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by anyonecancode 2y ago
Regarding how many people in the Roman Empire were slaves, and what percentage of the population that was, this passage[1] from the oft-hn-referenced acoup.blog on the demographics of the ancient world is relevant: ``` Once again in Roman I
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by anyonecancode 2y ago
I've started putting personal items into my calendar, and find it does help, but my philosophy isn't really one of time management. Rather, it's one of giving my personal life the same level of importance my work life gets. W
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by anyonecancode 2y ago
This is why the idea you sometimes see floated that we should be able to sell our own personal data isn't really much of a solution. One person's data doesn't have much value on its own. If you were able to sell it, it'd
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by anyonecancode 2y ago
I don't know if "good" architecture can be defined, but "consistent" architecture can. It's the lack of the latter I often see and that causes the most issues. Inconsistent architecture makes it very difficult
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
I was at a fairly well-known company that was on a downward financial trajectory. The company had some solid products that customers loved, and that was gaining new users, but the overall management of the company had led it to have an enor
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
> There is no "CBD" in Manhattan. It's a made up term created for this program to make the pill less bitter. Let's be real, it's half the fucking island and where mostly everyone in the city works and shops. That
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
I agree it's a good point. A nuclear blast is extrinsic to the system. I think what something like CAP gets us to think about is failures/limitations that are _intrinsic_ to the system. Someone walking around the data center and u
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The Two-Decade Fight for Two Letters on the Internet(nytimes.com)
5 points by anyonecancode 3y ago|1 comments
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When Did Humans First Start Wearing Clothes?(theatlantic.com)
4 points by anyonecancode 3y ago|1 comments
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
I think it's hard to jump straight to "do it right" as step 1, because it's often not actually clear what "right" means until you actually have running code. Editing is easier than writing. Few essays, books, o
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
I dramatically cut down my consumption of added sugars several years ago (added sugars are, as the term suggests, those "added" where they wouldn't be on their own -- eg a bowl of blueberries on its own clearly has sugars. Pa
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An Incurable Disease Is Coming for Deer(theatlantic.com)
6 points by anyonecancode 3y ago|4 comments
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
"Low code" means a low surface area of code you can directly interface with, but there's plenty of code shoved out of sight and out of reach. Total amount of code is probably actually quite a bit larger, actually, given all t
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How to Make Room for One Million New Yorkers(nytimes.com)
3 points by anyonecancode 3y ago|2 comments
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/30/opinion/new-y...
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Well, here's some anecdata: I'd been living in NJ for a few years before the pandemic and,just before the pandemic, had finally saved up enough for a down payment. We started looking summer of 2019, and were picky and not in a rus
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Can't read the article as I don't have a subscription, so maybe they talk more specifics in the article, but I'd say that the housing shortage in places like the bay area is so acute that I think even a flawed approach that b
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Doesn’t Portland have a housing affordability problem? Why was the answer to “people are using drugs in public because they can’t afford a place to do it in private” to legalize public use? I swear we’ll do anything to address the consequen
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
>> The pitch to customers for buying a hybrid is simple: Such cars are often cheaper than all-electric rivals and get some benefits of electrification with improved MPG compared with a traditional car without the headaches of having t
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Potentially controversial take -- we've been making, and continue to make, decisions that in aggregate prioritize private car ownership as the default transportation mode, and this has resulted in limiting our freedom of movement, and
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
It doesn't -- hence my noting the GH cli as a minor point. It's a tool I've personally found helped increase my productivity, so just wanted to share as others may find it useful too.
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
From the second article, a minor point but possibly helpful to other here, he contrasts doing everything in the terminal with stacked commits vs going to the Github UI. If people aren't aware, Github offers a cli tool[1]. I've bee
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Words and Phrases That Are Their Own Opposites(mentalfloss.com)
2 points by anyonecancode 3y ago|0 comments
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
A good example of this I see a lot in a code base I'm currently working in is React components that conditionally render or not. I really can't stand this pattern, and whenever I can I refactor that into having the component ALWAY
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
PHP was one of my first languages. A common mistake I saw a lot of devs make was using string interpolation for SQL statements, opening the code up to SQL injection attacks. This was fixable by using prepared statements. I feel like with LL
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
I think for the pre-vaccine period, there's at least a couple issues that are still very unclear: - how well did official policies map to actual behavior? I expect a lot of people still masked and distanced, regardless of what their pa
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. You're not audio recorded when you vote. And voting doesn't provide a more publicly verifiable, accessible record than a court record does -- today, you can sue an employer and mak
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Sure, play it out. Lots of things are currently illegal reasons for being fired or discriminated against at work -- eg "protected classes" such as sex, religion, race, national origin. Are you trying to argue that discrimination o
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
Boss man: I noticed you voted for X. As you might recall from the last All Hands, we're not big fans of X. Unrelatedly, I was wondering how you see your future at this company?
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by anyonecancode 3y ago
> It’s hard for me to separate the COBOL from all of the other dysfunctional things going on at the company. I knew that the language was a dead-end and did not want to get stuck with it. Not because I didn’t like the language, but becau

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