ahelwer

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by ahelwer 6y ago
Reading code is harder than writing code. It is also not very fun. So when someone files a PR against your project, it means a bunch of not-very-fun effort. It also comes with a social obligation, because someone presumably put a lot of eff
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'm assuming you've read The Man Who Ended History by Ken Liu? If not I found it really good, if disturbing. (pdf: https://kenliu.name/binary/liu_the_man_who_ended_history.pdf )
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Currently I've had mine about six months, but I rarely adjust the ball joint so don't think I put much stress on it.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
These exist, look up Goldtouch. The two sides can't fully separate but they move far enough apart that I haven't had an issue.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Mice, as in things you drag across a desk surface, are a complete dead end ergonomically. Trackballs are the answer. I like the Kensington vertical trackball. The only thing that moves is your thumb. Those small precise wrist movements kill
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Misleading to say Israel is in the lead when the stats don't count the 4.5 million Palestinians living under their control, none of whom are being vaccinated.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Oh yes you're right, mistyped! Actually the current status of this initiative is that it was voted into law by city council, rather than as a ballot initiative. So exciting times ahead! https://council.seattle.gov/2020&
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Oh yes, you are correct lol.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Why care so much about fakers vs. real? Just provide a solid base for living for everybody, regardless of economic standing. Stop making people jump through all these hoops to prove they really need help. This is the same animating principl
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yes that's exactly what it is - a huge negative feedback loop!
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There will always be reasons, often outside of peoples' control, why they cannot make enough money to afford housing. Your solution to this is - what? I believe that the fundamental necessities of life - shelter, healthcare, education
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I don't think there's really a single thing I read that led me to this. I'll list off life experiences that come to mind, though: (1) I guess it probably started off back in 2015 when I read about Utah's "Housing Fi
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Before this gets too big I'd like to say this kind of saccharine story, while nice for the person involved, does not give a realistic picture of homelessness. Homelessness is not caused by people not having a job. It is caused by peopl
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Unfortunately I think good remote learning classes are only possible with a lot of resources invested in production. Think interactive visualizations, animations, excellent audio & video quality, etc. Almost no teachers have the skill
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Lyme disease is different from chronic lyme disease. The latter has little evidence.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
And in turn this misses that chronic lyme has become a catch-all self diagnosis people have for chronic medical problems with no clear cause. There is not really much evidence to believe it is a real thing.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's actually very common for women professionals to use a lower register when speaking to colleagues. People take them more seriously; they notice. I have several friends who do this.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Look at median income and things are different: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This myth that trump supporters are humble working class people needs to end. These are people with money. Guns are expensive. Travel is expensive. These people have means. See this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics&#
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The thing is $850m isn't actually that much money. The big exchanges made on the order of several billion dollars profit during the last bubble; presumably they are also making that much in this one.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
That photo is from him saying "fuck you" to NVIDIA back in 2012: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/linus... FTA: "Bit flips can happen for many reasons, beginning with cosm
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Interesting. Looking online, it seems AMD's desktop-grade Ryzen line supports ECC, although motherboard ECC support is still somewhat rare. Yet another reason to prefer AMD these days I guess. This reddit comment has more info on Ryzen
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not sure where you read that from my comment. Corps are filled with non-management workers who will tell management about unionization efforts, either naively or intentionally.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
On a corp-cultural level it's interesting this is originating at Google, as opposed to say Amazon which is generally considered a more burnout-causing/crushing place to work on the engineering side in some teams. The Google employ
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Ah, then it's likely that by chance someone just never got around to talking to you about it. It's a big company! Hopefully you'll soon get to talk to an organizer about your specific doubts.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but usually the people who know about the union before it's announced are those who are understood to support the idea & are unlikely to go to management about it :)
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I thought you could read The Great Gatsby on Project Gutenberg for a while now? Or am I thinking of another Fitzgerald novel
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Canadian here! Socialized medicine is, in fact, good. I think the US has gone about as far as it can go with crowbarring healthcare into an insurance model. Moving from Canada to the states as an adult I can sincerely tell you that healthca
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Microsoft uses something similar for their on-campus cafeterias. All Microsoft employees are issued a RFID card with a chip that functions as a door access card, visual ID (it has your photo/name/employee number on it), smartcard
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'm a young healthy dude and have a high-deductible healthcare plan, so I absolutely care about finding low prices for things (since I don't hit my deductible). I got strep throat in 2019 and had a hell of a time comparing prices

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