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by com2kid 2y ago
I use the MS DOS editor theme for VS Code!
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by com2kid 2y ago
I've been on the Internet since 1995. I remember the first banner ad! Wikipedia didn't exist. It was possible to run out of websites to visit. People were, in general, super friendly, aside from the trolls on AIM trying to crash o
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by com2kid 2y ago
Depends on how diluted the bleach is. Also 30 minutes may be more than necessary, but it's what I've always done for athlete's foot. For other random crap that's tries to grow on my skin I'll dilute some bleach on a
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by com2kid 2y ago
I actually never heard the phrase until I got online and saw the meme! My biology classes did have us gene editing bacteria to chance its color. That was fun! > The only one that comes close is Athlete's Foot, which makes the victim
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by com2kid 2y ago
> If changing the laws of the universe is fine, then nothing gets excluded even Harry Potter. Greg Egan's law changes are on the level of "I consulted with a bunch of theoretical physics professors and asked them what the impli
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Fascinating. Vinge is about the furthest from “soft” sci-fi I can think of. We must have very different definitions of what makes something soft. That award goes to Greg Egan who has full list of citations on his website for each of hi
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by com2kid 2y ago
You are right, I forgot the mess that is React Router. I was so sick and tired of router churn when I was heavy into react, it is sad to see it hasn't gotten any better. The situation with React Native back when I was doing RN was horr
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by com2kid 2y ago
Ugh old joke but: 1. React is 11 years old. Even "modern" React with hooks and such is more than 5 years old. 2. Express has been the backend server for Node for over a decade and it hasn't had a breaking semver change in 7 o
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by com2kid 2y ago
> - The intended pun doesn’t work at all, since no one here uses “What’s up” (not even the 10% that understands English) Well until you wrote this I never realized it was supposed to be a pun, and I'm a native English speaker...
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by com2kid 2y ago
There never was a digital service called HBO. There was HBO Go and HBO Now, one of which you could subscribe to yourself, the other of which was an option you could get through your cable provider. There was massive amounts of confusion abo
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by com2kid 2y ago
How about soups? If a soup has multiple steps, you can easily end up paying the cost of building up temp and releasing twice. Of course for bone broth, you are still savings many many hours, but the math isn't as simple as "bones
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by com2kid 2y ago
Zig is fun. Rust is a battle. If I have to choose between 10x safer than C and enjoyable to write, or 12x safer than C and a PITA, I'm choosing Zig.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Let's get rid of the regulations then so: A. There is no more debate about it B. Suppliers are motivated to catch up to where the supply chain needs to be at.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I'll just correct this one misinformation. You absolutely can cook multiple dishes at once - I've done it, google: 'pot in pot' - assuming they can tolerate roughly similar cooking times. I have the OG Instant Pot,
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'm working on something similar, https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/tinyllmtown/index.html a small town where all NPCs are simulated using a small LLM. They react to everything the hero does, which means no mo
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by com2kid 2y ago
To be clear, "too long" is more than 24 hours. Feel free to make rice the night before if you have dinner plans the next day, it'll work out fine in a good quality Japanese rice cooker!
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by com2kid 2y ago
If I making rice in the instant pot I can't use the instant pot to make actual food. Also that 12 minutes is not inclusive of the 10 minutes it takes to get up to pressure, and the instant pot cannot keep rice warm throughout the day.
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by com2kid 2y ago
You were actually fired for disagreeing with leadership on if something is a good idea of not. Prior to growth mindset you'd have been fired for "not being a team player". This is an EQ thing. If you see something stupid happ
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by com2kid 2y ago
> To give a sense of why this is important: Imagine a CLI built with XML. If I'm not mistaken, JSX is a type of XML blended with JS code.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Pre-growth mindset MS was toxic AF. Now it is less toxic. You cannot run a cloud business with long term success without a growth mindset. You cannot finger point, blame, and fire, for outages. Instead you need a cult like practice of ever
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by com2kid 2y ago
Donating blood actually has multiple positive upsides!
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by com2kid 2y ago
The world is still waiting on a huge battery revolution to happen. It looks like it will actually happen Really Soon Now, and there are multiple technologies vying for first place. I hope someone with industry experience drops in and explai
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by com2kid 2y ago
Historically the value was in knowing how to build reliable, clean burning, engines. China never managed to catch up to other countries in terms of making combustion engines (it is incredibly hard, and from what I grok they were a generatio
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by com2kid 2y ago
You are of course correct. A more accurate statement would be "kids are really good at taking things as matter of fact". They don't have very many preconceived notions yet.
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Oh we've gone over the complete list of what eats what including all the bidirectional cases towards the top of the food chain. Sometimes he'll think up of a pairing and ask me to check online which animal eats the other. Yesterda
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by com2kid 2y ago
Our neighbor has chickens. We sometimes help out with the eggs. One day my son asked if we can go eat one of our neighbor's chickens. I had to explain the difference between egg laying chickens and meat chickens. Also I explained that
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by com2kid 2y ago
> But the idea of letting an LLM write/move large swaths of code seems so incredibly irresponsible. People felt the same about compilers for a long time. And justifiably so, the idea that compilers are reliable is quite a new one, f
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by com2kid 2y ago
> No joke: every time I read my daughter a Richard Scarry book, I wonder when and how it will have to be broken to her that unless her interests happen to include something that pays a living wage, she’s actually fucked for life. Fight f
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My 3 year old recently picked up a sausage and asked "did this used to be a pig?" "Yes, that used to be a pig." "OK!" and popped it into his mouth. Kids really don't care.
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When I graduated (2006) it was still mostly that way, a few kids in it for the money tried to get a CS degree and failed out and changed majors. Most of the people I've had the pleasure of working with have a love for the craft. Sadly

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