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by handrous 5y ago
I still like them because their support folks sent me a t-shirt in, I dunno, maybe 2012, when I posted a slightly-clever workaround on their forums, for some subscription-related functionality they didn't have yet. Fairly cheap way to
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by handrous 5y ago
I think it could be argued to have been, at times, conceptually thin, if you like. I agree that the tooling and even React itself, under the hood, have never been thin, or if they ever were it was only very early on in the project. Well
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Certain performance improvements and mitigations for common performance problems in something like React require bi-directional interaction of state and state-related events with instances of components. Classes/objects are a pretty
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by handrous 5y ago
Everything used to be less slick. Even huge store chains and brands look amateurish by modern standards, from as recently as the 90s. Some of it's explainable by changing fashion making those things look worse, but most of it's ju
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by handrous 5y ago
Trivially true, as value isn't intrinsic in the first place. Now do human lives.
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, I started going "well, time to look at the rest of the ecosystem for the Next Thing" with Hooks. Given requirements that meant, to progress, they were going to need to either: 1) Tell devs that sometimes they would simply
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by handrous 5y ago
It's better for certain types of pain management than opioids (and way less risky than them), seems to be at least fairly effective as an anti-anxiety drug (look into stats on the percentage of Americans who are on prescription anti-
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by handrous 5y ago
I found the issue once before, and I admit it took a lot of clicking to find a route to it again this time (I thought you had removed it, at first).
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by handrous 5y ago
Your "industries" page has a broken "about" link in the footer—and maybe other issues, as it's very different from most of the rest of your site, and there a some other little not-broken-but-not-ideal things about i
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by handrous 5y ago
- They added fast metadata storage devices to their zfs pools. Since failure of these metadata device groups mean the whole storage pool is lost, they've set them up to have a similar level of redundancy to the rest of their system (i.
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> One thing that has always bugged me about the narrative of "fake news" and "disinformation" or "misinformation" online is that it always made the readers/consumers seem like helpless victims. It'
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, looking at the linked study in the article, it seems folks who fought it off easily (often with low initial viral load) tended to be the ones who consistently tested blood serum antibody-negative. So if you had it and didn't get
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> Feels like maybe a case of the "trolley problem". I think that's it exactly. It seems some (many? most?) people believe that the consequences of actions deserve more scrutiny and a higher threshold to act, than inaction
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It's not an automatic back-button press for me (I mean, hell, most sites do that these days), but I do find pages that yell at me to BUY IT! first thing to be really gross. Like having a salesman run up to me on the street, pen and con
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by handrous 5y ago
> What do you think people should do differently when reporting these issues? ... sell vulns to bad actors for Monero or something?
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> The average American is horribly misinformed about the actual risks of covid, many young healthy Americans still believe the unvaccinated risk of death is about 10% for them, they're off in their estimate by four magnitudes. It&#x
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That's fine—my experience was very similar outcomes without a union involved. You asserted that unions were a major part of the difference in behavior between public and private schools, but our public schools behaved much the same way
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> Yup that’s why every private school that had honest staff and wasn’t bound by the National Teachers Union who were playing political games was in person most of last year. Teachers' unions are so weak in my state that they're
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> I have teacher friends, I don't know if anyone of them got infected, but absolutely no-one has been afraid or hysterical about the situation or thinking about quitting their job because of the pandemic. There's a difference i
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Interesting—my spouse has only been in a little over a decade, and has switched districts enough times that we hadn't put together any kind of pattern of changes over the years. I just know that the frequency with which kids are out fo
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by handrous 5y ago
Me, I'd be like, "huh, it sure was dumb of me to let my kid take an expensive electronic distraction to school. I probably shouldn't have done that." But I think that puts me in old-man-yells-at-cloud territory, these da
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> > but I don't think we'd have been able to keep fully in-person school running last year anyway. > But why do you think this? Are you aware that many parts of the world have returned to fully in-person school for severa
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Private schools that did well with in-person learning last year could take measures public schools couldn't, and had much better compliance rates for things like masking and distancing. For instance, parents wouldn't let public sc
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by handrous 5y ago
> Why is split learning even on the table? Who are we trying to protect? The kids? The teachers? Are most people in these hyper-partisan democrat areas (I'm speaking from a US perspective, but it's largely the US that has volun
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> Perhaps instead of doing something didn't work, we just split the kids into 2 groups, Monday-Wednesday, and then Tuesday-Saturday. Then we'd only have 10 - 15 kids per class. Give them more self directed study and homework. H
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It has been known to happen. And not for anything actually urgent. Yes, really. And not a one-off, but one of those "oh yeah, time or two a year that happens" sorts of things. Apparently taking kids out of school to get their nail
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by handrous 5y ago
Parents freak. The. Fuck. Out. If you touch their kids' phone, these days. You can maybe keep it to the end of the day (and some parents will still complain, "what if I needed to reach them?" Gee, I dunno, maybe call the offi
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by handrous 5y ago
God, I get that one, unsolicited, All. The. Time. It may be the only kind of unsolicited "idea for a product" I've ever gotten, actually. "You make apps? I have a great app idea that'll make you rich! All of us in [
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by handrous 5y ago
> I have a DSLR and I now don't bring it along anymore. I have three kids, so I already have to carry around a lot of stuff and children, so there is no more room or energy for my DSLR. My phone is always in my pocket though. I also
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by handrous 5y ago
> I think I developed the habit at a time when sleep just never worked on my linux machine though I did the same in my ~15 years of Windows & Linux desktops and laptops, with the sole exception of an IBM (yep, was still IBM) Thinkp

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