RoddaWallPro

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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
Yeah, that's probably true. He also at least allows people to set their own reading width by adjusting browser. My frustration stems from the fact that I find the argument "there are no papers with sufficient evidence" to be
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
One of the more hilarious takes I've seen. "There are no papers for this, and I choose to disregard the countless number of people who say it is much easier for them to read if the line lengths are constrained as they are in a boo
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
I've a cousin who does something similar, and also (according to him) makes in the high hundred-thousands/low million range. In theory, it sounds like easy money, but I personally would probably break down in tears from boredom if
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
I think I might have misphrased what I meant. It is a truism that "people in the past find new technological advances in that past to be amazing, which we now view as trifles". It's more the fact that we now have AI programs
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
ELIZA is mentioned in passing in Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, Stella Maris (which is a companion/coda to his novel that came out one month prior: The Passenger). I didn't know what ELIZA was when it was mentioned, and look
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
I _llooovveee_ these end of year lists of yours and read them every year, thanks for posting them!! EDIT: And to anyone else who might consider writing one, especially if it has a Books or long-form article list, do it!
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
That is _not_ exactly what you are talking about: food prices do not normally go up 24% a year. Rent prices do not normally go up 10-15% a year. If their number is cherry-picked, give a real number yourself. Anecdotally, my grocery bills
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
My opinion is that the standard library of JS is so underwhelming that a high % of installs on NPM are for things that the standard library _should_ give you, but doesn't. Date/time, currency, csv, arbitrary precision decimals, in
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
Agreed. They use the word "problematic". Any time I see someone using that word, I close the tab instantly to avoid the brain damage that would result from me reading the rest of the piece. The word is meaningless and cowardly. Sa
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by RoddaWallPro 4y ago
I've wanted to build something pretty distantly adjacent to this for real-world spaced repetition cards. Have a deck of 3x5 cards, with qr codes at one corner. Dump the deck into your scanner (like a money counter) and it splits the de
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
You haven't said anything real here. Everyone agrees you should have to do at least some extra paperwork to get the tax breaks. The point of contention is how much paperwork. Is it 1 page? Is it 100 pages? Is it 10,000 pages? A day of
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
Never a better time to be vendoring your npm deps & reviewing the updates to packages. Not too difficult to pull in the new version, then git diff the changes in the `lib` directory of that package.
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
I read a Murakami novel in high school, 1Q84. The protagonist is a math teacher who talked about math in a way that I had never seen before. I'd been told I was "good at math" beforehand(for whatever that means, I'm not
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
It's laughable to me that with everything you could possibly do in the human universe as a billionaire (or even a run-of-the-mill-person), he's out here wanting to sell virtual clothes to people :facepalm:
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
This is also how I use Twitter. FYI, it still works for me in incognito mode. If anyone reading this works at Twitter: WHY are you guys making these changes? I'm far more likely to just never use the service again out of outrage then m
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
If you grew up in poverty & violence & a terrible environment, then your brain is going to work in different ways than someone who wasn't raised in that env. That's the bad news. The good news is that there are professiona
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
This doesn't really move the conversation forward, but an important point to make (I think) is that we as a species have never agreed that we're observing the same universe. Think of all the wildly different beliefs that have co-
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
I spent 2 hours last Friday trying to wrap my head around what UTF-8 was ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim is great, but doesn't explain the inner workings like this does) and
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
This is great! Thank you for building a more complete reference app. I went to visit some friends before Christmas and one night we used a website to play poker at a bar without bringing betting chips to the bar (site gives you a unique URL
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
Genuine question: How do you differentiate this from full-blown mental illness? Because this sounds 100% like what society traditionally recognizes as schizophrenia/split personality disorder. Or, in more extreme cases & phrased le
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
I'm reminded of what I'm going to call a poem, but which isn't a poem, but more of a long saying. I can't remember the exact wording (if someone remembers and has the link, please link it!) but roughly: If you tested you
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by RoddaWallPro 5y ago
Like the sibling commenter here, reactions to this (as I've observed) are indeed very bimodal. If I see any video on YouTube with a face with a strong expression, I will not click it, no matter how interesting the title, because I hate