heynowheynow

8 ms·

31.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
There is genetic evidence of grizzlies acquiring polar genes over the eons likely due to glacial advances and retreats altering habitats and cutting-off populations temporarily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–pol
32.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Family lived in a suburban area with black bear. They appeared to sometimes challenge us for territory as they would leave scat in the center of the front lawn. Bear scat is unmistakable. When they're too comfortable around humans, it&
33.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
"Have you ever heard of a thing called 'fluoridation?'" https://youtu.be/J67wKhddWu4
34.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
LTCM enters the chat. Ruble falls. AI strats say buy all teh rubles. $4 terabucks margin call. Oops.
35.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
I miss Netscape on Windows 3.1 on a 4:3 CRT monitor in 256 colors with red on yellow Comic Sans bold italic H1 blink tag marquee with an unnecessary trail of ellipses scrolling left to right with 3 iframes with Java and Flash applets with a
36.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Ignore genderedness when shopping and save money. I bought oversized women's snowpants for $18 discontinued vs. $210 in men's. It wasn't a tough decision. They weren't designed gendered being beige and baggy. If "gi
37.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Largely ignorant buyers of mass-market, commodified devices lead to intense cost wars that shed features that aren't "essential." If a buyer wants ECC in a laptop or desktop, typically they have to purchase a workstation-clas
38.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Seriously. Claim Elvis, Madonna, and Oprah visited. And it has indescribable cleansing properties. Wellness is the easiest place to make money because it's selling sweet little lies people want to hear.
39.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
We're all "shoveling coal" and "put on our pants one leg at a time." Pedigree gets noticed as a social and business scarcity signal, and ease of opportunities and expectations ensue. "It must be good if it says
40.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Sadly, yes. There are managers who refuse to listen to their own people. This is where MBB consultants come in: talk to everyone, listen, and deliver fancy brochure-level template presentations with data and input from their own employees.
41.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
India wants to know if they should ask Pakistan to get the band back together. Also, returning to fractional sovereigns, pounds, crowns, guineas, florins, shillings, pennies, and farthings would be extremely simple. (It's the sad and c
42.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
It's pining for the fjords or maybe it's just stunned.
43.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
There is an entire category of fallacies of distraction. People, especially those of the political persuasion, use them when they don't have valid or just arguments to support their position. Personally, I prefer goat brains, monkey te
44.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Somehow, I suspect a mud resort is behind this.
45.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Reading on dead flat ex-trees and writing
46.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Pony does stricter sharing semantics than Rust (multicore) with actors and allegedly one of the fastest GCs ever developed. Its community is even smaller than Crystal's. Pony was developed essentially as a PoC to demonstrate the GC.
47.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
This is the same problem with Ruby, Python. or any interpreted language. What most LSPs do is approximate it rather than worry about perfection and deliver nothing.
48.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
I also tried it now and then. There are too many places to have concurrency and scaling issues with such a tiny community. The packages and feature sets are thin too. Alternatives: if you don't mind your eyes bleeding with C++-verbosit
49.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Climate change emergency being played out around the world as storms, fires, and famines enters the chat. In terms of priorities: shelter, food, and water are more important than having a tiny shop with large utility bills. Pakistan, India,
50.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Don't expect much from a manufacturer who until recently didn't use immobilizers.
51.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
VSCode is based on Electron, a glorified hack/resource hog of Chromium than even Github largely abandoned. It maybe "great" and mildly "popular" here and there, but it's built on a foundation of mud. Build nati
52.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Has only a hammer and looking for nails. What takes appreciation is the differences between a DOS game executable and a modern hyperscale backend app server fleet. gdb-server ain't going to solve many problems on 500k boxes.
53.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Because The Great Dictator said so.
54.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
TRNN and MPN are rags. This article is trash.
55.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?+=8kr
56.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
001000100100000101101100011011000010000001111001011011110111010101110010001000000110001001100001011100110110010100100000011000010111001001100101001000000110001001100101011011000110111101101110011001110010000001110100011011110010000001110101
57.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
I estimate 4.5 human-years of effort (1.5 years nonstop).
58.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Never gonna happen because there are competing vital interests: 0. Human diurnal local time 1. Universal time similar to 0. but without local offsets - UTC (UT1) 2. Universal monotonic time (within comparable gravitational reference zones)
59.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
You've been to Austin? How dare you not say "hello" and yet notice all of the dnrgy (small D energy) burning ancient biomass, increasing global warming, adding unnecessary microfines to the air, contributing to noise pollutio
60.
by heynowheynow 4y ago
Illinois had to instate a moratorium because of their track record of convicting innocence people to death. A conservative estimate is 50 innocent people have been executed in the US in modern times, and over 200 on death row are also innoc

More ›