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The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge(tylervigen.com)
1028 points by graypegg 3y ago|264 comments
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by graypegg 3y ago
By not asking a question. “I think this won’t work because {reasoning}”. I’m fine being told that. If you’re working with level headed people, that starts a two way respectful conversation. Honestly that’s just my mileage I guess. Maybe it
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by graypegg 3y ago
I think it's about tone; it feels patronizing to me as well. "How does this approach handle {problem}?" is very socratic. You're asking a question meant to make them reconsider their idea in a very round about way. I thi
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by graypegg 3y ago
I kind of agree, I don’t want to work with a HR robot. I know someone that talks like this to non-coworker friends and it’s honestly just… offputting. I’m more into “ehhh honestly not how I would do it. The {problem} will cause issues down
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The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge(tylervigen.com)
1 points by graypegg 3y ago|0 comments
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by graypegg 3y ago
+1 for Calibre and KOreader combo for remotely browsing ebooks. It works surprisingly seamlessly! Calibre is an insane piece of software on its own. Pretty much the only Swiss Army knife you need for anything “epub”.
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by graypegg 3y ago
And I hope you find a little optimism in your life! You’re saying that in your experience, greater than 20% of adults on a flight are more problematic and annoying than a crying kid? I like to think I’m pretty realistic about things but I d
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by graypegg 3y ago
Yeah actually, that’s much better. Adults have consequences, feel shame when people glare at them, and can be kicked off the flight before take off. I sit down on a flight, I roll with anything that goes wrong, and just focus on getting to
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by graypegg 3y ago
We are in a verrrry similar boat! Always been into fiddling with computers but got my first job in tech around 2013. JavaScript and PHP. Only the past couple years have I messed around with Ruby + RoR and I love it. Every time I have to tou
910.
by graypegg 3y ago
Interesting! I feel like this is a little easier to grok watching the live presentation, but the idea I’m getting is using WebAssembly modules as filters, piping content thru them. You could just have a little collection of binaries, busybo
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by graypegg 3y ago
If something is in the public domain, and you create something new with it, you have the rights to the new work, there isn’t any sort of alike-licensing on public domain works in most-if-not-all jurisdictions. This is why music engravers ca
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by graypegg 3y ago
https://archive.is/VhUc6
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by graypegg 3y ago
That’s a lot of text for a landing page targeting people with ADHD. After a quick skim of it, I still don’t know why shimmer is any different than any other e-therapy service. Edit: just noticed you mentioned the stream lining of your site
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by graypegg 3y ago
I’ve actually done that “web components as the interoperability layer”! It was this old angular 1.8 app with new features being written in angular-hybrid-ized angular 8. Ripping out angular-hybrid and separating the angular 1.8 routes from
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Why your driver’s license is badly designed [video](youtube.com)
2 points by graypegg 3y ago|1 comments
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by graypegg 3y ago
Just as a note since it’s not 100% clear which project you’re talking about, LibreOffice and OpenOffice are now two different projects. One is just a fork of the other. LibreOffice (the topic of this article and version change) isn’t very s
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by graypegg 3y ago
ASL has some casual register signs that are simplified or single hand versions of complex signs [1] that only came about from people chatting more casually. The original version goes from being the only word, to being the formal word for th
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by graypegg 3y ago
Hey that sounds more like what I’ve heard then! :) And as for the pending Adobe buy-out… you can’t say it out-loud, but I can: I really hope they treat you folks right, but I doubt they will. Figma is awesome. Probably too good for a compan
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by graypegg 3y ago
Are the teams working on Figma known to be like that? I’ve only heard good things about Figma honestly, but all before the purchase by Adobe.
920.
by graypegg 3y ago
A hacker news comment chain isn’t a great place to follow up on feedback. Email’s alright! I don’t think that’s too out of touch.
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by graypegg 3y ago
Is there any technical reason excel couldn’t ship with Python? The license allows it [1] and it would probably solve the issue of all users being able to open any document like the cloud solution, but still run locally. [1] https:/&#x
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by graypegg 3y ago
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no [or maybe more accurately, ‘I don’t know’.]”
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by graypegg 3y ago
Source? Because, if that’s still true, I know what I’m doing this weekend. >:)
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by graypegg 3y ago
Sticker Mule sends marketing newsletter emails in plain text ONLY. I love it. They’re just: > Hey ${name}, > Our custom holographic stickers are on for on for ${deal}. And that’s it. I bet they have awesome deliverability because it’s
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by graypegg 3y ago
Silly question but, is it possible they’re thinking about this wrong? Rather than a gene being responsible for making people sign up for studies, what if people that sign up for studies are worried about genetic disease they know of in thei
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Mindgeek (owners of Pornhub) rebranding to Aylo(aylo.com)
2 points by graypegg 3y ago|1 comments
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by graypegg 3y ago
Honestly I wonder how much time could be saved on an ultra low cost airline by just permanently locking the above head compartments that people have to stand in the aisle to use. That seems like the biggest hassle. You could even up-charge
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by graypegg 3y ago
I could totally imagine Verisign or something doing this. Imagine a world where you have to pay a yearly renewal fee to keep your humanity. They’d love it. Of course, it’s not a claim that the user is a human, but rather the user has a slig
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by graypegg 3y ago
Because it’s still being sold for 70$ in ebook form. https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400830398/the-pr...
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by graypegg 3y ago
The GP post was talking about directly editing HTML, so I was assuming they weren’t using a component framework. That’s the context I’m replying to. We can agree to disagree about readability though, I have a lot of trouble groking long cla

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