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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
> We think “left-wing” and “right-wing” aren’t very useful ways of seeing the world, and that they make a lot of people falsely believe that they disagree with each other. We’re not driven by ideology, we just aim to do what works. I don
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
It's hard to gain too much insight from Wikipedia, but it looks like it fills a niche that was empty. The Pirate Party of Canada used to be quite active on r/CanadaPolitics. Once they fleshed out their platform they ended up overl
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Tipping is governed by two separate races to the bottom: * Buying social prestige amongst your group by showing generosity. * Buying better service by showing generosity. Both these result in motivation in favor of tipping more and against
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I thought so too, but looking at the definition on wiktionary: 1. Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morn
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I remember seeing this commercial as a kid. :) By the time I started driving, the law required pay-before at all gas stations. So I don't really get what the problem is. How does having the card make things different for Jerry? If he d
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Hi op, Based on some other comments I think the elitist remark is uncalled for in this situation. Looking again, you were neutral on it. I just assumed it was meant negatively.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
> This article explains how students do not follow the same organization paradigm based on folders and local file management. This could be, in part, attributed to the new ways young students learn, which is on online first operating sys
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
It's the smart microwave!
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Remote IDEs aren't necessarily about subscription based SaaS. For me any editor that can't be run by ssh into a workstation within the build-farm is a non-starter.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Since everyone is mentioning Technology Connections (he deserves it, great channel), I want to bring up this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0 To me, this really shows the sad direction smart appliances hav
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
NativLang did a video on the Altaic theory. I think 'defunct' is more appropriate than 'not widely accepted'. The accepted explanation for the shared features is a language area. Languages can take features from other ne
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I've had an idea for a while to make a dashboard style notebook. Basically something that can query a few internal systems (bug tracker, code reviews, etc) and produce of dashboard that basically shows what need my attention. The Githu
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
> Safer roads means more people will bike, which means biking will stop being seen as an elitist thing. I don't think it is just safety. Most people understand an e-bike is going to be more dangerous, but they are popular anyways. T
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I originally searched for "exploration vs exploitation" but that lead to the "multi-armed bandit problem" on wikipedia, so I went with that on my post above. I do that "exploration vs exploitation" is a better
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I first encountered it via this book: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-to-Live-By-audiobook/dp/B0... The wikipedia article also briefly mentions that it is observed in animals.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Could it be that your over 30? There is a problem known as the multi-armed bandit problem[0]. The problem deals with situations where you have to chose between different options you could take, but you don't start off with full knowled
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I think Perl 6 killed Perl 5. Perl spent almost 20 years with a new version looming over its head. It was known from the start that Perl 6 would be incompatible. This meant it always seemed to be a bad time to get into Perl. You were commit
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I have two LG 4K monitors with a 2016 model (which I really want to upgrade). It's mostly fine. Waking from sleep it does go thru an annoying sequence where it wakes up one monitor at a time. When I gave feedback to Apple, they suggest
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Sticking to tech, I differ from the HN consensus on: * Small UI changes (eg moving a button) don’t make me have to relearn the UI from scratch. * If an app developer has a way were I can get my work done faster, I want to know about it. Get
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Me, within reason. A major version change (eg UI rewrite or API breakage is an exception). I don’t get the constant breakage the rest of HN seems to get, so there is no reason to pay the cost of manual updates.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I agree. As someone whose day job doesn’t involve writing UI code, web UI still ends up being the easier of the two to implement.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I miss my Pearl, but not the other BlackBerry devices I had. I like how you could type on it without looking. It's been a decade and I still have typo issues with touchscreen phones. A post this long would likely have 4 noticeable typo
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Yeah. It is general internet culture at this point.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
Ah. That's why it didn't seem to do anything. What this does should really be in the title.
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
> > There's something amazing/odd/horrifying about a world where it is generally no longer cheaper to do anything yourself. > How? It’s pretty much the point and purpose of civilisation, to say nothing of industriali
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
> How does that provide value to the "community"? Well, you are part of the community. If you get value from playing piano or chess then you've provided value to the community. I think there are two reasons to have chosen
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
> But we don't have the same cultural concern against underthinking. I have never heard someone telling their employee or friend "you're underthinking this". Surely overthinking is bad, but when underthinking can be s
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
This is what I do as well. For me, a lot is 7. I do re-open closed tabs from the recently closed tabs list from every once in a while. Maybe 5 or so times a week. Going into history is pretty rare, but sometimes happens. I probably do not n
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by cuddlybacon 5y ago
I use fish. My biggest pro-tip is don't chsh to set your shell to fish. Instead configure your terminal program to launch fish. * do you have any trouble running shell scripts? Nope. fish will run bash for most shebangs. * What about b

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