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by enw 4y ago
> My dad is 92 and we just put him in a home. Can you stay healthy enough to die of old age in a regular home? “Put him in a home” sounds so ominous and forceful.
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by enw 4y ago
What about assets? At least if the asset prices go up you can recoup.
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by enw 4y ago
1. Start web server 2. Add AAAA record from domain to RPi IPv6 address 3. Profit
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by enw 4y ago
> like with Android Most people when they think of Android or the Google Play store they think of a cesspool of ugly inconsistent amateurish trashware.
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by enw 4y ago
Well it's a spectrum. If someone's opening up about something truly traumatic or difficult, they get all my attention and respect. But if I feel like they're being a cry-baby (e.g. being hurt by words rather than their meanin
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by enw 4y ago
As a man I also feel repulsed by it, if it's too much. Even when I am being vulnerable, I unconsciously make sure to stay in the "strong because vulnerable and facing hell" zone instead of the "weak and pathetic cry-baby
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by enw 4y ago
> An octopus is very closely related to you, far more so than any conceivable space aliens - and yet we have no idea what the fuck is going on in there. If octopuses really are so closely related, why can't I see any sort of large
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by enw 4y ago
I hate that I even feel like this, but I'm always in awe when old people (in this case 80+ years old) talk in depth about software with such fluency. I know it's self-evident, but I'm so used to being around younger folks in
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by enw 4y ago
I’m also not American but am glad they are the world’s police. I’ll take them any day over Russia, China or any other large power.
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by enw 4y ago
Retarded Edit: just realized that should’ve been r6d. Case in point.
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by enw 4y ago
C1n w0e p4e s2p w2h t3e r5d a9s?
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by enw 4y ago
I wish our culture also stopped normalizing being fat.
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by enw 4y ago
> So universes with (seemingly) deterministic laws of any kind are just extremely rare sub-trees of this wave of ”every possible wavestate”. Wow! This is very similar to what I experienced when I accidentally ingested a large amount of p
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by enw 4y ago
Journaling with big DICA energy.
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by enw 4y ago
"Well, this is awkward" reads as "omg oopsie whoopsie did we make a lwittle error uwu!!! ><" which I'm not surprised is viscerally cringy.
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by enw 4y ago
It’s pretty obviously satire and the author is just pointing out the absurdity of it all.
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by enw 4y ago
> ensure you have some part of your identity unrelated to work I don't want to be that guy, but this is one thing religion helps with. If your identity is based on anything physical (e.g. family, money, looks, career, etc.) it'
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by enw 4y ago
People who don’t drink or otherwise risk-averse bland people aren’t fun.
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by enw 4y ago
The entire NPM ecosystem is based on semver. That’s the sole reason for the squiggly marks and carets that exist in every package.json.
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by enw 4y ago
That’s what semantic versioning is: https://semver.org/ https://docs.npmjs.com/about-semantic-versioning
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by enw 4y ago
> We decided to release a new Vite major at least every year Isn’t this exhausting? Is it impossible to design good contracts without having to break compatibility every year? In most other language ecosystems it would convey incompetenc
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by enw 4y ago
Honestly I have no idea what's going on with this code. Where is `zero()` defined? Why does a `Numeric` have a function to `add` two numbers? Shouldn't you add a single number to a numeric? What is the relationship between `<T&
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by enw 4y ago
It’s relative. I’ve been in countries where the care is both top-notch, and you can get specialist attention and full-body checkups in a matter of days.
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by enw 4y ago
And health care in Canada is a joke. Unless you have terminal cancer or close to death, good luck getting any specialist’s attention. You’ll wait for a year on a waitlist for someone to care. Doesn’t matter if you have money either, no way
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by enw 4y ago
> jesus being a gigachad > > Mark 1:25 - And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
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by enw 4y ago
Do you believe the world is deterministic? That if you feed all the variables of the current state of the universe to an algorithm that knows all the laws of the universe, we can replicate life 1:1 to the last atom, from the beginning of th
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by enw 4y ago
Now how to make it not get stuck in wires so easily?
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by enw 4y ago
I hate to say it but there's no better advertisement than this on Hacker News.
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by enw 4y ago
Get a Kindle and start reading books instead. It has Wi-Fi as well to browse Hacker News on e-ink.
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by enw 4y ago
> Very little about how I interact with the site has ever changed. GitHub tunes the UI all the time.

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