Dirantos

A random guy who will probably never post anything.

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@_newtonjob What does this do?

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@adamwathan @antiflasher Would love to actually have a way to contribute some common aliases. I often find myself not finding the right icons on the first try and having to think about what else they might be called :D

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@adamwathan @antiflasher 404, perhaps private repo?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@PovilasKorop Huh, you can override const vars? Feels illegal

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@ste_bau You have a small mistake in your number. 150 MegaBytes are 150,000,000 Bytes. As a small mnemonic, M in Mega like M in million, so for example 7.4 Mega corresponds to 7,400,000

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@JustSteveKing Please ask the owners (if u haven't already done so) if it's okay. Otherwise, there is the possibility that the cat is allergic. Happened to a friend of mine where the cat often had diarrhea and they didn't know where she was getting the wrong food from

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@Rubenkr3 @JayPietsmiet WORDLE🇩🇪 365 2/6

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Mit welchem Wort habt ihr angefangen?

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@PietSmiet Wordle 222 2/6

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https://t.co/hygIM8ke9i

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@BuddyYuz @4ch3los Als Schüler ist das echt nice zum Geld verdienen, als Student der Programmieren kann ist das jedoch ein Witz. Man wird keine Probleme haben eine gut bezahlte Stelle als Werkstudent zu finden. Da ist man ja als Hiwi schon besser dran.

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@SaitamaJ_ @Eptix_ @KuschelPandaa Nein.

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@byekieer Danke, hab ich mit Sorgfalt nach dem Zufallsprinzip raus gesucht :D

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@Eptix_ @NeruxVace ☹️

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@Eptix_ ☹️

[GitHub @github]

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[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@skate702 Was erhoffst du dir durch das Buch, was du von der offiziellen Dokumentation nicht hast?

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

@Toni2Go Wenn mich jemand ständig wegen so einem unnötigen Zeug nerven würde, würde ich den jenigen auch blockieren...

[Joel Thoms @joelnet]

🤔 If developers were linguists...

Person 1: How do you say "????" in Italian?

Person 2: Why don't you use Japanese? It's a much better language.

[Dirantos @DirantosDev]

Hallo Twitter! #meinersterTweet