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by asark 8y ago
Yeah I'm just getting "if the loop can be expressed as induction you can... write that in a comment, for some reason". Alright, that's nice. Could we express that as tests instead plzkthx? So I thought I must be missing
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by asark 8y ago
To sum (haha) up, I am no n00b. However, I've looked over the page a couple times and still can't figure out the use of this, let alone what "superpowers" it may grant. It's just comments? The best parts I can see a
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by asark 8y ago
If I could only have one consumer computing device to make a movie, or a drawing, or a anything involving photos, I'd pick one of those "consumption" devices over a desktop or laptop without hesitation. Even a phone, for anyt
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, $300's like entry-level for good shoes if you're not importing from somewhere cheap (might get down into the neighborhood of $200 then) or shopping seconds or other bargains (again, down around $200). Or buying used I guess,
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by asark 8y ago
One of the only interesting observations in the (awful, just awful, I cannot emphasize enough how bad it is) sequel to The Prep Handbook is that synthetic fleece had, since the first book, became a hugely popular exception to the usual pr
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by asark 8y ago
Aerobic exercise has always been like that for me. I get exactly none of the "euphoria" or whatever people talk about with it. The result of any serious amount, even back when I was pretty damn in shape and made myself do it somew
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by asark 8y ago
Preview's more than just a PDF viewer. It's fast (opens almost instantly, low or no UI lag under almost all circumstances), light, renders PDFs excellently and without the artifacting and lag that's common in other readers. A
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by asark 8y ago
Yep! It's gotten worse and worse to browse as a map over the years. The earliest AJAXy versions were probably the best for that. I think they intend Earth for that purpose (they moved the great geo photo feature from Maps to there, f
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by asark 8y ago
I increasingly see this as the next level of alienation from work-product. Carpenter makes and sells chairs to people who need chairs, farmer grows and sells apples to people who want apples. Then there's the line worker making just ch
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by asark 8y ago
For me, it's the built-in (or free-to-download) apps. Notes, Preview (god that is such a good piece of software), and their Office-alike programs are all great and work seamlessly across desktop and mobile. Well, not Preview—I truly mi
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by asark 8y ago
I've had to all but disable mine on any newer MacBook I use, too. It's become part of my first-day setup routine. Otherwise getting a finger near one of the "buttons" on the touchbar triggers it. So, away go any "
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by asark 8y ago
Similar experience. We (the devs) quickly realized we'd need a ton of time to create useful metrics for our dev teams and that we'd need a shit-load of historical data we didn't have to give them any context—lots of small-
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by asark 8y ago
Lots of us had the same thought with those famously huge crowds at airport security just post-9/11. Cabinet member on one channel (we had channels then) telling us how sophisticated, dedicated, well-funded, and capable our adversary is
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by asark 8y ago
The most correct is the one least likely to cause confusion... or kick off a thread like this :-) Probably "flak", then.
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by asark 8y ago
Huh? Everything always has a type anyway. It's sometimes just harder to know what it is. Specifying doesn't make the types appear out of nowhere, it just documents them.
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by asark 8y ago
Typescript also significantly reduces communication overhead and provides machine-verifiable documentation, making it way easier to figure out WTF is going on with unfamiliar or long-out-of-sight code. People who don't love TS compar
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by asark 8y ago
I can't say whether it's what makes the difference or it's a natural development, but they 100% for sure do. Both direct instruction and example behavior.
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by asark 8y ago
It's not about the gold, it's a reductio argument aimed at gaining your agreement that there's some line beyond which inequality is harmful, so the disagreement can move on to the topic of where the line is whether than
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by asark 8y ago
I understand a Martian colony as a kind of romantic dream. I understand a longish-term Martian outpost for scientific purposes. I don't get a Martian colony as a serious proposal for pretty much any reason. It's like 1000x more ex
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by asark 8y ago
The magic stuff's awful. Any time you have to dig into a mothballed Rails codebase from a version either older or newer than what you're used to, or with a bunch of Railsy magic gems that aren't in your usual toolkit, it&#x27
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by asark 8y ago
When invoked by laypersons, it usually means "don't run a deficit at all, and cut 'useless' (to me, so far as I know) programs". Arts funding and foreign aid are popular first candidates for the chopping block. I do
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by asark 8y ago
The whole political process is so tied up in entertainment now it's hard to see the lines between them anymore. It seems especially bad on the R side (surprise surprise) and I don't just mean the President, but it's affecting
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by asark 8y ago
Reading literature and philosophy is both an acquired taste and skill. If you're not used to that sort of thing it may just be that you need to work your way up to it. It's a very different kind of reading from pop-anything (-fict
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by asark 8y ago
If your kid's able and inclined to pay for their own test prep books it's probably better to let them do it. More likely to actually use it that way, I'd guess.
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by asark 8y ago
RSS-to-email once a week, maybe with some other kind of filter (quality, popularity, keywords) in the middle for sites with too much noise (HN qualifies, lots of stories in a week). I think there are a couple sites that do that for HN, but
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by asark 8y ago
The good ones, in an organization with any sense at all, keep you from having to answer "when will it be done" and "why isn't it done yet" questions from non-team-members, which is wonderful. Those questions will
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by asark 8y ago
How's the touchpad? What's kept me on Apple is the ability to actually use the MacBook Pro as a portable computer, not just a crappy desktop you can drag between the power and mouse+keyboard stations that you need to get work do
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by asark 8y ago
I had to briefly use a Macbook two designs old a while back—the thicker aluminum kind, that could still accommodate a disc drive—and wow, I'd forgotten how much better that keyboard was than the one after, even, let alone the loud-
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by asark 8y ago
It's a US thing. Most folks here have very little exposure to political philosophy unless they seek it out or major in something at least adjacent to it in college, and the bit they do is almost all Locke's concept of natural righ
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by asark 8y ago
> Gmail is already unusable on the web. The Basic HTML version is the best and snappiest version, by far. Still exists. Even on Google's own Fiber service I have plenty of time when trying to load any other version to click the &quo

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