drngdds

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by drngdds 7y ago
It's pretty misleading that all the headlines are just calling this "vaping-related" when the actual cause is probably bad THC oil. How many people are going to stop vaping nicotine and go back to cigarettes after hearing abo
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by drngdds 7y ago
Because the alternative is to waste the time of the person you're talking to while they sit there waiting for your follow up. You're already interrupting them; no need to make it worse.
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by drngdds 7y ago
This is my biggest IM pet peeve. When someone separates their "hello" from their actual question, my attention is broken for 30 seconds to 5 minutes for absolutely no reason whatsoever until they send it.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Is that a general trend or just location-specific? I've heard about homelessness being a big issue in SF and Seattle but I live in a big city (NYC) and I haven't seen anything like that.
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by drngdds 7y ago
I get more of a "grouchy geriatric in the early stages of dementia" vibe
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by drngdds 7y ago
This is my first time learning that AI-graded essays are a thing. Am I the only one who thinks that's insane? I feel like you'd probably have to have an AGI to meaningfully evaluate an essay.
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by drngdds 7y ago
What you call a "lack of outrage on controversial topics" would be more accurately called "unwillingness to seriously challenge the terrible ideas he gives a platform to"
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by drngdds 7y ago
Patreon already exists
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by drngdds 7y ago
Service dogs are a real thing that people with certain disabilities actually need. As such, I really hope the answer to your question is "never."
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by drngdds 7y ago
It's a post on HN about modern JavaScript, everyone's gonna do that either way
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by drngdds 7y ago
I agree in general, but it's not like there was any chance of having a meaningful conversation with people who are actual paid shills.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Amazon's paid shill program is incredibly creepy and I have no idea how anyone thought it was a good idea, but it seems kind of mean to dunk on them like this. Either (a) they actually like their job and you're being a jerk or (b)
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by drngdds 7y ago
I get it, but I still prefer CDs because the sound quality is better, I can losslessly rip them, and they don't break. It's a little frustrating to me when the only physical version of an album is a cassette tape.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Sure, but there's a huge difficulty range between Fizzbuzz and that "come up with a dynamic programming algorithm on the spot" crap that Google and friends like to do. (And that range includes problems that are actually relev
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by drngdds 7y ago
I love the idea of a phone that isn't built by Apple or a spyware company, but I'd be worried about software stability and support. GNU/Linux on the desktop has always been flaky for me, and flakiness is not an acceptable cha
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by drngdds 7y ago
"If you disagree with my barely-argued opinion, you're autistic" isn't a great way to close an article
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by drngdds 7y ago
The unspoken prerequisite to all of the advice here is to have a job where you can spend a nontrivial amount of time doing things that feel deeply meaningful to you. I doubt most people have that.
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by drngdds 7y ago
The people you consider anti-free-speech don't dislike your ideas because they're weird.
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by drngdds 7y ago
There are enough fonts. It wouldn't be a great loss for humanity if we didn't get as many new fonts because of decreased profit margins in the font design industry.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Lots of people have an issue buying expensive Magic decks and respond by choosing not to play competitive Magic. Drafting isn't everyone's thing and pauper is both super restrictive and harder to find events for.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Responding to complaints about RNG by saying "actually our data shows that it's fair" is totally missing the point. People don't like that the game feels too luck-based, whether or not it actually is.
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by drngdds 7y ago
This sucks but it's not that surprising. I hope people (Archive Team?) download hacking videos before YouTube deletes them.
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by drngdds 7y ago
What I want is to have the options laid out before be so I can pick which one I want. Spotify and friends seem to go with a "fuck you, we know what you want better than you do" approach, which is one of many reasons I prefer to ow
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by drngdds 7y ago
I'd assume that's more about not fixing something that isn't broken. (Because if you break it, you might accidentally annihilate humanity!)
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by drngdds 7y ago
It might not be seen as a problem, but it is a problem. It makes forms of transportation other than cars non-viable, which is awful for the environment. Cheap electric cars will happen eventually, but we don't exactly have time to wa
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by drngdds 7y ago
>it shows something that doesn't fit the narrative. ??? The (correct) narrative promoted by the left is that the US was founded by terrible slave-owning racists, and this art promotes that viewpoint. Also, no one is making anything
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by drngdds 7y ago
Pretty much all paid music downloads are DRM-free now. There is usually a distributor like Bandcamp that takes a cut, but that's because most artists aren't going to host their own payment system and file servers.
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by drngdds 7y ago
>Gallup’s shocking statistic that seven out of 10 U.S. employees report feeling unengaged You have to be wildly out-of-touch with society to be shocked by the fact that most people see their job as just a thing they have to do to make mo
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by drngdds 7y ago
Yeah, I don't know why npm defaults to including everything in the folder for the production build instead of having it be a whitelist. It's not that hard to specify "include package.json, package-lock.json, and ./build&
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by drngdds 7y ago
It's frustrating that the author acknowledges that most bad things are probably heavily correlated, but just soldiers on with his point as though they're independent random variables. Poverty in particular is heavily correlated wi

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