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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Some of my friends are Reddit addicts. So the question is really "how do you not let it waste too much time"? I'm unsure whether the question is loaded or not. EDIT: here is a more constructive part of this comment, a
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> One depressing thing that can be gleaned from the second article, is that female correction officers apparently have a higher rate of abuse of juvenile inmates. Would it be less depressing if male correction officers had a higher rate
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> As always, it helps to remember that women are people Uh, I'll try to keep that in mind. I might sometime fantasize about fighting in a battle. That doesn't necessarily mean that I for real want to do it.
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I made a script that plays/pauses Spotify through dbus, which I usually execute by opening dmenu. :) My keyboard has media keys, but I thought I would prefer short textual commands to having to move my hand to the upper right of my k
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This is why I've prematurely moved to the next trend, the stop-start-jog-walk-stand-sprint-walk-jog office desk treadmill cycle. The cycle is meant to simulate our caveman activity cycle, with a lot of walking, jogging, some waiting, a
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Right. Hence the proof obligation. :)
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Huh, I thought the Linux client was some kind of web-stuff too. It certainly feels that way.
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It's 2015 and I can't "alt-tab" into spotify in order to pause/play by pressing space; I have to click somewhere in the upper half of the interface in order to "refocus", or the spacebar just scrolls down.
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Yep, that's exactly why I used the scare quotes too. :)
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> The pattern list looks pretty exhaustive to me, but Rust wouldn’t know it. I’m that sure someone who is versed in type theory will send me an email explain how what I want is impossible unless P=NP, or something like that, but all I’m
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> This is at the point when another developer on the team will pipe in stating their preference for another langauge, that if you might not be a software engineer, you might confuse w/the chemical compound of Fe2O3. Or a certain fun
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I was talking about grade inflation, not winner takes all. So getting straight As over there might be the equivalent of getting straight Bs over here. And this doesn't say anything about which place is harder to study or to get respect
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I'm not an American. I think it's funny when I see people writing about a "C student" being a loser/slacker, a B student either being good or an underachiever, and a straight A student as the point where you final
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Steve Pavlina did an experiment with polyphasic sleep when he was 34. It worked great for him. But he quit because that sleep schedule is unsociable. He is a personal development guy, though, so he isn't that keen on chanting the old
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by Dewie3 11y ago
How brilliant. How is that a better argument than "if you don't like it here, you might as well kill yourself."? Oh I see. Because you implicitly value "doing" as better than "not doing", no matter what. S
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Saying that it was "not cool" on social media, causing a shit-storm (hence, mob morality). She could have just notified the organizers and have them deal with it, and be done with it. Maybe talk to the guys if she felt comfortable
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> As such lift heavy, Is this supposed to be a joke? That's really the best advice to deal with this situation that you have? Whenever I see "start lifting", I can't decide if they really believe in it as a magic bull
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And taking your own life isn't such a big deal if it's all just a game. Achievements or none; they won't matter to you when you're in the ground.
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> When they finally divorced, Livvy got the house, the children, the lot. Once the maintenance was paid, there wasn’t much left for Drummond. I guess getting suicidal over things like this is "social perfectionism".
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> (particularly when you're young and haven't had a lot of practice interacting with people) What's with the potshots at younger people that I keep seeing on HN? Things like undermining their experiences, their abilities,
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> which is a mistake by the way, since it is the alfas who win the Nobel Prizes, the Abel Prizes, who invent the transistors, and write the symphonies. We are the creators and shakers of society. We should not be ignored, we should
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Yes, exactly, you're misusing the word by widening its definition unnaturally. Unnaturally? As in, unreasonably wide definition by most people's standard? It seems that there are quite a few people who are hung up on actions
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I haven't found much evidence for what I would call selflessness , so I tend not to believe in it. What I mean by selfish is: - You do it because you are motivated to do it for yourself. I get an ice cream because I want an ice crea
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And I guess by "standardization" you mean use a C-like name, even though it is inaccurate and misleading and the data type declaration is taken from another language family (ML)? (I agree that "enum" is a wrong name to u
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> Maybe it's just my advancing age (for a programmer), but I find myself gravitating towards the "It's not finished when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to remove" mentality when i
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It is pedantic in the sense that "overhead" in a programming context will most of the time mean some kind of runtime overhead, unless noted otherwise.
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> It's really important to keep in mind that errors are adopted from error values in C, which means that their idioms and usage is inspired by that rather than by exception handling. Many new Go programmers (including me, when I sta
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If you want to be really pedantic, there is also the choice between "runtime overhead" and "code overhead" (code specialization). And why not mention the overhead of the programmer foregoing these "short cuts&quot
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Rob Pike? I thought that C came into its shape before his time.
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My intent was to poke fun at the current state of things. Not to give actual advice. :)

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