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by dkarl 4y ago
Your brain is constantly trying to make itself more powerful and better oriented in your environment. It does this by seeking new and stimulating information, information that adds to your understanding of the world. As you get older, your
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by dkarl 4y ago
Arnold was so perfect as the embodiment of the birth of a dangerous, unrefined new force, and Robert Patrick was the perfect turn for the next generation. While Arnold's terminator had unbelievable levels of the familiar properties of
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by dkarl 4y ago
Citrus squeezers are so much faster and easier that I can't believe I used to live without one. I use lemon and lime juice so often for cooking (and cocktails) that it makes sense to have one, even though it doesn't fully replace
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by dkarl 4y ago
The odor problem with synthetic clothing has been solved as well. Fifteen years ago, synthetic workout clothes stank after you owned them for a couple of months. People shared all kinds of tips online for removing the stink or delaying its
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by dkarl 4y ago
This was a game-changer for me and my wife. Previous, I'd be laying naked on top of the covers, too hot to sleep, while she was under a thick comforter in pajamas asking me to turn the heat up another two degrees. Now she'll let m
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by dkarl 4y ago
It wasn't a new purchase so I didn't think of it for this thread, but I started leaving a water pitcher beside the sink. It's handy for watering plants, carrying water to the dog bowl (instead of carrying the dog bowl to the
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by dkarl 4y ago
> This article seems to argue (and some comments here) that being rude should be normal? Why? Why wouldn't we be nice to customers for their business? The difference is intent. Being polite to someone to put them at ease in a diffic
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by dkarl 4y ago
> You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven't seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination unde
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> I've seen it in religious forums primarily Same here. OOP, FP, Agile....
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> The incident has causeda stir in the community I wonder if ChatGPT included a typo because virtually every small town news article has one.
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> the technical and organisational measures you need in place to do it safely are an extra step you need to take whereas with microservices they're built in They aren't built in, it's just that the need for them is impossi
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by dkarl 4y ago
For code modularity to serve the same purpose, I think there needs to be explicit language-level support, because on a medium-sized or larger project, when the modularity exists only in the minds of developers, it might as well not exist at
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> and were smug about it I feel like a lot of the people who had this reaction were reacting to being told (correctly) that how they handled strings was broken. A big reason that projects had difficulty upgrading, especially difficulty u
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I don't think this kind of publicity is good for that kind of career, but I guess there are people who want fame for its own sake.
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by dkarl 4y ago
I agree that the consequences of height are drilled into us in adolescence when we're mostly dealing with sexual competition, not yet competing for promotions and such. Teenage girls are more likely to be picked on for being tall than
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by dkarl 4y ago
Declarative versus imperative is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Helping a C++ friend of mine with some Scala code the other day, there was a line like this: val requests = availableDrivers.filter(notPhonedHome).map(pleasePhoneH
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by dkarl 4y ago
You can cherry-pick examples that go both ways, and we've all worked with individuals who have consistent biases towards and against functional idioms. In the end you have to rely on your own judgment for each case.
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He had already made this mistake once before, and yet it had to be "spotted" by somebody on the "second design iteration?" What a clown. Any reasonable person, knowing they were designing a building with the same unusual
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by dkarl 4y ago
> these are believed to have been removed during cost-cutting Fun fact: cost-cutting in architecture is called "value engineering," a sinister euphemism if I've ever heard one.
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Yep, the other airlines are in the business of selling "class" and "status," and it's part of their product differentiation strategy to treat you according to how much you pay.
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This is the reason I went with LastPass, because they have a feature designed and designated for recovery after death, with support, and 1Password would require me explaining to my family how they would use the emergency kit after I died, a
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by dkarl 4y ago
We're talking about backend development, and in that domain Python has its own set of pretty awful drawbacks. Starting with needing a level of testing that would make even the most paranoid static-language devs spit their coffee out. I
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As of 2005/2006, you'd be right. Nowadays, the speed of development for statically typed languages is much faster, thanks to improvements in tooling. Going further, if you choose a modern language that supports type inference, sta
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That's the discipline of data-driven business. If 20 people use your app and despise it and are depressed by it, that's better than 19 people using it and loving it. No sentimentality allowed.
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Explicit types are useful in some places. Type inference doesn't mean you can't use them, just that you don't have to spell them out everywhere even when they aren't useful.
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I would say a tech leader does not always know right from wrong, but needs to be able to make the decision and own the consequences, especially when their decisions affect the happiness of other developers. I like your distinction between s
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Many people who are optimistic about what technology can achieve are eco-globalists, because they believe that the technology will only be developed in response to carefully targeted state-enforced incentives. I think the purest form of &qu
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I think you're talking about the truth of the matter, but I'm talking about what motivated the creation of the program in the first place. Economic liberals wanted unrestricted access to labor regardless of borders, protectionists
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> It is literally increasing supply of workers who have less negotiating power than the “mass of people” It restricts the number of workers that are able to work in the U.S., and forces companies to jump through hoops to hire them. The i
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The mass of people who provided popular, democratic support for visa restrictions were motivated by the nativist concern of protecting American workers from foreign competition. You can always attribute popular sentiment to mustache-twirlin

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