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by impjohn 2y ago
Of the swarm itself? If you gather the swarms orbital energy they will fall into the sun, because they won't be moving fast enough. So you'd need to propel them using more energy
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by impjohn 3y ago
Very cool. How are you extracting the colors from the image? Trying to do something similar but without yielding anything I'm happy with
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by impjohn 4y ago
Thank you, I dislike this lazy connection between animals and stupidity. It feels like a verbal tick of some sort thrown around when reaching for an example
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by impjohn 4y ago
Found the chaotic neutral DnD player
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by impjohn 4y ago
It's a hyper competitive space. That's the equivalent of waiting 20 minutes in line for an ice cream you don't really want all that much. Skip. You may have more patience and composure but most of everyone is sifting through
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by impjohn 4y ago
https://buildwithflask.com/ is the better name
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by impjohn 4y ago
I had my birthday 2 days ago. I tried to keep it as lowkey as I could since I always feel strange when people say 'happy birthday'. For what? I agree with the comment that said take any excuse to celebrate things, but it's no
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by impjohn 4y ago
Why not dismantle the yacht instead
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by impjohn 4y ago
Personally it's hard to understand if quitting SM changed my emotional response to a lot of things or if it is me who changed in time. It doesn't help that the agenda and techniques used by these platforms evolve all the time to f
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by impjohn 4y ago
I have a similar story, but for me it is 4 years and still going. I am generally calmer and my emotional amplitude is less pronounced during the day than when I was on SM, but getting involved socially means you really have to be proactive,
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by impjohn 4y ago
I've been away from facebook and instagram for about 4 years. Never caught the tik-tok or snapchat train, so the only consumption i do is light reddit and hackernews. The weirdest thing for others is that I can sit indefinitely without
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by impjohn 4y ago
I suppose grabbing more layers and tools instead of thinking deeply about why you're having the problem and resolving it at its core is the growing pain I'm referring to. On the other hand perhaps the industry is being ever-increa
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by impjohn 4y ago
First software ate the world. Now software is eating software too. My point is, what you write makes sense if the target isn't moving. Writing software will inevitably become more complex because the envelope is always being pushed. Wh
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by impjohn 4y ago
I can attest to this
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by impjohn 4y ago
I do believe your estimation is more correct than the numbers usually thrown around (80k-100k). Those are for shiny new job openings, and the majority of SWE in EU (just my gut feeling from personal observation) do not like to (or cant) swi
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by impjohn 4y ago
Seems to be a local minima in Europe that for a family to have enough resources, both partners need to have careers and full-time jobs. However two careers do not mix very well with a family perspective and having kids. Then some people won
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by impjohn 4y ago
When getting married, women believe their man will change. Men believe their woman won't. Both are mistaken
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by impjohn 5y ago
It's ok, they'll keep the trillion-dollar startup ideas to themselves:)
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by impjohn 5y ago
This looks amazing. I always imagine my scripts and programs like this in my head, can't wait to play with this
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by impjohn 5y ago
That looks exactly what I was looking for, thanks for the resource
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by impjohn 5y ago
I initially had Python in the title but I removed it to give way to a broader discussion. Definitely checking this one out
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Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
234 points by impjohn 5y ago|141 comments
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by impjohn 5y ago
I've messed around with a few simple Flutter applications and I wrote in Java until the IDE complained then made minor fixes. I never had the feeling I was learning a new language honestly, felt more like moving from python 2 to python
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by impjohn 5y ago
Feels to me like pushing your body to extremes is akin to a metabolic shock and your system rebooting in another operating mode. Probably needs another reboot to go into regular mode, so your apetite will also vary in the meantime
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by impjohn 5y ago
I also have that gut feeling, mind the pun. It stands to reason to me that since metabolism is incredibly complex, any slight variation in any of the parameters can lead to significant differences observed at an overall operational level. I
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by impjohn 5y ago
Meditation is exactly the practice of letting your inner monologue chatter until it dies away and you're fully tethered to your sensations and surroundings. So if one can learn to meditate, in theory one can meditate all the time (ther
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by impjohn 5y ago
Language is still a learned skill. It is quite normal to assume someone not raised in civilization and doesn't speak any human languages does not have an inner monologue expressed in words. While we do all thinking in terms of words (t
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by impjohn 5y ago
Reminds me of that anectode where the father would ask the son to take the clay pots and go fetch water from the fountain. He would yell at the son to not break the pots and slap him. When people asked why he punished the son before even go
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by impjohn 5y ago
But we sometimes use antivirus so it checks out
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by impjohn 5y ago
Have you looked into the VKG (Virtual Knowledge Graph) approach?

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