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by dahart 4y ago
> illustrates only Shaw’s wiseacre ignorance. Joke’s on Rosenfelder, since it appears Shaw didn’t come up with ghoti. The evidence, and some other facetious and funny and intentionally horrible but equally justified misspellings: https:
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by dahart 4y ago
I feel like SGI’s Iris GL (OpenGL’s processor) was a really sweet spot for ease of touching 3d hardware. It didn’t have the features we have today, but it was really easy. Very similar to the easy graphics APIs in Processing or NodeBox (a
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by dahart 4y ago
Writing collision detection is really fun. There’s enough in this article to take it and then build a tiny rigid body physics simulation - you only need to add gravity and then work out the forces two rectangles impart on each other when th
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by dahart 4y ago
That’s a legit & hard question, and my startup experience is in consumer SaaS products, but my first thought is: are sales & marketing truly critical to your bootstrapping process, if you’re going B2B? I ask just because I’ve heard
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by dahart 4y ago
> I feel like they’re arguing against some very limited, specific version of paleo that is not the norm. What is the “norm” for paleo? Genuinely curious. I guess there’s a distribution that ranges from instagram/gym culture to produ
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by dahart 4y ago
That might be true, but humans have had granaries to store grains and whatever else they can gather, for more than ten thousand years. Whatever the effort was, we know people were gathering grains like corn. You can visit granaries all over
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by dahart 4y ago
Life expectancy is primarily a statistic that reflects child & early mortality, it’s the wrong metric to understand how long healthy people live. Life expectancy of all 20 year olds (people who didn’t die before that) has been more like
2528.
by dahart 4y ago
If mathematicians believed things can’t change or improve, and we have to stick with the status quo only because it’s common and popular, we’d never have had radians in the first place, we’d be stuck with degrees, no? Why assume that people
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by dahart 4y ago
> radian is not an arbitrary unit but a dimensionless one This is by convention, but has been and is still being debated because calling it dimensionless causes some problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian#Dim
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by dahart 4y ago
Maybe not what you meant, but Texas based Enron’s price gouging lead to rolling blackouts in California 20 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–01_California_electricity...
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by dahart 4y ago
All true, but Wikipedia is just a reference, not an authority, right? “Wah” and “Wah Wah” are both fine. I assume the “Wha-Wha” spelling you used is autocorrect or accident? Shopping online it looks to me like “Wah pedal” is more popular th
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by dahart 4y ago
I definitely had some fears about it, and there are things I miss about web, but it was easier than I expected. I was reasonably prepared though, and it wasn’t as big a jump as my comment above might have made it sound, since I was doing C+
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by dahart 4y ago
I did, multiple times for extended periods, and it was insane, yeah. Games and movies. I prefer to not do that anymore, so in that sense I’m doing less work as I age and choose to avoid insane overtime in favor of maxing out at mild overtim
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by dahart 4y ago
There’s a legit issue in there, but us old’ns might have to own up to some of the problems we’ve caused (or even just failed to solve) and the legacy we’re leaving. ;) I’m mostly joking, but I honestly don’t think this is a young vs old i
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by dahart 4y ago
> I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero. […] Related: working with people you can learn from is a wonderful source of motivation. […] My desire to discuss technical stuff with people, bo
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by dahart 4y ago
> It's important to consider ergonomics in sedentary jobs: every now and then, programmers should shift a bit. I’m curious if this was an intentional pun? I thought maybe in addition to moving now and then, it’s subtly suggesting to
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by dahart 4y ago
> I use mine for just about everything in the summer I’m shedding a tear about my/our future where this is really widespread out of necessity - just being outside might call for daily mask use. You guys are convincing me to go pick
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by dahart 4y ago
That Milwaukee one is exactly the mask I bought. :) I found the similar 3M version to be quite a bit more comfortable for me, but I don’t know why. I assumed you were talking about the reusable ones like https://www.homedepot.com
2539.
by dahart 4y ago
I was using a cheap disposable N95 ventilator from Home Depot. Yeah if it gets bad again I will take your advice and invest in a professional mask. Sweating into the mask was probably the worst part, I was having to remove it often to wipe
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by dahart 4y ago
Nice to meet someone on the same train, I sometimes get on my high horse too. My brother is an anthropologist, and he’s the one that corrected my high-school mis-impression, and educated me that longevity for humans who live to be at least
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by dahart 4y ago
> are only going to get worse I’m so thankful this year was mostly smoke free, but last year was a dystopian nightmare for like 3 or 4 months, it ended all outdoor activity for most of the summer and fall. Out of desperation, I resorted
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by dahart 4y ago
Some places in the world still use indoor fires for cooking and heating, like Mongolia, Africa and India, and they have a lung health crisis there, with astronomical rates of athsma, pneumonia, and lung cancer. We do have some resilience
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by dahart 4y ago
Fair point, I could have used a better word, I was indeed only talking only about death rates.
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by dahart 4y ago
I actually agree almost entirely with this, and I further appreciate your positive glass-half-full take on the debate and the motivations behind it, that it’s political. Generally speaking I’m also not a fan of the government censoring poli
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by dahart 4y ago
> The GBD was specifically couched in terms of total harm reduction So were the lockdown, mask mandate, and social distancing policies. We had far less severe lockdown than China in explicit recognition of the potential harm of more seve
2546.
by dahart 4y ago
Of course the argument changes if herd immunity can’t be achieved, it directly and explicitly changes the speculative calculation of how much harm is caused by allowing Covid to spread quickly and how much relative harm is caused by lockdow
2547.
by dahart 4y ago
> It doesn’t really Yes it does, that is the explicitly stated assumption of the GBD. “As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually re
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by dahart 4y ago
> Fighting words is not an exemption to free speech Wrong again. Yes they are, generally speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
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by dahart 4y ago
... as long as that speech isn’t (including, but not limited to) fighting words, sedition, incitement, obscenity, pornography, false statements of fact, counterfeit currency, commercial speech, speech owned by others, threats, slander, libe
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by dahart 4y ago
Florida’s death rate is quite a bit worse than California’s… https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi... Sweden also famously avoided lockdowns and later regretted it. China had severe lockdown

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