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by eric_h 10y ago
Fair point - again dependent on the property/neighborhood. I stayed in an AirBnB in Denver that was one of three cookie cutter buildings next to each other each on about 1/4 acre, built sometime in the last 5-10 years, all clearly
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm really not sure how best to handle it. Uber has definitely gotten some grief for their total inability to be accessible to people in wheelchairs in NYC, when there are yellow cabs that are, but that criticism has largely fallen by
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by eric_h 10y ago
Oh dear. That reminds me of a story I saw here on HN at some point (might have been in the comments) about a dev team that didn't insist on any commit messages in their VCS, so everyone just put in a '.' to meet the requireme
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by eric_h 10y ago
Personally my typo rate has held pretty steady over the last decade, I don't think something like this would have any measurable effect on how well one types. My concern would be that the extra keystroke to confirm would ingrain the sk
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by eric_h 10y ago
> git stauts I added that as an alias in my git config. Even though I usually just type git st (another alias I added), sometimes my fingers type all the letters out and still fuck it up. Of course, as I'm sure many of you do, too,
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by eric_h 10y ago
Oh for sure. I've known plenty of people who've done relatively brief (~ 2mo) sublets completely against leases etc (of course NYC is still a bit of a Wild West as far as housing is concerned, particularly at the more affordable e
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by eric_h 10y ago
> like most languages int() rounds toward zero, and unlike most languages Python division rounds down As someone who only occasionally needs to manipulate python, and someone who rarely needs to do integer arithmetic on negative numbers
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by eric_h 10y ago
ADA compliance is a fair point, but at the same time, I've lived in completely legal to rent apartments in NYC that were absolutely not wheelchair accessible. All new buildings in NYC must have elevators/general wheel chair acce
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by eric_h 10y ago
> airbnb is not changing much of that, only making it more visible. I think it is grossly inflating the scale at which it is now possible.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Personally, I prefer to miss rush hour on the other side of it ;)
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by eric_h 10y ago
If you, personally, were reasonably good about general computer hygiene, your odds of success in upgrading would go up considerably. The average computer user, however (sample size of the hundreds of people I interacted with during the year
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by eric_h 10y ago
Certainly. I honestly never even expected a Windows update to be guaranteed to succeed simply because the surface area for them to test is unimaginably large - the same was not true for Macs (at least once OS X got good), so when a Mac OS u
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by eric_h 10y ago
That's a cool little project, but it runs counter to almost every Windows upgrade I've ever performed. The natural bit rot of long running windows installations has always made a fresh install a much stronger guarantee of success
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by eric_h 10y ago
I got one in a GameStop bundle - admittedly it came with BoTW and some lego game so I overpaid a bit for it - nevertheless Zelda is an awesome game; I think it's the best Zelda yet.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'd also like to mention that it is extremely impressive that Apple was able to transparently swap out the filesystem, with no data loss, on millions of devices. I've not heard of anyone who had serious issues with the update. It
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by eric_h 10y ago
> That said, humans also don't quality for multi-planetary. True, but we've definitely sent probes to other planets, and a few people did manage to walk on the moon, so we're certainly farther to the right on the multi-pla
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by eric_h 10y ago
> The Sphinx was used for target practice. This was the first I've heard that assertion, so it sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Turns out it's a common story that Napoleon used the Sphinx for target practice, hence the lost
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by eric_h 10y ago
> Why use Redis and multiple machines instead of keeping it in RAM on a single machine? Because machines go down. If you don't expect your hardware to fail at the most inopportune time, you'll be screwed when (not if) it happen
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ah yes, the self-inflicted unintentional DDoS attack that doesn't appear when you do a semi-idealized load test. I may or may not have been responsible for one of those once or twice in my life.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I've always found the best way to deal with jet lag is just to stay up until it's a normal time to go to bed in one's current timezone. Depending on where you are going/arriving from this can be quite a long stretch, but
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by eric_h 10y ago
I had an intro economics professor who was very similar. I think the class was at 8:30AM and the professor was very proud of the way he handled late homework assignments. There was a box for homework at the front of the large lecture hall t
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by eric_h 10y ago
I really just want to be able to activate my devices' voice control by saying "Computer". Siri/Alexa/Google just don't have the same Star Trek ring to them ;)
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by eric_h 10y ago
I can't believe I've never used this trick on those stupid games! I've known about it for ages (good trick for visually diffing a bunch of hex on screen) but it never occurred to me to use it for those silly, silly games.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Zoom out?
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by eric_h 10y ago
I didn't realize they'd made a movie out of that book. That was a very, very depressing read, I can only imagine what it's like in movie form...
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by eric_h 10y ago
Other posts here suggest that WeChat actively censors posts, including in private chat, at the behest of the government, so no.
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by eric_h 10y ago
When I was a wee lad I was always envious of people on IRC who had these things called "shell accounts" that let them stay connected to IRC 24/7. They could schedule downloads to their remote boxes and wouldn't have to t
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by eric_h 10y ago
Slack, Hipchat, Campfire, etc. are all just IRC for normal people. There is without a doubt a barrier to entry to IRC that actually requires a bit of understanding of how the protocol works. "I'm in #this-channel-you-told-me-about
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by eric_h 10y ago
I took the SATs twice - primarily because the first time I had gotten so little sleep that I fell asleep (multiple times) during the reading comprehension portion of the test. Did much better the second time around!
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by eric_h 10y ago
I've found sous vide to produce <insert literally anything> that are unbelievably juicy.

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