errantmind

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by errantmind 3y ago
This depends on other conditions being good as well, like being bike/pedestrian friendly and reasonably safe. There's no amount of new homes they could build that would revitalize Houston's downtown because it sucks. Most of
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by errantmind 3y ago
What's the first thing people / developers do after houses are wiped out by a flood in a floodplain? Build more houses in the same spot. It is pretty common still, in Houston, for people to openly disclose if their house didn&#x27
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by errantmind 3y ago
There was a post on HN recently with a workaround these apps are using. I don't have it handy but I'm sure you can find it if you look.
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by errantmind 3y ago
It is really simple. Stop buying HP products and any others with shady business practices. For years Brother laser printers have been recommended on HN (except that one time they weren't). Just buy one and forget about your printer. Pe
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by errantmind 3y ago
I've used both LineageOS and GrapheneOS and the latter would have been my choice for security purposes as its entire focus is on privacy and security.
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by errantmind 4y ago
There are a lot of great addons that improve browsing immensely. I'll dump mine: * ublock origin: block ads * uBlacklist: block domains from Google search results * SponsorBlock: skip sponsored segments in youtube videos * Thumbnail Ra
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by errantmind 4y ago
I write a lot of Rust code and, outside of performance optimization with Release builds, I've had next to no issues with iterative compile times, even on fairly large projects. Honestly it feels like a bit of a meme at this point. My C
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by errantmind 4y ago
Yea, that existed, but it got even worse after the code was released. There are many examples of issues that most likely resulted from the leak. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/rbpyh0/t
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by errantmind 4y ago
When the TF2 code was leaked, it resulted in new vectors of attack on the servers being found and the development of bots that are still ruining the game.
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by errantmind 4y ago
>> US copyright law only applies in the US This isn't entirely true, due to various entangled trade agreements that require countries to respect each other's intellectual property as a prerequisite. See https://en
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by errantmind 4y ago
The annoying part are all the tipping-adjacent restaurants trying to get 'in' on tipping. Like burger joints and pizza carryout defaulting to 15% tips at checkout. I could see it eventually going the way of internet advertising..
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by errantmind 4y ago
Simple answer: There aren't any incentives in place to reward it in most professional contexts.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Food calories / caloric consumption, as an idea, are a gross, erroneous oversimplification of bodily processes to the point of being bunk science.
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by errantmind 4y ago
An appeal to complexity isn't really helpful. The human body is complex but the causes of widespread obesity aren't, IMO.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Congrats! That's an impressive number of years to stay on keto.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Calories as a concept is bunk science. It was since the beginning. A better generalization is "garbage in, garbage out" (qualitative).
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by errantmind 4y ago
It is the fat profile of seed oils that is the problem, at least in my investigations. We are consuming certain fats in very high quantities now that we never did historically.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Yea, whatever ends up working for you. I've done low carb diets, and they worked for me up until they didn't. I haven't been able to sustain them for over a couple of years at a time.
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by errantmind 4y ago
No, I've experimented with diet for over two decades, this isn't some new realization. Also, as I mentioned, I'm eating more calories now, not less. Calories are bunk as an idea anyway, so that point is moot.
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by errantmind 4y ago
No, I have no reason to believe they are connected directly, just both are bad in the quantities consumed when eating processed foods.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Anecdotal but it was simple for me. The cause was seed oils and sweeteners and they are in most processed foods. I stopped eating them and then, a few months later, I stopped gaining weight. Instead my body now seems resistant to gaining w
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by errantmind 4y ago
I generated several more responses to the same prompt as I mentioned above. They were all funny, not just a select few. Here's another the model came up with. I have to admit I found the apparent creativity hilarious. Response: "W
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by errantmind 4y ago
Messing around with the new model, I found some great laughs: Prompt: "Finish the story: Once upon a time, I walked into a nearby forest only to find a single porcelain toilet sitting in the middle of a grove. It was covered in moss an
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by errantmind 4y ago
Only somewhat related but what I'd really like to see is an investigation as to why Firefox takes so long to acquire a connection on Linux. I suppose it could be something particular to my setup but it is very slow in comparison to &#x
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by errantmind 4y ago
A couple reasons I'm more productive: 1. I'm familiar with lifetimes and they don't slow me down anymore. Also, I usually structure my projects such that I don't need to explicitly express them. 2. I spend a lot less tim
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by errantmind 4y ago
While I respect the author's anecdote, this doesn't match my experience. I've been programming for 20+ years across a wide array of languages and I'm by far the most productive in Rust. With a competent teacher, experien
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by errantmind 4y ago
I'm no Elon fan, but why does essentially everyone in these threads automatically assume he is wrong? Has no one here worked at companies where there was more dead weight than talent? Where 80% of the work being done is by 20% of the p
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by errantmind 4y ago
That doesn't make it a ponzi, otherwise offering corporate bonds at higher interest rates would also be a ponzi.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Donating your customers' deposits isn't charity, it is fraud.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Yes, and I've gone the other way too, i.e. taking a bunch of microservices and rewriting them as a monolith, saving the company over a million dollars a year in the process. It isn't one or the other, the 'skill' is know

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