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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
"Novelty is overrated when it comes to learning." I'm still trying to understand what this means. I must admit to being aesthetically offended by any dismissal of novelty, but this is clearly an emotional reaction and I recog
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
I can't believe someone flagged a citation-laden dry-as-a-bone statement with no insults, rude words, etc. I do think that that the author addressed this comment by saying that they don't CLAIM original work, but I find such use o
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
thank you! Despite all the defenses of such by progammers who claim hardware always improving and code cosmetics/organizational trends obviate software performance concerns, I can attest to the reality that I composed electronic music
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Mmmm probably depends upon what it is. Core competencies of your business? Probably not the best thing to use an external service for. (Assuming your core competency is not cloud computing & storage) Your core will need to constantly
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMw_dlnVH0&ab_channel=Ernes...
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
I think we can and should safely ignore what people who protest against public health measures in a pandemic say, especially when it's rebelling against life-saving emergency measures. Shame be upon such short-sighted folks who think t
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Imagine the folks who lived through 10 years of World War 2, and here you are crying about wearing a mask to the supermarket. It's such a pity that you have Trumpelstiltskins over there too. I had thought you smarter...
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
it would indeed, as it posits spurious claims and is factually inaccurate, ER doctor or not. The fact is, over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war, so there's no real minimizing
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
It's baffling that you would take this singular anecdotal factually-cherry-picked account of one doctors experience during one nations allegedly ineffective (lack of a) response to COVID as sensible advice moving forward. For one, his
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
sql injection? escape all inputs, lol. go on though, I'm curious. I was thinking "this person repeated the same comment 10 times" works as well as "they mentioned pudding and i hate pudding"... The bar to click down
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
oooh, kudos for floating-point usage! I like it.
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Comment Flagging on HN as of Late
21 points by hootbootscoot 6y ago|28 comments
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
But this is the same "race to the bottom" rhetoric that justified the entire "disruption" to the music and publishing industries that gave us Netflix and Amazon, respectively. I'm less and less convinced that we are
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
That actually is a great way to bring up how miserably the Netflix model treats content creators. The $4 billion rich Netflix CEO says that artists should try harder if they don't want to starve (source, this same article we are discus
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
I highly disagree. Rupert Murdoch is surely one of the most elite of the elites and his vast media empire has managed to brainwash certain folks into calling his vision "populism" due strictly to his outreach efforts. It would als
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
great stuff
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Spotify are effectively parasites. They pay poorly. Dominate the market. Force everyone to accept their poor treatment through their market domination. (Go watch some Youtube tutorials on paid spotify placement services) And thus, this yout
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Spotify pays independent artists (that aren't part of large negotiated artist pools from seriously major labels) poorly. Indie artists are sinking more into getting their songs promoted on playlists than they gain in streaming revenue
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Crystal lang. Web transported applications, as it was apparently intended. (HTTP requests being part of the std-lib and all...) The syntax is like Ruby, but it's statically typed and compiled and the executable uses very little RAM. It
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Sorry, posting after a few drinks again... Silly stuff like "I like wide-code-formatting, not vertical stacks with 4 characters on a line or something. (cultural) "Too many moving parts" in almost every implementation of anyt
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Funny, I find Dart to be horrid and verbose, and oddly daunting, mostly because of the expected massive surface area your code has to traverse, and these odd "let's pretend async is sync" erm "features" that the JS
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
No other nation in the world had a clown trying to turn facemasks into a political issue to argue about. Oh sorry, one other nation did, and it's argued that that clown was installed the same way our clown was by the same foxy Australi
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Particularly the (lack of a concerted) federal government response to the COVID pandemic. Selective support of states rights when it's Pandemic Time counts as "kicking the can down the road" to the poster below me.
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Did it ever occur to you that media outlets are businesses, and so their talking bobble-heads pander to whatever they think will help their bottom-line and perception as being "cool" or "with it"? TBH, I was initially im
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
You had me, then you lost me. Hubris and the unwillingness to comprehend real problems and the desire to cover them up with "SHUT UP IT"S GREAT!" won't go down well. What I'm seeing is more apologism for wrongful hi
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Do they hate their country or the wicked humans and laws ruling it? Do they hate their country or love it deeply and want it changed for the better? Does criticism equal hatred in your mind?
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
RSS should make a comeback
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Anecdotally speaking, that's because those are tourist trap cities. the person IS a tourist, is in the most touristic neighborhood possible, often in the center, and is behaving like a total tourist. It's not a European thing, it&
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Good. I'm tired of phone zombies walking literally INTO me. There at least needs to be some clearly defined etiquette. "keep right" only works in right-hand drive countries, nor is it consistently applied (shopping center esc
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by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Bandcamp is great! (speaking as an artist & a fan/listener both)

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