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by _greim_ 4y ago
> How many factory or construction jobs does "hard-science" funding create? An infinite amount, in the long run.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> PyPI asks for 2FA today, what might they ask for tomorrow? If and when they start policing political views of their maintainers, it would be fair to criticize them. But the theoretical possibility of such a thing happening has no relev
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Agreed. I think a reason some would react negatively is every new language decreases the ratio of things-I-know : things-I-dont-know which feels threatening to those who are in a habit of zero-sum thinking.
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> I don't understand why NIMBYs have been taken so seriously in the US in the past 50 years. Could it be these are the only voices local politicians are hearing? 99.99% of residents being okay with new builds doesn't always tra
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Personally I have two tones I take in a code review comment: the "Should ... ?" form for when I want to raise awareness but otherwise leave it up to the other person, and the "I recommend ..." form for when I think there
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by _greim_ 4y ago
I've toured power plants, both hydro and coal, which are dangerous places. On a scale of 1-10 with a corporate office being 1 and a power plant being 10, I'd have rated a data center at 1. But now having seen the inside of one, I&
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by _greim_ 4y ago
> There's no native typescript runtime. A proposal was actually floated recently to grandfather in TypeScript-like annotations[1]. It would be ignored by the runtime and treated purely as a comment, and would be optional. This is wh
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by _greim_ 4y ago
Upon following the magic link I got this: 500 Cannot find module '/var/task/node_modules/party-js/lib' Error: Cannot find module '/var/task/node_modules/party-js&#x2F
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> LED bulbs last a very long time LEDs are a high-end feature even in new cars, never mind all the existing cars on the road.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Thanks for this answer. > Solaris Haha, I worked at Sun at the time and definitely remember some of my coworkers grumbling about it.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> There's a pro-DST lobby because more post-work daylight hours is correlated with higher consumer spending. For that reason, permanent DST is more politically expedient in relation to permanent standard time. You're probably o
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> I went through the last DST law change I'd be curious to know, to what extent did that change prepare the world for this change? Was it more common to adapt IT systems to be more flexible, or to do minimal work to change hard-code
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by _greim_ 5y ago
When they shifted the transition time by a month a few years back I remember it causing grief. I had to get rid of an alarm clock that was hard-wired for the old cutover. There were a few other minor inconveniences. Random things definitely
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Agreed that it's nice when an error message assures a user they did nothing wrong. But it's still better if the user doesn't encounter a bug in the first place due to being ruled out by the type system.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Corollary: In online chat, do this: Quick question, does the foo widget support splines? ...instead of: Quick question.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
What programmer hasn't at some point in their career written code like this: throw new Error(`Unexpected value: ${value}. This should never happen!`); ...and then had a user submit a bug report containing that very message. Th
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Contrast Rust with JavaScript. It is so very easy to get started with. Then come compilers and transpilers, different ways of importing, bundling, packaging, and consuming, all the ways those things mix and interact, myriad "magic&quot
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Would this mean it's possible to communicate with someone orbiting another star? Or do the sheer distances become too great?
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> Dimming is crap. Agreed LED dimming is crap, but incandescent is not so bad. Mainly because it dims toward red, simulating the day -> sunset -> fire transition. Apart from flickering, my gripe with LED is that it stays a constant
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Brings to mind Goodhart's law: > When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. In this case, performance as a measure of value.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Tangentially related: There's a Vernor Vinge novel called "A Deepness in the Sky" in which a star called OnOff cycles over a multi-year period between normal brightness and emitting no energy at all. Much of the novel has to
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> Is there a different way to think about browser extensions that frames it in a more appetizing way? I like the idea of selecting things and choosing from a set of actions which I've installed. These would be opt-in, and only have
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by _greim_ 5y ago
Being wrong is a great way to extract information from people. Simply asking is ineffective. There's less status to be gained by informing someone, than by setting the record straight, or putting someone in their place. Unfortunately,
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by _greim_ 5y ago
IIRC there was a study showing Omicron antibodies are effective against previous variants, but not vice versa. [edit] I think this is where I heard that. Feel free to judge for yourself how reliable the source is. https://www.you
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by _greim_ 5y ago
As far as I can tell, there ends up being no practical difference between "the pandemic is over" and "this virus will be in circulation forever". People use one phrase or the other to emphasize different concerns.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
I'm glad JS is adding these methods to Array. It would be nice if iterables had similar methods for working with lazy sequences, similar to Rust, but this isn't practical since "iterable" is a protocol. Array can do it b
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> It’s a shallow comparison, not deep. Interesting. I thought it was doing a deep comparison, but apparently it uses reference equality, and thus shallow.
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> What would happen if the view functions in elm by default were lazy? `lazy` incurs a performance penalty not in memory but in execution steps, due to having to do a deep-equality comparison on the prev/next view inputs in the unde
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by _greim_ 5y ago
I think this is a symptom of PMs (and devs) being hyper-focused on the pain-points of their customers. They launched The Product a year ago, but ever since then users have complained about Problem X. The fact that The Product is amazing and
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by _greim_ 5y ago
> This is what happens when your bonus, promotion etc is tied to shiny new stuff. Maybe some of that is happening, but it's also easier to build new features than to evolve existing ones. (I suspect this is also true for roads and b

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