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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Precisely. I think this has been on HN before, or if not then another “Wow you’re gonna be surprised by this — trees aren’t monophyletic!” article. Given all the surprising examples of convergent evolution, and given human tendencies to giv
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
You’re right that is what makes a tree. But don’t you feel that it’s obvious that different lineages of plants could acquire, and lose, woodenness independently of each other? And therefore 100% unsurprising that “tree” is not a monophyleti
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Seems like several others here felt the same way as me, and this isn't a long comment thread: > This might be the most boring thing ever written about writing. > The problem is (imo) that he's writing for himself and not an
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
If this article is giving writing advice I find that somewhat ironic, since it does nothing whatsoever in the early sentences to make me want to read it or indeed have the faintest idea what its subject or aims are.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Not quite what you're asking but I got to senior swe level at a midsize company and just said I wanted to work 3 day weeks for pro-rata pay and they said ok.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
What does "pip" resolve to in your suggested solution?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Why do you need a package manager if you have a statically linked executable? Can't you just save it in ~/bin and have that in PATH? (Users who can't do that shouldn't be using CLI would be the argument I guess.)
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, I find it quite fun as long as I can turn it on and off with a single keypress. Then you can have it mostly off, and consult it only when you want to.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
An editor extension that makes the editor behave like vim as far as editing operations are concerned (so modal, etc). E.g. Emacs has very accurate vim emulation in evil-mode.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, one possible explanation is that in a country where so many people take christian scripture seriously you can kind of see that they might not see the intellectual absurdity of treating the constitution as if it were some sort of sacred
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
What’s the difference between a “TV” and a “monitor”?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> GPT-3 lacks any form of memory. Is that true? How is it able to have the conversation shown in the article about python programming, if it can’t remember that the premise of the later questions it is being asked is that it said it has
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
How was damming the Bering straights going to help Pacific water get into the Arctic Sea? It sounds like it would have the opposite effect, which fits with the Dutch guy's proposal.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> but from my perspective Apple is just another company that’s more focused on advancing their own agenda than the well-being of their users or open web standards Right. Strange that. Who’d have thought that’s how a company would priorit
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It’s funny that the person who wrote the copy for the webpage thought that “does X in seconds” was a good way to describe the speed of a modern text editor.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Neither the PR, nor the linked issue, goes to any effort to explain what the work is and why it is needed. PRs should always have a carefully written intro, unless they are doing something totally trivial. For a new feature, the PR intro s
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Ask HN: Best tool to create a user guide for an open source project?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
So, basically, it seems that the most common speculation is the following: While one might have suspected that the Rust moderation team were people with "progressive/SJW" leanings themselves, in fact what happened is that som
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
That's interesting, I also came to the conclusion that lisp communities skewed unpleasant. I think it's because they tend to be people (men as it happens) who are older and were around at the time of the original IRC culture, whic
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
What does the Rust Moderation Team moderate? Discord channels? GitHub issues?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks, that's a nice response to get! Do you use python for doing these sorts of things quickly?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Not sure whether you just meant that as humorous cynicism, but I think it has more to do with pain experienced by teams working on monoliths and them thinking “there has to be a better way”.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
That's really impressive, congrats! But, I'm not a bad programmer and up to around day 15 they regularly took me multiple hours. And around day 15 I started to find them hard as in couldn't do them. Do you remember what it&#x
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It's doable if you (a) are good at algorithmic programming challenges, (b) don't have a job, and (c) don't need to buy any christmas presents.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Did this study account for the fact that people are more likely to identify as gay if they come from more privileged backgrounds? If not, isn't that extremely stupid of the study? Or was there some ideological reason for the apparent s
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I’m very confused about NFTs. If they are kind of an in-joke (that maybe some influencer types are taking a bit too seriously) why did they get mentioned by zuckerberg in his keynote address for meta? Say what you want about him, but I thin
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I’ve tried but failed to understand NFTs. One thing I don’t understand is —- couldn’t you change one pixel in an image and register your ownership of the slightly different image in the blockchain? Then how would it be adjudicated which is
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Me too. Morning work time is much too valuable for noisy inefficient stuff like emails and meetings.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Right I was about to suggest exactly the same thing. You could even agree with a friend (invite a friend) to have a thread checked, say, once every two months. So there'd be a bit of guilt if you didn't leave anything, but that po
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Surely this analysis is completely flawed unless they were able to introduce placebos unwittingly to the participants who thought they were microdosing? Otherwise you've got a bunch of people who are the sorts of people who are going t

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