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by Widdershin 4y ago
I can’t speak to real life but if you want to read an enjoyable depiction of how society might react to novel currencies, check out Going Postal and Making Money by Terry Pratchett.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Agreed. For what it’s worth, I think street skaters should wear helmets most of the time. The 17ft drop is equivalent to the 80mph example in my post, and should definitely involve a helmet, gloves and impact padding (which can be worn unde
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by Widdershin 4y ago
You wouldn’t generally exceed 15mph street skating. Competent downhill skaters can reach 50mph+, with world record speeds exceeding 80mph. That alone makes safety gear much more essential for downhill. In addition, if someone shows up to a
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by Widdershin 4y ago
I was thinking you could use them to specialize the IO types to prevent accidentally calling the wrong type of function in the wrong place. Say you have a `ServerIO a` and `ClientIO a` type. Browser APIs, like addEventListener, would use th
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Hiya, I wrote this gist. I do actually think Monads or similarly expressive type constructs would allow us to eliminate this class of issue for good. Hopefully the rise of Wasm makes this problem irrelevant for functional programmers, but t
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by Widdershin 4y ago
This is a nice idea, but unfortunately my work involves helping customers with all sorts of stacks integrate our technologies. Rather than quit my job, it’s a bit easier to document and raise awareness about these issues. Unfortunate that y
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Thanks for this comment, this was exactly the point I was trying to get across. I’m glad you found it helpful.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Unfortunately that hasn’t been my experience. I learned about this problem after helping a very confused Remix user overcome this issue. I will give kudos to Remix for having a good docs page about this, something Next.js could do better (u
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Yeah I was planning on changing the title, and then woke up on HN. Oh well.
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by Widdershin 4y ago
Remix has the exact same issue unfortunately: https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/guides/constraints
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by Widdershin 5y ago
I’ve worked for half a dozen companies over the last decade as a programmer and I’ve never experienced this. Most of this article feels completely detached from reality for me. I suspect the author has only worked for the most dire of compa
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by Widdershin 5y ago
As far as I can tell Covid-quality is still in full effect, to the point where I don’t watch movies on Netflix at all anymore. I often start one, remember the quality and then find an alternate source. I wonder if they’ve seen that it doesn
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by Widdershin 5y ago
Disturbingly enough my ping is 32ms from Wellington to Sydney, and over 40ms to Christchurch, even though Christchurch is ~10x closer.
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by Widdershin 5y ago
Why does it cost so much to get a taxi license? 100k EUR seems pretty steep.
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by Widdershin 5y ago
There are other ways around the cost. They could build a distributed training system along the lines of Folding@Home, I’m sure a lot of AI folks would donate GPU time.
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by Widdershin 5y ago
Assuming you’re starting with a significant amount of altitude, otherwise the laws of thermodynamics would like a word
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by Widdershin 5y ago
The AUG and other scoped rifles have seen a fair bit of competitive use, depending on their current state of balance.
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by Widdershin 6y ago
I definitely could have used some indoor navigation when trying to find stuff underground in Japan, like looking for T's TanTan in Tokyo Station (amazing ramen, try it if you get the chance). Took me a while to figure out it's act
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Sorry, didn’t mean to cast shade in your direction, I’m talking about the author of Harry Potter
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by Widdershin 6y ago
I know. Have you seen what the author has been up to lately?
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Very cool, just a pity about the name
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Maybe there’s a distinction to be had between patient zero and the first link in the chain we can reliably pinpoint.
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Fair enough but chances are the tapes will have a much longer lifetime for storing data, which is the primary use case for this sort of thing.
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Reading this comment makes me a bit sad because I wrote a really good incremental tile based renderer for leaflet that could easily be adapted for vector tiles. Unfortunately that whole business unit got canned and the code is now gathering
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Good point, I hadn't considered that. Seems pretty plausible.
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by Widdershin 6y ago
If someone was going to rig the outcome, why would they make it such a conspicuous number?
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Just a heads up the term meritocracy was actually coined to describe an impossibility, since all judgement of worth in society is subjective. Even if you pick an objective metric, it was decided upon subjectively and with bias. I can apprec
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by Widdershin 6y ago
Ah, my apologies, I had a faulty source
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by Widdershin 6y ago
You might want to consider investing in a Geiger counter, your microwave might be leaking radiation.
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by Widdershin 6y ago
I've worked on products before that have a feature that lets an admin open the site using the user's session, which is useful for verifying issues that only present when logged in as the user. To be fair though, this was not for a

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