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by javajosh 3y ago
One gets the feeling that the Reddit leadership is "feeling themselves", and have lost sight of the fact that people can just walk away and suffer no ill consequences. In fact, it might even be in their psychological benefit to do
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by javajosh 3y ago
Like so many people you underestimate the capacity of modern computers. Stack Overflow is famously hosted on like 6 machines. I personally worked on a system that was running on two machines, one a hot backup, that served highly dynamic con
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by javajosh 3y ago
>I have come to dislike this growing trend that celebrates mediocrity and failure. That's not what this is. It's a sarcastic critique of techniques the author thinks don't justify their weight. It's a comment on the
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by javajosh 3y ago
Note to english speakers, "recipe" is "prescription" in German. You may be talking about amphetamine? They don't prescribe it, afaik, and I don't think ketamine is legal (for humans).
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by javajosh 3y ago
This is actually pretty great both for recreational users of things like cocaine and heroin, but also for people looking to use cheaper illegal drugs to manage a mental health condition - I'm thinking specifically of ecstasy and ketami
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by javajosh 3y ago
It costs $30 to read that article. Here is a summary from https://kottke.org/19/09/advice-from-cormac-mccarthy-on-writ... > Use minimalism to achieve clarity. While you are writing, ask yourself: is it possible
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, women are vicious fighters but use different, and arguably more potent, weapons. A fist-fight with a man might leave you wounded and bleeding for a few days. A woman will leave you ostracized from your friends and family, possibly endi
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by javajosh 3y ago
> I'd probably pick Linux on my primary PC nowadays if I didn't already have a Mac. Just do it! I bought a Framework laptop and, because I forgot to buy an OS with it, decided "what the hell" and installed Ubuntu. I
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, never mind the AI hellscape or the climate disaster, using this new AR/VR tool in a coffee shop is the worst thing ever predicted here.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Too harsh. That's normal if it's only now seeing light of day.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Well it sounds like your problems go far beyond the thing we're talking about. Good luck!
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by javajosh 3y ago
The mass market appeal of this thing is, primarily, a portable setup with 2 4k screens and top-notch eye-tracking. The latter is very important, and I think will be a usability boon for literally every computer user, whatever they use it fo
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by javajosh 3y ago
On Android the shortcut icon is derived from the favicon, so material design doesn't apply. (There is also a "badge" for the browser app itself).
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by javajosh 3y ago
A good compromise is to educate users on how to add a shortcut to their homescreen. I don't think people (including product people) know about this feature, and mobile browsers bury it. The pareto principle applies: 80% of stickiness i
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by javajosh 3y ago
Isn't the solution to make it very hard to remove the ram without destroying it? Like, epoxy it onto the motherboard?
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by javajosh 3y ago
It seems like you misread what I was saying. I am not advocating a "1-man echo chamber" - that would be a person who never changes their beliefs. When I say "weaker" and "stronger" I am referring to the whole o
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't think we disagree. A hypothesis is upgraded to "belief" and therefore to the "spectrum of truth" only because it's the best you know of, not because it's the only one. It's a matter of degree,
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by javajosh 3y ago
What is a belief it not the highest-ranked hypothesis of all possible options? Obviously beliefs are more complex than that, since we have a default set installed in us as children, and only a subset of humans are taught the rational method
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by javajosh 3y ago
That seems a bit trite. I was thinking it was a misclick, but hopefully whoever did it will chime in, and they will NOT themselves get down-voted, whatever their reason.
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by javajosh 3y ago
The prerequisite for "mental liquidity" is articulated by Aristotle: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." If you entertain the thought, this gives you the chance to
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by javajosh 3y ago
phys.org's coverage makes absolutely no mention of the source of the shape! https://phys.org/news/2023-06-aperiodic-tile-hat-true-chiral... What a trash publication.
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by javajosh 3y ago
As an aside, I always thought that training spiders to make things would be really cool. Their silk is miraculously strong, they already make patterns with it, so how hard would it be to train them or breed them to, I don't know, mak
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by javajosh 3y ago
40k was intentionally a satirical setting by the authors. Even so it's legitimate to ask why so many people (including those who understand it's satirical/critical nature) enjoy dwelling in a fantasy world of this sort. It is
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by javajosh 3y ago
The best solution would be a tool that copies and then deletes, and makes the copy easy to post in your own forum. Best of all worlds: no reliance on central authority, and the data is still available. Personally I think it's healthy f
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Ask HN: Is a Reddit clone what we need?
2 points by javajosh 3y ago|4 comments
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by javajosh 3y ago
God I hate this rhetorical style - to lead with the conclusion ("The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's not the compiler, in this case. Lombok generates code, and for reasons (which I have since forgotten) it always generates code and invalidates incremental builds in gradle, for example, at least when used in combination with ORM
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by javajosh 3y ago
Too bad graydon didn't get his way with build times. I've come to believe that the most important feature of any development environment is to minimize the built-test-debug cycle. Of course, a real system has many different ones,
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by javajosh 3y ago
You misspelled "OPOORTUNITY"
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'd call it satire more than sarcasm, my primary target is the kind of argument that blames the victim. In this case, children cannot vote and therefore it is the adults' job to protect them. By allowing them to work these jobs, a

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