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by blunte 5y ago
Well done. I don't understand this TFA, nor do I understand (fully) the xkcd cell. But I get the connection. Thanks :)
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Tell HN: Everything Needs a TLDR
6 points by blunte 5y ago|7 comments
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by blunte 5y ago
"cute" titles should be reserved for tabloids. Say the real thing as best you can in the title, especially when human (or any creature) suffering is involved.
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by blunte 5y ago
While the article suggests that Thailand is no longer cheap (due to popularity?), it is still quite cheap. For $1-2k/mo you can live comfortably, including beach areas. Things work pretty well, and the people tend to be generally fri
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by blunte 5y ago
Forgive my pessimism, but I think this essay was less about making people think and more about providing some fluff between ads. But I'll bite... FP is not the new OO. FP is as old as time, because fundamental truths (and maths) are p
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Ask HN: What would make you happy?
3 points by blunte 5y ago|5 comments
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by blunte 5y ago
Same, from Fort Worth. We had no idea what it was until a few hours later. Hearing people die is just not something we who live outside of war zones are accustomed to.
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by blunte 5y ago
It also happens with EU spec machines and their respective EU power supplies. Could be that some of these older homes aren't properly grounding some outlets, so regardless of what you stick in there, maybe you're not getting a gr
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by blunte 5y ago
Thanks, this is a new one for me. I've been happy with hotels.com for a very long time, but now I'll start comparing here. I'm amazed that Destinia appears to still be independent. Usually by this age of successful travel
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by blunte 5y ago
Several commentors have written this advice, but almost always if I check the hotel website directly I see much higher prices than what are offered on booking. hotels.com, or agoda. However, with flights and flight search websites I do some
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by blunte 5y ago
While I most often use hotels.com, I have used booking many times. I have never had any trouble nor complaint with the website, but perhaps that's because I'm in the EU and there are more regulations (as another commentor noted).
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by blunte 5y ago
Based on the spec requirements listed in the Steam store, I think you should be able to target 8 or 16GB M1 Macbook Airs. Everything else is above that. And targeting Intel Macs is pointless. An M1 Air is $1200ish. So it shouldn't b
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by blunte 5y ago
For non NYT readers, just image search Tomás Saraceno to find the value.
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by blunte 5y ago
There's a concept here to refine... I've thought about something that's perhaps related. One problem with a lot of modern (online/shared) games is the sense of missing out when you're not playing, or the sense of co
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by blunte 5y ago
Wow. I had never experienced this until I moved from US to NL. It sometimes really bothers (scares?) me. If you have two Macbooks side by side, and you touch them both at the same time, you can get an even bigger sensation. Now since you
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by blunte 5y ago
FWIW, I find glue code and integration to be quite rewarding sometimes. You take other good, useful things and connect them, resulting in a new/bigger/better useful thing... without "doing anything"! :) Seriously, for s
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by blunte 5y ago
The title image is so reminiscent of Age of Empires ;). No harm there. Is it safe to assume that AoE series was an influence? As it appears to be targeted only for Windows, I will not be able to try it (on Mac). But the premise sounds go
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by blunte 5y ago
Not the answer you're looking for, maybe... Life. Whether it "succeeds" or not (ignoring the biological succession pun) is in the eye of the beholder, but choosing whether to care or not is a fairly continuous active choice
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by blunte 5y ago
I considered this, but there's nothing wrong about "just another phobia", even if it may be the meta-phobia-to-rule-them-all. The self-circular nature of agoraphobia is fascinating to contemplate though :)
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by blunte 5y ago
Fibre could be because it might annoy American players who object to non-American English spellings. Pupal and agora I really don't get. Maybe some uneducated players would think pupal was some dirty word (related to poop???), but ago
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by blunte 5y ago
They bought eyes and personal data, probably for a steal. But I don't bemoan the Wardle heehee guy who sold it. I'm very happy for him. The game concept isn't unique. It just struck a nice balance of complexity and simpli
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by blunte 5y ago
-- (Even if you don't read this whole comment, I urge you to watch this fantastic video which illustrates procedural, OOP(lite), and FP approaches to a sample problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1DazRK_a0 (Des
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by blunte 5y ago
Probably because a vast majority of cryptocurrency projects are just attempts to print money and fool people with tech word soup descriptions.
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by blunte 5y ago
If you don’t know better, use a popular framework. You’re less likely to be wrong. As an added benefit, you’ll probably find it easier to get help from outsiders.
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by blunte 5y ago
But when looking at a possible positive outcome, such as the lottery case, it can "make sense" to buy one ticket. Your chance of winning goes from No Chance to A Chance, which is an infinite improvement.
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by blunte 5y ago
And why pilots traditionally work from checklists, even if they've done the process thousands of times.
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by blunte 5y ago
There's chance of death, but there's also duration of suffering while dying. I'm guessing that falling from a cliff is "better" than dying from a poisonous mushroom. The latter scares the hell out of me. The forme
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by blunte 5y ago
You would probably be at less risk if you continued rock climbing but eschewed driving (or riding in) a car.
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by blunte 5y ago
And occasionally we get a stark reminder that the "impossible" is actually possible but improbable. https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-economists-f...
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by blunte 5y ago
TLDR: it's very doable, and I will be spending many months there again this year. I spent several weeks of Nov/Dec 2021 in Phuket while I was between contracts. Things were just starting to open up and come back to life as restri

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