valyagolev

it'd be a fascinating feature - a random number on the face of the watch - especially on a mechanical one

perhaps because it gives the same answer, verbatim, for many different attempts to figure it out?

and because we know it well enough to be sure that it's not smart and devious enough (yet) to conspire like this? (nor has any clear reason to)

After discovering Muji Gel pens a decade ago I just buy them tens at a time (pens or refill sticks). They feel absolutely perfect and are very easy to obtain in Europe. It's a great feeling to find a product that works so well you can free your mind from the burden of search forever

we should code up a real online game to gather the stats here. maybe we'll find a real subliminal messaging model

so it hallucinates when explaining what these companies do in relation to an idea. basically it's an automatic downer machine that lies that there's a lot of companies making your idea

you also should, and inevitably will, cut corners smaller than your "step" when actually following the "coastline" in development. the more fixated one on the smallest details, the longer it will end up

Weirdly I'm very used to this kind of stuff and take it very easily from programmers, but when a german bureaucrat does this same thing to me I'm also fuming.

there're no sanity checks because there are no sane "recovery" nor there are much risk. useless sanity checks mostly work towards making software annoying and unusable

Not engage on sensitive topics: yes, even with people you like

Not engage on any topic outside the strictly necessary for work: a passive-aggressive way to keep the animosity forever

they always insist that Leibnizian monad is not related to the FP monad at all, probably because it's a major point of pride of contemporary scientist to not be related to anything philosophical at all. sure.

still, i'm always wondering. why be so insistent. i mean, leibniz's monads are opaque substances that by itself have no causal relations with the world, but only affect each other/the world through "God". which sounds to me like an exact description of the IO monad

even simply expanding consultants' liability is bound to help them: they have more capital and more lawyers to fight, while any small shop would be destroyed by the first liability-related lawsuit