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In conversation things can be metabolized and digested through somebody else—I say something to you and you can give it back to me in different forms—whereas you’ll notice that your own mind is very often extremely repetitive. It is very difficult to surprise oneself in one’s own mind. The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 7, Adam Phillips
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Look at how smooth and objective and automated that is, how precise it sounds. There is a computer, and it keeps track of the positions and collateral, and if they get out of line it jumps in quickly and bloodlessly to correct them. And then look at Bankman-Fried telling Sorkin “I didn’t know the size of their position” and “I was nervous because of the conflict of interest”! Who cares if Bankman-Fried knew the size of the position, or was nervous? What was the computer doing?
SBF Missed FTX’s Risks
bloomberg.com
In the Ruby ecosystem, Bundler does [conservative updating](https://bundler.io/v2.2/man/bundle-install.1.html#CONSERVATIVE-UPDATING): like `composer install`, `bundle install` will install only from your `Gemfile.lock` if it's present; however, if you change the `Gemfile` manually, then `bundle install` will try to update the relevant locked versions in `Gemfile.lock`.
Understanding Lockfiles
shalvah.me
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