iamstupidsimple

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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
I'm no fan of NFTs, but the argument that > it's bad for the environment just doesn't make sense to me. There are far, far more energy intensive operations that we do daily. Think about how much energy is 'wasted&#x27
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
At the same time, we're talking about bitmaps here, not 4K textures.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
TV Remote?
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> A few software markets have been completely dominated by FLOSS: system software, compilers, lexers, shells, kernels, codecs, programming languages, arduino-like tools... While not discounting how good coreutils are, everything you&#x27
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
I wouldn't respect a manager who hadn't done the job itself.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
HTML & CSS? If you don't want to pay for it, why would somebody else?
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
GIFs alone would take more than a week for a single person. I think you are severely underestimating the necessary complexity.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
"@dang" doesn't seem to work. You're best off email hn@ycombinator.com to get their attention
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
That's what vaccines are for, no?
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Yeah, the TV thing just rubs me the wrong way. TV channels have ads, which is why I avoid them, but TV menus is too much.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
But what can we do? Ads provide employment for tens of millions of people and fund literally billions of hours of content watched a year. Even if you agree most is trash, it's also allowed some really high quality stuff to flourish whi
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Fools have created an acronym - NIMBY - to denigrate those who don’t want to waste land just for personal financial gain. Coming at this from a UK perspective, housing is a nightmare here too. But our green belt is at an all time low a
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Ah, that must be new. I'd give you a code but I want this account to stay pseudonymous and don't know how I could share. Please do ask around here though.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Personally: - Google Cloud Run (or anything that can run docker) - SendGrid (but use SMTP only for easy migration) - Google Workspace (Office/Notion are also cool but I just don't use them often) - Mainly Go with Python for script
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
It's possible to be OK sharing information with one company but but not another? Especially when MS has a large history of security f'ups.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
I mean, Windows shouldn't be this user-hostile in the first place. Most of it is literally not designed for "HN commenters".
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Was that controlled for? Very little can be controlled for in studies like this. There are just too many factors to slice on, and before long you're just reading into noise.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Physics isn't some black magic art. Yes it takes time and understanding that I will personally never have, but it's not the unobtanium people think that it is. Most of the reason people leave theoretical physics is lack of jobs an
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Which level of 'riches' are we talking about though? If you're not aiming for a unicorn then the goal of a small, sustainable internet business is much more reasonable. Your main problem at that point becomes your competitors
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Nope. I've had foobar from outside the US.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> The idea is to not only adjust supply to the demand, but to shape the demand to the supply. This is completely backwards. Demand is highly price inelastic and inversely correlated with the supply of renewables. People usually eat at ni
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
GitHub.com is almost entirely non-free code, when seen through a web browser. Unless you're talking about just the git portion?
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
No data to back this up, but I have a feeling the industry is so bottom-heavy with juniors that we've started optimising towards their immediate need to learn. Juniors don't have a problem sitting in Slacks all day.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> AWS does not operate this way nor do many CDNs operate this way nor do ISPs operate this way. I'm not denying that, but all the same, we're not talking about thousands of separate codebases. It's a single monorepo codeba
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Would you consider `ls` an API for exposing your filesystem? I don't see why not. It has an interface for input and output, conforms to well known specifications and is publicly documented. There's also multiple implementatio
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
It's literally illegal to knowingly receive or facilitate the sale of stolen goods.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Is the magnitude of the mess, multiplied by the number of engineers, worth the creation of an entire readability certification process? I don't think so. And that's an acceptable trade-off for a different sized company. Goog
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
React is fine for web apps, but static sites are not web apps. Using the DOM where appropriate is perfectly fine.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
The DOM is a declarative state for a document.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> But why do you _also_ need someone with a readability rating as opposed to a code owner FWIW, these can be the same person - if the have appropriate readabilities. The problem is that it's not easy to get readability in the first

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