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by grardb 6y ago
> Norvig's code is beautiful and very good Lisp. But it's so dense that it requires more lines of explanatory comments than actual functionality. The code's functionality isn't self-evident. And sure, you can write Ja
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by grardb 6y ago
This is really cool. I absolutely love Alpine, and a lot of these look like they could come in quite handy. TIL (by reading the source code) that you can add your own $functions to Alpine as well! I will definitely be making use of that fun
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by grardb 6y ago
I'm not an expert baker, but when you type "sourdough" into Google images, 99.9% of the results you are getting are photos of bread made with refined (white) flour. As far as I know, you are never going to get a big, airy cru
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by grardb 6y ago
I majored in CS in college, and I would say there is actually easily enough room for additional, non-technical/mathematical subjects in the curriculum. As part of my major, I was required to take: two calculus courses, two physics (o
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by grardb 6y ago
Sure, but the difference here is that there is no one person who coined the term "Scotsman" with a specific definition of what a Scotsman is...
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by grardb 6y ago
It does, but that page was likely written by non-vegans, who in general have a hard time seeing past the dietary aspect of veganism, since it's the biggest obstacle to becoming a vegan for most people. As I point out in another comment
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by grardb 6y ago
This is a definition only used by non-vegans. The word "vegan" was coined by Donald Watson in 1944, the founder of The Vegan Society. Their definition of veganism is: > A philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as f
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by grardb 6y ago
Not always the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23988446
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by grardb 6y ago
Not quite. Veganism is a belief system, whereas fruitarianism is a diet. The latter is compatible with veganism since the diet contains no animal products, but you can be a fruitarian who exploits animals in a non-dietary fashion (e.g. wear
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by grardb 6y ago
You'd have a bunch of currency that isn't really in circulation anymore, if my understanding of the Canadian penny is correct!
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by grardb 7y ago
Written in older JS, it would look like this: $ = function(_) { return document.querySelector(_) } It basically turns `$` into an alias for `document.querySelector`. I'm not sure that it's any different from: $ = document.querySel
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by grardb 7y ago
Maybe not for a small company, but I simply can't imagine it for a larger organization. Even ignoring integrations/plugins/bots – of which Discord has almost nothing useful for product development – a huge issue with Discor
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by grardb 7y ago
Good point, though when speaking of "intolerable working environments," many employees of slaughterhouses suffer from PTSD and drug/alcohol addiction, and also become more likely to be domestic abusers: https://met
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by grardb 7y ago
I've been doing work with the Vegan Hacktivists. https://veganhacktivists.org/ Basically, we code up apps that we hope will help promote veganism. In some cases, we lend engineering help to organizations that need some
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by grardb 7y ago
I think Liquix is referring to the inverse scenario, which is people outside the LGBTQ community refusing to use "they" to refer to someone who prefers they/them.
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by grardb 7y ago
The post goes into some detail about this. "Everybody" is semantically plural, but its verbs are conjugated as singular: Everybody is , everybody has , everybody does , etc.
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by grardb 7y ago
I suppose for people opposed to the singular "they," the "correct" way to write this would be something like: > “She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in one&#x
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by grardb 7y ago
You could say the same about soy-based burgers, yet many say that the Impossible Burger tastes like an animal burger.
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by grardb 8y ago
No way in particular. I just have a steam basket for my big pot, which kinda looks like this: https://image.sportsmansguide.com/adimgs/l/2/231755_ts.jpg I just throw in the pieces (about 1-2 bites each in ter
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by grardb 8y ago
Honestly, I love sweet potatoes so much that I don't really use them in recipes , per se. I almost always just eat them as-is, completely on their own! There was one time I made mini sweet potato pies with the Okinawa variety inside a
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by grardb 8y ago
As a vegan who is constantly seeing anti-vegan (or pro-keto) sentiment on HN, it's nice to see a post about a Blue Zone[1]. Interestingly, the Okinawans eat a different sweet potato from the one shown. It's appropriately named the
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by grardb 8y ago
How could you possibly come to that conclusion? > The military is known for being a bastion of sexism, but I had a worse experience at Amazon. > . . . the managers do not get any sort of break or lunch. Most of us just never ate. Ever
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by grardb 9y ago
>The real question where and when to subsidize each. It makes no sense to build subways in rural Kansas that no one would ride, or new roads in Manhattan. I can agree with this to some extent, but the question is, "how can we do thi
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by grardb 9y ago
If we're playing this game, we could go a step further than that and say that roads with little traffic need little maintenance. Roads with more driving will need to maintained on a more regular basis. If someone has data/knowledg
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by grardb 9y ago
Nope. http://usa.streetsblog.org/2011/01/04/actually-highway-build...
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by grardb 9y ago
I feel like this is almost an apples-to-oranges comparison. Yes, public transit "competes" with cars, but... Is the government subsidizing something run by the government really "subsidization?" It may be federal vs stat
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by grardb 9y ago
I don't understand either. I'm from New York, and I wouldn't say it any other way. "I took 101 to 110," sounds extremely awkward to me. "How do you get there?" "Take 10." "Take 10 what?&quot
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by grardb 9y ago
Seriously. I always roll my eyes when somebody claims that acupuncture "doesn't work," because it's worked for me on multiple occasions. Typically, it comes from people who have never tried it. A little over four years a
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by grardb 9y ago
>However, I made a deal with him where I would give him a little more money that what he asked for and he wouldn't need to pay me if he committed to learning how to code (with my assistance). I would highly recommend against this. I
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by grardb 9y ago
As I wrote in my comment: >I believe this is especially true for aspects outside of writing code. This probably isn't true at every company, but from where I've worked, a big part of being a senior engineer is understanding how

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