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by asark 7y ago
Urkel was into engineering and science and such, right? I mean IIRC he built that machine that turned him into Stefan. Maybe a robot at one point? Dunno, that's long enough ago to be pretty fuzzy, but I remember "making stuff with
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by asark 7y ago
An unfortunate amount of my interaction with doctors has just been waiting for them to diagnose me or a family member with the same thing I already figured out is probably going on, so we can get the drugs or treatment to fix it. Self-diagn
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by asark 7y ago
> edit: (adding for clarity) In a lot of programming languages, whether they use slices or not, arrays are of a fixed size and must be copied to a new array if you want to add elements. Some languages have some syntax that makes it feel
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by asark 7y ago
We ensure this won't be a problem again by educating all modern autocrats in the US or Britain. Or sometimes France. That way they all know.
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by asark 7y ago
It's become a common construction, but it bugs me too. You'd never say "men nurses", for instance. Makes it sound like nurses who specialize in working with men, not necessarily nurses who are men. It's awkward bu
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by asark 7y ago
Oh boy, read Blindsight by Peter Watts. Kinda similar idea but more deeply dreadful . Messed me up for days. Now added to the pile labeled "Existentially Horrifying Crap I have to Not Think About to Make It Through Another Day"
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by asark 7y ago
If we're going for a "best" list (rather than "most important") a cheap way to slightly improve it would be to swap Nevermind for In Utero. Though I thought it was actually a pretty well-curated set of albums. &quot
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by asark 7y ago
They keyboard on the '08-'12's noticeably better than in the '13-'15. Either is way better than the current version.
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by asark 7y ago
IMO they needed one transitional design where they replaced the thunderbolt (is that right? I get all their storm-named ports mixed up) ports, and maybe the charger port if they must, with USB-C, but kept HDMI and at least one USB-A. I use
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by asark 7y ago
Same problem here. Turns out one of my fingers brushes the area just above the number keys when performing certain modifier-key stretches. Never noticed it before, since it's not an issue with real buttons. Try locking it to only the m
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by asark 7y ago
What did doctors and lawyers do starting back in the 80s? We should do whatever they did, since it seems to have worked.
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by asark 7y ago
> 1. Calculus is really, really useful. Maybe AP Stats is also useful, but singling out Calculus as an example of useless signalling sets off really loud alarm bells. 34 years old. Been writing software since I was 14. Used to know some
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by asark 7y ago
This really needs to be an OS-level toolkit thing, like on iOS. It's nutty to have applications inspecting system memory use to figure out if they should take pressure off. Ideally I'd be able to suspend entire desktop sessions an
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by asark 7y ago
Bizarrely, counter-depth (aka depth that both looks better in kitchens and is shallow enough you won't forget about half the food in it) fridges are usually a fair bit more expensive, despite being smaller. Even for what's otherwi
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by asark 7y ago
I also get the sense it's increased over the years. If you count all fund-raising time (drives plus the at least tens of minutes on ordinary days they push donations or giving them cars), promoting their own podcasts, and the now-seemi
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by asark 7y ago
Like everyone else they're devoting a lot of time, very early (it's NEXT F*CKING YEAR!) to the US Presidential election, and, as usual, 90% of their time is horse-race crap. How should so-and-so's campaign handle this jab? Ho
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by asark 7y ago
Our terrible health insurance situation makes potential spending any given month very bumpy . $10k should be enough to keep a single, frugal person in an OK situation for a good chunk of a year, at least, but could just as well be blown in
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by asark 7y ago
As with things like "what else could Facebook do?" the answer is "make less money but not screw people". Or in the case of Facebook "stop operating", I guess. The problem is that they have been doing the 3rd pa
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by asark 7y ago
It doesn't help a bit that you have to buy your kids' way up the class ladder. Well, buy them the opportunity, anyway—not living it at home, they may still not socialize to the "right" tier. Housing's more $/sq
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by asark 7y ago
A lot of foods that are really bad for you are kind of a pain to make. Potato chips. Fried chicken. Anything deep fried, really. Coffee cake. Chocolate chip cookies aren't hard but aren't exactly make-on-a-whim either and require
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by asark 7y ago
Huh, the rare and elusive Betteridge's law exception.
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, but that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. How large a role did private firearms play in that war? Would they have all been replaced in short order by a few crates from a foreign government or two, had they been
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by asark 7y ago
Are there documented, successful uprisings any time in the last 100 years that hinged on private firearm ownership? People say "yeah well look at Iraq and Syria" and so on, but all the examples I know of of even a sort-of successf
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by asark 7y ago
I can do way more as long as it's not all the time, and the work's interesting. Think 80hrs writing some software, followed by a lighter week that's mostly cooking involved meals, or gardening, or prototyping board games, or
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by asark 7y ago
Every company I see "really would like" to fully automate their build/test/deploy pipeline, to actually have automated tests for most new features, infra as code is a work in progress, et c. Basically most of the Joel-te
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by asark 7y ago
24 (3x8 or 4x6) should be what we shoot for as the new norm for ordinary employment. That's the tipping point where selling your time to someone else isn't necessarily the main thing you do with your life, even if you're &q
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by asark 7y ago
1) Remote. 2) Money. 3) Demonstrate that you have half a clue how to run a project. 4) BONUS ROUND: No hours-long puzzle-question-memorization interview bullshit if you're not paying FAANG money and providing FAANG levels of résumé pre
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by asark 7y ago
I think there's something in there, but it's buried under a writing style that seems, intentionally or not, to draw most of its influence from long form ad/marketing copy. The stuff where it manages constantly to seem like it
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by asark 7y ago
FWIW I know about it, am not old or unhealthy enough to have fine motor control problems, and can't use it effectively. I have to disable it to get press-and-hold to do what I'm used to it doing, reliably, without requiring severa
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by asark 7y ago
It's more than that—it's peacock feathers. You do it to signal you have money to burn looking "modern". You'll even see people on HN complain that a site looks "old", sometimes—not bad, just old. Keeping u

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