Smithalicious

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by Smithalicious 2y ago
Right now I'm working on my first large clojure codebase, so I do a lot of "what is the idiomatic way to do X?" questioning, pasting in small functions and asking if there's a good simplifying refactor etc. Before this I
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by Smithalicious 2y ago
Do people really view so much content of questionable provenance? I read a lot and look at a lot of art, but what I read and look at is usually shown to me by people I know, created by authors and artists with names and reputations. As a re
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by Smithalicious 2y ago
Hurting kids, hurting kids, hurting kids -- but, of course, there is zero chance any of this makes it to the top 30 causes of child mortality. Much to complain about with big tech, but children hanging themselves is just an outlier.
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by Smithalicious 2y ago
Part of it is that SO wants to think of itself as some kind of long term knowledge base and is obsessed with the idea of pruning "duplicates", even though whether aqquestion is actually a duplicate and whether the original answer
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by Smithalicious 2y ago
Meanwhile China can keep building nuclear plants at breakneck pace no problem. It's the same playbook for decades -- first we block nuclear at every opportunity, then we set impossible standards that make it impossible to build, then w
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by Smithalicious 2y ago
I was going to object to number three, considering my spouse and I are both engineers, but to be honest, almost all the time I do just want him to "fix it".
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by Smithalicious 2y ago
It's a great ad. 620 comments on hacker news, got me to watch it voluntarily even though I never see ads. Even got me to share it with someone else. Ads don't exist to make you feel good, they exist to make you notice them.
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by Smithalicious 3y ago
I generally have 200-500 tabs open at a time, appropriately sorted into groups and hierarchies using sidebery
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
A lot of people here say that it's very rare to spend this much money in cash for legitimate purposes as though that is some universal rule and not a cultural happenstance. I'm currently holidaying in Japan and here it is quite co
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
When someone's crimes constitute fraud and doing business with nazis, sometimes two wrongs might make a right.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Are you not made of cells that follow biochemical processes? Where do the cells following biochemical processes end and your agentic self begin?
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Are they the ones with a weird complex, or are you? Your post suggests that you feel like GIMP has something to prove much more than the four word throwaway line you're criticizing to me.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
This is a pointless article that baits the reader into thinking there is a point, as evidenced by the fact that you can read many comments here of people trying to extract meaning out of it and not find anything that is actually profound an
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
The point, I presume, is making money.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I'm gonna back you up here. My life is much better without the meds. I have no issues with people who do prefer being medicated, but as the comments to this show there's a weird non-acceptance of people who do not want to be medic
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
It wasn't clear to me, either - there's an education system conventionally called "classical education" and it is not what you refer to when you use that term.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Scott is incredibly smart but I have him down as very biased and take everything he writes that is not hard science with a huge grain of salt.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I've asked this before and every time it's been ignored and downvoted, but it's a genuine question that I do want answered, so I'll ask again: what does this mean ? how does the US military guarantee the value of the
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I think current population levels are about right. It's not sustainable right now, but it can be made sustainable.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I use org-mode a lot as well; I keep a "life.org" file that includes among other things a section called "heap" where I keep my general to-do list of discrete chores (e.g. "buy toilet paper", "email Joe ab
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
A causes B (first order) B causes C (second order) C causes D (third order)
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Finding something else pleasurable to do instead helps me avoid my vices. A lot of the time wanting to get intoxicated is an excuse for taking a break or spoiling myself. Instead of buying alcohol, buy some other delicious drink or food - m
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
There is this odd phenomenon where social phenomena first identified in Japan are assumed to be characteristically or exclusively Japanese, to an extent that I don't see happen for other countries. I don't think eating meals in to
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I'm on Linux but I have a similar setup, with no permanent UI elements at all - I have a script to show a notification with the time and remaining battery (on laptop) and so on that I run when I need to see that info. I use a tiling wi
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Did you get the idea that I'm not happy in Europe? If you did, I'm not sure why, as I am quite happy here - I just don't feel comfortable having large amounts of money sitting around denominated in Euros, as the value of the
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Ask HN: New to having wealth, how to protect my assets?
11 points by Smithalicious 4y ago|13 comments
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Absolutely tragic that the US government's war on anonymous transactions is getting in the way of FOSS receiving donations here. I presume the donations itself is an attempt to make a statement, and I applaud it. Make people feel the i
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
Prediction: this is not gonna lead to even close to the levels of cpu price drops that people expect, especially not for new GPUs.
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by Smithalicious 4y ago
I feel like this is pretty shitty. Me and my friends were playing minecraft before many of the children that supposedly need to be protected now were even born. I'm sure server owners will work around this, but I feel like the well is

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