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by brlewis 6y ago
> Maybe I'm weird, but I never really wrote JS that caused scoping issues, so I never found `this` to be a problem Either you're weird, or you've been doing JS mostly in the modern era of fat arrow functions, and fat arrow
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by brlewis 7y ago
Concise statements, concise pro arguments, concise con arguments, each pro/con having its own pro/con arguments behind it via hypertext. Make it easier to explore the tree of evidence.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> We have become a people who believe everything they see on the internet. Speak for yourself. I only believe things I see on the Internet if they fit my preconceived ideas.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Yes, one group of people can represent the same interest in two different states. The objection is to "sites that seemed to be engaged in astroturfing, which involves masking the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear
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by brlewis 7y ago
Clarifying question...the "strong indications" are that the best explanation of how Blue Flame Medical acquired the inventory it boasts of is that it must be conspiring with the feds?
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by brlewis 7y ago
Fortunately, HN has a list of your other comments, many of which have yet to be proven wrong.
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by brlewis 7y ago
I remember using emacs for C programming with make. M-x compile worked out of the box. I don't think emacs culture would suffer if TypeScript worked out of the box today.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> YMMV. I use IntelliJ for editing Java these days, but it's the only IDE I tolerate [1], and I still switch to Emacs for complex text editing. I live in gentle hope that growing language server support will reduce the need to toler
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by brlewis 7y ago
Despite the HN headline, from the screenshots it looks graphical.
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Please start thinking of "stakeholder" as everyone who has a stake in a project. This includes those who have to maintain the code and those who have to operate the service. Thinking this way will help ensure requirements gatherin
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by brlewis 7y ago
In my side projects I always keep todo.txt. There's a line for each thing I need to do, in order. Putting new things in that file and removing ones that get done becomes a kind of game. Try that on whichever idea you find yourself comi
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by brlewis 7y ago
If your comment is still editable, could you please change it to be a response to the article? Its current phrasing makes it sound like you stopped reading before the heading, "Why NVC Can Fail in Practice". The article describes
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by brlewis 7y ago
Does it do notifications of approaching rain?
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by brlewis 7y ago
C is not shorthand for assembly, but there are two reasons why it feels like it. 1. You do lots of pointer arithmetic. But I don't think being practiced at pointer arithmetic is important for developing as a programmer. Just learn what
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Would they be able to live in, say, Manhattan? They do. https://centralpark.org/coyotes-in-central-park/
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by brlewis 7y ago
Don't read anything into downvoting, especially soon after your comment is posted. Give it time to settle out.
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by brlewis 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662807
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Yes, that would have been a much better approach. It would hinder trackers, but not valid uses of localStorage.
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by brlewis 7y ago
No, the two are different. Ads are only used for ads. localStorage has lots of uses, tracking users being only one of them. Apple is throwing out the baby with the bath water. Ad blockers merely throw out bath water with varying levels of d
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by brlewis 7y ago
That article mentions third party cookies. Nothing about nerfing localStorage.
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At my day job and can't talk in detail now, but yes.
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I would not trust any online source for this. Some years ago I was buying chocolate for my daughter who has a peanut allergy. On a single grocery store shelf, some Hershey bars had peanut warnings and others didn't. I called the compan
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by brlewis 7y ago
> A web app on the other hand is connected by definition, no? No, it just has to run in a browser.
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by brlewis 7y ago
You're describing behavior from 2019-09-23 I see the same "oversimplifying" in webkit's 2020-03-24 blog post linked from the original post. See "7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage" in https://
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by brlewis 7y ago
> Some studies have shown that telecommuting can contribute to a significant reduction in vehicle miles traveled—and, consequently, in greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s difficult to quantify the effects on traffic and energy usage, the
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by brlewis 7y ago
I absolutely agree that panic has only narrow uses.
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>Is there a single event in history has been solved by panic? Surely there's a historical figure who at some point fled in panic. Having survived, they then changed the world. If you're having an asthma attack, running outside
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by brlewis 7y ago
Just to make sure the context is clear, my main question is why the article headline says this particular melt caused a 2.2mm global rise in sea level. The melting described in the article would only account for a 1.8mm rise, in isolation.
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Because in the opposite hemisphere, water is turning to snow and ice.
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I can't find it either. I only see gigatonnes. Even with a naive calculation that assumes no ice reclaimed elsewhere, I get 1.8mm. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zC2c30kIkbx39v0gyY1P...

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