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by gen220 5y ago
Andrew Skurka has similarly meticulous “long term reviews”of running/backpacking gear: https://andrewskurka.com . He runs and backpacks more in one year than many people do in their lifetimes, which means he gets to observe
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by gen220 5y ago
When we were kids, one of the adults in our Boy Scout troop would read stories from this book [1] each week, to encourage us to follow the motto, “Be Prepared”, when it comes to hikes and such. Unfortunately, as you suggest, your story is c
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by gen220 5y ago
It's a design trend, and the digital design space is relatively small and strongly-connected. Many companies use the same set of design shops, or employ designers who look up to or learned from those shops. It's analogous to how e
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by gen220 5y ago
You’ve hit the nail on the head, I think. We evolved in close-knit family units and groups over hundreds of generations. There are downsides to that form of existence. It is not optimal for extracting maximum contributions to society from e
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PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed(lists.play.date)
261 points by gen220 5y ago|206 comments
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by gen220 5y ago
> do any linters complain about input modification or out-of-scope references? I know Instagram was experimenting with something similar to this a couple years ago (“Python strict modules”). It might be possible to implement function pur
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by gen220 5y ago
Is anybody here an HCP user, and would be willing to comment on how valuable adopting HCP has been for your organization? It seems to be a growing contingent of their revenue, in addition to being an interesting product. Curious to get HN&#
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by gen220 5y ago
Yep, I think this is how it’s going to work out, too. The dawdling driverless vehicles (paralyzed by opportunistic jaywalkers) will actually make the traffic worse. The worst possible future is if entrenched interests (waymo, etc) begin lob
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by gen220 5y ago
I don’t know if anyone can speak for the whole community. Personally, I use vim for a similar reason that I use Postgres. It’s open source and well-tested. The rough edges are extremely well known, and relatively polished or padded. And, i
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by gen220 5y ago
Not sure if this is rhetorical, but you can (1) use rg -l to open a bunch of files in vim (2) qq make change, select next pattern, esc. (3) qr 100@q :bufferdelete esc (4) 100@r If it’s a simple replace symbol, its easier to do it with rg -l
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by gen220 5y ago
It's much safer (i.e. fewer degrees of freedom for bugs to appear) to use f-strings in situations like this one. One correlated but ancillary benefit, is that there are fewer variables to simulate the state for in your brain, while you
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by gen220 5y ago
No affiliation, just a happy customer, but I’d recommend you check out biblio.com if you’re interested in reasonably priced, rare books. Plenty of respectable antiquarian bookstores will list their inventory on biblio, in addition to sellin
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by gen220 5y ago
I did this a few months ago. I’d previously tried a few years ago, and found no good online resources. Now they’re a dime a dozen. The community around WG has gotten much easier for noobs to get into, and the porcelain around the tool itsel
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by gen220 5y ago
If you have good trust and communication within a team, the scenarios you describe are surmountable. Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength. IME, heroes are no more a red flag than pretending that good engineers are
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by gen220 5y ago
I’ve been reading some oral histories from early/mid-20th century, midcoast Maine in the last month. One theme is scarcity (and the ingenuity borne of it). People didn’t have a lot, so they needed to be clever with what they had. They
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by gen220 5y ago
You’re not crazy, but we are in the minority. Most people, self-professed hackers included, are more comfortable in the browser sandbox than the terminal emulator sandbox. pass has a better UX than any password manager I’ve ever been compel
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by gen220 5y ago
To be clear, the storage app is not bound to the port, rather it’s a VPN server. It’s how most companies operate (RBAC behind a private key challenge). Exposing anything to the internet carries intrinsic risk, but exposing a VPN door is amo
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by gen220 5y ago
Many banks and hedge funds are semi famously using FP (whether that’s OCaml, Haskell, or Scala). JP Morgan has a big Haskell corner. Jane St is the company I most associate with with OCaml. Jet.com is largely built with F#. In business doma
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by gen220 5y ago
Podcasts are largely distributed via RSS, and it’s a blossoming advertising market. Some services offer to splice audio segments with “current” ads, so that even older content can bring in new ad revenue, if I remember correctly. You can do
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by gen220 5y ago
It's an interesting article, in that the lede was one I didn't personally expect. The common complaint lodged against AVs is that they'll never have the common sense that people do, and this will lead to inexcusable accidents
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Automated Vehicles Will Make Our Streets Worse(strongtowns.org)
2 points by gen220 5y ago|2 comments
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by gen220 5y ago
Relevant goomic: https://goomics.net/347/ For those who can't / don't want to follow the link: it cleverly contrasts how it's perceived as righteous for corporations to engage in tax-arbitrage to ma
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by gen220 5y ago
For my part, I’ve worked with people who sincerely claim to have never had a good manager like the one you describe, informing their opinion that management borders on expensive futility. I think both experiences are valid. I think good man
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by gen220 5y ago
If you’re already in vim, why not use whatever equivalent to NERDTree is popular? Unless you’re only interested in the structure and names, and not the file contents? It seems like they even have a neovim plugin, you might consider using it
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by gen220 5y ago
The grammatical structure of modern English is closer to Romance languages than Germanic languages. You can convert many English sentences into a sensible (if not idiomatic) Spanish sentence by translating one word at a time. German has not
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by gen220 5y ago
RSS is still popular[ly-supported]. It's not too late. I felt exactly the way you did for a long time. Eventually, I decided to invest in setting up a more healthy and symmetric relationship with information, like you describe. I reali
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by gen220 5y ago
Missoula is not really the rural part of America that the parent comment is talking about. While Missoula’s population “feels” small at 75k, it’s the second largest metropolitan area (110k-ish) in the state, which has a population of a mill
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by gen220 5y ago
Seeking the wisdom of the HN crowd: Does RSS, with the full article content in each item's description, avoid the "problem" of GDPR compliance? Maybe it'll become "cheaper" for global content creators to go bac
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by gen220 5y ago
If you already own a domain, you can also pretty trivially (<10 lines of bash) implement your own dynamic IP address support with your DNS providers (my solution uses Cloudflare). In a nutshell: `update-dns get-my-current-external-ip-add
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by gen220 5y ago
Most companies have a culture of weird acronyms and phrases that are totally meaningless outside the context of that culture. It's expected that you won't understand normal discourse for the first couple weeks. I think emoji-usage

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