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New comment by doboyy in "Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)"

doboyy — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:35:59 +0000

I liked your first post, but this one is in line with the article.

New comment by doboyy in "How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life"

doboyy — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:46:37 +0000

I feel this is a more accurate assessment. The relationship between abuse/quality of parenting and anxiety/disfunction can't be thought of as linear.

When parenting starts qualifying as abuse, there is a pretty steep increase. Otherwise, genetic temperament and environmental interactions have more influence.

New comment by doboyy in "Horror Fans Have More Fun During a Pandemic"

doboyy — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:53:07 +0000

Very cool. I'm not a super big horror fan, but when this whole pandemic thing started, I consciously went on a ~2 month horror binge for fun, watching a bunch or horror films (of varying quality) and games. Now I wonder if there was something subconscious about that.

Might've damaged my psych though....

New comment by doboyy in "ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)"

doboyy — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:14:20 +0000

I thought most of this was just normal life tbh

New comment by doboyy in "How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case"

doboyy — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 15:25:07 +0000

I thought they were better on the road that season? It's not clear sign stealing helps much oddly enough.

New comment by doboyy in "ANSI Common Lisp (1995)"

doboyy — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:54:20 +0000

Unless you are doing web stuff, you'll face significant resistance from your platform with no clear gain imo

New comment by doboyy in "C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]"

doboyy — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:41:36 +0000

If you're doing dynamic dispatch then there is still code that's living for each specialization. Sort of solves linking because symbols don't have to be generated and compile times because you hand write the code.

To be fair, I'm only considering basic data structures and algorithms where you can get away with something like foo(void *ptr, size_t size). Maybe generics is too broad a term for that.

New comment by doboyy in "C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]"

doboyy — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:00:26 +0000

I really don't like the monomorphization approach to generics (I think that's the concept?), where the function/struct essentially gets duplicated for each type. It seems to mess with linkage, increase binary sizes, and increase compile times.

Other than that, Rust does seem to be an improvement and less... stressful to program in.

New comment by doboyy in "C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]"

doboyy — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:42:35 +0000

Typesafe generics via a better void* would make me super happy. There are definitely other quality of life improvements that could be added or reworked that wouldn't affect the simplicity too much.

New comment by doboyy in "We Don’t Want to Be Happy"

doboyy — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:49:56 +0000

This is a very beautiful piece. Thanks for posting it.

New comment by doboyy in "Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales"

doboyy — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:21:29 +0000

8 days per week. 5 days of work. The calendar has been conspiring against us.

New comment by doboyy in "Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely"

doboyy — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:04:22 +0000

If status is not tied to a sense of self then I don't know what is.

You mentioned in another comment that the skills you've learned are not you (roles?). They are just things you have. You've just said that identifying these roles as an abstraction is an essential part of understanding the self.

All of these things increase order in a society, and therefore, survival value. This is what I was responding to.

I didn't say that more of a sense of self, whatever that means, makes more community based cultures.

New comment by doboyy in "Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year"

doboyy — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:12:33 +0000

I'm treading into Marxist territory, but I think industrialization, technology, and their societal consequences are a large part.

If I dropped the first part, there would be no downvotes.

New comment by doboyy in "Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely"

doboyy — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:39:47 +0000

Basically allowing societies to function (people assuming roles, shame, and whatever). It should be of no surprise that a damaged sense of self often correlates with poor integration into a society.

New comment by doboyy in "The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms"

doboyy — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:36:19 +0000

God forbid poor people catch on to this noble lie

New comment by doboyy in "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]"

doboyy — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:57:23 +0000

Language designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for programming languages

New comment by doboyy in "Efficient string copying and concatenation in C"

doboyy — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 02:21:18 +0000

No doubt, but they are all non standard which is irritating for people who expect that out of the box.

New comment by doboyy in "Efficient string copying and concatenation in C"

doboyy — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 02:14:45 +0000

This is bait but whatever. Keeping some properties of C is very hard if you go this route. It also seems you'll end up playing lanaguage design whack-a-mole problems which manifests its self in C++ and co.

New comment by doboyy in "Let the callers of your API control allocations"

doboyy — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:22:15 +0000

Don't do allocations in the call until the API becomes annoying and unpleasant to use. Also weighted upon the domain and performance implications of the particular API

By nature of being a buffer means it can probably be used in subsequent calls. You dont need to read everything all in one go

New comment by doboyy in "Banned C standard library functions in Git source code"

doboyy — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:55:29 +0000

Unfortunately, it's often algorithmically less efficient and more error prone, so everybody ends up replicating what git is doing with 'strbuf' but in slightly incompatible ways. The effect makes dealing with strings in C unnecessarily unpleasant.