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by dgritsko 6y ago
I've been working through a beginner Blender tutorial on YouTube; something I've wanted to do for a while but never made time for. Having a lot of fun with it so far!
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by dgritsko 6y ago
You could easily wind up with an infinite loop without hooks (for example, by calling `setState` in `componentDidUpdate`).
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by dgritsko 6y ago
Agree, "More Stuff to Learn" isn't really a critique of hooks, it's a critique of learning .
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by dgritsko 6y ago
> the biggest problem we face is maintaining an understanding of what is happening in our system This really resonated with me. Distributed systems are _hard_ and tests (while valuable) are no substitute for being able to reason about wh
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by dgritsko 6y ago
It doesn't just affect them. People who would otherwise not have been infected will likely contract the virus (and possibly due) due to increased community spread from those who do not respect public health guidelines.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
This is incredibly exciting. Watching SpaceX over the last few years has made me feel like a kid again (watching the livestream of the first Falcon Heavy launch, culminating with footage of Elon's Tesla in orbit, is a memory I won&#x27
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Another fun bit of trivia about "Smells Like Nirvana" - when shooting the music video, they used many of the same props, actors, camera angles, and even the same sound stage as the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit" vide
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by dgritsko 7y ago
For me it's 90's/Amish Paradise/Gangster's Paradise.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Did you read the article? The argument being made (whether it's accurate or not, I have no idea) is that more people being home means shifting demand towards consumer TP and away from commercial TP, and pointing out that the supply cha
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by dgritsko 7y ago
I don't think so, the criticism seems well-deserved. It just seems like a natural effect of being thrust into mainstream consciousness due to more people using it while working from home.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
No affiliation with Zoom, but wow - the unrelenting torrent of negative coverage on HN over the last few days has been remarkable. It seems there's at least two or three negative articles on the front page at all times.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
I don't disagree with you, but do you believe the figures for infections and deaths in the US? Or any country, for that matter? If so, why or why not?
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Gates gave a prescient TED talk in 2015 [1] in which he describes the risk of a global pandemic and the general lack of preparedness. The Gates foundation has also been working for years to help eradicate diseases like polio and malaria [2]
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by dgritsko 7y ago
This is cool, but are there any similar resources available for creating masks that are washable? Would love to have something that's reusable rather than requiring constant usage of paper towels and rubber bands.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
I think they are referring to the killing of Qasem Soleimani and the subsequent retaliation [1]. [1]: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States_military_kills_Qa...
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Is that entirely true, though? At least some folks are losing their jobs, and at least some businesses are not able remain solvent. The effects from these events can't simply be reverted once the emergency is "done" (if we ca
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by dgritsko 7y ago
The complacency shown in the US thus far will be extremely painful to look back on in a few weeks' time. I hope that I'm wrong, but I have little reason to think otherwise at the moment.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1168/
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Source on vaccine prototypes being in the lab? I recall seeing headlines a few weeks back that the genome had been sequenced, but hadn't heard anything regarding vaccine progress since then.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Model Y production ramp started in January, ahead of schedule. Deliveries expected to start before the end of Q1. Exciting stuff!
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Wow, this is great. Thank you!
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by dgritsko 7y ago
This site is awesome! Have you thought about extending it to check for the position of the ISS? I would assume that information is probably readily available, as well.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Wasn't there some guy who was crowdfunding a rocket so he could go up and see for himself? Whatever became of that?
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by dgritsko 7y ago
This is a blog post about a new feature in React, not a change to JavaScript.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
This is reminding me to reread "Leiningen Verus the Ants" [1] again. [1]: https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
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by dgritsko 7y ago
This was a really interesting read. In relation to the discussion of the predictive accuracy of a dataset with 13,000 features, I thought it might be worthwhile to bring up the idea of the "Curse of Dimensionality" for anyone unfa
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by dgritsko 7y ago
Anecdotally, I've got a PC that is VR-capable. I've tried VR as a curiosity, but it hasn't been compelling enough for me to buy my own headset. However, Half-Life 2 is my favorite videogame of all time, and this announcement
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by dgritsko 7y ago
> "Disney has estimated it will need to attract at least 60 million subscribers, putting it on a par with Netflix, in order for Disney+ to break even." How's that for a barrier to entry? I don't doubt that they will b
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by dgritsko 7y ago
> You need to be able to distinguish a working from a non-working service to implement reliable self-healing. I think this is the crux of what I was trying to get at. Curious to read how others have approached this problem.
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by dgritsko 7y ago
> Of course, at some point, [...] the local service gets restarted by the ops team (because it can't self-heal, naturally) Maybe off-topic, but what are some good strategies for the kind of "self-healing" being talked abou

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