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by ema 2y ago
It's a question of degree yes people aren't going to move across the country for a slightly better job but if the difference becomes big enough they do.
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by ema 2y ago
You might want to add a small blurb at the beginning of the post explaining what Threlte is as presumably most people coming from HN have no idea.
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by ema 2y ago
Which features would compel you to use a language targeting roughly Lua's niche over Lua?
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by ema 2y ago
It's important to keep in mind that doing magic doesn't feel like doing magic from the inside. Our own competence becomes invisible to us. You know the details you didn't get right. You know the tradeoffs you've had to m
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by ema 2y ago
I don't think we can go from someone being more sensitive to some kinds of smells to predicting what their reaction to these smells is. For one, context plays a huge role. I love Parmesan even if it smells ever so slightly like vomit f
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by ema 2y ago
If it makes software developers 10% more productive there sure would be many companies who'd pay $80 a month per seat.
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by ema 3y ago
Well the 4.95 is because the buyer thinks of it as 4 plus something while the seller thinks of it as 5 minus a little.
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by ema 4y ago
For me the noticable distinction is between whether I want to create something to express myself (never works out) or for a practical purpose (works out more often than not).
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by ema 4y ago
For sewing Victorian and Edwardian clothes with period appropriate techniques: https://www.youtube.com/@bernadettebanner
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by ema 4y ago
Whether or not Germany's nuclear energy policies are sensible or not surely has nothing to do with how the weather turns out this year. Maybe one can take global warming into account for future energy needs but 2 degrees Celsius more o
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by ema 4y ago
Always testing my understanding of new programming languages, libraries or concepts by playing around with them until I could mentally "walk around" them like I can mentally walk around my neighborhood[1], then being drawn to the
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by ema 4y ago
The elite is the part of society who either through happenstance or personality are in the center of it fulfilling are coordinating role. This does mean that they have an outsize influence on society and also are at risk of becoming out of
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by ema 4y ago
While this is true it's also easy to do things you're not really enjoying just because they require low activation energy.
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by ema 4y ago
I use it as the modifier key for my window manager shortcuts so I just think of it as the lowercase w windows key and not the uppercase W Windows key and it's fine.
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by ema 4y ago
While the article functions as an ad for a paid subscription, it contains more than enough substance in itself that bait is not an appropriate description.
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by ema 4y ago
If you have a fixed deadline you descope to something you think will take ten percent of the remaining time build it in what turns out to be more like half of the remaining time and then add enhancements until you hit the deadline.
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by ema 4y ago
Here in Germany all the home maintenance stores I went to had torx next to the philips screws.
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by ema 4y ago
How long does it take for hydrogen floating in the atmosphere to react with the oxygen?
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by ema 4y ago
I doubt that fellow human pressure was non-existent. A thousand years is plenty of time for even a small founding population to swell enough in size to fill every nook and cranny of a continent.
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by ema 4y ago
Take a stroll around the intersection of north Randolph road and north 14th street. Randomly stumbled upon this when I was visiting Phoenix and it was a nice surprise. Overall I would say that concrete wasteland is a bit too harsh, at least
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by ema 5y ago
Just realized that with a battery intended for seasonal storage you only get one cycle per year so for the same ROI as a battery that cycles weekly or daily it has to be much cheaper per kwh of capacity. OTOH it only needs to last for like
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by ema 5y ago
Yes, debugging is as much about finding out where one's assumptions are wrong as is is about finding out where the software has a defect.
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by ema 5y ago
I don't know how the situation is now but when I looked into it a few years ago the rapidly increasing hash rate of the mining hardware meant that running them only half the time didn't meant that it just takes twice the time to r
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by ema 5y ago
There are about 200 generations between now and then. Your ancestor set needs to only grow by about 10% each generation to include everyone who was alive back then and therefore also them. In a perfectly mixed population your ancestor set g
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by ema 5y ago
I wouldn't bet on everyone alive today being descended from them, but at least 90% is pretty likely.
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by ema 5y ago
If you can make the response fast enough that the speed of light delay dominates you can measure the latency and have an upper bound on how far away the key can be.
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by ema 5y ago
> The average person could cover the distance of a marathon, but it would take them many days of walking and resting. 26 miles at 3 miles an hour is a bit under 9 hours. Throw in another hour for resting and the average person should be
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by ema 5y ago
I tried so hard to make everything go as I wanted that I increasingly avoided situations where I couldn't predict how they would go. That included stuff like talking about my feelings or asking for a favor or eventually going grocery s
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by ema 5y ago
7 years ago I had just aborted an internship, my foray into being an employed adult, because I found myself unable to deal with disagreements. Contrary to my naive hope that the confidence boost from being a Professional Software Developer(
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by ema 5y ago
Often the better way to do something is achieved by changing how two components interface with each other. in this case you have to change the tests that test this interface.

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