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by ashark 9y ago
> Maybe someone knowledgeable in this space can tell me, but is a planet's atmospheric pressure reliably proportional to its mass? No. Proof: Venus/Earth.
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by ashark 9y ago
The bold text is for links. Confused me at first, too. Really poor choice.
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by ashark 9y ago
TL;DR with the important stuff bumped (I hate, hate, hate clickbait and burying the lede): Tonka beans, containing the toxic-to-the-liver chemical Coumarin, are banned for use in food in the US but still used in some high-end restaurants an
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by ashark 9y ago
In-person interviews (the traditional, formal type with all your usual interviewy questions) are already mostly a test of whether you have enough sense and judgement to tell the right kind of stories with the details tuned just so , and yo
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by ashark 9y ago
Meyers-Briggs is also incredibly easy to game if you know what they're looking for. Not as bad as those silly "ethics tests" some crappy entry-level jobs give ("You see a coworker stealing merchandise. Do you a) punch th
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by ashark 9y ago
> I don't see how that does anything except force logic to the server and guarantee page-by-page update and view semantics. Which keeps the delivered document a document , and not an application. > At least some large percentag
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd be more concerned if it weren't already basically impossible to figure out WTF is going on on any "web app" using View Source. I wish we'd all agreed to severely cripple Javascript[1] early on and instead improv
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by ashark 9y ago
My thoughts on best strategies given this ongoing fragmentation: 1) Subscribe to only one or two services at a time. Binge the stuff you missed while you weren't subscribed, then drop it and switch. Works if you don't care about d
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by ashark 9y ago
At least blocks and comic books have some value for kids' development (and maybe a lot). If we're at a point where we consider hours of toy unboxing videos and watching adults play with toys on a little screen developmentally eq
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by ashark 9y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_of_the_Copybook_Headi...
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by ashark 9y ago
Not weighing in on the broader issue here or, necessarily, why the author included that bit (see what I'm doing?) but pedantically qualifying one's position and every single clause to the point of absurdity is a style people lea
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by ashark 9y ago
If you want to write something with old-school blocky 3d models (think X-Wing, early Mechwarrior games, Starfox) is it easier to just learn how to do that in a modern engine like Unreal/Unity, even though it's way overkill for t
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by ashark 9y ago
Hell, I'd go a step farther: I don't even particularly like software development as a career, but I picked up programming early because I liked it as a hobby and needed to program & assemble computers & configure serve
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by ashark 9y ago
> Yet, the logic of conspicuous consumption may as well work the other way round: Where being fat was seen as a sign on high social status once today it's a sign of low social status. One can signal status be consuming less rather t
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by ashark 9y ago
That's a weird quote, since both the suburban house (=good schools and, more to the point, good peers) and braces (I guess orthodontistry is intended here?) are typically for your kids' benefit. Lower chances of falling into crime
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by ashark 9y ago
It's kind of an open secret, I think, that (at least in the US) there's not anywhere near an average of 8 hours of work a day per "full-time" employee. Probably closer to 3 by the time you average out the overloaded and
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by ashark 9y ago
Modern construction, even when it uses good materials, is shit-tier, (I think) because labor's so expensive. For a while we lived in an upper-middle-class house (at the time it was built) constructed around the time of WWI. National hi
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by ashark 9y ago
Why?
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by ashark 9y ago
> I think there's an argument for reading as entertainment, regardless of quality, as a form of non-productive entertainment that is less harmful than other forms of entertainment. I've taken to switching off my devices at nigh
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by ashark 9y ago
Do you consider time experiencing any art to be wasted? I find it to: enhance empathy; expose me to new ideas and perspectives (both of background and state of mind); improve my writing; allow me to experience the beautiful and the sublim
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by ashark 9y ago
1) Keep a book open on your work machine (pdf, epub, .txt in a terminal with "less", whatever) and every time you would read HN or FB or Twitter any other time wasting Internet BS, read some of the book instead. DO NOT let yoursel
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by ashark 9y ago
> Valueless content finds you. Worthwhile content you really have to go looking for, or have a good social network funneling stuff to you. Really valuable content usually comes in batches, points directly to other valuable content ( i.e.
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by ashark 9y ago
Most of them lag the release by a similar amount, which you'd expect since the trend of giving kids smart phones didn't start the moment the iPhone came out (would have seemed insane at the time, in fact). [EDIT] thought the sleep
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by ashark 9y ago
> TV gets boring (or there's nothing on), the one NES game you got for Christmas last year gets boring, but there's always something new within easy reach on the internet. It's much harder to get so bored you want to do so
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by ashark 9y ago
Magnifying this effect, my understanding is that men are much more open to marrying down on the income ladder than women are. So the average gap within marriages/partnerships/whatever is even worse than you'd expect just from
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by ashark 9y ago
Has prestige also dropped for doctors and lawyers? They're not professions dominated by women AFAIK, but women've become quite well represented in them since the ~mid 80s, so one might expect to see this effect there. I know job
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by ashark 9y ago
Is that purely a development (not advance, mind) of aesthetic and style, or is it in part because editing with ultra-frequent cuts is much faster and cheaper now than it was then, do you think?
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by ashark 9y ago
It's so hard to know when something from your childhood was genuinely better than stuff today and when it's nostalgia talking, but on returning to it as an adult I'm pretty sure MRN is still the best kids' show anyone&#x
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by ashark 9y ago
Are there any good medium- to long-form recent works with valuable insight into the modern phenomenon of hyper-availble multimedia? Psychological, sociological, political effects, any of that? I'm reading DFW's part-literature-rev
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by ashark 9y ago
> Thankfully they've taken to some PBS shows like Daniel Tiger and Thomas I recommend tracking down some old-school Mister Rogers' Neighborhood if you can. Totally engages my 4-year-old, and she actually talks to him when pro

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