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by dxdm 6mo ago
Alas, the tendency to overgeneralize from isolated samples over whole populations is universally human.
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by dxdm 6mo ago
Where does the supply come from? You could still argue that people choose this as a career when they have the choice of better-paid ones, increasing the supply of people with the smarts and training needed by the publishers. I don't kn
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by dxdm 6mo ago
> adding another parsing step after the json/toml/yaml parser is done with it. That's not ideal either I'd argue that it is ideal, in the sense that it's the sweet spot for a general config file format to limit i
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by dxdm 6mo ago
No, thank you for posting it. Things like this need to be said.
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by dxdm 7mo ago
This is an interesting angle, and I could see how the prospect of reducing the flow of oil to China, and also to teetering democracies in Europe, might have occurred to the US decision makers as beneficial. However, the question is, how muc
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by dxdm 7mo ago
700MB, that's a CD. ~70 minutes of music, uncompressed. A DVD (single layer) holds about 4.7GB of data.
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by dxdm 7mo ago
I see a fun metaphor for doing the tedious work of arranging a meeting, getting people to join, and getting a solution. Reading it put this way made my day a little brighter. I needed that, too. Btw, border collies are awesome dogs, and she
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by dxdm 7mo ago
Yeah, I see the problem. It's not a good way to convey what I was trying to say. Thanks for calling it out.
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by dxdm 7mo ago
If mentally adding an "s" to the original comment enables you move past this issue and actually consider the comment as it was intended, then I would say that is well done and worth the effort to get to this point. :) Have a great
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by dxdm 7mo ago
For some reason, you're reading things into the original statement that are not there. "An etiquette exists in a culture" does not mean everyone has to follow or even be aware of it.
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by dxdm 7mo ago
Usually, you don't want your developers to be coding monkeys, for good results. You need the human developer in the loop to even define the spec, maybe contributing ideas, but at the very least asking questions about "what happens
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by dxdm 7mo ago
I would not. But I don't see how that's relevant here. I'm also not going to guess what point you're trying to make. I'd ask you to explain how exactly you think Overton windows relate to our argument about taboos,
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by dxdm 7mo ago
> once something can be rationally discussed it's no longer a taboo This appears to be an entirely impractical definition, to the point that it would not allow a taboo to ever exist in a group of people capable of any sort of ration
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by dxdm 7mo ago
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that taboos should not be examined from within the space where they hold effect, because doing so calls into question the whole concept of a taboo and robs all taboos of their usefulness, and th
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by dxdm 7mo ago
People really say this ("I could care less") to express that they do not care at all. I've seen it happen here on this site. Calling out the sheer absurdity of it, even in a respectful way, is not universally well-received. U
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by dxdm 7mo ago
The first "Show HN" submission I've seen that has made me feel good. I wish more people would see it.
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by dxdm 7mo ago
"excessive moderation" is a fun concept to think about.
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by dxdm 7mo ago
This reads like you think that "major" version bumps should ony happen when things make a big difference to you personally. At least that's where you land when you follow the logic of your statement. I think you may overrate
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by dxdm 7mo ago
If you have to insist that a name needs a certain capitalization to properly exist, you're in the territory of brand zealotry and pedantry. The people who don't care for one reason or other vastly outnumber you, and they will inve
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by dxdm 8mo ago
Not all of them do. It's also nice to have one closer to you, so you don't have to walk to the bus stop to find out when it's time to leave house for the bus... You could check on the phone, but I could certainly see the appe
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by dxdm 8mo ago
For the purposes of this discussion, I'd say a "long-lived" branch is one that keeps running into merge conflicts with other code that's been developed in ignorance of the branch's contents, or a branch that acquire
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by dxdm 8mo ago
I assume that this has been happening to all gases in the atmosphere for aeons, and thus, while technically correct, it is completely negligible for the relevant time scale.
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by dxdm 8mo ago
Point taken. I forgot that brackets are not shifted on my keyboard. They do require worse acrobatics than a shift key on a German keyboard, though - one of the Alt keys is special and needed to trigger them, if memory serves. Well, that&#x2
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by dxdm 8mo ago
Water gets split into oxygen and hydrogen using energy. The hydrogen then gets burned to release usable energy, which creates water. At least as far as I remember from chemistry class ages ago.
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by dxdm 8mo ago
> Square brackets replace parentheses for a clean, uniform syntax. Oh dear, why? Abrasive aesthetics aside, this is bad for people with certain non-English keyboard layouts. Not me, but many do exist.
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by dxdm 8mo ago
Of course you can now set up your own trade agreements, but so can Fiji, I suppose. The point is that you have a lot less negotiating power going it alone, instead of as part of an economic superbloc that you can influence as one of its big
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by dxdm 8mo ago
I think it's still worth-while to do reviews. A second pair of eyes does wonders, and it spreads knowledge of what things exist and how they work. If changes are small, reviews can be quick. It's possible to keep building on top o
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by dxdm 8mo ago
As I understand it, trunk based development does not call for committing directly to main. It says to avoid long-lived branches for releases, whole features, etc. There's nothing wrong with small, short-lived branches that can be quick
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by dxdm 8mo ago
It can be hard to resist.
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by dxdm 8mo ago
My dog does this thing where she picks a stick and gets you to pull on it, and she will pull on her end, too. She gets very focused on it. Pulling on the stick is the most important thing to her in that moment, when in fact it's just a

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