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by _greim_ 6y ago
I've been thinking a lot about why this is, and I think one reason is because TS adds mental overhead to the language, while simultaneously removing other mental overhead. However, for JS programmers, worrying about types is habitual.
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This should be included in a "How to Make Your Code Reviewee Fall in Love with You" companion article, if one doesn't exist yet.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
You still want the ability to customize the size and color of all your second-level headings in one place. The font example you listed got popular because it was easy and no alternatives yet existed, but became a burden when it got baked in
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Apologized because a scripting language is inherently a bad idea for the browser, or because it was imperfect?
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My understanding is these vaccines either inject RNA into the cell (Pfizer), where it's executed like machine code causing growth of proteins which trigger an immune response, or it injects DNA into the cell nucleus (Moderna), where
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by _greim_ 6y ago
At Sun back in the day our workstations tended to have fairly promiscuous login settings, so one of my coworkers took the liberty to launch folding@home on every machine in the org. Listing running processes one day, I saw this thing peggin
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by _greim_ 6y ago
> AWS will also aggressively compete for the best talent, which is tricky when you are small and open source. Barring surges in demand at month-scale timelines, this isn't a zero sum game. Competition for Rust talent will result in
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Consider the lead/crime correlation, in which the increase in crime and incarceration rates starting in 1960 and peaking in 1991 mirrors a rise and fall of atmospheric lead offset 20 years prior. The idea is that exposure to lead durin
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Some of this burden can be offloaded to robots though, via static types, unit tests, linting, and automatic code formatting. I even go so far as to envision my unit tests as a squad of soldiers laying in ambush around my use cases, waiting
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Merging a PR is work too, assuming the maintainer cares enough to review the code. Why not sponsor the project by placing a $300 bounty on the PR merge? As an OSS maintainer who's been on the other side of this in the past, that would
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by _greim_ 6y ago
It isn't so much that companies are unfairly using others' work. It's that if you're going to use an open source tool in your business's codebase, you'll inevitably need support, upgrades, and bug-fixes, which
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by _greim_ 6y ago
As a corollary, if your org is dependent on email for communication, you likely have some inefficiency and room for improvement.
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The populace has different levers for different controllers. Votes for politicians and dollars for private firms. In both cases the lever is imperfect and we don't always get optimal results.
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Your outcome will be decided by judges who are selected by politicians, and who interpret and emphasize the constitution in different ways.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
If you release software under a commercial license, you're essentially forming a software company. It's hard work and not guaranteed to succeed, but isn't that legit and well-traveled path to wealth? Also not mentioned is usi
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> The bar for restricting what you can access, and for what reasons your service can be cancelled, becomes much higher when it's governed by the constitution instead of the whims of a private media company with a massive conflict of
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Maybe even the term "leader" is starting to show its age. Successful decision-making is (has to be) distributed in modern society, where skills are fragmented into so many specialties.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
I see your point. Using air travel as a precedent, there's a small subset of people who absolutely refuse to fly, and a small subset with zero qualms about it. Between those extremes, there's a range of folks who participate with
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by _greim_ 6y ago
By now it should be obvious—and this is purely descriptive of what I see playing out, not prescriptive—that self-driving tech will have to clear a higher bar than just statistically better in order to become mainstream. Not only because a
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by _greim_ 6y ago
So do you have to learn to code to gain these mental capabilities, or is there some more direct route?
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Can't remember where I read it, but the idea was that using existing vaccine tech to knock out pretty much any virus is a major financial undertaking. Now multiply that by 100x, or however many common-cold-causing viruses exist. Keywor
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by _greim_ 6y ago
The YouTube suggestion algorithm is also amazing. As a hobbyist I find so much cool stuff completely unrelated to politics. I hope they can fix the bad without ruining the good, is what I'm saying.
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> Internet speech is not the same as freedom of speech. Facebook is a private platform and when you sign-up and use them you abide by their rules. Some people are better at compartmentalizing than others. They can hold freedom of speech
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Well strictly speaking I guess I'd rather have fast ad-laden pages than slow, but more likely these gains will vanish as ad congestion re-converges to the previous equilibrium. Users' tolerance for sluggishness is the true constan
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by _greim_ 6y ago
Agreed. We should definitely not try to make progress incrementally. It should all happen in one big chunk or not at all.
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An analogy I keep coming back to is a kid putting his hand in a stream to divert the flow, then being surprised when the water continues doing the same thing but in a more complicated way, due to the topography of the landscape.
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by _greim_ 6y ago
I hear you. While I may not have committed major atrocities personally, I believe the potential for all those things lies within me due to my human nature. Had I been born in a different time and place, I may well have participated in some
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by _greim_ 6y ago
> We help our own, and destroy and torture with great pleasure and no remorse everything else... When you say "we" do you mean you personally partake in all these activities, or do you count yourself as an exception to the rule
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I've seen comments to the effect of "standing outside on a sunny day in a bathing suit for five minutes is the equivalent of 10,000 IU vitamin D." No idea if that's true, and obviously UV exposure has other risks, but st
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I'm not omniscient nor an economist, I have no idea. Here's a comparison though: War is another of those realities—like aging and death—that we seem to have normalized and accepted at a cultural level. It's fair to ask how ec

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