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by jakear 5y ago
This is the first time I’ve seen “a web app” used as a shining beacon of stability. In short, you can’t test a negative. It’s easy to test “when the car receives a transmission in X format, Y happens”, but not “there does not exist a transm
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by jakear 5y ago
HN-specific Trends of DB comments and stories echo your view (in a chamber-like fashion…): MySql popular since early days, Postgres recently growing to overcome it, Maria nowhere to be seen https://jacksonkearl.github.io/Hac
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by jakear 5y ago
Well that’s going to be a hard no from me then. I wonder whether I’m an outlier here. The engineering investment to make zero-disruption voice control seems relatively minuscule, at least compared to all the other big-league AI/ML they
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by jakear 5y ago
Does activating the voice control cause music to stop/decrease in volume? This has always really bothered me — if I’m jamming to a song the last thing I want is for it to stop/drop away, and if the car is creating the noise should
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by jakear 5y ago
Just… write the macro? I don’t see the problem.
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by jakear 5y ago
Surely you see the contradiction in the system you describe as `terrible` being the exact same as the system you call `good`? In either case, macros are available in modern versions but attempting to use them in old versions causes problems
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by jakear 5y ago
That’s just adding another layer of abstraction over exactly what the Mac case does. I prefer code that is so simple it doesn’t need to be abstract, as every abstraction layer is a potential bug layer. Not even just “potential” in QT’s case
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by jakear 5y ago
More about social standing than religion as I understand it. The rule of thumb as I was told is basically: "is there any slight chance in I marry this person? If yes, hijab. If no, doesn't matter." Religion plays a role in su
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by jakear 5y ago
A bit like a hang glider? Article claims interest in them has declined as well.
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by jakear 5y ago
Based on what I've heard from people of the area, the maid is usually an immigrant. And "universal" tends to mean "universal amongst proper citizens". Relatedly, I was surprised to learn that some women who "un
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by jakear 5y ago
I take small pride in the idea there’s something I can taste better than my dog. All I ever hear is how their senses are orders more heightened than our own. Do you know if there are any smells that humans can detect better than dogs?
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by jakear 5y ago
> Take the log of all terms (allowed, because log keeps the sum monotonic) It seems you're employing a + b < c <=> log(a) + log(b) < log(c), which doesn't hold (consider 10, 10, and 20). (the real rule is a * b <
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by jakear 5y ago
I’ve known too many folks dead by 30 to take advice from someone advocating for “boring_twenties”. This is the only life we’ve got. Don’t spend it bored.
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by jakear 5y ago
Then what? Three options: never work; work for yourself; work for someone else. Each has its costs and benefits. To assume that one path is the ideal state for absolutely everyone is naïveté beyond belief.
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by jakear 5y ago
I think the critique is that you should be perfectly able to do all those thing and more, while working, if you have a job that properly respects work/life balance. On the other hand, if you spend a decade or two constantly grinding on
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by jakear 5y ago
Pixels are much larger than imperceptible, even on "retina" devices: https://jacksonkearl.github.io/canvas-thing/
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by jakear 5y ago
Their nuclear hardiness however has been experimentally validated [1], though flour beetles survived even better than cockroaches. Either way, both using CockroachDB and participating in this thread put cockroaches on my mind a lot more tha
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by jakear 5y ago
Are you maybe confusing "Torx security" bits for plain Torx bits? Torx security bits have a hole punched through the center that is indeed a pain in the butt. Standard Torx bits on the other hand are pleasant to work with and extr
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by jakear 5y ago
> I don't think a business could survive in a market economy while treating their animals humanely. The cost would simply be unimaginable. It'd be quite easy to survive if there were enough people who cared about the well-being
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by jakear 5y ago
Right, instead of a large biomass of generally happy “farmed” animals you have a small biomass of incredibly stressed “natural” animals. It’s not obvious to me that that’s as clear of a win as vegans would have me believe.
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by jakear 5y ago
Certainly large scale factory farms should be avoided at all costs. But animal husbandry is an ancient art that a good number of small family farms still practice. They're the ones I'm referring to here. Also note I'm specifi
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by jakear 5y ago
A bit off topic but you seem level-headed and I've been wondering about this for a while: what's your vegan "endgame"? The way I see it, the "vegan utopia" would get rid of all small family farms (even strictly
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by jakear 5y ago
The NFT principle only applies when content consumers value maintaining a chain of ownership to content authors. In cases where a clear chain of provenance is more of a liability than an asset, it's probably more desirable to forge a
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by jakear 5y ago
"I swear officer, the only proof I have of ever being sent those images is this folder filled with infinitely detailed top-down photographs of each one of them lying face-up in my trash can""
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by jakear 5y ago
It won’t be that wild because we won’t know about it.
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by jakear 5y ago
This isn’t correct. Moxie hosts the image, OpenSea hosts the endpoint the wallet queries for ownership listing. The whole system is glorified CRUD, OpenSea always has full control.
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by jakear 5y ago
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to take into account terrain outside of the viewport. Try zooming into the tip of a mountain’s shadow during a “long shadows” time of day, once you zoom in enough that the mountain itself is out of viewport sud
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by jakear 5y ago
Boilermaker language. As in: you make a bunch of boilerplate. And also you get your beer but you’re liable to get a shot in the foot with it. (This is all off the top of my head)
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by jakear 5y ago
You seem to know what you’re talking about so I have a question. Is it possible that leaving fallen leaves on a lawn for a period of time can help to fertilize that lawn? I experimented with that on my lawn this past fall and while it’s too
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by jakear 5y ago
Yes, COVID is finished in much the same way the Spanish flu is finished. Derivatives of it come up and smack us every winter but life goes on.

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