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by astrea 5y ago
HN downvotes are very measured. Comments can still be seen, the number isn't shown, and you have to have a matured account to even have the ability to downvote.
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by astrea 5y ago
Which apes off Arma, which apes off of the idea of real places*
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by astrea 5y ago
I hate when businesses try to make money
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by astrea 5y ago
What life does one lead to so boldly proclaim something so provably wrong?
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by astrea 5y ago
A lion is my pet theory for The Beast of Gévaudan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Gévaudan
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by astrea 5y ago
I feel as though the average HN user (CS cluster or adjacent) already had this luxury.
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by astrea 5y ago
One could also consider that not everyone is in the healthiest state due to illness or chronic disease and not just immediately assume moral failing.
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by astrea 5y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a horrible take. I don't want every Joe Schmoe to have this capability in their back pocket. I can't even trust vetted people who have been elected into power to use it responsibly. Why on earth would I
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by astrea 5y ago
The multiple layers of abstraction in this make this test sorta moot. You have the AWS infra, the poor MacOS implementation of Docker, the server architecture. Couldn't you have just had a vanilla Ubuntu install and curl some dummy loa
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by astrea 5y ago
Was? Don't they still exist?
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by astrea 5y ago
How many Electron Markdown editors could this world possibly use?
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by astrea 5y ago
Surely you could think of at least one more use case for AWS.
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by astrea 5y ago
Does Amazon host its core infrastructure in us-east-1?
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by astrea 5y ago
Thus propagating the NN "If all you have is a hammer" trend. I don't quite know the nuance of music theory, but could you not get away with traditional Fourier analysis? You just need to decompose the song into its constituen
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by astrea 5y ago
> if you wanna come in for more brown-nosing ( or networking, or collaboration, or whatever they wanna call it ) I find this line of thinking, which is very prevalent on HN, to be incredibly toxic. As if a social creature seeking to be a
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by astrea 5y ago
I promise you the value add of WSL is nowhere near the value of a pure linux/unix system, especially for developers. This is just yet another iteration of Microsoft's embrace/extend/extinguish pipeline.
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by astrea 5y ago
To me, philosophically, A tool by itself isn't inherently good or bad, but the way in which it is applied is. Unfortunately, people couldn't resist the temptation to do evil that large-scale, (relatively) rapid, programmatic ident
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by astrea 5y ago
video games :(
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by astrea 5y ago
At least from my (single data point) perspective it is. I feel the pressure to always be developing the next greatest thing in the next greatest language or framework and producing conference/journal-worthy research papers (I work in r
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by astrea 5y ago
On the note of GitHub commit history, incredibly off-topic: I hate when potential jobs ask for my github profile (sometimes as a strict requirement). All of my (4+ years) profesional work has been in private Bitbucket repos so my github is
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by astrea 5y ago
This section of the EM spectrum is non-ionizing. So unlike, say, X-rays, you won't get cancer as the waves aren't strong enough to strip an electron off an atom and therefore change your DNA. However, they will heat your cells to
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by astrea 5y ago
This reignites my recurring question: Don't (at least some) password rules just shrink the problem space?
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by astrea 5y ago
"Mere 367k" as if that isn't enough to afford the down payment on a nice home. Sure, you're not going to pay cash for a $3M penthouse in NYC, but I make well below 1/4 of that in a city and I'm well on my way t
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by astrea 5y ago
I know you meant this as nothing more than a dig at the US (yawn), but if anything that lends credence to his argument. They've seen the playbook and they're gonna try their hand at it now. If they're successful, then it beco
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by astrea 5y ago
When you "pawn" an item, you get a short term loan with your item as collateral. If you don't pay back the loan they sell your item.
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by astrea 5y ago
Ah you're the guy that submits PRs that just changes a failing test instead of the code it's testing
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by astrea 5y ago
Welp, where will all of us end up when this gets sufficiently complex?
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by astrea 5y ago
I'm sorry you're dealing with this as well, but at least in a twisted way that validates us both. What you described as your burnout is the same as mine. I definitely am dying for some purpose and I haven't had much interacti
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by astrea 5y ago
Thank you for this. I am definitely going to try these bullets. My sleep has been pretty poor as well as other habits having been trapped in my apartment for 1.5 years (my city/state locked down especially hard).
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by astrea 5y ago
My worry is with my current inability to focus and such I would do poorly in an interview, but maybe that's just a bad loop of self-doubt I can work on.

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