jamescostian

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by jamescostian 7y ago
This isn't someone having an edge over someone else because they worked for it, took a risk for it, or earned it in any way. It's because they had different parents - capitalism is about rewarding work, risk, etc not having parent
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by jamescostian 7y ago
Installing iTerm 2 takes seconds and running it as equally as easy as running Terminal.app. It's really not any extra mental overhead; if anything, it helps you practice the strange art that is installing things on a mac
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by jamescostian 7y ago
Go to Terminal.app and (using your mouse) select some text, such as your prompt. Now paste. Repeat the same experiment with iTerm 2 (although you may need some custom setting for this one). There are different results: iTerm 2 will copy the
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by jamescostian 7y ago
iTerm 2 provides noticeable improvements. Being able to select text and have it immediately copied to your clipboard (much like the PRIMARY clipboard in Linux) is very, very nice. The UI is also much more customizable. And things like imgca
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by jamescostian 7y ago
Could you log in to social media and message someone? Or log into google/apple/yahoo and check your contacts?
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by jamescostian 7y ago
I wonder if parents these days just put "Mom" and "Dad" contacts in their kids' phones and don't bother teaching their kids their phone numbers
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by jamescostian 7y ago
> Both of these studies estimated that around 6 to 7 percent of all dementia cases in their samples could be attributed to air pollution exposures Is it just me or does this seem very flimsy? Sounds like this model catches very few cases
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by jamescostian 7y ago
In addition, in the README they reference it like "ic(x)", which sounds like "I see x", and goes very well with the output that sounds like "I see x equals 5"
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by jamescostian 7y ago
Agreed. Print statements are too vanilla; you need to lay down some moose tracks so you can retrace your steps once in a blue moon
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by jamescostian 7y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie "If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk" "If you give a mouse a glass of milk, he'll ask for a straw" An
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by jamescostian 7y ago
As a fellow macOS, brew, iTerm2, and zsh user, I agree that this is an amazing setup. Telemetry sucks ass for sure, but AFAIK it can at least mostly be disabled (albeit with some work, but I think most of that is probably automated today).
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by jamescostian 7y ago
Would you prefer stable only getting crucial security updates and never release updates to speed things up? Eventually Nightly would be completely different from stable, especially with the switch to Rust. So then Mozilla would have to main
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by jamescostian 7y ago
I looked through their code of conduct to see what would give you that idea, and the closest thing I could find is this: > We will exclude you from interaction if you insult, demean or harass anyone. [...] In particular, we don't to
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by jamescostian 7y ago
You're right, giving advice to a wide audience increases the chances of it harming people.
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> If they think "you're naturally skilled at this", they're usually mistaken. We have completely different anecdata. I've said and heard people say "be yourself" many times. Rarely have I seen it go awr
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Even your "charitable" interpretation is obviously not charitable. "Yeah, you're not skilled at this" is not what people mean when they say "be yourself", unless by "this" you mean "emulate
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by jamescostian 8y ago
This comment I'm writing, as well as the comment I'm replying to, are both "salty" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=salty
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I've always wondered, which is better: a 7.1 system or stereo headphones with "3d audio"? And if 3d audio is so great, why doesn't everyone just use stereo speakers (maybe with a subwoofer)?
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by jamescostian 8y ago
You also cannot go to your customers and say "well instead of using a popular library, we used our own and it broke and so did your site" And more importantly, NIH leads to on-boarding issues. Many, many people are React/Angu
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by jamescostian 8y ago
It's true that learning one Latin language (like French) makes it easier to understand another latin language (like Spanish), and the same is true of learning similar programming languages. But the point isn't that it's easy
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I am a (not good looking) man, who dates women, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. I too was once a virgin, I too was once someone with a bad tinder profile. There have been 2 times when I have started Tinder conversations
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by jamescostian 8y ago
>> Did you ever get reviews from women about how you were good at conversing? > No, but women rarely respond at all so I'm not exactly surprised by that Really? See, that's very weird to me, because I rarely saw women not
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> More realistically, if the 20% improve their game in one area the 80% are just going to one up them. How are the 80% going to one up them? One thing about dating apps for straight people is that you don't know what your competitor
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I suppose if you want to get laid infrequently (or you're attractive enough for bad messages to work) then this is the best solution.
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by jamescostian 8y ago
If they would be fine in an informal, real-world situation, why can't they do the same via an app? All the things you would say in real life can be said via dating apps. You miss body language, but GIFs, emojis, and memes can help clar
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by jamescostian 8y ago
I'm interested in your counter-point, and have a couple of questions: - When you were writing good messages, were things very conversational and informal? - Did you ever get reviews from women about how you were good at conversing? It
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> how much unattractiveness can actually be compensated for by being more interesting Good question - IDK! Based on what I've heard and seen (I have a lot of close friends who are women my age), there are a lot who talk about wantin
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by jamescostian 8y ago
> Only a small percentage of people can have "really interesting" photos. If everyone suddenly got photos that today are really interesting the photos would become mundane. True, but this isn't the problem we have yet. So
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by jamescostian 8y ago
It sounds like we agree. I said this: >> If you're a great-looking guy and you can't start or hold a good conversation, you can still get laid on the basis of looks. But if you don't look good, you don't get those
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by jamescostian 8y ago
Ask a heterosexual woman in that age range about how many awful conversations she's had with men in that age range via dating apps. She won't say "a few", she'll say "A LOT", and be able to show that the v

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