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by D-Coder 2y ago
The only exercise that counts is the exercise that you do. If you start with a five-minute walk around the block, that's better than a three-mile run that you never actually do. And you can gradually increase the length of the walk whe
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Yeah, the closest I ever came to life-critical software was payroll projects. I discovered by accident that people will notice a one-cent change in their paycheck.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
What, not immigrants? I mean, 483,493 people were killed, plus many cats and dogs. /bittersarcasm
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Whataboutism. They don't have to compare, they are both problems.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
This feature is available for no extra cost from panix.com with the "+" (dcoder+anytext@panix.com) technique, and I can use filters on the address. Since many sites can't believe that an email address can have a "+"
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Selection error. The stuff that always works doesn't get posted here.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I needed a new car in 2015. A difficult decision for me, since basically every manufacturer sells cars that have four wheels and an engine, and I wasn't sure what I wanted / needed beyond that. A friend had bought a used Prius and
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by D-Coder 2y ago
The victim, the murderer, and the detective.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Does this mean that soft-drink companies could be facing tobacco-company-style lawsuits?
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by D-Coder 2y ago
In my case, it's not a limitation. I just wanted a reminder of what I'd been working on (and maybe "FIXED!" when it was done). My personal diary is a Word document.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
I do something like this and it's helpful. I tend to forget about a task once it's in the past, so I just put one line per task in a text file every day. Sometimes it would be the same line ("2024.12.21 Worked on xyz feature&
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Oddball theory: COVID hit credulous / non-technical people harder, because they refused to believe in it and didn't take precautions. So a lot of people who might have turned to drugs died for an entirely unrelated reason, leaving
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Being a programmer has made this a lot easier for me. The average line of code that I type has three typos and one syntax error, so I'm accustomed to making mistakes (and fixing them).
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Also 4. Visiting someone who is going to die soon reminds one of one's own vulnerability, so it's easier to put that off.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> the color of television, tuned to a dead channel To me, that meant "showing random static," and implied meaninglessness, or at least unknowability.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Well, it was someone with a gun, a mask, AND a bicycle. That must cut the list of suspects down quite a bit...
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> If esperanto were used widely for many years, it would also develop special cases over time. You've never dealt with Esperantists, I can tell.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Cancel all his accounts and delete all his postings... _without_ a backup.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Agreed. No one else is referred to by their first name in HN headlines. The Wired article refers to her by full name or title throughout the article. And at least among Wired and HN readers, I would expect them to know who Verisign is and w
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by D-Coder 2y ago
So... how does one say, "One beer, please" in music?
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by D-Coder 2y ago
"Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement is followed by those who want to quit working before reaching traditional retirement age. "FatFIRE promotes abundance. The goal is to have enough funds to enjoy freedom and fle
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Or some other form of energy storage. If there's a nearby higher-altitude lake, you can pump water uphill. Or you can even just lift blocks of cement or whatever up a tower. Or split water into hydrogen and oxygen and store the hydroge
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> * Many companies fail to provide specific, actionable feedback after candidates spend hours on assignments. AthenaHealth in Watertown MA, this is you, you miserable pricks. Didn't even send me a "No thanks" email.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Sounds like a shadow-ban.
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by D-Coder 2y ago
> it’s really just fodder for further conversation Exactly this. Just go, "Well, one of my favorite movies is _Avatar_, because..."
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Well, that's the _good_ possibility...
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Fallacy-Artificial-I...
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by D-Coder 2y ago
"An Oregon cyclist who was struck by an ambulance that made a right turn into him — fracturing his nose and leaving him with scrapes and other injuries across his body — has filed a $997,000 lawsuit against the ambulance provider after
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by D-Coder 2y ago
"Two years ago, however, a study came out of Germany that rocked all of these assumptions. Five patients with uncontrolled lupus went into complete remission after undergoing a repurposed cancer treatment called CAR-T-cell therapy, whi
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by D-Coder 2y ago
Well, yes, but that's typically how progress works in any field.

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