purist33

This sounds like a load of bullshit to me. But is there any merit to this ?

Something similar happens in my company too. In a particular place, we use the hash of a string as the key in a hashmap instead of the string itself, because the hash is smaller and is easier to compare after the initial map has been made. It is a 64bit hash too. I have been crying about this everytime it comes up, and the response is, it will never happen. My problem is that we will never know if it ever happens too.

Like the other reply said, a monthly link blog would be too much. I find myself ignoring a lot of those links of the month posts because it covers too many topics and I end up not liking most of it. Whereas one which has small commentary on a single link is great for me, since if i like the commentary enough, I would add the link to my read later.

There is a book called "Talking to your daughter about Economics", where the author explains one of the problems with bitcoin is, you cant print more of it in a crisis. Maybe thats what happened here.

I hated SAS with a passion when I was forced to work with it for 2 years. One of the biggest problems I faced was, it would take me a long time to find out if something was doable or almost impossible in that language.

It wanted to be more than just SQL, but the interoperability with other languages was awful, we couldnt even work with it like SQLite.

The thing about the notifications though, is you can turn off every single one of them in the settings.

When I tried to turn it off though, I was hit with 100s of different types of notifications. I generally like it when apps/sites do this. This way I can turn off the garbage i dont need, and keep the ones I want. But 90% of thosr categories were garbage. It is really shocking that one can take a good idea this far and make it frustating.

Could it be due to the fact that, college level mathematics are meant to prepare extraordinary students to graduate into research. I imagine research often involves not-so sexy parts of mathematics.

I hear a lot of similar sentiments in school level mathematics in the country i live in. The problem comes in the trade-off. Do you cater to the topmost/ most promising students, who will end up contributing a lot in science, or do you cater to the ones who need most help, who will end up getting some skills on this, to make a living ?

I love how the guy is getting punished for misusing a math term.

Thats an excellent point. Insects dont need to be hardened for their pathogens if they dont necessarily have to survive for the species to stay alive.

Also loved the computer program analogy.

Wasn't it clear enough that I meant for it to be silly ?

You can deliver the package to a amazon approved distribution center ( I dont know what they call them. Basically a shop where they hold your stuff until you come around and pick it up ). If you want to anonymize it, you can deliver it to some other state's distribution center and drive there to pick it up. Even better is to give a stranger your phone, to go and fetch it from the store, so that your face isnt visible in a CCTV cameras near the store, and while they come back to deliver it to you, you can fake a mugging and "steal" your own phone and the gift card while wearing a PPE kit or something, so that they dont know your dimensions.

At one time, I learnt to live with boredom. I felt it was refreshing to not keep doing something to get rid of that boredom. It got me somewhat creative also, which i loved.

But when i started hating what i do with my work, I started feeling like the remaining time apart from work is way too important to "waste" on just being bored.

I slightly understand what OP means, when he says all things he held quite close like games and creating a game, were now not as interesting as it used to be. I am also going through that. I end up playing games and doing something out of compulsion of "not wasting the precious free time", and end up getting bored of them too. I dont know if it is exactly the problem OP is facing though.

Your first paragraph doesnt even apply to me. I am very much in the beginning stages of my pursuit for wealth and the journey looks like it will be mindnumbingly boring, and I am terrified where I am going to end up in this way.

Does active atheism help in this ? Sometimes when i listen to talks by people who advocate atheism and rationalism, I feel good for a while. But I am not sure if that is what you are talking about.

I used to regularly talk/text to people interested in these things about what I see/learnt about atheism and spend time making fun of religions ( within our circle ).