loblollyboy (u/loblollyboy)

loblollyboy commented on I self-learned to code at 30 kaapi.team/blog/i-self-le... · Posted by u/sujdes

bmitc · 5 years ago

Would have is different than could have.

There’s lots of things in life I don’t care to learn, but it doesn’t mean I couldn’t. To be perfectly frank, programming is one of the easier things in life I’ve learned, and it’s usually only difficult for the wrong reasons like poor documentation, bugs in other people’s code, people, etc.

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

This. First of all, I don’t think there is a “critical” period for learning programming like there is for languages, or motor skills (try learning to skateboard as an adult). My school curriculum, a foreign language and, yes, skateboarding have all been a lot more challenging than programming. I’d say that learning network administration is probably a lot harder too b/c stuff like that isn’t as logical as a programming language.

loblollyboy commented on Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/gmays

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

My dad had MS, they knew that MS was caused by demyelination years ago. Is this study important because they found the gene (or a gene?) that corresponds to that?

MS is not inherited, but it looks like they’ve already identified genes as well that increase risk, and risk increases if a family member has it.

loblollyboy commented on Why Read Classic Books? literaryforge.blog/2021/0... · Posted by u/tosh

cambalache · 5 years ago

Yeah the timeless universal appeal of white ,15-25,male, nerdy American sub-urbanites. They are like 0.001% of humanity at best (talking historically)

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

This isn’t 2010. There are now female and middle aged redditors as well

loblollyboy commented on Why Read Classic Books? literaryforge.blog/2021/0... · Posted by u/tosh

ajarmst · 5 years ago

I agree on all of that, but advancing age has forced me to qualify it. I now own more books that I want to read than my expected life span and average reading speed can support. I don’t regret a single moment spent reading crap genre mind-candy. I regret every single moment spent forcing myself through a book that I wasn’t enjoying, because it was something I ‘should read’. I don’t regret starting any of them, and I’ve enjoyed the hell out of some Dickens and Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Tennyson. I studied Latin and Hebrew at school. I’ve read half of what Kipling wrote and everything Keri Hulme did. Hell, I used to teach the publication history of the Bible.

But I’ve read four Jane Austen novels (three for credit, one for a failed shot at a Women’s Studies major) and not enjoyed a moment of the experience. Intellectually, I get the quality of the work, but it wasn’t entertaining. It wasn’t pleasant, and life is just way too short for that. Books, even technical ones, get about three chapters to make their case now, if I’m not voluntarily choosing to read it after that, I’m moving on.

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

Bump

loblollyboy commented on Nano is what Bitcoin hoped to be magnuschatt.medium.com/na... · Posted by u/donutloop

oarsinsync · 5 years ago

> Comparing IOTA to Nano is like comparing a rock with an atomic bomb (being IOTA the bomb).

For future, when comparing A1 with B1, it's nicer if the order is maintained when comparing A2 with B2 (instead of stating that you're comparing B2 with A2, and that A2 is equivalent of A1)

"Comparing Nano to IOTA is like comparing a rock with an atomic bomb."

Combined with your follow up sentence, describing how Nano has one feature, while IOTA has that same one feature, as well as more features, there's no requirement to explicitly state that you view IOTA to be the bomb in this analogy.

I have no view on the substance of what you wrote, just the way it was written, and wanted to help. I hope this helps, and apologise if it doesn't.

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

You're the one who needs some writing advice.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33514.The_Elements_of_St...

loblollyboy commented on Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain swp.org.uk/press-release-... · Posted by u/jimmy2020

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

I’ve been asking myself since Trump’s Twitter ban - is it a violation of free speech if the banner is a private corp? To me the obvious answer is no, but I could see how a private Corp could be pressured by the state.

loblollyboy commented on Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible npr.org/2020/09/27/917556... · Posted by u/agnosticmantis

jennyyang · 5 years ago

Time travel violates the law of conservation of energy. By travelling back in time, you yourself are injecting more mass/energy into a system. So it's great as a science fiction trope, but if you're going to talk physics, that needs to be addressed.

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

I don’t have the details but I’m pretty sure passage of time is due to a tendency for entropy to increase, and that if I go back in time a second by, say, walking backwards, it is no more a violation of the cons of energy as if I walk forward.

loblollyboy commented on Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men urologytimes.com/view/tes... · Posted by u/rasengan

inglor_cz · 5 years ago

This seems to be a global phenomenon.

https://rbej.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12958-020-0...

Possible toxicity of something that we deem safe could be an explanation.

A side comment. I am 42. When I was younger, in the late 90s, getting into physical fight was much more common than today. These days even drunk young guys seem to be content with hurling a few insults. (For record, I am a peaceful person and the possibility of getting beaten up for no good reason was something I definitely did not look forward to during my old pub crawls.)

I wonder if this is actually a manifestation of population-wide testosterone drop.

loblollyboy · 5 years ago

I recently had blood work done bc I thought I might be low T and mine was actually over the high band. I am a pretty serious hobby jogger. I run every day and I try and follow something close to what a serious HS runner would do. Is that why, or enough to explain it? Idk, but I do know if I didn’t exercise to compensate for screen-life, everything would be fucked