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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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In between GitHub.com and the shards is a service that coordinates taking user queries and fanning out requests to each host in the search cluster. We use Redis to manage quotas and cache some access control data.
The Technology Behind GitHub’s New Code Search | the GitHub Blog
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I believe we should think of the Chinese state today as an autocratic regime that is occasionally capable of economic pragmatism rather than a technocratic regime that slips occasionally into Marxist faults.
2022 Letter | Dan Wang
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