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by dkarl 2y ago
I feel extremely conflicted reading something like this. On one hand, everything you said is technically true. On the other hand, when I think of who benefits politically from debunking the myth of wildness, it's the people who want to
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by dkarl 2y ago
I agree with everything you said, but I suffered a huge rush of blood to the head when you used the word "recreation." When I look at a government-managed area and see the word "recreation," I immediately think of 4-whee
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by dkarl 2y ago
I think that's marvelous in its own way. One of the defining experiences for me as a software engineer was hearing my boss tell a story about another engineer — there was a problem that had been hanging over the team for over a year, e
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I don't even know if I'm neurodivergent, but apps that optimistically indicate success instead of using spinners give me a ton of anxiety. I see that in my wife and other family members, too. Even looking at something that explici
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by dkarl 2y ago
I think the suggested improvement clarifies what he means: if you're worried that the UI element the user is interacting with doesn't fully convey what's happening, then improve that element rather than adding a second elemen
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A key detail that sometimes gets lost in the complexity of the story is that Clark Olofsson, one of the two criminals that the hostages supposedly formed an irrational bond with, was in jail at the start of the siege and was sent into the s
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by dkarl 2y ago
For my data point, the Republicans I know who are concerned about election meddling would consider virtually any foreign country, or the entire international community at large, to be potential conspirators against us. Russia gets a pass as
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I'd love to have election observers here, but it would be political suicide for any politician to suggest it. Most Americans detest the idea that any influence from outside could improve anything here.
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> Add that to the fact that we’ve also been overpromised new shiny things that turn out to he disappointments I was a young developer when Enterprise Java was the future, and the way you knew it was the future was that it used XML for _e
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I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy
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> Prolog uses depth-first search and backtracking, which can lead to infinite loops if the rules are not carefully ordered Is this an issue in practice? Most languages can create programs with infinite loops, but it's easy to spot i
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I think saying "software" is much too broad, and you have to narrow the comparison to a small subset of software development for it to make sense. With software, typically you're dealing with vague and changing requirements,
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No. My boss kept me busy with other things. After the work my colleague had done, he was convinced that we weren't going to solve it, and the idea that I was going to get to work on it turned out to be kind of a white lie so the origin
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by dkarl 2y ago
I once inherited a very thorny performance problem with a service. Thorny as in, the previous engineer was ordered to give up and move on because our boss was worried it was adversely affecting their mental health and their performance on o
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I think you're assuming they're a lot smarter than us, not "just like us."
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> It seems less like a language thing than it's being made out to be, and more of a cultural thing? Yes. I think when you're speaking English in the United States, the cultural lens comes from specific context that depends on t
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by dkarl 2y ago
This is why people love to hate Elon Musk. Having a despicable character at the head of Tesla is the only thing that makes it possible for people to care about anything that Tesla or his other companies does. Boeing would be huge news, and
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I agree, but I think we need to distinguish between the people and the corporation, and stop thinking that the way we treat people (such as the Boeing executives) will solve the system problem. We absolutely need to stop treating corporatio
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Metaphors get abused in this article in a confusing way, and I don't think it explains why the quality curve goes downward at first -- the initial drop in quality is compared to an initial capital investment? what? -- but I agree with
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The article really needs to explain how a comparison of Python to Java is supposed to explain what languages people choose for new services in 2024. Why aren't other languages on the table? Even taking it at face value that the choice
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I was exposed to porn before I was even interested. I think I was seven. My friend's parents had the complete cable package that carried all the channels the local provider offered (which at the time I think was around thirty channels)
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by dkarl 2y ago
If you want a shorter version, "grug brain, monk brain" pretends to profound, like "Zen mind, beginner's mind," but it's just a lazy take. If "grug brain, monk brain" was poetry, it would say: We
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by dkarl 2y ago
The bell curve meme is a static taxonomy of people, and if the link you posted is correct, its origins were explicitly political. The version described by Bruce Lee, and anybody who has achieved a high level of skill, is about the process o
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by dkarl 2y ago
> Aren't traditional styles of single family homes also far too expensive to build now for non-luxury-premium prices too though? That's a good question. I'm not an expert, but I think what was cheap in the 20th century is
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> There's nothing stopping localities from forcing developers to make these buildings nice looking. I've been to villages where the mcdonalds is in a tutor style building because that's what code requires. That's homo
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My knee-jerk reaction is that traditional building styles are probably not cost-competitive, and modern construction mimicking traditional styles would be perceived as fake and inauthentic. But I stand corrected on the history; thank you.
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> Most of the kids that rent these "luxury apartments" (which is how they are always described) are from cities with much higher cost of living so they can charge a ton of money and mom and dad will still think it is reasonable
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> It’s also because their rise has been so sudden, an outcome of changing codes, improved economic fortunes, and pent-up demand in the wake of the Great Recession more than a decade ago. And it is true they sometimes tend toward being ar
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I definitely feel both ways about this. When I have a couple of close friends over, I like them to have a place to sit and chat that feels connected to the kitchen. I'm happy to chat and drink with them while I chop vegetables and atte
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I remember watching a nature TV show as a kid in which the presenter waxed lyrical about the way a group of dolphins took one dolphin's vocalization and repeated it and riffed on it, claiming that they were improvising musically togeth

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