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by dkarl 4y ago
I sometimes think about what Python would be like if it were written today, with the hindsight of the last thirty years. Immutability would be the default, but mutability would be allowed, marked in some concise way so that it was easy to c
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by dkarl 4y ago
My father taught at a local state university, nowhere near state flagship level but still a "university" in name, and he occasionally had kids in class who were close to functionally illiterate. His reading for the semester was ve
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by dkarl 4y ago
This part is hilarious to me: > "How would they know how to scan something if they’ve never been taught how to do it?" I'm not surprised that came from a professor of education. Leave it to a teacher to protect you from bu
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by dkarl 4y ago
> things tend to go wrong in cases that you haven't thought about so your tests don't cover them anyway I think this is a symptom of writing all the tests at the same time or immediately after the implementation. Adding test ca
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by dkarl 4y ago
The U-shaped distribution of outcomes has been discussed for many, many years, and I've never seen it mentioned without the caveat that most doctors and scientists suspect that it's a misleading statistic attributable to serious i
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by dkarl 4y ago
I actually loved my AeroPress. I loved the coffee, and I loved that it was a $35 piece of plastic I kept in a drawer instead of a $1000 status symbol like an espresso machine, or a fetishized piece of kitchen sculpture like pour-over equipm
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by dkarl 4y ago
If people start taking advice from chatbots, Seneca will not be the most popular one. If a Seneca bot gets even close to popular, it will be surpassed by a Seneca bot tweaked to be a little bit more cool and relatable that also hypes energy
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by dkarl 4y ago
Those were the next best thing to darkness: a color tone that we mentally associated with nighttime. I don't know whether or not they neurologically messed with our circadian rhythm, but at least psychologically it was a cue that it wa
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by dkarl 4y ago
Within the last five years, my street got much brighter, from one relatively dim streetlight in the middle of the block to multiple much brighter poles. I don't think we had a safety issue before, but many people prefer it this way, sa
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by dkarl 4y ago
There are a lot of people on Stack Overflow who struggle to tell if an existing answer is an answer to their question or not. They might copy something verbatim from an answer and have it not work because their shell is configured different
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Personally, I find it best to not be too concerned about the terminology I second this. My experience is that some people know this terminology if they're actively learning or teaching the techniques, but most of the people I&#x27
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think early to mid is too soon to be focused on others' work. Early to mid, you should be focused on the quality of your own work, because you're still developing your taste and judgment, and you need the direct and vivid feedba
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by dkarl 4y ago
Most of the time, social clubs and interest groups serve as an excuse to hang out. When I hang out with my friends, we play board games, work out, try out new breweries. There's always a reason, but the reason we find a reason is becau
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by dkarl 4y ago
Tests and version control... why do you bother with all that ceremony? It seems like a lot of work that could go towards making the code better. To play devil's advocate, though, I do think that something is lost if everyone stops them
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by dkarl 4y ago
A need for driving can arise much more quickly than you can learn and get licensed. So many teenagers assume they're going to live in places with dense public transportation networks, but it will take decades to build enough housing an
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by dkarl 4y ago
I'll have to give Joplin another try. Last time I tried it (probably more than a year ago) the sync interval was fixed, and the fastest option was five minutes, which didn't work for the use case of making a note on my laptop, tos
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by dkarl 4y ago
If the Evernote sale has the dire consequences everyone expects it to, then the note-taking space is wide open. After ten years with Evernote, I migrated to Notion a few months ago and am heading towards another migration unless Notion star
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think it's a good brand for a note-taking app. Many note-taking apps pitch themselves as the next evolution in your thinking, a tool that will unlock a new level of intellectual productivity. Their meme brand would be galaxy brain. F
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by dkarl 4y ago
My wife and I have friends who can't get their children to learn to drive despite cars being available to them with gas and maintenance paid by their parents.
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by dkarl 4y ago
If you want owners to understand that it's a serious safety issue, the word "recall" won't help. Most recalls are for minor, non-safety-related issues. My car has had a few recalls, and none were urgent, just things that
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by dkarl 4y ago
Working most of the year as teachers means they can't make much at that summer job, though. I had a high school biology teacher who worked as lab tech in the summers, which she described as low-level work that she did just because she
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by dkarl 4y ago
> these apps are contributing to its bottom line Are they, though? If you don't have the $99 for a dev account, you don't have a marketing budget either, so your app won't make money, so Apple doesn't care. I think th
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by dkarl 4y ago
> I was told by my art teacher in high school that they intentionally didn't go for total realism as that was imitating God's work I heard this story as well and always suspected that it was an urban legend. I heard the same st
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by dkarl 4y ago
This should be the default, with the fewest keystrokes and the least visual clutter. Mutable state should be the special case that you need extra syntax for.
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by dkarl 4y ago
This makes it easier for errors to go unnoticed in large codebases. If the function expects to take a list, and someone passes a tuple, it's likely that they passed the wrong value by accident. For beginners, and in toy examples, it&#x
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by dkarl 4y ago
Ads impose a cost on everybody who sees them. People see thousands of ads per day, which to my mind is the psychological equivalent of breathing car exhaust and drinking lead-poisoned water. Crypto doesn't have nearly the reach, though
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by dkarl 4y ago
You make a good point. Living in walkable neighborhoods means evacuating most of the country and concentrating ourselves in fewer, denser cities. It'll be a great thing to the extent we can accomplish it, but people have a strong attac
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by dkarl 4y ago
It's interesting; with many sites I'd agree with you, but on Reddit, I don't look at usernames much. I recognize a few usernames in most of the subreddits I visit, just from repeated exposure, but I don't value my own ac
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by dkarl 4y ago
Cloning an intranet site is also a nice wrinkle that probably trips up a lot of less-tech-savvy employees who are trained to recognize phishing attempts that use replicas of Amazon, Google, Facebook, and other big well-known public web si
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by dkarl 4y ago
Kareem himself says in this article: > if someone had broken my record within ten years of me setting it.... I might have hobbled out of retirement just to add a few more points on my record Different approaches serve you well at differe

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