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by disease 5y ago
It's counterintuitive, but I think feeling bored sometimes is a good thing. I think being overstimulated all of the time can have negative effects on our health that we do not yet understand.
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by disease 5y ago
For me at least, TDD has driven me to look for more functional solutions to problems. It's hard to come up with a more testable piece of code than a pure function that spits out the same output every time for a given input. Unfortunate
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by disease 5y ago
I had severe bouts of anxiety and insomnia about a decade ago and by far the biggest improvement I saw was when I started taking magnesium supplements.
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by disease 5y ago
I think the affect allergies can have on sleep are underestimated. When I was having problems falling asleep and/or staying asleep I paid attention to what I ate that day and at what time. It turns out a lot of sleep difficulty I had o
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by disease 5y ago
Attempting to use the 'Read Aloud' feature of my browser on the example page lead to no text being read aloud.
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by disease 5y ago
Here's an article that talks about the switch to canvas for VS Code. The "5 to 45" times faster part really sticks out to me. Kind of surprised it took Google this long to do this with Docs. https://code.visualstud
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by disease 5y ago
I think this is the real reason for the change as well. A few years ago Visual Studio Code underwent a similar change where rendering the terminal moved from using DOM to canvas. I never noticed a huge difference between the two methods but
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by disease 6y ago
This is also true to some extent for Native Americans and slavery.
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by disease 6y ago
How is calling someone privileged considered a "jab"?
40.
by disease 6y ago
What proof do you have of these accusations?
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by disease 6y ago
Reminds me of how a casino can kick anyone out just because they are winning too much. I think everyone knows that the stock market is rigged but moves like this just completely drop any kind of pretense.
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by disease 6y ago
This seems like a side effect of having a sizable amount of the population rejecting the notion of a cooperative society.
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by disease 6y ago
Not trying to be incendiary, but is there a real need for tables and graphs and all of those colors in a console application? Usually if you want structured information from some process then you just build a web application that does its w
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by disease 6y ago
Google tried using real names on youtube briefly and it had no affect in reducing white supremacy or conspiracy theories in its comments.
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by disease 6y ago
The real story, to me at least, is the rampant, completely unfounded and roundly debunked claims of election fraud making there way here in this thread in Hacker News. The ability of people to completely fabricate their own reality in order
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by disease 6y ago
After reading about companies like Robinhood and Uber I basically take "disruption" to mean "breaking the law in order to attempt to gain a competitive advantage and hoping to get away with it".
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by disease 6y ago
I always wondered what's stopping a rival to Facebook that offers users a share of the money they are generating. Besides the scale barrier to entry of course. Generally speaking, people like money and will switch products and services
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by disease 6y ago
I agree but it is important to understand the psychological need to have your biases confirmed and your prejudices reinforced often overrides all logic and reasoning.
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by disease 6y ago
Does this mean recording music on a Tascam cassette recorder is better for me than doing the same on Ableton? Not trying to be snotty here, just wondering if it makes sense to categorize different kinds of screen time.
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by disease 6y ago
A lot of conspiracy theories are just slightly repackaged white supremacy and anti-Semitism. It's not hard for me to personally to cut ties with bigoted and hateful individuals.
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by disease 6y ago
It learns something for 40-60 years before forgetting it again.
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by disease 6y ago
I'll admit to not having read the full article, but would a belief like this make the assumption that God's will could even overrule logic itself. Could God will 2 + 2 = 5? How would you rationalize this? Or perhaps the point is t
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by disease 6y ago
What I'd like to see happen when the pandemic ends is this: if I return to a company's office, I should be able to return to an equivalent of my home office. My home office is a small room in my home, but it has a large window pro
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by disease 6y ago
How is stating your observations, as the OP did, "virtue signaling"? The act of denying that racism exists is a popular tactic of white supremacists.
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by disease 6y ago
Is there any chance future Fallout/Elder Scrolls game become XBox exclusives that do not get ported to PC?
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by disease 6y ago
Event "product market fit" feels like a sugar-coated way to say that no one is interested in purchasing your product. I don't have a startup, but if I did I would view every single step in the process of creating one, both te
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by disease 6y ago
This is the second story on the front page about the weakness of modern spreadsheet software. It could be cool if someone stepped forward and showed us how to do spreadsheets using everything we now know, like what git did with source contr
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by disease 6y ago
What are the psychological principles that drive people to believe in absolutely insane things that can easily be disproven? Why does this even happen? What do these people get from having these beliefs? Why do they do vehemently defend the
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by disease 6y ago
Then the fed can just start buying equities outright. If equities continue to fall even after that, they can keep on buying them until they own enough that they can set the price themselves.
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by disease 6y ago
Because this would negatively affect their revenue?

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