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by _greim_ 3y ago
> Why not send top stockholders to prison while you're at it? Or just curtail every holder's shares by a fixed percentage, if/when a publicly-owned company is found to have engaged in anti-competitive behavior. If the ince
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by _greim_ 3y ago
Those technologies aren't examples of formats succeeding purely on their merits, so much as being established safe paths through a legal minefield.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> Even though LED bulbs have no such limitations, a color temperature of only 2700K is often chosen. I think there's a reason for this, which is that sunlight supplements indoor lighting during the day. People rely on indoor lightin
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> The ethanol extraction process leaves a mash which is then fed to cows. Do analyses typically factor this sort of thing in, or do they assume corn is grown solely for the purpose of ethanol extraction?
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> When code calls for a maximum distance between electrical outlets, that's partially for convenience, and partly because of unsafe practices with extension cords, so there's some blood there, but if you miss the mark by a foot
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> But you have to care about the type with unknown? It's better to say `unknown` is a promise that you won't care about the type. When you write `obj.value`, you're caring about the type. TypeScript sees that and says &quo
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by _greim_ 4y ago
There's plenty to be afraid of, but legit applications as well, for example automated announcements and voice menus where you can't pre-record every possible combination of things to be said.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Anecdotally, range anxiety drove me to pay an electrician to run a 50 amp circuit to my garage for faster charging, which has gotten us out of many "oh crap we have to leave in an hour and only have 10% charge" tight spots. It was
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by _greim_ 4y ago
This is probably not for every website, but an interesting trick is to set your root element font size to 1vw, which is 1% the width of the viewport. Then size everything using rems, including the width of your layout. The whole design scal
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by _greim_ 4y ago
It's unclear what "serving the center 80% means" but I doubt it means banning the remaining 20%.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
This is good advice, but it shouldn't stop you from reaching out to people during and after a crisis. Sometimes you don't find out who your allies are until the road gets bumpy.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
I've found generators to be a great way to keep separate concerns separate. Now you can have a function whose job is to figure out what the next thing is, then consume it eslewhere as a simple sequence. In the past I'd have a func
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Cover your ass.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
My theory is that devs often trade pretense-now for research-later. This habit allows them to gain ~0.002 status points here and there. But now combine that with unknown-unknowns. The thing they're hearing—if they actually understood i
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Yes, I'm for sure describing a perverse incentive structure, but one that's easy to fall into, almost a default state. If you get enough well-intentioned people together they can break the cycle, and then you have a healthy team.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> Understanding something doesn't mean you know how to explain it to someone else. Too true. Explaining things is hard. My gripe is mainly people's tendency to pretend they understand in perpetuity, instead of expressing a modi
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by _greim_ 4y ago
It's definitely a coping mechanism. When you've been burned repeatedly by people nodding vigorously in understanding, then turning around and revealing a complete lack of comprehension, forcing you to either intervene or allow the
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> The biggest problem I see in developer communication is what I call the "assumed context" problem. Ah yes, the "shouting up from the rabbit-hole problem". > people "on the spectrum" often having low &qu
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> ...they get the employee's commitment to stay for that long for free. Hmm, I'm definitely not proposing people should work for free. > It's an okay deal for managing the risk around hiring, say, an entry level employe
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by _greim_ 4y ago
This resonates with me as a programmer who has refused the management path. However, I also think that the more experienced one becomes, and the more influence one wields in the org, the more gaps in one's skillset are amplified. So, g
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to provide a contract saying that if you stay with the company longer than X months, your wage/salary goes up by a certain amount? Or even multiple such milestones? Seems like a much better incentive st
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Posting bookmarklets on the web tends to be frowned on by forum admins, so here's the raw code. (function dammit() { setTimeout(dammit, 100); let els = document.querySelectorAll('object,embed,iframe,video');
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by _greim_ 4y ago
It's interesting that the author would associate "frames, tables, and other fancy features" with a lack of interesting content. I assume tables are included because they were widely misused at the time, not because tabular da
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by _greim_ 4y ago
With EADGCF tuning, barre chords wouldn't work so well, since the top and bottom strings would be a half-step apart (disregarding octaves) creating dissonance. Or rather, EADGBE tuning works well with barre chords because the top and b
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by _greim_ 4y ago
AI art is striking at first glance, but devoid of meaning once you really try to engage with it. It's the meaning people want, but an image's visual impact has been a reasonably cheap heuristic for finding it. The viability of thi
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by _greim_ 4y ago
I've chosen to interpret TDD as "test driven design", based on the idea that systems designed to be easily unit-testable tend to also be easier to understand, maintain, extend, compose, repurpose, refactor, etc. I deviate fro
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by _greim_ 4y ago
I don't think even young devs think this way. More likely the writer is just being lazy, and filled in gaps in their own knowledge with faux history-salad.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> Hard working and intelligent people are more likely to get rich. > Most rich people are rich because they were born into it. Both of these can be true at the same time!
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Do I understand correctly that if I build an AI which invents something, this ruling wouldn't prevent me from simply listing myself as the inventor?
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> ...JWST’s total costs account for 0.0095 percent of all US spending between 2003 and 2026. I think it was a good investment, but 10 billion is a lot of money in absolute terms and comparing it to "all US spending between 2003 and

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