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by hertzrat 6y ago
I know several people who can’t sleep well without a tv playing, usually a playlist of old movies they have seen 10 times. It works for them. I’m up to 430am every night since about 8 months ago and it makes me wonder if I should try it.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It depends how clear it is to future maintainers that there are 5 places to change the code to implement a given functional change. The major risk is often that one of those 5 files gets forgotten about and it leads to a surprise later on.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I don’t think people agree on 95% of issues at all. If you talk to many people in private after they get to know you, they reveal all sorts of ideas they don’t like to talk about publicly. If you don’t react well though they will never ment
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by hertzrat 6y ago
What do you mean a microphone in a thermostat? You mean nest?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos Really great post, although I do really value good, consistent code style. Readability really matters (imho). You can even use writing concepts like
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by hertzrat 6y ago
You just accused me of being a scammer for creating a Twitter account and making a single tweet and getting banned the same day. What is wrong with you?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The account wasn’t hacked. It was a day old
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Obviously, but it doesn’t help me when support has a “we will never speak with you” policy
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I’m banned from Twitter without explanation. I made an account, followed 3-4 tech celebrities like Paul graham, and posted a single tweet similar to “I finally got pressured into making a dumb Twitter account...” The account got banned for
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Is steam available in China? If not, what platforms do people use? Do you really only get about 15% of the sale price before taxes? I’m making a game of my own and am just curious for the future
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Anonymous accounts let people who differ from the norm say thing safely and to meet one another
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by hertzrat 6y ago
While I like your argument about requirements getting more complex in the future, if we are speaking of fallacies, the much of what you said is an ad hominem and mind reading. The argument basically comes down to whether web development is
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by hertzrat 6y ago
There are a variety of clips of Jonathan blows twitch stream where he talks about web development. He feels that it has gotten so inefficient and complicated that it now takes 20x as long to create something as it needs to. He suggested tha
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I found his work on gravity (I think it was the Principia but I’m not 100%) to be a difficult read and did not finish it. It did not seem to cover every point he made comprehensively and I had to fill in some gaps as I went. Some of his ter
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Agreed. Also, I emailed them to clarify their privacy policy and a real human wrote me back to reassure me about the few clauses I was unclear on. We live in an age human support is not that common so this felt great
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I must have misread something, thanks for the correction
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by hertzrat 6y ago
This is not really because of that tweet specifically, but because the USA has now accused China of genocide against the uighurs https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-china-genocide-declaration-...
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Not everything that can make people money is automatically a good feature. For example... (your imagination has already filled in that blank). A plug-in system is pretty nice to have though
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I met somebody using the avast browser the other day and helped them switch to something else... Avast, one of the biggest antivirus companies, was apparently caught harvesting and selling user browsing data recently https://fort
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by hertzrat 6y ago
> While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The nazis did some things during world war 2 that perhaps lost them the label “human.” I don’t have the emotional vigour this morning to make a list of the atrocities but one that doesn’t get mentioned often was a literal war of exterminati
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by hertzrat 6y ago
If you implement your favourite variant of the state pattern, state machines get a lot nicer to work with also - depending on the task at least. You wouldn’t bother with it to track a button press state in embedded but it’s nice when the st
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Estimating in terms of units is mostly for internal teams with a fixed payroll. It can work really great in that context. But imagine that you are asking for project funding. The person across the table logically wonders: how much do you ne
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Speaking purely of the headline... imagine saying that in a client meeting: your own learning is the real gem, the working code is a potential side effect that the client may benefit from. Imagine saying it with a fully straight face, deadp
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Is it really worth even considering if it works or not? Nobody should have to change their names to escape childhood surveillance
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It’s more about the size of the environments and how much grass and leaves I can support. RTX isn’t really a factor in my case
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by hertzrat 6y ago
That gpu shortage is worrying me because I’m working on a game right now with a certain hardware requirement. By X date I have been anticipating that 50-55% of gamers will have Y gpu or better, based on previous years steam hardware survey
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by hertzrat 6y ago
That’s a scary observation. Those people weren’t the most important cause of world war 1, but they were the spark in an extremely dry barn that everyone kept adding gasoline to, daring the other side to spark it
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by hertzrat 6y ago
That applies to a lot of situations if taken literally. You have to use a lot of care when labeling somebody with such a charged word. We wouldn’t want to see a bunch of rioters from <pick a protest by whatever side that turned violent&g
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Interesting observation. Just imagine if google search was more engagement driven. It’s pretty great that it is only so to a small degree (in the sense of figuring out what links people are most likely to have been searching for, which is s

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