battery_cowboy

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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
This is a horrible article, it's just several people who have no studies nor credentials to backup their guesses. It has zero training as to why, it's literally an appeal to authority, but the authority here has zero credibility.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
> $2 million in reimbursement for work-related expenses. Huh? I don't even get reimbursed for using my personal phone and this joker gets 2 million bucks to play with?
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Good point!
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Plus 600 a week through July from the federal government...
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Doesn't that make this it's peak?
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
You can still do simple stuff, it's not hard: just don't use the complex garbage :) I wrote a web app the other day with vanilla Python, it doesn't do much (it's a tasks app for my wife and I), but it does it's job,
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
I had a professor that printed in like 3 colors, and each exam had a different code on it, like 'X3-67' so we thought he made several versions (of course it was graduate math and he told us we would all get an A in we showed up an
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Grades are useless in the face of cheating, so just tell everyone they'll get to choose their own grade at the end, then they'll focus on learning and even if everyone chooses an A, who cares? Does the A mean anything today? I&#x2
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Using ; as a hyper key blew my mind, like the article recently about how a certain developer calls all of his scripts ',something' so if he want to run a cli command of his, pressing comma then tab will show only his scripts, so &
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
It's such a cool idea, imagine a webfont that changes slightly each page load. I could make a document that slowly became more illegible after each new visitor, just for fun!
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
The new "software engineer" is just a software assembly line worker. I guess the same goes for other engineers. I would imagine the quality of software engineer will get worse over time as it becomes easier to assemble software fr
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
I recall you had 'a font one' in the works, but I can't find anything about it now, is that still coming? The demo is really neat in the header image!
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
It's sad you even had to ask, don't be sad yourself, and your contribution to the conversion taught me several important things I didn't know before about this area, so thanks a bunch!
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Well, I'd rather get laid off over zoom than email, also, I was laid off in 3 minutes in-person. Is that better? I would have preferred they just called me that morning so i could have stayed home. Maybe that's just me. It sucks t
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Consult a lawyer
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Cool idea, it's sometimes hard to use the standard history when I come back to an old project to build or run it with all the crazy build commands I have to do these days.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
But why change it then? If the article has no connection, then the people complaining are the issue, they should fix themselves, it's not the author's job to cater to that.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
"PET" isn't jargon, it's a designation/name, much like "relational database" or "Phoenix framework". It's a name and type of a plastic, and to replace it with "plastic" alone makes
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Patent applications are really specific in the required style and content. I don't know the specific requirements for drawings, but this is the common style there.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Then do that, because it might be a bug or even intended, but there's no proof in this post, there's not even context from which we ourselves could investigate. If that's actually happening and you didn't accidentally ty
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Sorry, I seemed to remember they did something to make it fair, I don't recall the location. I use sr.ht and I've used the others and, for me, it feels like 'turbo mode' compared to them. Especially git pushing: it'
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
I didn't have any trouble understanding it, but I guess we'll just dumb it down into the factually wrong message...
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
So? It's not for all plastics, there are so many different kinds and they're all different! This is basically only used in food containers, not products like your TV or phone case. Also, that's a false argument. We shouldn&#x
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
Monomers, the basic building block of plastic. You can then re-polymerize them.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
But it doesn't break down all plastics, just for PET. The title should match the article according to the HN rules.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
> An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic Wrong title, and it's not for all plastics. We all complain here about journalism taking the wrong conclusion and I'm just pointing out the factually wrong mess
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
No, they do it in a fair way, I believe if you read the page it will tell you how they fairly measure performance between the forges. Edit: see "Expand for details on methodology" right at the top of the page.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
I don't see the evidence of this here, it's just an Amazon page.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
That makes sense, thanks for the reply. At those energies, I guess you'd be hard pressed to make a useful 'finding' that could be utilized outside of a huge collider.
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by battery_cowboy 6y ago
> they're solving problems that matter less and less, and are increasingly less likely to be useful in any way Can you expand on why you think this? I'm not a physicist, but I feel like one shouldn't discount the possibili

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