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by blowski 3y ago
I imagine some people worry how they would deal with getting lost or being injured. It’s a fair point because so much now assumes you will have a smartphone with you at all times. That’s why it’s nice having somewhere that doesn’t assume t
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by blowski 3y ago
A few years back, unstated on a farm with no electricity and I couldn’t got phone signal. As a result, I had no phone for a week. I loved it. The days passed more slowly, I wrote more freely, read more deeply, and spent more time being awar
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by blowski 3y ago
HN guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
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by blowski 3y ago
Im not sure it came up in 2020. I’ve been at work since the late 90s and the same complaints were made then. The difference now is that everybody is also responding on Slack throughout, so it’s like having double-density meetings.
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by blowski 3y ago
I heard it was also called “Project 92”, which is also the name of a (ostensibly unrelated) Tesla project.
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by blowski 3y ago
What would you be trying to get from learning something? If you’re wanting to improve your understanding of FP, could be great. If you want to “become more employable” it’s probably waste of time, because it only helps in a very narrow nich
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by blowski 3y ago
I’ve spent quite a bit of time with both, but I’m not an expert in this field so take my comments with a fist of salt. It’s pretty good. Certainly as good as GPT-3.5 for speed and quality. Claude seems to consider the context you’ve supplie
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by blowski 3y ago
There are CMSes developers want to work with, and CMSes companies want to use. To get into the latter bucket, you have to make a lot of pragmatic choices that causes you to fall out of the former. Also, companies like things that have been
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by blowski 3y ago
(Summary of this article): > Data engineering career roadmaps are a waste of time because they're full of things you don't need to learn. Here instead is an over-simplified data engineering career roadmap. Roadmaps are useful w
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by blowski 3y ago
See also the claim to be suffering cognitive dissonance. I assume they are from immature people who think using scientific sounding terms adds wait to their argument.
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Everything I hate is on Twitter – how can the alternatives compete?(theguardian.com)
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by blowski 3y ago
You are right in the scientific sense, but it’s totally valid in colloquial language. https://www.wordnik.com/words/monkey > A nonhuman ape. Not in scientific use.
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by blowski 3y ago
> That The Economist, the City of London's answer to Pravda, published this article at all is telling. Do you mean it's extremely left wing? Or pro-authoritarian capitalist? Or the most left-wing publication you can find in an
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by blowski 3y ago
Housing is a scarce commodity, so we have rules about how it’s allocated. Mastodon servers have no such scarcity - if you don’t like the rules on a server, set up your own.
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by blowski 3y ago
Will 2024 be the year of Linux on the desktop? This prediction has been made pretty much every year so far this century, no reason to stop now.
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by blowski 3y ago
Replying from my smartphone.
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by blowski 3y ago
It’s a brave commenter who tries telling Apple they’re doing retail wrong. I’d guess Apple wants to avoid their shops feeling like a supermarket, to avoid commoditisation. They want it to be like buying a work of art, where each one is uniq
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by blowski 3y ago
I didn't see the original three asterisks, so I'm not sure. In general writing, three asterisks is used as a visual break between two sections in a document. I assume the other commenter is referring to using "(((@name)))&quo
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by blowski 3y ago
Those advertisers are responding to signals in the junk data the OP is talking about. You’re both right.
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by blowski 3y ago
I was with you until “simply”. Nothing about this problem is simple.
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by blowski 3y ago
I agree the author should be applauded. That said, trying to please everybody on HN is impossible. It would be more useful if these comments explained why they think things are important, so the OP can assess the importance of feedback with
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by blowski 3y ago
Some engineers see a chain of if statements as the problem, others see it as the solution. Who’s right is very subjective.
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by blowski 3y ago
Also, if my kids are going to throw away my notebooks, who's going to be looking at my old blog posts?
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by blowski 3y ago
Mine are still in the attic after 30 years and look absolutely fine.
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by blowski 3y ago
If you dismiss Twitter so easily, it’s clear you don’t have much to add. It is (was?) a lot more than “journalists snarking about the news”. Customer service, influencers, sports fans arguing, companies microblogging, bots giving updates, c
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by blowski 3y ago
I particularly loved the art around Praça de Peixe and Carlos Prates. The stuff around Savassi was bigger and more impressive, but somehow more professional and generic.
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by blowski 3y ago
The book “The Mom Test” is a really good read with similar advice.
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by blowski 3y ago
The AI is already more intelligent than the smartest people in some senses - it has more knowledge in aggregate than any single person will ever have, but doesn't have the depth of the smartest people in a particular niche. In other wa
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by blowski 3y ago
In your joke, QA was only doing exploratory testing. Somebody - perhaps the builders, bar staff, or QA - should have also been doing integration testing for key user stories, and the system has failed because nobody ensured that was happeni
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by blowski 3y ago
I’m surprised at the reaction in these comments. Somebody curiously pushing the limits of a service to see what would happen is very much in the spirit of all hackers. Meanwhile, GitHub responded appropriately, and his write up agrees.

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