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by david422 5y ago
Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival by Philip Finch is a book that does a good job detailing the perils of diving.
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by david422 5y ago
I don't really, but I guess I could say that I have developed in statically typed languages and dynamically typed languages (professionally) for over a decade and I've always found that using the "power" of dynamic langu
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by david422 5y ago
Somebody downvoted you, I'm guessing because they think this is a silly example and have never actually seen something like this. I have, in a production code base.
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by david422 5y ago
I kindof think of them as a giant set of unit tests. The compiler/linter etc. can check every variable and every function call to check to make sure you didn't mix up your types, which _will_ blow up at runtime if you got them wro
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by david422 5y ago
I love static typing/type hints if for only 1 thing - code maintenance. Even code I wrote six months ago. Not having to dig through 6 functions deep to try to figure out whether "person" is a string, or an object, and if it&#
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by david422 5y ago
This guy already discovered this: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
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by david422 5y ago
This is my mom. Trying to walk her through steps on the phone like logins and lost passwords is a nightmare. I imagine it would be like a car mechanic trying to walk me through changing the oil over the phone. Since it's not in my inte
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by david422 5y ago
Same with planes. How on earth do two tiny planes manage to enter the exact same point in space and time in that gigantic sky?! It happens.
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by david422 5y ago
I have some USB C chargers that only charge in 1 orientation. I don't know if it's my phone, or the cable, or what, but for me this isn't true.
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by david422 5y ago
"We guarantee our performance will be subpar"
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by david422 5y ago
Is it just me or does this look great for a 2nd grade class.
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by david422 5y ago
Even then, just add a wrapper and off you go.
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by david422 5y ago
I have the taskbar on the left on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Removing this customization makes me wonder who the hell makes these decisions. Do Windows developers not dogfood their own OS? Apparently the person making these decisions only use
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by david422 5y ago
I can just see that backfiring as well. "I paid for more meat and all I get is this tiny thing."
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by david422 5y ago
Ever lost electricity? Or been to a cabin without electric lights? At about 6pm it's like - well, guess I'll turn in for the night.
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by david422 5y ago
Does the general public even know what NFT's are? Much less someone with £244k to drop on one? I feel like this is some bizarro world where this is all code for money laundering or something that I'm not privy to.
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by david422 5y ago
It can be mutually beneficial too though. You get something, the company gets something.
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by david422 5y ago
Not just naive users either. I am very computer literate and yet I find myself in situations where I've skipped that text and only find it when I go back. It makes me think when I'm designing things. If I have problems with stuff
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by david422 5y ago
It's brand recognition, not "I'm going to buy this product right now". And the next time you need a product, you have a positive attachment to certain brands.
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by david422 5y ago
That's got to be some person with a snorkeling hobby and they are just thinking "there's got to be a better way than this".
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by david422 5y ago
I noticed similarly, with a game that only takes about 10 minutes - "snacking" is a great way to put it. If I remove the game, I notice that I do have a ton of extra free time, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to really moti
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by david422 5y ago
If it's being cut down for beef it _might_ be cut for something else. You can only control what you can control. Maybe ecotourism would be more lucrative if beef were off the market.
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by david422 5y ago
> What do I even do with this information? Something I haven’t seen articles or research about is how to psychologically cope with the slow collapse of our ecology. Personally, I do what I can and then just accept that I can't contr
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by david422 5y ago
I was using the self checkout the other day and scanned some item and put it in my bag. A store employee came over and told me it didn't scan. Hmmm? I looked at the screen and yes, the item was listed on there. She checked some handhel
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by david422 5y ago
One of the nice things about buying used. Not only do you get the discount, but you also don't need to worry about that perfection.
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by david422 5y ago
That's what I do with Hacker News. Hello :/
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by david422 5y ago
> Following this argument, nobody is culpable for any crime they may commit, because their behavior is fully determined by their biology and environment. Try that in a court. It's pretty simple. If you have no choice but to commit m
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by david422 5y ago
I noticed it a while ago with this particular verb too. And ever since, it made me simply have an aversion to articles with these titles, and the news sources that use them. I wonder if there is a point of diminishing returns - engagement g
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by david422 5y ago
I've been wondering. We are citizens, police are citizens, "we" are all responsible, but it turns into an us vs them attitude. I wonder what society would be like if every person had a mandatory stint as a part of a police fo
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by david422 5y ago
Nice, that's really cool. Certainly puts things into perspective.

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