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New comment by domnomnom in "Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?"

domnomnom — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:32:18 +0000

Whoops, that was the Klein book that reduced orgo to electron pushing. But same idea.

New comment by domnomnom in "Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?"

domnomnom — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:00:15 +0000

Well that makes a lot of sense. It’s confusing at first because of how similar the languages are.

New comment by domnomnom in "Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?"

domnomnom — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:35:28 +0000

I find this ironic, because I found ocaml extremely confusing.

New comment by domnomnom in "Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?"

domnomnom — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:18:04 +0000

Organic chemistry as a second language and the analogous text by Klein. Nothing in particular clicked for me, but I took orgo 1 and orgo 2 at two different schools, and I remember his book being extremely readable for ochem 2.

New comment by domnomnom in "Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?"

domnomnom — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:11:12 +0000

Calculus - an intuitive and physical approach. I did some of these exercises and they were easy. They helped me in calculus. I liked the explanation of secant lines.

How to prove it - I like the reduction of proofs to mechanical symbol pushing. Good exercise difficulty for self study, good notation.

I also liked some parts of the traditional calculus book. I read a lot of it. It’s pretty good considering literally everyone takes the class with the book. I would never use this for self study, but I enjoyed it during class.

Mathematics for physicists books provide a good overview of math topics. Haven’t really done any exercises though.

New comment by domnomnom in "Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development"

domnomnom — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 04:35:49 +0000

Based on this description, I should vary my playing of games.

Anyway, I find the usage of the term "game" to be quite odd. Why not "strategy?" I'm not sure I agree with the overall point, but enjoy how you've operationalized/categorized behavior in this way. There is value in that.

New comment by domnomnom in "Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)"

domnomnom — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 04:26:34 +0000

Start crying every time you get interrupted

New comment by domnomnom in "The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)"

domnomnom — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 04:06:27 +0000

You can’t be intuitive/perceptive and think logically in parallel - that’s the main thing that’s hard. The former is feeling an emotion. The latter will inhibit the emotion. This is actually sort of a technique in cognitive behavioral therapy for dealing with anxiety.

New comment by domnomnom in "The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)"

domnomnom — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 03:51:18 +0000

I logged to tell you. Yes! That doesn’t mean getting there will be easy, but you can get to a point where you go after those interactions to seek out other introverts that want to stay away kinda. That’s the hard part if there’s two extroverts someone’s gotta take initiative. I believe in you!

New comment by domnomnom in "An Introduction to Type Level Programming in Haskell"

domnomnom — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:22:31 +0000

Lazyness is actually a great feature of Haskell.

New comment by domnomnom in "The chip shortage keeps getting worse – why can't we just make more?"

domnomnom — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 02:32:28 +0000

What's the quote about selling someone a product whose faults will occur when you're years gone and half way around the planet? I wonder how this mentality is avoided/regarded in Japan.

New comment by domnomnom in "Kubescape – tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely"

domnomnom — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 21:58:53 +0000

Is security a zero sum game?

New comment by domnomnom in "Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans"

domnomnom — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 09:45:02 +0000

Hmm I wonder if this is a good idea. Or a hypothetical setup with a Chinese and American hardware network setup.

New comment by domnomnom in "Show HN: Hypergraph, a data structure library to generate directed hypergraphs"

domnomnom — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 08:46:57 +0000

Coordinate free

New comment by domnomnom in "Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does"

domnomnom — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:13:30 +0000

Maybe you're right. I could feel the parent comment's pain from that implication that he was underdeveloped, largely because I agree. I have also noticed in myself that I'm often not aware of my underlying emotions, but very often a victim of them. To everyone around me I seem like an unemotional male, but I think in reality I'm low in emotional expressiveness, reactivity, and neuroticism.

New comment by domnomnom in "Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does"

domnomnom — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 05:54:39 +0000

I feel like your comment was expressed in sort of a dick way, but I also think it strikes at a truth that’s so deep and needed in our society. So thanks for the comment.

New comment by domnomnom in "A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate"

domnomnom — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:13:34 +0000

Spot on.

I think you can’t argue with it because it’s like an unexpected emotional vacuum. You can’t really convince someone who doesn’t like food that the carnival is an enjoyable place. They’re operating on a fundamentally separate plane.

New comment by domnomnom in "A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate"

domnomnom — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:04:21 +0000

Can you at least tell us why you like Mars so much?

New comment by domnomnom in "A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate"

domnomnom — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:03:05 +0000

Then he would have to do another PhD!

New comment by domnomnom in "A Recap of the Mars Terraforming Debate"

domnomnom — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:02:03 +0000

He is a Mars researcher, as in he finds it very appreciable it’s current state. Basically a Martian, you are suggesting we develop and add malls to his beloved nature homeland.