chucksmash

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by chucksmash 2y ago
+1. If a phone has a stopwatch, you can get your bpm at a given moment with a finger and a multiplication (or patience). Given the limited real estate on a mobile phone it's crazy to devote any space for something so trivial.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
"Design patterns are really Band-Aids for missing language features" comes from a 1996 Peter Norvig presentation[0][1]: > Some suggest that design patterns may be a sign that features are missing in a given programming language
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Local dealerships will take cash but if you show up with enough of it (even a very large down payment amount), it's not uncommon that the person you try to give it to isn't sure they are allowed to accept it and will disappear to
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Your account is dead but none of the posts in your history look bad. You can email hn@ycombinator.com and if there has been a mistake they'll sort it out.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
I disagree. Think of the places where corruption is endemic. Having an outlook of "well, everybody is corrupt" normalizes the behavior and makes it easier to justify sliding into corruption oneself. If the outlook were useful, it
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by chucksmash 2y ago
When someone asks for examples of particularly bad actors, replying "everybody is a bad actor" is a pat non-answer that communicates nothing except the answerer's disillusionment.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
In the case of this tool, adding a failing test case looks trivial if you've got the URL of a page it fails on. Provided the maintainer is willing to provide some minimal guidance to issue reporters who lack the necessary know-how, it
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> Tight coupling is the basis of oop. This is not what OOP people are talking about when they talk about tight or loose coupling though. They are talking about the relationship between classes.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> It would be great to have a feature where my closed eyes are replaced with open eyes looking at the camera There's already a feature that does this called HR
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by chucksmash 2y ago
O'Reilly shows a 2nd edition slated for December 2025 but it seems like you can access it early with Safari Books. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Platinum prices going to zero wouldn't destroy the economy, just platinum mines. The estimate I've seen for the total amount of gold humans have ever dug up is an approximately 20m³ cube. Wiki says gold has a density of 19.283 g
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Back before there were so many hecto-billionaires (fifteen now, according to Forbes), I remember seeing a throwaway quote somewhere to the effect that the first trillionaire would be the first person to economically mine asteroids. It made
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> Right behind seniors and kids, homeless people are the next big group of library patrons in my town. That has been my experience in places with lots of homeless people too, but not everywhere. As you might expect, you don't see ma
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> How is CST ambiguous? - CST: Central Standard Time UTC−06 - CST: China Standard Time UTC+08 - CST: Cuba Standard Time UTC−05
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Doesn't seem like this should be flagged/against site guidelines, because this isn't a "you're an astroturfer, so how much are you getting paid for this post?" comment, it's a "you say you don't
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Agreed on Spotify recommendations. I felt like the playlists I got from Spotify circa 2017 did a really good job of walking that line. Nowadays the "song radio" and "artist radio" playlists are bad. Definitely a step bac
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by chucksmash 2y ago
There's also the difference between what a consulting company bills for the COBOL developer and what they pay the developer. Not every consultant is the captain of their own ship. My first job after college was a software shop organize
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> Let people flag NSFW and downvote bad faith annotations. How many users will take the thing for a test drive and then patiently click through and downvote every goatse link they find versus simply uninstalling it when they get goatse&#
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> And, from my experience, devs over-estimate greatly how much non-devs care about them and their "number of line of code written" pissing contest. Your experience as a non-dev who doesn't manage devs? Noted. Unfortunately
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> I never had any problem to say "nothing to report on my side, working on X like yesterday". If daily scrum is essentially a status meeting by-any-other-name and nobody is much bothered by what your status is....then maybe you
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Tokens are characters in this context? I tried "neumorphic design" based on the comment this replies to. It is classified as neutral.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
I thought I'd be clever, find HITPOL 7, and then increment the number in the URL I type into the browser (colloquially, this is sometimes referred to as "doing a cybercrime"). I found a page that contained a link to a "H
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by chucksmash 2y ago
I recall there being a thread with way more discussion at the time, but I can't put my finger on that thread right now. This post has some information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152419
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> Don't force it on others. Nobody is forcing anything on anybody here so there's no need to end your thought with a defiant coda. > If you want to engage in this type of culture because it helps you fit in with founders; fi
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by chucksmash 2y ago
"Obsession" predates the DSM and psychiatry as a profession.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Excel (and GSheets) are tools where I think a stripped down "trust my input, I know what I'm doing" mode that doesn't try to intuit user intent would be useful. As I type this comment and my phone miscorrects "intui
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by chucksmash 2y ago
I completed the second edition years ago and found it illuminating. It's very well done! The explanations pertaining to OS dev are nice but it was also a useful artifact for learning more Rust after having gone through the Rust book. T
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Billiards is a good game (1975)(mag.uchicago.edu)
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by chucksmash 2y ago
There's been an approx 80% decline in US infant mortality from 1963 to 2023 according to [0]. I know when comparing against pre-industrial society this is a big driver of increased life expectancy. There's another metric that adju
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by chucksmash 2y ago
> As a parent of very young children I have an extensive network of friends and contacts in my neighbourhood who also have children. As we know the subject of paedophilia is not one that can be debated with any rationality at all in the

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