dkarl

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by dkarl 3y ago
I assume they mean problems with dependency injection. If that's what they mean, I agree. I've seen dependency injection frameworks used in a bunch of different companies, and there are always people who consider it an essential l
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by dkarl 3y ago
> One thing that I sometimes hear is -- a newcomer will say "this is hard", and someone more experienced will say "Oh, yeah, it's impossible to use bash. Nobody knows how to use it." > But I would say this is
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by dkarl 3y ago
I originally started using and recommending AirBNB for visiting cities where hotel prices were ridiculous. Friends and family coming to visit me in my city (Austin) frequently found it was cheaper to rent a whole house in a desirable neighb
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by dkarl 3y ago
> The specific incident in question was a grand larceny case where two men tried (and failed) to steal a robot owned and operated by Serve Robotics I think there should be legal limitations in place to strictly limit police use of camera
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by dkarl 3y ago
Insurance doesn't cover it, so some doctors don't bother with it. I was caught by surprise when I tried out my wife's ophthalmologist. Dilation only, no option for a digital scan, my choices were get dilated or get out. I&#x2
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by dkarl 3y ago
I think it's been around a long time. Maybe you notice it in sports commentary not because it's coming into style, but because it has gone out of style? Another factor might be that it fits in with how the present tense used to na
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by dkarl 3y ago
> (What is it about tech and the word effective?) I'm with you on the silliness of putting "effective" into all sorts of places where it should already be implicit. But I do like the awareness among engineers and other pra
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by dkarl 3y ago
I never gravitated towards the Lord of the Rings books but resolved to read them in college because they were a reference point for so many of my friends. They really rubbed me the wrong way, and I had to force myself through them. A decade
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by dkarl 3y ago
The new look on mobile is radically better for me. Street names are visible and legible! Whatever the regression in usability is, I've been too busy enjoying being able to read street names when I'm trying to navigate or quickly o
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by dkarl 3y ago
Surely you can do something to give yourself an illusion of control on the metro just like you do on the freeway.
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by dkarl 3y ago
How many places have public transit systems used by older people, and how many have accomplished this by policing the antisocial behavior away? It seems like it is at least as easy to get older people to use public transit where they might
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by dkarl 3y ago
> People don't go around memorizing statistics of how likely someone who is exhibiting one kind of antisocial behavior (being obviously high, defecating in public, etc.) would be to engage in another kind of antisocial behavior (com
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by dkarl 3y ago
> two stabbings, one slit throat, and a page full of fights, in my area, over the last two years That's basically nothing next to car accidents. Car accident injuries can be pretty gruesome. Maybe the fundamental change that is need
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by dkarl 3y ago
I like that Helix's approach is different, and I think the lack of plugins is essential for it to remain on its chosen path. If Helix got plugins, then soon enough everybody would be scratching all their itches using plugins, there wou
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by dkarl 3y ago
Professors will do weird things if they get a chance. I know of a junior college where the intro to programming course used Fortran77 in the late 2000s. A lot of kids signed up for it because they needed a STEM elective and didn't want
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by dkarl 3y ago
I haven't used Kakoune, but I've used emacs, Neovim, and Helix. I love the simplicity of Helix and how easy it is to get it up and running with language servers. Emacs and Neovim have amazing ecosystems, but I'm not willing t
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by dkarl 3y ago
> Despite post-1990 GM cars being near peers to Japanese cars for reliability overall American carmakers really needed that kick in the ass from Japan. Around 1990 was when my parents went from being protectionist, "buy American&quo
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by dkarl 3y ago
I think it's more like a common experience. My wife and I both work, so we have cleaners come in every two weeks for a deep clean. We've used several different companies, and apparently it's standard practice to unplug things
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by dkarl 3y ago
Doomy? The tone seems balanced and pragmatic to me. Nothing in the article implies an existential threat or takes a doomer perspective. The subject is depressing, but if that bothers you, you should probably skip environmental news altogeth
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by dkarl 3y ago
The intentions don't just affect the way the data is presented, but can affect the underlying data itself. For example, the "German Claims in Africa" shows vast areas as "German claims" on what must be very shaky ju
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by dkarl 3y ago
Ranchers insist on extinction-level suppression of large predators, probably for sound economic reasons. Wolves can't live on land that is heavily fragmented by pasture, because they'll be harassed and killed.
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by dkarl 3y ago
Not to mention the benefits for us: all the space dedicated to pasture could be dedicated to wildlife or outdoor recreation, and all the high-density facilities fouling air and waterways could be closed. If it works for fish, we could stop
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by dkarl 3y ago
To get better at writing code, stick to this rule: Never submit a first draft. Always make your code better before you submit it. If you can see the difference between ugly, complex code and aesthetic, simple code, and you're willing t
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by dkarl 3y ago
When you're paying for things, and can pay for several things at the same time, it makes sense. I helped my mother pay her property taxes this year, and for two properties we had to make four payments. Without the shopping cart (or a f
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by dkarl 3y ago
I think the author took the wrong conclusions away from his experience. All the questions, all the personalization, all the stuff that apps tried to add to make things better actually made things worse. All they could measure was simila
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by dkarl 3y ago
> why code that had been dead for 8-years was still present in the code base is a mystery, but that’s not the point It's not the worst mistake in the story, but it's not "not the point." A proactive approach to prunin
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by dkarl 3y ago
Judging by the picture (since that's all I can see) the mediterranean diet consists of bread, filled pastries, fritters, and dairy-based sauces.
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by dkarl 3y ago
John Rawls suggests imagining that you don't know which person in society you will be. You might be a victim, a defendant, a juror, a family member of a victim or defendant, somebody poor or rich, somebody who lives in a rural or urban
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by dkarl 3y ago
A lot of people who picked up Python, especially in the 1990s, picked it up as a side language. They were doing "serious" programming in C or C++, and they needed another powerful, potentially cryptic language like they needed a h
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by dkarl 3y ago
I love this comment and love to see IDE features returning to editors via language servers and better build tools. Eclipse RCP was a pretty cool toolkit for building enterprise desktop apps that could be deployed to both Windows and Linux d

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