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by idrios 5y ago
Baalor is great at sts and ridiculously friendly. His ladder challenge was immensely fun to watch
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by idrios 5y ago
Kind of a recently I had a friend get published in Nature, have her work featured on the BBC, and inevitably that was posted here to HN. The work was actually revolutionary, something that in college I had been taught was impossible, she ha
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by idrios 5y ago
I can back you up on this. I lived in China in 2017-2018 and have friends in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. As skeptical as I am of Chinese reportings, it really does sound like they've kept Covid under control for the last
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by idrios 5y ago
I would love to see this poll broken up into some kind of demographics of: Are you single/married/married with kids, do you have roommates (and are they also wfh) what industry do you work in, what stage of your career are you in
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by idrios 5y ago
May be worth noting that it's currently the lunar new year so there might be quite a bit less activity from China and the rest of East Asia at the moment.
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by idrios 5y ago
Hah, similar story here but biomedical engineer with physics & EE minors instead. I wouldn't say that at 17 our brains were too underdeveloped, but that without real world experience there was too much we didn't understand --
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by idrios 5y ago
2mb of scripts actually seems impressively small. I'd say kudos to the author for practicing what she preaches.
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by idrios 5y ago
> I've always thought that a job worth doing was a job worth doing well. Kind of off topic but this made me laugh because I once saw the phrase "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" and I have found massive inspirat
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by idrios 5y ago
For those not familiar, what is the history?
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by idrios 5y ago
There is also a small subset of the population who doesn't build an immunity to the disease. A friend's mom caught Covid last December before a vaccine existed. Her body isn't creating antibodies so -- as of the last time I t
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by idrios 5y ago
My former senior developer was an incredibly competent nodejs dev and a great mentor. He left our company because management wouldn't really respect his opinions because he'd only been with us for 3 years when others had been for
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by idrios 5y ago
This doesn't sound exactly right to me. "forced to move their crypto assets to things like [x]" just sounds like a different way to say "buy [x] with crypto" instead of with USD. Edit because I was downvoted: This g
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by idrios 5y ago
- COVID will continue to be a thing. Some new variant will come along and force everyone to lock down again. - Supply chain issues will get worse throughout 2022, massively fueled by US-China tensions and COVID related shifts in demand. Maj
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by idrios 5y ago
"non-trivial" is definitely the right word. I don't envy the decision makers, but I hope they realize that by being dishonest about masks in the beginning they sent the message that they were willing to lie for the greater go
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by idrios 5y ago
This is also why trust in these institutions is at an all time low. When your decision-makers are telling you lies and half truths for your own good, it becomes harder to know when they're telling the truth. This is the environment tha
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by idrios 5y ago
Linux Mint looks and feels exactly like Windows 7
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by idrios 5y ago
How long ago is long ago? 7 years ago I took a course on the then-current state of the art for neural interfacing, and this was nowhere near a solved problem then. There was research going into emulating sea cucumbers, so the electrode coul
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by idrios 5y ago
The dystopian part of it is that it's institutionalized.
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by idrios 5y ago
Yeah I really like the analogy to software. I noticed the parent comment said "separating these things into entities with specific concerns," which is almost verbatim the maximum of following Separation of Concerns in software des
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by idrios 5y ago
Instead of 1 bill with 3000 pages, you'd have 3000 bills that are each 1 page. Frankly, that's a great outcome and this a great idea.
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by idrios 5y ago
My job complains when I make a pull request that includes more than a few hundred lines of code and tells me to break it up into smaller, more readable changes. But for the US govt a 2700 page bill that congressmen get only a couple of days
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by idrios 5y ago
I think there's a difference in that a cryptocurrency can still be centralized, such as a government that creates its own crypto and manages it through its own exchange.
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by idrios 5y ago
It's subjective. I don't love Facebook but I appreciate that it's easy* to live without it. Can't say the same for Google's ecosystem when my gmail is increasingly tied to my identity. Can't say the same for Am
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by idrios 5y ago
Netflix is a saint, I'll agree with you. Microsoft less so. They had market dominance in the 90's and got hit with antitrust for, e.g. preventing users from uninstalling and replacing internet explorer. I remember reading that the
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by idrios 5y ago
The criticisms towards FB are definitely warranted, but I'd argue that other tech giants are on the same level. Facebook was just the only one that openly picked a fight with the entirety of traditional media who have massive resourc
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by idrios 5y ago
By asking that question I think you've identified part of the problem, because around the time Covid started we lost a very competent senior dev and nobody has been hired to replace him. Still, I used to have some pretty cool impromptu
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by idrios 5y ago
Similar situation, WFH/lockdown massively degraded the quality of my life. Work became more stressful and metric-driven, social life died as all my friends & coworkers moved to their hometowns and I did too, and I've gained we
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by idrios 5y ago
This is a very all or nothing mentality. It's also kind of like saying you should put locks on your locks. Signal's core reason for existing is that it puts a focus on privacy. They say this all over their homepage [0]. One of the
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by idrios 5y ago
Yup, this data is better suited for reflection than prediction. 20 years ago this study would have drawn some very different conclusions.
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by idrios 5y ago
Meh, it's a good way to learn about github alternatives or hear anecdotes from people who have tried doing it.

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