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by cnity 4y ago
My Ford Fiesta has windscreen heating. IIRC the patent is owned by Ford but I could be wrong.
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by cnity 4y ago
Yes. The best thing to do is to try your best to make something that makes at least one person truly joyous.
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by cnity 4y ago
Ironically it takes some pragmatism to accept that this is an instinctual thing. If you saw that a baker was just reselling baked goods from a supermarket you would not call them a baker, but you would be happy with them purchasing flour.
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by cnity 4y ago
I agree, his reasoning is strange: JS is used in other contexts to compromise user control. We want user control. Thus we will avoid Javascript in this context.
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by cnity 4y ago
Ironically categorising this as an outbreak of illness legitimises the attention-seeking behaviour which is firmly predicated on being perceived as a sufferer of illness.
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by cnity 4y ago
It's shorthand for "primates with a genetic mutation that resulted in opposable thumbs were more dextrous. Those primates proliferated due to natural selection". I guarantee that even evolutionary scientists do not talk like
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by cnity 4y ago
The upvotes are from other pedants who dislike the wording, I presume. It's entertaining, and I understand the argument, but I do wonder if such people also avoid sentences like "primates evolved opposable thumbs so that they coul
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by cnity 4y ago
I think they mean a JIT compiler for a clojure-like language written in rust, with rust interop (instead of Java interop). There would be no static compilation of rust code.
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by cnity 4y ago
Nice try Greg Egan, trying to steal sci-fi ideas from HN.
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by cnity 4y ago
Attaching glowing review and positive outcome to a violent action in childhood is dangerous (though it did serve you, yes). The reason is obvious: it can lead to being drawn to situations likely to lead to the same result and praise.
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by cnity 4y ago
You're totally right. I'm sure things are better now in modern Java and adjacent spheres like Kotlin.
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by cnity 4y ago
Not for newcomers to the codebase. Approaching an application that is forced to make the entire application clear as day (as in Go) is so much easier than such Java codebases because I can just read the code and see what it does. This is ju
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by cnity 4y ago
By far my least favourite thing about the Java web ecosystem is how weirdly obscured the bootstrapping process for starting processes is. So much of how your application starts is determined by XML files and DI frameworks that I often have
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by cnity 4y ago
I have been a web engineer for a decade. I've worked on Java Spring apps, PHP, Node.js (express), Python (both flask and Django), clojure, Rust, and now Go. I have worked on teams large and small, and on codebases old and new. In my ex
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by cnity 4y ago
Same with tofu. I have fried tofu sandwiches with gochujang and spring onions. Treat your meat-free foods as the unique items they all are!
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by cnity 4y ago
You're downvoted by not far off to be honest. See also: the Euphemism Treadmill[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Lifespan
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by cnity 4y ago
xkcd as relevant as ever: https://xkcd.com/1683/
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by cnity 4y ago
Yes, it actually makes me feel slightly sick.
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by cnity 4y ago
It's simple: I wouldn't do that. Do we need guidelines to not delete repositories too?
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by cnity 4y ago
I mentally categorise `commit --amend` right there next to rebase personally. When people debate about rebasing and rewrite of history, I include `--amend`. Maybe I'm unique there though.
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by cnity 4y ago
If the employer I worked for started micro-managing the way I use my tools (that affects nobody else) I would consider leaving, honestly. If I rebase on a branch that hadn't been shared with someone else, why does it matter what my bos
442.
by cnity 4y ago
> commit crafting is overrated. For you, in your use case. When I look at my neat history and use git bisect, I get plenty of value out of it. People keep telling me to stop rebasing. I keep ignoring them; nothing new here.
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by cnity 4y ago
Interesting, I'll need to give those a read. They sound interesting and related to what I've been thinking about lately. Thanks.
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by cnity 4y ago
I've elucidated about this somewhere before, but I view this perspective as a little too cynical for my taste. I think exposure to public perceptions shapes people into more civil individuals, and this can translate to private life. A
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by cnity 4y ago
My theory about Twitter is that the UI makes it feel like you are interacting in a really small group (by constraining how much you can see at any one time), when in reality you are broadcasting to an audience of possibly many thousands. Th
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by cnity 4y ago
> I perform and you have to pay > Equal service at the end of the day > But I know what you think, you thought > 'Cause you've got the Ps, the ball's in your court, but it ain't JME - The Money
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by cnity 4y ago
> a procedure that took some 3 days and numerous phone calls, id photos, etc. But... We're disagreeing over semantics then. I'd call this "being locked out of my account semi-permanently". I have to say I don't f
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by cnity 4y ago
Can't help you sorry, but this also is such a massive downside to 2FA. It's totally possible to get locked out of your services semi-permanently due to really simple or likely mishaps. I've encountered a similar but less prob
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by cnity 4y ago
You know, I'm not actually certain. But it's how I've interpreted it and been taught to interpret it in academic circles, albeit unofficially. If anyone has any formal indication that it means otherwise I'd love to read
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by cnity 4y ago
> single authors refer to themselves as "we" for some reason They mean "we" as in "you (the reader) and I (the author)". "We can see that", etc. It's as if the author is a guide on a journey.

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