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by davely 3y ago
This needs a [citation needed] sort of flag.
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by davely 3y ago
I often think of an interesting quote found inside Samuel Huntington’s book “Clash of Civilizations” (which is pretty meh, IMHO): “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiori
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by davely 3y ago
Yeah, looking at a map, it looks pretty vanilla and I'm not sure why it had such a notorious reputation at this point. If I recall, I think the original was a cloverleaf design, so in every direction you had people merging on and off i
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by davely 3y ago
> Spaghetti junction is an understatement, whoever worked on this, and had any role in it other than saying “this is awful” should be barred from working on infrastructure ever again and be made to sit in the corner and think about what
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by davely 3y ago
This is an anecdotal fallacy. Because you would be fine does not mean others would be given the same circumstances.
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by davely 3y ago
This is where services like Rdio (sigh), Spotify and Apple Music have done really well, in my opinion. If I want to listen to some music, it’s practically guaranteed to be right there in the one music service I’m paying for. If I want to wa
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by davely 3y ago
In general, I've always felt the same way. It's "unlimited PTO" (wink, wink), but try taking a 3 week vacation and see how much flak you potentially get from HR or upper management. That said, I've found it insanely
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by davely 3y ago
I mean, the true cost is that EVs will eventually get to net zero during their lifetime. ICE never will.
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by davely 3y ago
I think this is right on. I usually give it a definitive question and provide some relevant context around it. It’s been immensely helpful! ‘’’ I am receiving the following TyperScript error for the piece of code I’ve included below: [Error
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by davely 3y ago
> Elon said in 2020… To be fair, Elon has said _a lot_ of things about his various projects and not all of them are based in reality.
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by davely 3y ago
Yes, twice in fact. Went from being a geologist for environmental consulting firms -> community management for various tech websites -> software engineer. Each has worked out better than the last and brought me more enjoyment (and dol
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by davely 3y ago
Hah, I’m a web developer myself and that is exactly why I enjoy it so much! Immediate feedback based on what you’re coding. It’s kind of a fun little loop.
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by davely 3y ago
I’ve only seen it from the sidelines, but our 7 y.o. was introduced to it through an activity with Girl Scouts last year. We went through a number of lessons via a website (which escapes me right more) and she was really into it. So much so
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by davely 3y ago
I'm definitely not a financial expert, I just play one on the Internet. (I can also be a doctor, political strategist, and a scientist with expertise in all sorts of fields if you wish!) But in all seriousness -- at least in terms of t
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by davely 3y ago
Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but how inept do you have to be as a financial institution to lose money on _credit cards_?
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by davely 3y ago
In general, I think this is a good idea. For me, I recently took a 6 week long sabbatical (our company offers that after you've been there a number of years). I was hoping to feel recharged and energized after, but for me, it didn&#x27
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by davely 3y ago
Hah. Oh, man. I've been struggling with work a lot lately and I think kid issues are a huge part of it. We've been having some serious behavior problems with our 7 y/o and it's taken A LOT of mental energy (and lots of
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View of North Sentinel Island while on a flight to Port Blair, South Andaman(old.reddit.com)
2 points by davely 3y ago|0 comments
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by davely 3y ago
You may have your reasons for lack of sympathy, but I feel like this type of response is unnecessarily callous and is not befitting of the Hacker News community. It’s a personal attack and tears someone down for no purpose that contributes
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Exploring the boundaries of DALL-E 3 censorship: elephants and laughing donkeys(mastodon.world)
2 points by davely 3y ago|0 comments
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by davely 3y ago
Exactly the same for me. I’ve had it for as long as I remember and chalk it up to going to too many punk rock shows as an angsty teen (and never wore ear plugs because I was “too cool”). It’s always there for me but I usually forget about i
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by davely 3y ago
Yes, I agree. I misread the word. My apologies!
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by davely 3y ago
I am a ding dong. I read that as "fictional mythology" and my mind immediately went down a different rabbit hole. Yes, I see now why that would be unethical.
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by davely 3y ago
Ah! Misunderstanding on my part. I see. Thank you!
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by davely 3y ago
EDIT: Oh, wow. Lack of coffee this morning. I read that as "fictional mythology", NOT "fictional methodology." Ignore me. :) ----- I want to pull apart one specific thing you mentioned, essentially: > It seems totally
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by davely 3y ago
Ah, this explains why squinting my eyes has the same effect, for example, when I’m trying to read a menu that’s being a counter at a coffee shop.
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by davely 3y ago
> This is also precious coming from an industry that uses automated emails for rejection. Yeah you don’t want to write 80 personalized rejection emails (probably way more) aaaand we don’t want to write 80 (or more) cover letters. I feel
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by davely 3y ago
Thanks for these! I thought “Hacker Recommended Books” sounded immensely useful, so I decided to save the bookmark to my pinboard account. “Previously saved 2 years ago.” Oops. (Not a critique of the site! More of myself and forgetting serv
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by davely 3y ago
I totally understand that! In fact, this comment made me remember that I’ve had a color filter accessibility setting in iOS that lets me turn the screen to grayscale. Kind of a trip to use a modern smartphone like this, but also kind of… re
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What Are Passkeys?(tomsguide.com)
2 points by davely 3y ago|1 comments

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