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by efficax 7y ago
Rust doesn't have classes, for one?
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by efficax 7y ago
Insane take. Latex can look like anything you want and also has amazing microtype features these days
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by efficax 7y ago
yeah this article is not really jacked in to mainstream continental philosophy attitudes on heidegger after the publication of the “Black Notebooks”, where heidegger is an unabashed antisemite
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by efficax 7y ago
Yeah. Feel like neither Jobs or Jony Ive would've let that camera cluster happen. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen on any smartphone.
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by efficax 7y ago
> Results indicate that switching to vegetarianism could save consumers 16% of the energy use and 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions related to their dietary consumption. However, if they re-spend the saved income according to their cur
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by efficax 7y ago
Hey! Maybe there should be unions in tech! Just a thought!
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by efficax 7y ago
Tfw you recommend people use tons more olive oil and also recommend and olive oil brand that is $37 for 375ml (or $3 an ounce!)
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by efficax 7y ago
I smell cops
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by efficax 7y ago
The studies on the authoritarian personality are hardly the cornerstore of Adorno's work (he was primarily a philosopher) and in any case, one imperfect social study does not invalidate the entirety of his thinking by any means.
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by efficax 7y ago
javascript rules, and you can't build truly interactive sites without it (try to build a refine-as-you-type search bar with just html and css). Here's my hot take: JS is good and has made the web better.
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by efficax 7y ago
If you can write to my binaries, you can do anything you want to me. Boring.
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by efficax 7y ago
> I find it baffling how everyone talks as if inflation is some incomprehensible force of nature out of anyone's control, even though it's actually trivial to cause inflation by printing money and buying assets. But that is lit
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by efficax 7y ago
We have emergency production rollback to the last working deploy. That's what you do when breaking changes are committed to master. Letting devs commit to master directly? Horrible idea.
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by efficax 7y ago
> If you use the escape key often, it should be where caps-lock is. Mac OS X even has a built-in setting for this. Blasphemy. Caps lock should be banished from all keyboards and replaced with control.
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by efficax 7y ago
I also love the current keyboards and have two devices with them that have never had a problem. I believe that others have had issues but I'm not fastidious and travel often with my MacBook, not a single stuck key in either since 2016,
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by efficax 7y ago
I would not at all be suprised to learn that GNU coreutils does not build with clang/llvm. Try installing a real GNU C compiler with homebrew (brew install gcc)
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by efficax 7y ago
jwz uses referrer detection to show something... interesting to the ycombinator cult, just fyi
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by efficax 7y ago
You do know you can change the chime?
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by efficax 7y ago
It's a great time to IPO
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by efficax 7y ago
Heroku is expensive but fantastic. Unless you have complicated needs and the price point doesn’t shock you, it’s a fantastic way to use AWS while sparing yourself a lot of headaches.
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by efficax 7y ago
L stops in chicago are also very desirable locations. The parent is greatly overexaggerating the problems with elevated trains
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by efficax 7y ago
We can only stop grade inflation if we do something that the denizens of reason dot com would not like: make public college free. The logic in the rise of grade inflation is very simple: students (or their parents) pay a fortune for a degre
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by efficax 7y ago
The analogy between software "engineering" and structural engineering is used a lot to point out the failures of software. I think this analogy is a category mistake caused entirely by the misapplication of the word "engineer
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by efficax 7y ago
Do you really find function overhead to be that great of an impact on performance? I work on a php app that sees around 15k/rps and I use a lot of functional patterns (feels best to me, my brain was formed in a lispy way). By far datab
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by efficax 7y ago
Counterpoint: books work really well as evidenced by all of human development?
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by efficax 8y ago
Eh, if hashes leaked I would still suggest changing passwords no matter the crypto practices involved. If you change the password, the hash is useless. If you don't, it's sill an attack vector, even if a technically impractical on
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by efficax 8y ago
Lol welcome to weird Twitter I hope you enjoy
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by efficax 8y ago
Why would anyone listen to greenspan after 2008? A dotty old randian who doesn't know what he thinks he knows
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by efficax 8y ago
The border agents are in fact correct. The Supreme court has ruled that US citizens have no constitutional protections against search and seizure or basically anything else on the border of the US: https://www.aclu.org/other
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by efficax 8y ago
People don't like Bombadil? He was always my favorite part of the books

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