celeries

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by celeries 3mo ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I agree. They are unreasonably effective, but I think that's in large part because people have lost touch with reality. People tend not to think very critically about ads.
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by celeries 3mo ago
Switching to a more ethical model than advertisements hardly helps. Most tech companies are competing for people's attention, so making one platform less addictive just means the attention will be consumed by the next most addictive pl
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by celeries 3mo ago
If this happens, I'll be listening to music with the most annoying lyrics on repeat.
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by celeries 6mo ago
I work with .NET for my day job and my team doesn't use any commercial libraries. I haven't felt limited in any sense by the .NET ecosystem. Nearly everything is open-source, too.
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by celeries 6mo ago
Yes, but that's just the default behavior. You can implement your own non-boxing version for performance critical applications.
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by celeries 7mo ago
I wonder if you could use this to evaluate how "truly random" a random number generator is.
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by celeries 9mo ago
If you've ever tried to stop doing something, going 90% of the way (e.g "I'll drink one soda per week") is often much harder than quitting entirely. This is particularly true with addiction where neural pathways need to
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by celeries 11mo ago
I am a full time .NET developer, experienced with both newer and older .NET versions. They are confusingly named, but this is the gist: - .NET Framework is the older version that is tied to Windows. - .NET is the newer version that is cross
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by celeries 1y ago
I like plain oatmeal. I wouldn't say it's "good" in most qualitative senses. "Cultivating taste" might mean less capacity to tolerate or enjoy things that are fine-but-not-great.