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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Well their orange-haired chubby savior did say how good of a disinfectant it was. Top it off with some disinfecting UV light in a tanning bed and you have the bedrock of a healthy life....oh wait I mean cancer.
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Can someone explain why pro fonts are so damn expensive? There are a bazillion free fonts which are great for most uses, but for a font like this where it's not as if the font was custom calligraphy (e.g. for a video game or something)
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Is there a better way than google shopping to find deals across sites for products? I try to avoid using Amazon out of practical (e.g. products often being cheaper elsewhere, often have less worry about getting some SKU-identical knockoff t
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Don't worry pal I gotcha here: 1. Form The High Church of Vaccination 2. Claim vaccination as a sacrament 3. Watch the craven fascist majority of the US supreme court (i.e. all of the ones that fashion themselves as lil Scalias, but h
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
While hangouts is a dumpster fire, Google Meet seems to work pretty well for those who aren't willing to jump through some self-hosted hurdles to run their own.
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I'm still kinda shocked that it took so long to get chipped credit / debit cards in the US, and the fact that credit cards still don't have pins... Most of the online transactions I do with my credit card in Europe require me
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
It's too bad because I think this tech could be a great way for hydrogen to be used in many of these applications. However, this definitely has the stench of "big oil company trying to pretend they're going green by hyping &#
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Whether or not these additional contract jobs are a good thing for the community is debateable; certainly anyone who has driven from the US west coast into the interior (e.g. towards Denver) has driven through a lot of these one-stoplight t
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Too bad California got duped into passing prop 22, which I imagine would affect these exploitative employment practices.
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These efforts seem well-intentioned but doomed to fail because it requires government action to make the rest of the area work , i.e. be more walkable / bikeable. It's great you can bike from your pricey apartment to your friend&#
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
The scale factor was really overblown and without caveats. If you have Google-scale computations where it is not unlikely that at least 1 / 10k machines serving that request will bite the dust during the query, then of course MapReduce
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
dataflow things like Flink (or even better differential datatflow [0]) are far more flexible and subsume map-reduce. This article feels like hyping up the durability of the Model T. [0] https://github.com/TimelyDataflow&#x2F
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Given the fact that they can't even put together a decent chat application it's pretty embarrassing. Hangouts was bereft of features, and the new Chat replacement adds a few more features only to be incredibly slow. Progress? Nope
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
How has the science evolved on GMOs? I think it's pretty horrific to engineer a crop to make the farmer subservient to some sort of vendor lock-in to a giant agribusiness, but what about modifying a plant to be more drought or pest res
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Exactly, if it wasn't for the community building and maintaining great packages like org/magit/lsp-mode etc, I would've dumped Emacs long ago. Building that as someone who has other responsibilities than editor hacking i
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
> 1. A good concurrency model. This is definitely the biggest pain point, especially as people go to expand their use of Emacs (e.g. with Doom, adding more modules and integrations, one has to be careful to lazily evaluate config blocks
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I've been able to get by so far with the inbuilt doc and reading the code for installed packages, etc. I can read other people's config and reasonably copy needed chunks, debug issues (I've submitted PRs to magit, org mode, a
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Was there any resource that help you get over the understanding hurdle?
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I wish there was a solid competitor to Emacs, but the thing that keeps me coming back is that I have the time to tinker with it a lot and the community is great. Vim and Vscode have some valiant maintainers of projects, but from what I&#x27
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I really wish there was a cost-effective way to rent some of these low-usage, but high-carbon items like cars. I really don't want to own a car. I barely use it because WFH + public transport + company shuttle handles most of my day-to
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
While I'm on the HA bandwagon, I've recommended Hubitat to some less tech-tinkering-inclined family members with good success: https://hubitat.com/
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
How much "baggage" does Haskell carry as a language? I have been Haskell-curious for a while. C++ is my language of choice, but it's just because it's the devil I know (e.g. so many of the bizarre design decisions like h
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I mean considering how much abuse thinkpads have stood up to for years, it's kinda embarrassing how much Apple screws things up. I mean I'm glad I hold their stock because they have a brainwashed fanbase that excuses these design
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Basically the LaMal basic insurance is not allowed to make a profit, so you get them aggressively trying to upsell you on complementary insurance.
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Considering how hard they actually fight when you actually have to get care (e.g. having the doctor submit tons of justification that you actually need the required treatment vs. some half-assed cheaper approach), I don't think the mon
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I don't understand how people can be so anti-universal healthcare in the US. When you have an $8k deductible, your insurance is basically a gift to the CEO's yacht fund.
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I would say that 90% of the bugs are just logic issues, but there is a heavy tail of devious bugs that will take 90% of the time, even if they don't surface right away. Although I still haven't really played around with Rust yet m
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I'm really curious how Telegram makes money. Signal had (has?) their crypto thing, Whatsapp snarfs up the user graph / interactions, but Telegram just supposedly shows adds on large groups. I really don't know how that is eno
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Exactly. Considering how Samsung is coming out with cheaper phones these days due to competition, I don't think it's worth completely yeeting one's privacy out the window, even if the Xiaomi models have better specs. I know A
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I'm really looking forward to his forthcoming healthy guide on mental health [0]. After really struggling with very tepid therapy experiences and trying to read myriad books to "fix myself", the content he's already prod

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