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by jen729w 4y ago
This is the whole point of the book. It explores the various possibilities. Of which this is but one. Living a miserable dementia-ridden existence is another. Who could know which you’re going to get?
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by jen729w 4y ago
Lionel Shriver’s ‘Should We Stay or Should We Go’ (book, 2021) is a fun look at this idea. No-spoiler TL;DR: a couple decide to end it when she hits 80, because they know that life only gets worse. The book plays through various scenarios:
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by jen729w 4y ago
The XState (JS framework) docs and community are great. Spend a bit of time hanging out there and you'll get the idea. I'm a big fan. https://xstate.js.org
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by jen729w 4y ago
Yes x 1,000,000. This is the only thing that drives me to something like React (other than the fact that I’m not actually a programmer and it’s the only thing I know) to build a site. I know HTML! I know CSS! But how do I make a template
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by jen729w 4y ago
There's some starter stuff here too. I just discovered this genre the other week, it's terrific to work to. https://synthwave.fandom.com/wiki/Synthwave_Wiki Apple Music, and presumably the others, are good ab
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by jen729w 4y ago
Oh sweet, cheers!
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by jen729w 4y ago
As usual, it depends. I just tested my own site, which I built using Gatsby — a JS framework — and https://astro.build , whose entire schtick is that they deliver as little JS to the page as possible. (Because I’m thinking of reb
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by jen729w 4y ago
When one doesn’t need to be worried about being elected, one can make decisions based on principle, and the longer-term view, rather than pandering to popular opinion. We always complain that politicians work on a two-year cycle. If your po
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by jen729w 4y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. If someone from this sort of list — I’ll pass on the priest, thanks, but otherwise — could make it, yeah, okay. Perhaps I’m just jaded. I don’t see it happening. I see it being one of the same old dudes t
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by jen729w 4y ago
Ugh, and suffer Tony Abbott as President? Serious question: name someone who might realistically be President who would not make you sad.
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by jen729w 4y ago
> I guess, but I've always felt apple deliberately thwarts such efforts for product lock in Deliberately thwarting efforts would be not having a button. There's a button. Like every other Bluetooth headphone case. Push the butt
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by jen729w 4y ago
Are you saying that she was pairing them with a non-Apple device? In which case, fair enough perhaps, but it feels a tad unfair to put the burden of universal discovery for all host devices on Apple. And is it really that un-discoverable? W
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by jen729w 4y ago
When you bring an unpaired AirPods case close to a phone, all you need to do is open the lid. A photorealistic visual will appear on screen explaining what to do next. At this point, guided by the visual, you need to push the button on the
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Ask HN: Is that Flexport post on the HN front page an ad?
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That’s right, because if I had a gun I’d be taking it to parliament to demand that they stop [something]! And [something] would surely be different as a result!
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by jen729w 4y ago
Location: Canberra, Australia. Remote: Only if the whole team is remote and the company is set up for it; otherwise I’d prefer to be in the office at least 3 days a week. I work Tuesday-Friday. Willing to relocate: No. I have chickens. Résu
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by jen729w 4y ago
https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume I've got 20+ years of experience, and this time I re-wrote it from scratch. So far I've only been in touch with one recruiter, but he said that he liked it! Résumés are
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by jen729w 4y ago
That's a 'statechart'. [0] They are actually different things. Your classic 'finite state machine' (FSM) is pretty simple. Boxes with arrows coming out of them leading to other boxes. You can't store additional
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by jen729w 4y ago
I mean almost by definition isn’t every exit from a state node a conditional logic test? If [something], take path A. If [the other thing], take path B. You (the machine) must always decide, given some condition. This applies even if there’
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by jen729w 4y ago
I’m just about to live this hell. On advice from a friend, my response will be a simple one: no, because it doesn’t exist. It was written in Markdown [0]. Here’s a PDF. I’m expecting the usual pushback, and will reciprocate. I’ll let you kn
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Radio in Japan(recnet.com)
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by jen729w 4y ago
> Digital to-do lists are where tasks go to die. I also am becoming convinced of this. The issue is that you can keep adding to them. And if you’re the digital hoarder type - hello, my friend Alex! - you can never delete the old crap. So
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by jen729w 4y ago
Yes. I’m a contractor at a large IT integrator in Australia. It helps that my boss was (see below) a good friend. I think it was mid-last-year, I just realised I’d be mentally healthier if I worked 4 days a week. So I said, I’m going to sta
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by jen729w 4y ago
It assumes that we all have access to our email all of the time. Which is a fair assumption for 99.99% of the population. But I deliberately keep email off my phone, so I don't look at email on my phone. So yes, I hate 'passwordle
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by jen729w 4y ago
Yep, 50p a go from memory. Charged to your phone bill. I used Shazam in London when it launched. I left the UK in 2003 so I reckon it was literally just as it launched. Presumably I saw billboards or a Wired article or something?
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by jen729w 4y ago
Because Excel isn't a database and Airtable is?
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by jen729w 4y ago
> or provide utility You may not think it provides utility. If someone else is willing to pay for it – whatever 'it' is – then by definition they do. I think people are bananas for spending $200k on a car when you can get the b
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by jen729w 4y ago
Aah so am I not actually using it? Like I said, no idea. Most consumers don't. There's a terminal, I wave my [phone|watch|card] at it, it beeps, I walk away. Happy days. In that case if it's a Visa card, is Visa the processin
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by jen729w 4y ago
Yeah typically around 1.5% in Australia. Which is often passed on to the consumer at the point of sale. We do have a non-Visa/MC payment system here in 'eftpos', which is ubiquitous. AFAIK this is exclusively debit not credit
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by jen729w 4y ago
Not everyone! About five people from a population of six billion. And you’re one of them. Yours looks great. Well done on the release. Line 100 might have an error though? It isn’t recognising `30th Sept`, does it not like the final `t`?

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