seems like a spin in type systems.

I find humor in the choice of “risp” given the obvious alternative.

Maybe they operate on a different time scale, fully intend to make contact but experience tells them that it’s better to take it slow. There could be any number of reasons.

If they change whatsapp im moving to telegram end of story.

How is it that in 2018 with all the decentralised technologies that have been created we don’t have a simple way to mirror nytimes articles... perhaps on some kind of “permanent web”?

He also programmed for a time, so he had some background for Office Space and maybe Silicon Valley. But then he made KOTH so it’s not like he’s limited either.

It’s encouraging bad diets. Free pizza is a way to tempt people, and the consumer of said pizza incurs an opportunity cost since they could have used the time to eat something nutritionally appropriate.

Two slices of pizza is not a well rounded meal or particularly filling.

In the sense that it’s cheap, quick and carb heavy.

Nutritionally, pizza is the last thing that an office worker needs. Free pizza at an event is another salad / gym session that the worker needs to organise on their own time. Or not.

Nice innovation, but i do wish that junk food wasn’t the norm at tech events.

Isn’t that What he called Hawking radiation? Didn’t think it was news at this point.

It’s funny how we talk of information “not being lost” since it’s emitted as radiation... would we be able to decypher anything? If not, it’s still lost.

I dont understand this, life is already quite well explained by thermodynamics and the second law, which i also find to be a quite underappreciated concept. Physical processes at the quantum mechanical level are reversible, but at the macro level they do not reverse. Life is a process which is able to adapt to changing and irreversible circumstances. It does not seem to make sense to explain life in terms of quantum mechanics.

Not sure why the author thinks it “deserved” to be more successful? Do they know something that everyone else does not?

How does one improve brain health?