TexanFeller

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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Because people have memory that lasts longer than a goldfish’s. People remember the DNC and its politicians hyperfocusing on controversial social issues for the last decade to the exclusion of everything else. They remember Kamala’s fringe
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
The only reasonable alternative for now, Apple. Only thing worse about their devices than the competition is the price. One day they’ll turn as evil as Google, but hopefully other viable options will exist by then.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Apple phones have had ~120hz screens for many years now. Only on the Pro models though, not the cut down economy models, that’s how they force people with disposable income to buy the Pro.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I’m glad they’re dropping the pretense of being an open platform. Maybe this will create space for a truly open mobile platform that respects our privacy even better than Apple. I never liked Android anyway, felt half baked and unpolished e
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
There are definitely laws and lender requirements that should make appraiser selection somewhat random and their findings somewhat neutral, but based on my house buying experience I don’t believe for a second that they’re effective. We made
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I want code running in a browser to stay in its sandbox, a large motivation for web apps in the first place is that they stay safely sandboxed and ephemeral. I think browsers accessing hardware is a terrible mistake, they make a terrible “O
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I’ve used Firefox almost every day since it was released. I have way less issues with it than Chrome even though web developers never test their work with it. I think an open web is critical to our society. I think Chrome is the new IE and
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Indeed, back then there were headlines on Slashdot every day about the RIAA and Metallica band members suing random kids that downloaded music. Probably the only reason they don’t go after people often now is because people mostly use paid
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
It’s especially bad for elderly people. I have elderly family members with cancer and other serious issues who struggle because medical offices expect contact to be only in app messages and chats. When these patients call on the phone and s
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left. It was not just a small group of people. Almost all progressive Democratic politicians started
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I went on Twitter years ago and almost exclusively followed people interested in programming language research, functional programming, and various hard sciences - tried to stay well away from the political nonsense. A year or two later man
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
This hit me hard this year. I'd looked at a lot of Reddit opinions about politics and assumed they were only a normal level of insanely biased, like MSNBC or Fox News. Turns out the average Redditor, even in fairly conservative subs, i
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I'm pretty sure I head that phrase sometime in the 90s, maybe early 2000s. It's been around a while.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Haliey Welch showed us there's profit to be had. VCs funding genitalia joke cryptocurrencies and ecommerce sites is my prediction for 2025.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
The debugging and profiling features are definitely better than most, but other languages running on the JVM benefit from that too. I think most of what people use Lombok for though are features that should be part of the core language by n
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
After using languages like Scala, Java(I use 17) feels like a joke in terms of type system expressiveness and ability to use functional patterns. I currently have to switch between the two and the kindest thing I can say about Java is it’s
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I'm a little miffed that anyone would object to "y'all" or that anyone would take the objection seriously enough to feel the need to defend its use. Another Texanism comes to mind in response, the one that ends in "
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
The exciting part is there are different concepts of it that start from different foundations and arrive at the same thing. It’s suggestive that our understanding is incomplete and there are deeper levels of understanding to uncover. And it
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Entropy got a lot more exciting to me after hearing Sean Carroll talk about it. He has a foundational/philosophical bent and likes to point out that there are competing definitions of entropy set on different philosophical foundations
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Suicide is the ultimate “my body, my choice” issue, even more than abortion is. It’s monstrous to force someone with severe mental health problems to live if they don’t want to. I live an incredible life now that people envy, but I’ve had b
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Diabetes and cancer aren’t comparable diseases. I thought it would go without saying that we’re talking about _infectious_ diseases.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Children born after lockdowns ended came into a world massively transformed by our response to the disease. Years later it still takes a week longer than it used to for my doctor to get blood work back because they are still short staffed.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
The psychological impact of isolation from covid lockdowns, disruption to routines, and uncertainty/anxiety/grief after jobs were lost and small businesses closed is another plausible explanation for mental changes. Remote school
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Standard exemption in the US for a married couple is around $30k. If your mortgage is so massive that the mortgage tax deduction is better than the standard deduction then in most cases you bought a far too luxurious house or in a far too “
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I’d prefer we trained AI politicians by watching Team America World Police and statements made by George Bush and the neocons after 9/11. Maybe AI politicians could learn from their mistakes and stop involving us in foreign proxy wars
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
In their defense it’s rare for a company that has sloppy quality in some products to be knocking it out of the park with another product. The same company culture that allowed the sloppy products in one area tends to prevent other teams fro
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
Kagi. It’s completely replaced Google for me.
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
I’m skittish about real banking institutions as well. Vanguard for example outsourced a bunch of their dev work to India a few years ago. Had a friend that worked as a sysadmin for BoA. They were required to keep certain logging for 7 years
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Trump picks Covid lockdown critic to lead top health agency(bbc.com)
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by TexanFeller 2y ago
> hearing the lesson and blabbing it back until one has memorized it fully is a pretty engaging and even "gamified" activity, especially wrt. the most marginalized and disadvantaged students There are many kinds of marginalized

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