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901.
by Uehreka 5y ago
If it’s really down to social consensus and not the state of the blockchain, then does the blockchain mean anything at all?
902.
by Uehreka 5y ago
“Think of the children” usually only works when the idea is that children could be violently harmed by something, and thus only works when deployed in cases where freedom is being restricted. It’s not a good faith argument that can be “use
903.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I feel like every 2-3 months a blog post rockets to the top of HN where a hacker discloses a vuln and says “I reported this to $company 10 months ago and it is still present in the most recent version of $OS”. If it’s AppAmaGooSoft they can
904.
by Uehreka 5y ago
This right here, I got a Razer Blade from work last year, and found the touchpad so awful I assumed there must’ve been bad drivers installed. 3 driver installs later and I realized it just wasn’t as good as the MacBook trackpad, and I’d jus
905.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I can do the bad words one: in Thai, the root word “porn” (pronounced like the English word “pawn”) can be loosely translated as “blessing” and forms the basis of many given names, surnames and place names. Any blacklist that includes the w
906.
by Uehreka 5y ago
The Martian. I don’t know of any other movie that better celebrates the uniquely human ability to overcome challenges through innovation and persistence. That movie gets me charged up.
907.
by Uehreka 5y ago
So true! I always rehearse my talks several times with the stopwatch on my phone sitting on a nearby desk, but I feel like that’s not an obvious thing to people who are getting started and don’t have theatre or public speaking experience. I
908.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I’ve read (sorry no sources, about to go to sleep) that that turned out to not be a super scientific thing, and that while some people might’ve gotten temporary placebo benefits out of davinci naps, it didn’t turn into long term sustainable
909.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Good recounting, but I feel like any talk of the potato famine has to mention the role the English played: > Charles E. Trevelyan, who served under both Peel and Russell at the Treasury, and had prime responsibility for famine relief in
910.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Looking at the FLCCCA’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_COVID-19_Critical_C... It doesn’t start out great: > According to its co-president, Paul E. Marik, the group has a shared interest in
911.
by Uehreka 5y ago
This doesn’t mean DRM is impossible, it means it’s only available to really big players who can cut deals with Google. Which makes it one of the few parts of the Web API that smaller companies and independent devs can’t use (not that I’d pe
912.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I have worked with the web in a professional capacity for nearly a decade. Your comment comes across like someone who has read a lot of HN comments, mixed it with an anecdote or two heard from friends at a bar, and is trying to pass it off
913.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Have you ever tried to teach programming to beginners? 6 weeks is an absolutely bonkers timeline for zero-to-employable-as-six-figure-React-Dev (people were pissed at lambda school for dropping from 9 months to 6, and with good reason). I f
914.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I don’t have any inside info, but the vibe I got back then was that Blender just considered the x in 2.x to be the major version (with the idea that they weren’t going to release a 3.0). Though if that was true, it seems they’ve changed the
915.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Watts go in, Watts come out. So basically, find a space heater with the TDP of your server, and that’s the upper bound on what you can expect heating-wise. I know that’s a bummer for people who want to heat their house with their computer,
916.
by Uehreka 5y ago
People say this, and then when you say “sure but one of my full screen apps is VS Code and another one is the Terminal, how do I get that on an iPad?” they go “Honestly sounds like you might want a Mac.”
917.
by Uehreka 5y ago
CVS also has trouble with my name (I’m also a Christopher) as do some other private entities like my doctor’s office. So this may not be entirely a government thing.
918.
by Uehreka 5y ago
That feels like the “what if instead of legalizing gay marriage we just got rid of marriage” take in this debate. In the sense that “people being able to work when they want to” is a utopian thing that isn’t going to happen, in part because
919.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I care more about sunset than sunrise, so if people are proposing to get rid of DST instead of making permanent DST I will fight them tooth and nail. I get that it's subjective, but my subjective view is that having sunlight after work
920.
by Uehreka 5y ago
> "you call a library, but a framework calls you." This is why I don't like when people say "React isn't a framework, it's just a library". Almost all of my React code is "called by React" wit
921.
by Uehreka 5y ago
The stimulus checks were months ago. If the status quo was so fragile that two $1000-ish checks to every working/middle class American was enough to shatter it, then it probably deserved to be broken.
922.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Balena Etcher has been popular for a while and works really well, I’ve never seen it screw up. I’d honestly prize that reliability over download size, I have terabytes of space. If usbimager takes off and becomes the default, cool, but I’ll
923.
by Uehreka 5y ago
> You can’t get rid of this, how do you work with it? This reminds me a lot of an attitude among anti-DRM people that I’ve been trying to get folks to reconsider: the “DRM is bad _and also_ useless so why bother!” stance. The RIAA and MP
924.
by Uehreka 5y ago
From a money laundering “user” perspective, would you rather have $1 million that will likely send you to jail, or $700k that you can spend freely without concern?
925.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I always thought ExpressJS was the equivalent on the NodeJS side, but looking at the docs now it appears nigh abandoned (jokes on them, I built like 3 pieces of software on top of it in the past year!)
926.
by Uehreka 5y ago
Yeah, I’ve noticed this too. I feel like a lot of people in the NFT space have a pretty nihilistic view of art (i.e. “all art is worthless, so these procedural mix-and-match apes are as good as anything else”). They’re correct that the valu
927.
by Uehreka 5y ago
I feel like most people see the art dealing world for what it is: a clout-chasing game that’s basically a scam. And I hear some NFT people take the stance of “yeah art dealing is a scam, but it’s going to happen anyway, so I might as well m
928.
by Uehreka 5y ago
In vernacular American speech (what a lot of us are doing here) the plural “Legos” is fine.
929.
by Uehreka 5y ago
> does anyone really care how the tally is calculated? If the 2020 US election tabulation process is any indication, yes.
930.
by Uehreka 5y ago
After watching people freak out when NYC implemented Ranked Choice, I feel like most Americans won’t tolerate anything even slightly more complicated. It’s our only shot.

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