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by javajosh 3y ago
I have a "minimal screens" policy. What screens they do get are creative . For example, KidPix. I don't allow games or video watching. This puts the screen squarely in the "arts and crafts" space, where it belongs,
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by javajosh 3y ago
That Act was passed by legislators who were elected by the general public to represent what is "right" to them.
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by javajosh 3y ago
The only reason things are legal or illegal, allowed or disallowed, is because the majority of the voting public deems it to be so. There is no possible set of rules that can reflect every individuals sense of right and wrong, since we disa
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's also expensive to have handicapped parking spots and ramps. You do it because it's right, not because it's convenient or cheap.
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by javajosh 3y ago
IANAL, and I don't think the GP's argument is valid, but his goal is valid: retail businesses should not discriminate against people without phones or credit cards. There are lots of them, and it could be you at some point. There
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by javajosh 3y ago
Nope, that's not the plan. The plan is to start an non-practicing entity that copywrites religious texts and sues others who use them.
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by javajosh 3y ago
You've described a viable startup business plan.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't think people really know what "the consequences" are. There's a lot of flak in the zeitgeist about how awful, expensive, and horrific kids are - but precious little about how wonderful it is. It's false adve
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by javajosh 3y ago
Luckily mom was 10 years younger than me. And yeah I have some concerns about being "the old dad" but I'm not that old and at least right now I'm pretty active. Had to start using reading glasses last year, so I know t
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by javajosh 3y ago
I had kids relatively late in life (42) and it's been amazing. I love being a dad, far more than I thought I would. It wasn't really about wanting kids or not wanting kids, it felt more like...puberty in that for most of human his
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think you're ignoring an important cost/benefit analysis. The upside may be small, on the order of 10's of dollars per month. But the downside is very large - scammers or corrupt governments tracking your behavior to fuel p
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Steam is not helping. Apple's version of Steam could be called "Sauce".
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by javajosh 3y ago
The real reason, which I don't hear voiced often, is because you're not getting enough value for your data. Your data has value to advertisers, but to many other entities, private and public. Your data has value, and Google has hi
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by javajosh 3y ago
If you tell people 60% of the DSM-V[0] is fake, they might wake up and listen. Assuming that the DSM-V is based on peer-reviewed research, that ought to be the case.) 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5
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by javajosh 3y ago
Python succeeded because it's well designed, and is now dominating because of AI. But JavaScript will ultimately win because software distribution is the most important hard software problem . And JS solved that problem.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Look at Haiti. The government has failed, violent gangs rule the streets. And yet the people are against foreign intervention. Those groups that do go in are attacked their people kidnapped for ransom and so on. It will be an interesting te
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'd like to see a new regulatory regime that allows individual health care providers like doctors, nurses, etc to start their own practices that are cash only. The sense I get is that small strappy businesses like that can't start
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by javajosh 3y ago
No, absolutely not. How can you trust the output from such a black box system? Who is to say that the LLM won't add or remove data points to make the chart "look good"? Heaven help us if decision makers start taking this outp
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by javajosh 3y ago
OP resonates. I was also using Copilot in March and it got me through some important parts of my project, the bash scripts I needed to write for setup. But it didn't do a great job on the application itself, apart from writing pretty d
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by javajosh 3y ago
Perhaps it would be helpful to consider the path of a phonon going through a barrier. The odds of that phonon making it through is 1 chance in N. If there are two barriers, the odds of a phonon making it through both in series is 1 chance i
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's not quite true that everything is an object. In fact, Java famously has a primitive/object split.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>> I'm losing my sight. How should I prepare? > Learn to touch-type. What a quintessential hacker news response! Losing your sight is a profound loss, involving grief and other emotions, not just the facility but all the p
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by javajosh 3y ago
Do the descriptions interfere with the dialog? Are they recorded human voices or computer generated?
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by javajosh 3y ago
I wonder if maybe reliability is inversely proportional not just to profit (as the author cynically says) but also to virality and so, community. If something just works, then there won't be stack overflow posts, or discord communities
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by javajosh 3y ago
>It's also a tribute to the hosted VMs and the framework in general. Virtualisation has been an amazing boost, to reliability. Get on a platform with variant HW and then expose it as an idealised machine, to clients which can behav
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by javajosh 3y ago
This is definitely anti-advice for me. Obsession with a problem is a stimulant, and a mind that doesn't want to put something down will be in pain soon. I noticed this with my kids learning to crawl. They were so intoxicated by the new
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by javajosh 3y ago
Apple's attitude about repair is a HUGE knock on the brand, at this point. There is no justification for it, apart from greed. Even if they are right and the repair isn't great, which does happen of course, a rational person will
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by javajosh 3y ago
Don't ruin perfectly good clickbait with reasonableness!
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by javajosh 3y ago
Well, you might hold your nose for a few days while Copilot helps you write the IntelliJ plugin for Code Llama. Now that would be a good hacker news post...
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'm being a bit cheeky; I have a physics degree. And I love Feynman's take on magnetism if you look up that video. He makes a strong distinction between "why" and "how" noting that physics doesn't really k

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