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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Is this problem not a result of the mass psychosis about pedophiles and child-eating devil-worshippers that went on in the late 80's? As far as I understand it, kids were more independent prior to that period. There was a time where th
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
My experience on SO has been overwhelmingly positive, but I can say that I observe a large difference in the behavior of other users depending on the subject of my question. The C/C++ community is the most pedantic I've experience
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I'm curious why Solid/Pods are not mentioned; there was a lot of press and excitement around its launch, backed by Tim Berners-Lee, and it seemed to be exactly the pro-user technology we needed to take computing in service of huma
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
You turn off the power to change a lightbulb? It never occurred to me before that that could be a dangerous activity. You hold it by the glass and unscrew it, then do the reverse for the new one. Your hand should never goes near the socket,
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
As usual, a bit of a love-hate relationship with TypeScript. What TS has done to JS, though, is absolutely incredible. I wonder if it's possible to abstract the engine, somehow, and apply it on top of a new language. I would love TS wi
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
The CodePatterns piece deserves serious consideration as its own project; it could be the basis for a generic refactoring engine. It would be great to have some kind of refactoring scripting language for e.g. updating clients of your librar
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
How on earth did Rails not have an official Dockerfile until now? Have people been deploying like it's 2010?
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I honestly really dislike the reasoning they gave. As a customer I don't care if Amazon's impact is spread too thin; in fact, I'm happy with that. I don't trust them to choose their own impact. I, as the customer, want t
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
This is my favorite programming book. It provides the test cases for the whole ray tracer, and making them pass was really addictive. I was obsessed with it for the month or so it took to finish. He's also written another book on mazes
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I just found a great video from Dr. K. the other day on how entertainment addictions work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-s2qBU40A . The second half of the stream is missing, but there's a good comment there summari
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Did anybody else play Mage Knights as a kid? This reminds me of it. The mechanism was pretty ingenious, in my opinion. Each figure has a dial on the base giving it stats for defense, attack, attack range, effects such as poison, etc. The fi
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
The TS type system is incredibly powerful, and I wish I could apply to other languages out there. The biggest annoyances with it come from the fact that it isn't its own language; you get runtime errors due to incorrect or out-of-date
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Is this the same Ingy that made Test::Base? It's the best data-driven testing framework I've ever used, and I've missed it often while working with other languages. The follow-up polyglot framework just didn't cut it for
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
100%, a $70 CO2 sensor made a huge difference for me. I live in Germany, and there is no ventilation unless you open the window. I noticed that when I worked all day in the apartment, at the end of the day my brain would be toast, I wouldn&
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Why do the balls have to be numbered starting at 7?
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Foreigners are not the only ones who buy up properties as investments! I would love to see them ban mega-landlords, too, foreign or not.
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
To loop this back to OP, "US Mexicans" are different from "Mexico Mexicans" is something I didn't realize until my adult life. They have their own way of speaking, their own foods, and a more recent immigrant backgr
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
At my previous employer, data scientists would regularly spend entire days only running 3-4 Hive queries and waiting hours for the results to come back... job failed. PRQL looks much easier to use, and the goals of good auto-complete and ty
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I see a lot of advertising for SimplySafe on YouTube, and I always wonder about the privacy issues that are basically required in a product that monitors your property and requires a monthly subscription to work (so it has to phone home,
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I think it's more like a release of potential energy; kind of like how you can lightly nudge a large object teetering on the edge of a cliff and it'll make a huge splash at the bottom. It took a lot of energy to create the big spl
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
In that vein, I would love a recommendation on coding books that come with good exercises.
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
They had upvotes working before! Just bring back google+! I found it incredibly useful to land on a page and see a high upvote in the little plugin widget I had in Chrome.
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
This seems like a business opportunity for someone that can read Chinese. Help non-Chinese businesses get set up with the tool that Chinese sellers are using to even the playing field. Although it's possible if the tactics became widel
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Looking at my Ex-Word PCB again, I think it actually uses a Hall Effect sensor to detect when it's closed; I couldn't find a magnet that mates with it when the device is closed, but the frame is metal so maybe it just detects that
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I love projects like this because I learn about new materials or gadgets. I'm filing them away slowly in my mind hoping to put together an Ex-Word clone in the future. I didn't know you could order flexible PCB, and now I do. I th
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I was shocked to find that this wouldn't even work on my desktop! You have to go to the browser settings and turn off hardware acceleration. If you rent an HD movie from Prime Video, you get a notice saying that your screen has to be c
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I think quite a few people caught omicron and didn't bother getting it confirmed. You have to go out into a public space, where you're presumably possibly spreading it, and get the more advanced test, even after you've alread
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
I remember words I've learned in a similar way, with many of them bringing back the social situation, location, weather, emotions, etc. at the time when I learned them. I would love a VR product for language learning.
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Yes, but why are they doing it? Are people wearing the hats perceived to be oppressors themselves or are they merely a symbol?
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by garfieldnate 4y ago
Is it possible right now to program a bare e-ink screen for an application with lots of text and scrolling? I see plenty of e-readers out there that appear to have good refresh rate, but I always wonder if they are using special drivers to

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