dexwiz

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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Having worked on a codebase like that, you need to use some extra plugins to get git to work. And even then, it’s very slow. Like 15-30 seconds for a git status to run even with caching. Global renames with an IDE are impossible but tools l
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Are they? Seems like a lot of bunk science from them has been revealed recently. Who knows how much more is still yet to be uncovered. Not to mention some famous parents.
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   There are some great examples on youtube of people demonstrating this with skateboard wheels and compressed air.
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Title is a bit misleading. 25% of adults self diagnosed themselves with ADHD while diagnosis rates of adults are actually 4.4%. For myself and others, depression manifests itself as ADHD like symptoms. Something anxious takes up residence i
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Money is a technology.
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Rubber ducks and battleships both displace water in the same way.
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   This is the plot of most of Ghost in the Shell. That series looks more and more prescient as time goes on. Another big plot point is that most of the internet is just AIs talking to each other. 10 years ago that sounded ridiculous, now not
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Sailors are popular. Got any other specific brands that might not make it outside of Japan?
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   by dexwiz 2y ago

   Itoya is already on my list. I love fountain pens (or rather the inks) and want to get a few.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Gorgeous. I’ll definitely stop by when in Kyoto.
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    Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan?

    32 points by dexwiz 2y ago|33 comments
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Here’s the thing, Software Engineering is not Computer Science. Never once is my career have I had to write an esoteric interpreter or even a Hard level dynamic programming algorithm. What I have had to do is dive through twenty layers of m
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Can someone tell me why cutting sleep to get more work done helps overall productivity? I have been a solid 7.5 a night sleeper for decades (it’s a blessing, I know). I can’t imagine getting 4-6 a night. Sure that makes the day about 20 hou
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    But all of those stats will help a team win in theory. But you can bet against yourself, perform poorly, and then get a payout. That is the antithesis of good sportsmanship.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Agreed. High quality dress shoes and boots are very repairable. And men’s shoe fashion changes very slowly. A good pair can easily last a decade with good care. Modern sneakers are another story though.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    I think you’ll find quite a few people have access to vacation lodging, but they don’t talk about it for one reason or another.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Tilings cover an entire plane with no gaps or overlaps. Opposed to packings which may leave gaps.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    No, but now I do.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    This is my strategy in bug bashes, and it generates way more tickets than anyone who has a multidimensional Cartesian matrix of test case combinations. It’s good to know those tests cases to start, but random testing quickly outpaces planne
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    There are some effects that may show up only at very high energies. A large enough catapult and you would put something into orbit. Wouldn’t that be a novel outcome?
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Napoleon Crossing the Alps Is also much bigger than I expected.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Its hard but its not impossible. Functionally you need some very accurate equipment and some knowledge of the receiver. This is one of those areas where the military and government likely have approaches that are secret. https://
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    I’m pretty sure the majority of chemistry teachers I’ve had with real research or professional experience over the age of 50 were blind or deaf on at least one side. The remainder have a story about how they almost died.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Brains are inherently chemical, and chemistry is just very abstracted quantum mechanics. Technically physical processors also hold quantum state, but we build them in a way that the abstracted state of 0s and 1s is portable. Brains didn&#x2
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    This is an interesting question because it’s the difference between clocks and calendars. If you add 7 calendar days it’s 1pm. If you add 168 hours then it’s 2pm. Generally calendar systems will try to encode reasonable semantics for this o
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Another fun thing is that some countries that celebrate Ramadan may change back to normal time during Ramadan. So you can 2-4 DLS changes per year depending on when Ramadan falls. Luckily most time systems don’t really care, but it’s still
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    My favorite Date v Datetime bug is that Chile changes to DLS at midnight and not 1am. So it’s goes 11:59>1am. Many systems that conflate dates and date times take the existence of midnight as an invariant, which it is not.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Out sourcing can predate the layoff. You gotta train the new people before you let go of the old.
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    This is such a crazy take for me. Any profession that matures eventually specializes. I wouldn’t expect the same person to pour my foundation, install the plumbing, and wire the building. Yet in an ever expanding field we expect someone to
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    by dexwiz 2y ago

    Optional chaining is now in vanilla JS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...