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by com2kid 2y ago
The problem is your office is 20 miles from your workplace. 20 miles is more than the entire length of Seattle. Heck it is more than the entire width of the Seattle Metro area (western most tip of Seattle heading straight east until it turn
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by com2kid 2y ago
Brains find familiar things comforting and "good". Brains can also find brand new things, especially experiences that have nothing in common with anything we've encountered in the past, as "bad". This applies to alm
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by com2kid 2y ago
There is also opportunity cost. If a couple has 20k+ to spend a year on child care, that means they have enough free money that they can do a lot of other enjoyable things instead. Airplane fares keep decreasing, destination vacations are
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by com2kid 2y ago
The very first Apple Watch cost a billion dollars to make. Costs got quickly amortized after that first unit. If NASA was in the habit of building hundreds of robots at a time, the cost per unit would drop dramatically.
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by com2kid 2y ago
GP comment is talking about the Pacific NW, and WA state at least most certainly does require earthquake provisions.
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by com2kid 2y ago
Building codes require earthquake strapping and take landslide risk into account. What more do you want people to do? Seattle has had large earthquakes in its short history as a large American city and honestly even mid 20th century constru
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by com2kid 2y ago
> But wait, the instructions for this hypothetical platformer say you're supposed to be in a realistic environment, and clearly jumping that high isn't realistic, so I must be cheating... or maybe the jump button just needs mo
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by com2kid 2y ago
> But in the context of playing a game, if someone presents a challenge with a set of rules, and I see a potential shortcut, I'm going to try it. Reinterpreting rules is fun in its own way. I used to think this way, then I got bored
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by com2kid 2y ago
When I first joined Microsoft as an SDET back in 2006, the culture was such (at least in my org) that any SDET could halt shipping. A bit less than a year out of college I found a pretty significant bug in the compiler (I forget the bug! I
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by com2kid 2y ago
> The idea that compute is unlimited is a horrible myth that cloud companies have sold which has effects and externalities that will be seen as on par with the myth of unlimited fossil fuels. Granted, all true, but my point was that for
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by com2kid 2y ago
> TFA author - I have worked on low-cost embedded systems. (Tens/hundreds of megs of RAM, not KBs.) I worked with kilobytes, small team, everyone sat together. No one was hoarding resources, because just to ship out the door we had
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by com2kid 2y ago
The comments on resource utilization are one of those things that is only true now that there is a 1:1 correlation between $ and available CPU/Memory, and the pool of available CPU/Memory resources is effectively unlimited. Embedd
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by com2kid 2y ago
Traveling around China, their sense of scale it pretty much 10x what America's is. 1 million is barely a city, around 5 million and you are a 2nd tier city, hit 8+ million and you are a "real city". Meanwhile people in Americ
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by com2kid 2y ago
One word helps make it easier. I got very tired, very quickly, even as a kid, of saying "Grandma on my Dad's side". I had two Uncles with the same name, again, "Uncle <foo> on my Dad's side" is a PITA aft
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Modern ADHD meds are really not comparable to powerful opioids. They are both dopaminergic, but they are night and day in terms of addictiveness. Even weak opioids vs strong opioids is night and day. True, my point more was that false
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by com2kid 2y ago
>I think this has more to do with the general lack of curiosity about the world beyond the US borders that prevails in most of American society. Just learning about all the countries the British messed up would take at least another 5 or
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by com2kid 2y ago
We didn't study the Opium Wars in history at all throughout my education, I learned about those on my own thanks to the Internet. The entire Middle East, our influence in South America, etc, none of that was covered in school, and I we
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by com2kid 2y ago
> . (It's sole advantage was as a timed-release medication; if pain returned before time for the next dose, doctors were instructed (strongly) to raise the dosage rather than increase the number of doses per day.) The same thing hap
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I blame the patient. We've known opiates were bad since at least the 1800s, and really longer than that. As a reminder, Oxy was heavily marketed, (to doctors!) as a "not bad" opioid. As in, not as addictive, not as pro
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'd like to remind everyone that the computer doesn't care. The computer knows JMP (e.g. GOTO). Everything else is just abstraction's we're built up to make our lives easier. If we always jump to the top of the function,
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Anyway, give anyone a family tree diagram containing all of these relationships and they can follow the chain from that sentence to the destination. This is the essence of why we use recursion in computer science in the first place: it
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by com2kid 2y ago
Agree on all accounts, but I'd also like to add: Surprisingly good Italian food. Not the standard "high class" American stuff slathered in cheese either. Just really good wholesome delicious high quality dishes I as not expe
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by com2kid 2y ago
One of the original demos showing off PowerShell was well structured output from its version of ls. That was 17 years ago!
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by com2kid 2y ago
I remember reading a kids science section in the Sunday newspaper that explained the internet like our circulatory system, but instead of moving blood around it moved information around. (This was mid 90s) A decade+ later I randomly picked
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by com2kid 2y ago
> though if your state model is so fragile to won't survive me accidentally refreshing, you need to look at that. Highly interactive experiences are complex to manage full refreshes with, is it do-able? Sure. It is something I want
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by com2kid 2y ago
The personal projects I tend towards are interactive and have animations and fancy transitions and application state and they make API calls. Which makes Astro the wrong tool for the job, and SPA frameworks like Svelte the right tool for th
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by com2kid 2y ago
I do the same for personal projects. I love having deployment be "drop a folder of static files onto a server". Also scaling out SPAs is a non-issue. Servers have basically unlimited throughput for delivering static files, assumin
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by com2kid 2y ago
In many developing countries, students pay attention because they want to better themselves in life and they have been taught that working hard in school will get them out of poverty. Meanwhile the Western countries are wondering why they a
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by com2kid 2y ago
> If I, as an individual, had the choice between handing out instructions on how to make sarin gas on the street corner or not doing it, Be careful and don't look at Wikipedia, or a chemistry textbook! Just a reminder, the vast majo
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by com2kid 2y ago
I preferred doing large problem sets in math class because that is the only way I felt like I could gain an innate understanding of the math. For example after doing several hundred logarithms, I was eventually able to do logs to 2 decimal

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