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by abnry 6y ago
Is a scientist working on a nuclear bomb a civilian? In the strict sense, yes, but it is very close to not being one.
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by abnry 6y ago
I think it is fundamentally the emotional problem of FOMO. The way you solve that issue is by understanding clearly the tradeoffs. Better organization and an ever growing backlog sheds light on how much you can actually consume versus how m
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by abnry 6y ago
Recently, I've been working hard on the very problem described. One thing that is crucial is having a model of the information hose. This information overload is ultimately a psychological problem and having a way to conceptualize the
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by abnry 6y ago
I'm old enough to resent my younger zoomer siblings' taste in music, and have once been crushed to realize a song on the radio I was enjoying was a Billie Eilish song. Yes, I am a cranky millennial. We are old enough to be cranky
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by abnry 6y ago
> Thus, fees should scale exponentially with vehicle weight. Work is force times distance. You have to factor in how much the vehicle is on the road, and the gas used is a decent proxy measure of that.
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by abnry 6y ago
ChromeOS is excellent. It is such a pleasure to use. Yes, there are minor bugs from time to time, but I like it very much.
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by abnry 6y ago
What do you think of high end chromebooks?
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by abnry 6y ago
That's not what cynicism means.
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by abnry 6y ago
Yes. The app seems very useful in that regard. But I would like it to emphasize the style aspects of it, not some objective standard of "too complicated sentences".
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by abnry 6y ago
Or they just panicked with the RIAA request and needed time to regroup. Cynicism doesn't have to be a hobby.
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by abnry 6y ago
It amuses me that the Dunning–Kruger effect shows up here. It has become such a cliche for people to reference it.
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by abnry 6y ago
>Whenever I try and use Linux as a dev environment I find myself repeatedly distracted by small issues here and there that I have to take an hour to research and solve. I'm not sure how realistic it is to be able to avoid this in an
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by abnry 6y ago
It's too hackish, system dependent, and not feature complete yet. I plan to run it as a flask app on the local network as a more intuitive way of tagging and managing bookmarks... lot more to do.
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by abnry 6y ago
I am coding my own hacked together bookmarks manager. I can save any page with a click of the button using SingleFile (a fantastic Chrome extension, by the way!). Then a cronjob runs and puts it into a folder to be processed into a database
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by abnry 6y ago
Why hasn't there been a class action lawsuit yet?
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by abnry 6y ago
To me, that's a strange question. First degree murder means premeditated intent, and almost all police shootings aren't premeditated. Do you mean that police murdering someone was voted to be treated with the same consequences as
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by abnry 6y ago
The ballot questions were what really motivated me to show up to the polls. I predicted that RtR would pass. I expected Ranked Choice voting to be close and probably not pass. Still, I am disappointed MA residents didn't choose to use
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by abnry 6y ago
Why did you even comment then?
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by abnry 6y ago
Another factor, I would argue, is that the cultural and political changes have occurred very quickly, and that's always going to cause conflict.
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by abnry 6y ago
Thank you, I appreciate your comment!
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by abnry 6y ago
To me saying learn C++ to appreciate Rust sounds like advising someone to bang their head against the wall first because when they stop it will feel good.
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by abnry 6y ago
> It only becomes a commitment once you start writing real, production code in it. Very good point. Projects must be maintained, and that's when mastery matters.
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by abnry 6y ago
I figured I'd get one of these types of comments. =) Yes, I know it is dangerous to lump C and C++ together. But truly, I appreciate your comment. Unix systems are important to me, and it seems C is probably a good idea to master first
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Ask HN: Should I learn C/C++ or Rust as my first systems programming language?
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by abnry 6y ago
The number blew me away. But does she mean in one location or VMs? One million is a lot no matter how you slice it.
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by abnry 6y ago
It is an analogy, and it's already established we aren't discussing law. The question is the principles, causes, and reasons at play and how they relate to other principles, causes, and reasons.
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by abnry 6y ago
Because the one is an obvious expression of carnal desires and greed while the other is at least ostensibly about ideology and truth.
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by abnry 6y ago
How the heck can an opposing party "meddle" in an election that the very party itself is contending in?
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by abnry 6y ago
But isn't the sort of sneaky racism exactly what people claim is such a problem today? There's not overt claim of inferiority or an explicit denial of opportunity, but yet there is still "systemic racism". The analogy is
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by abnry 6y ago
If everyone was wrong, it is reasonable to believe a low probability event occurred. However, given the extent to which people predicted a Trump loss (say 1 in 20), which is significantly rarer, given that the event occurred it suggests the

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