adamlett

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by adamlett 4y ago
> But that's kind of the point. Tailwind is a layer on top of CSS, but it doesn't actually hide any complexity in the layer below. You still need to know CSS. This completely misses the point of Tailwind. The point is not to
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by adamlett 4y ago
12 seconds down to 9 seconds is not negligible That is not what the person you were replying to claimed. Their claim was that the overall effect of removing jQuery was negligible, and made a persuasive argument to support it, while also
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by adamlett 4y ago
From what I’ve read, laminated timber is quite resistant to fire. In a fire, a layer of charcoal is generated on the outside which insulates the structural core, and it’s therefore more likely than reinforced concrete to maintain structural
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by adamlett 5y ago
They don't have to buy TSMC a fab, they simply have to pay (slightly) more than other TSMC customers They don’t even have to do that. They just have to place orders that are sufficiently larger than any of TSMC’s other customers’.
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by adamlett 5y ago
That would be ideal. As I understand it, it has been tried, but without reaching an international consensus, and leads to airlines filling the tanks of their planes in countries that don't tax the fuel, and flying with more fuel than n
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by adamlett 5y ago
I’m sure there are companies everywhere where management keeps an unproductive worker around for whatever reason. But in Denmark at least, they are not required to. All employment in Danmark is at will employment. As long as the reason is n
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by adamlett 5y ago
And the union and company agree that two people doing this job should be enough. No more hiring That’s not a thing in Denmark. The person is not great at getting things done, but not horrible enough to be fired (especially by union stand
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by adamlett 5y ago
Workers that don't measure up aren't a good fit. Fire them. So that they can be set free, become stronger, at something they are good at. Oh, but I agree! Fun fact: It’s surprisingly easy to fire workers in Denmark. This is rela
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by adamlett 5y ago
As a Dane, I find this notion completely alien. You know what unions are also good for? Ensuring healthy work/life balance, and ensuring that work outside regular working hours gets compensated appropriately. If I have to work sundays
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by adamlett 5y ago
Why would you think you have the arbitrary power to walk out on your job, and not have them let you go? This is why you rarely hear about individual workers going on strike. An individual is expendable. It’s quite another thing when the e
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by adamlett 5y ago
* Two, many users care about this enough to refuse payment systems that don't have it. In that case there will be a market for another payment system that has easy cancellations but charges ~5% instead of 30%.* That line of reasoning h
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by adamlett 5y ago
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by adamlett 5y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a really bad take. The premise of the argument, namely that Apple does (or attempts to do) everything, and does not leverage the industry to its advantage, does not stand up to scrutiny. Apple relies heavily on a
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by adamlett 5y ago
Yes, that’s literally the advantage of a static type checker. I don’t dispute that. I’m just saying that the advice in the article is just as applicable in a dynamic language and confers the same benefits. True, you’re not protected against
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by adamlett 5y ago
I think making this about the type checker is a bit of a red herring. There is nothing in this – otherwise excellent – advice that can’t be applied to a dynamically typed language like Ruby. It’s the same insight that leads OOP folks to war
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by adamlett 5y ago
Isn’t it oversimplifying it to suggest that all “the market” rewards is low prices? Doesn’t the market also sometimes reward quality and timeliness?
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by adamlett 5y ago
Generally talented people enjoy working with other talented people Everything else being equal, sure. and prefer to be hired and rewarded only for that reason. Why would anybody who knew they were talented and got hired or promoted, ass
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by adamlett 5y ago
The talent pool extends a lot further than people with CS degrees. And even if your statement narrowly is true for the industry as a whole (I’m skeptical that it is – from what I’m told more women than men leave the industry), it isn’t nece
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by adamlett 5y ago
Back when phones were built to survive the outside world without a case You mean: Back when phones had screens made of plastic instead of glass. And yes, sure, that does make them more likely to survive a drop, but also means the screen b
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by adamlett 5y ago
More importantly: who cares? There are many good reasons to care. Off the top of my head: * Having a diverse work force makes it less likely that you will be blind to problems caused by unintended side effects of your product that only af
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by adamlett 5y ago
This I agree with. My contention was with what you first wrote, which made it seem like the 4 day limit was not meaningful. I think it makes all the difference for the reasons I laid out.
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by adamlett 5y ago
So maybe ask your friend to take off the AirTag if you have to borrow their keys for more than a few days?
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by adamlett 5y ago
Seriously, the use cases for 96 hours of tracking are frightening. Meet victim in club/bus/supermarket/wherever I'm not an expert, but I don't think this is how stalking works in practice. People don't stal
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by adamlett 5y ago
Lol, what flak? AirPods are to a close approximation loved by all reviewers and by all evidence they are a smash hit among consumers.
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by adamlett 6y ago
Due to the full deductibility, the common narrative became: if you're in the top tax bracket, the state pays more than half your mortgate interest That’s not how it works in Denmark. Here, interest deduction come in the form of incre
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by adamlett 6y ago
When you use a service that is funded by advertising, the service only gets that funding because the advertisers trust that they are getting their ads in front of real users. Ad spend as a percentage of GDP has been surprisingly constant
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by adamlett 6y ago
Apple's privacy changes might seem like a good idea from the outside, but essentially or paradoxically leads to higher entry barriers for new competitors and cement the role the actual players have. Honestly, who cares if the barrier
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by adamlett 6y ago
In Denmark motorists have reversed burden of proof when it comes to liability for damages. In other words, if a driver of a car is involved in an accident, they have to prove beyond reasonable doubt, that they were not the party at fault
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by adamlett 6y ago
Also, why not make it so that they can be used passively? What's the downside? If by passively you mean plugged into a headphone port, the answer is that they can’t because they need power. Their big selling point is supposed to be
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by adamlett 6y ago
When it comes to audio quality and red wine I am completely unable to appreciate the quality differences over a certain minimum threshold, which is quite low (at least as measured by price ). Maybe I would be able tell the medium level stu

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