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Is Carbon Capture Here?(nytimes.com)
5 points by jgwil2 5y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Optional static typing or a "loose syntax mode". This sounds like what TypeScript offers with the `any` type: you can use it to shut down the type system at a given point and then gradually replace loose types with stricter
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The Cancer Celebrities(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
So does he have a special reversed image printed on his shirt just for this lecture format?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Cumbric and Cornish for starters. Both are Brythonic ie like Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Small correction: Welsh is indeed Brythonic, as are Cornish and Breton, as they derive from the Celtic languages spoken in pre-Anglo-Saxon Britain.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
GP did not make any such claim.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
If it's so easy to build a coding tutorial website, then what advantage does Codecademy have beyond name recognition? So you're not competing with their tech, you're competing with their marketing. You say bad taste, I say go
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Then making it work with Neovim seems like an odd choice.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Amazing that this simple statement of fact in response to a question merits downvotes.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Howard is an HBCU
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by jgwil2 5y ago
What exactly would this push look like? A massive ad campaign encouraging people to diet and exercise? Do you really think that would make a difference? Most overweight people already want to be skinnier - the fact is that it is extremely d
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Heat stress likely caused deaths of California family while they were hiking(npr.org)
2 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Good points. Poke any abstraction enough and you will find holes in it. However, the question I was originally responding to was asking if same-level-of-abstraction-ness was fundamental to the definition of a transpiler. I would still argue
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by jgwil2 5y ago
It's all relative, sure, but we can also reasonably assert that Python, Ruby, Java are all operating on the same level of abstraction because we as programmers can largely ignore the details of the computer architecture of the machine
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by jgwil2 5y ago
A transpiler is typically converting from one high-level language to another. Assuming that the level referred to by the phrase "high-level language" is level of abstraction, then yes.
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The 20-Lane Highway Texas Wants to Force Through Austin(slate.com)
17 points by jgwil2 5y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Yeah it's wild how modern Manhattan looks in the background. I've seen pictures of course but in color/motion it is really striking.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Somewhat niche but a good use case, thanks.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> Single-Page-Apps can be amazing. > You can make a great Single-Page-App with a User Experience that a traditional site will never be able to close to matching. What is actually meant by this? What is an example of a feature that can
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Symfony is a great project, I just feel like, in comparing it to Django, there are so few people who would choose PHP over Python that it's not really a fair fight.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I saw a post the other day claiming that, since 42 corresponds to "*" in ASCII, and "*" is often used to represent a wildcard value, the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Link to What I wish I knew when learning Haskell is broken because it has https. The correct link is http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/ in case anyone was looking for it.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I reject the thesis of this comment: moderation is not the same as censorship. If I host a private party and eject someone for being unpleasant, I am not practicing censorship. How is moderation on HN (or any other private platform) qualita
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by jgwil2 5y ago
For a good read on Lepanto and context, I recommend Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World : https://smile.amazon.com/Empires-Sea-Battle-Lepanto-Contest&#x
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> This new type (called Ensure) will be equal to the union of two types You mean intersection, right? EDIT: link to docs on intersection types: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/objects.html#..
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by jgwil2 5y ago
People are rightly offended by the claim that racial purity is a prerequisite for a cohesive, high-functioning society.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
> use 3rd party SaaS services for everything OTOH didn't Facebook just demonstrate why building everything in-house is dangerous?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
We're talking about non-technical users here - the only such users who would be on Brave/FF are those with a family member in tech who told them to. Furthermore, it's my understanding that some sites tell users to use Chrome,
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Some people with non-technical backgrounds probably did make this assumption. Whether it's reasonable is, I suppose, debatable.
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I guess I see what you're saying, but shouldn't it be evident which function got called based on the next stack frame up? When I look at stack traces I guess I'm usually just trying to figure out the sequence of calls so that

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