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by fredley 5y ago
The fetishisation of work does seem to largely come from people with enough money that they and at least several generations of their progeny will never need to do it.
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by fredley 5y ago
The thing he doesn't mention is all the people burned out by 35, with the best years of their life behind them, coping with deep and lasting psychological damage that will affect them for the rest of their lives, and nothing to show fo
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by fredley 5y ago
A lot of the problems with concrete are actually problems with steel reinforcement. Concrete alone is incredibly long-lived and durable, see the Pantheon in Rome. However steel rusts, expands and weakens within decades, even when you do eve
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by fredley 5y ago
> Fibre-Reinforced Polymer So plastic? Might look shiny now, but I wonder how these will look after 20 years of sunlight and other weathering.
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by fredley 5y ago
This could be so much worse. Why does the form retain my information when I get something wrong? It should reset, or go back to the start.
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by fredley 5y ago
In the city I live in we are lucky to have a lot of parks, but also they leave the grass uncut in large portions of them. It grows long, with flowers and other plants providing greater biodiversity and a habitat for many more insects and sm
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by fredley 5y ago
Missed an opportunity to replicate the iconic black casing and red LED
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by fredley 5y ago
Yeah, imagine the name of your product sounding like the Western Australia Party!
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by fredley 5y ago
Do you dispute the central claim, that petrol stations will struggle over the next 20 years as electric car use rises?
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NYT First Said(maxbittker.github.io)
2 points by fredley 5y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 5y ago
Not related this directly, but it brings to mind the whole saga around the (failed) attempt to remove the rat from the final scene of The Departed: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/warner-bros-shuts-down-kic...
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by fredley 5y ago
Serious question: How is this supposed to be used? Are you supposed to print it out? (Any 'security' pointless) Are you supposed to email it/upload it when booking tickets for travel? How is it being checked on the other end
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by fredley 5y ago
I think the power of Notion became apparent to me when I created a Page, accidentally changed it to some other type, then ctrl+z-ed it back to a Page, with all its contents intact. Seriously impressive. I wish search wasn't so crap tho
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by fredley 5y ago
Ed Balls
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by fredley 5y ago
I would love the inverse as well: Factorio2Verilog. Then I can use Factorio as an IDE.
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by fredley 5y ago
I have spent multiple hours digging into something, found my own Stack Overflow answer and pasted it back in.
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Death of Prince Philip – too much coverage on BBC TV(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by fredley 6y ago|3 comments
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by fredley 6y ago
Have it both ways, like motorsport. There are championships like Formula 1, where the 'equipment' is a huge factor, and the teams are competing on their tech. This has lead to many breakthroughs in car safety that have become stan
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by fredley 6y ago
> var = !cmd syntax Is this a standard anywhere outside IPython? I would love to use this sort of thing (python with seamless integration with a system shell) in place of bash scripts. Yes, you can use subprocess but it's a lot less
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by fredley 6y ago
Agreed, it's the simplest way to test and validate specific assumptions. Debuggers are useful tools, but it takes you just as long but usually longer to get to the same answer: is what I think is happening here actually happening here?
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by fredley 6y ago
That's why you pronounce it "Cheese Shop"
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“Should we buy YouTube for $15m?”(twitter.com)
39 points by fredley 6y ago|5 comments
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by fredley 6y ago
This makes me mad every time. And every single thing has a different shortcut for "Paste without style", if they even have one.
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Harvesting metal from plants that suck it out of the ground(boingboing.net)
2 points by fredley 6y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 6y ago
Yes. Code is read many more times than it's written, so optimise for the common case.
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by fredley 6y ago
Yes, fully agree. The only thing worse than code you have written is code you haven't.
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by fredley 6y ago
I am a staunch code minimalist. Less code is (almost?) always better. The best, fastest, cleanest code is the code that doesn't exist at all. Always aim to write the least code. Less code is less maintenance, it's less to grok for
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by fredley 6y ago
"Forget megahertz. We're talking gigaflops." https://neatdesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/728.jpg
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Spot's Rampage(spotsrampage.com)
2 points by fredley 6y ago|0 comments
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Just the Recipe(justtherecipe.app)
3 points by fredley 6y ago|0 comments

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