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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Super, le pays des droits de l’homme !
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Camera off, 100% of the time, just like the conference calls of olde. I need to pace around to think. Also, I can’t concentrate on anything anyone says if I can see my own beautiful reflection.
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Well then, mineral extraction woes be damned, I’m for them! I never learned how to use a car with a missing pedal. For example, how do you tell it to produce adequate power right now (not 3 seconds from now) so you can pull out into busy
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Is there an official party line that wfh is in every way for every person everywhere always better, and it’s best not to kick that hornet’s nest? Asking for a friend.
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
To be sure, my (observationally biased) sample set includes ~3x more "friends working in tech for multinationals" than coworkers.
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
I do ask myself how long the WFH trend is going to last. My hypothesis is that at some point in the next 5 years we're going to starting seeing articles on HN promoting the productivity and well-being benefits of in-person interaction
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Machining. No child left without a 5-axis milling machine!
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
Great! Facebook no longer have to provide content moderation in all the various corners of the world where they could accidentally enable the dissemination of misinformation and hate speech in minority languages. They can simply transform i
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
I love that Austen Meyer is still blogging about a week of all-nighters on his pet project almost 30 years later, and the level of palpable stoke is off the charts. A gem!
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by bvanderveen 4y ago
> X should be easy > proposes solution that involves YAML Am I crazy, ignorant, or is YAML the most tedious and error-prone format edit?
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by bvanderveen 5y ago
The camera being at waist-height of the presenters who are constantly looking down at it also contributes to the power relations effect the producers are trying to achieve.
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by bvanderveen 5y ago
Here's a non-AMP site that works great: https://text.npr.org/ Speaking from experience, it loads lightning-fast even on an ancient Android device on nerfed 2G data roaming internationally. And the user experience can&#
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by bvanderveen 5y ago
Same.
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
> .docx.pdf Cargo-cult much?
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
Well that's embarrassing. Passing a mutable dictionary—containing callbacks that could be closed over heaven-even-knows-what, no less!—between threads? And it's re-used between requests? They are lucky this wasn't much, much
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
One of the things that ruffles my feathers about this genre of made-for-mass-consumption clap-trap is this sort of proclamation: > Other nations are suffering less from COVID-19 because they made better choices Which other nations? As so
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
As someone who is multilingual and often watches political commentary about US issues by non-US creators, for non-US audiences, in non-English languages—I wonder if this new policy will extend to material that is not primarily for US audien
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
It's borderline negligent to omit all mention of Gérard Fauré. The guy is hilarious. In which he claims coke made Johnny Hallyday gay, followed up shortly by "c'est quoi, le LGBT?": https://youtu.be/6LBSw
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
If the subject matter interests you, just head straight for Bataille. If reading is too hard, you can also watch Žižek. The navel-gazing children of the handset writing about social media in the 21st century are not to be trusted, in my est
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
> quasi-Marxist organization A+ lede necromancy.
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
User 'potamic' made most of the point I would have made, so I'll address this: > I get to keep tabs on friends without actively having to reach out. So people don't become strangers over time. This is a fundamental pe
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
So when can we address the elephant in the room and admit plainly that Facebook has net negative value for humanity and if Zuckerberg were a moral agent and not an alien lizard king he would have years ago liquidated the thing and imputed
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
If find that if I am trying to test values that are not 'fully realizable' (infinite, lazy, etc) there's typically a temporal aspect involved, and I have a 'mock clock and timer' implementation so that I can call a
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
I'm not very familiar with protobuf, but in searching, repeated field seems to have list- or set-like semantics, so yeah, I'd parse the value into a list or a set and compare it to a list or a set.
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
Honest question, what kind of data type can't be compared to another instance of itself for equality? I have never encountered a situation where I have a value of a type which has some 'aspect' that cannot all be incorporated
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
Value should probably be a `Set` then!
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
Great article. The only thing I would add is that anything other than `assertEquals(expectedValue, actualValue)` is not really permissible. Don't make assertions about 'portion' or 'subset' of your results, make ass
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by bvanderveen 6y ago
Just go buy a pre-2012 Toyota, take it to a reputable independent Toyota-specific shop in your area, and say "make it good, boss". Pay him whatever he asks. Then go find an insurance broker, ask them to put you in touch with someo
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by bvanderveen 7y ago
Yes, AMP is horrible for the end user, the UX is a nightmare, etc. But the same thing can also be said about the web in general. On a purely technical basis, this is my favorite news site: https://text.npr.org/ Loads light

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