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by jgwil2 2y ago
Well I think the person quoted is suggesting you work on your network now, presumably before you are looking for a job. But I could see an argument that even going to meetups and just talking to people while you're actively looking is
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Sometimes quantity has a quality all of its own. The difference is in the number of people who can be involved and the distances that can be conquered, but those differences completely change the possibilities of online speech.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I'm not sure about your point about "leveling" vs "leveling up", because for me, "leveling" means making a surface level/flat and does not have any video game-related meaning, but the "on" i
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DeSantis Administration Threatening to Prosecute Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads(slate.com)
9 points by jgwil2 2y ago|2 comments
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Clitorides? Come on, your pulling our legs.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
That's specious reasoning. I have a rock that keeps tiger away. How does it work? It doesn't, it's just a stupid rock. But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Here's a related article and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967675
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Maybe I've misunderstood what OP was getting at--can you elaborate on the distinction between these two meanings of statelessness?
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Haskell functions are pure, like mathematical functions: the same input to a function produces the same output every time, regardless of the state of the application. That means the function cannot read or write any data that is not passed
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I think the comment is alluding to the scientific method, more or less. Some kinds of knowledge are simply not accessible through logic alone. Facts about the world have to be obtained through observation. We then create mental models based
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Has the Spread of Tipping Reached Its Limit? Don't Count on It(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 2y ago|1 comments
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by jgwil2 2y ago
You're never causing a sub-minimum wage worker to get less than the minimum wage, because their employers are required by law to make up the difference if they don't make minimum wage with their tips. You're only "shafti
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I would add that a lot of Borges' work is written in an academic style that is highly translatable, but he also wrote a lot about the criminal underworld in Buenos Aires and those works are, unsurprisingly, full of slang and local refe
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I'd expect the former in British English, because in that standard, grammatically singular nouns that refer to multiple people are conjugated in the plural. The latter would be typical for American English. It's a bit surprising t
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Similar idea: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Light coding (think VSCode or Vim and a terminal for SSHing into a remote server or running a compiler/debugger), browsing, some word processing, ripping DVDs with a remote drive. Have looked at Chromebook but it seemed a little underp
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Do you have a specific recommendation for a machine?
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I phrased the question that way because I talk to a lot of people who run Linux on their laptops plugged into a monitor on their desks 90% of the time, using a mouse and an external power source. My use case is different, so I have differen
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I've seen it and I hope these folks succeed, but I've read various threads on this forum and elsewhere that suggest that sleep and battery-life are still serious issues on these machines.
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Ask HN: I need a Unix-like laptop that works as a laptop. Am I stuck with Mac?
3 points by jgwil2 2y ago|14 comments
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Read about them on this page and then built an implementation: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Sorry to tell you but your silverware is also touched by someone's bare hands between the time it comes out of the dishwasher and the time that you start to eat with it. It does have to get wrapped in a napkin or placed on your table s
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Yeah but there's a fundamental difference between something like tests that can be checked automatically and comments, that have to be checked manually. Because of this, it can be assumed that comments will eventually go out of date.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
> Just like updating the tests when code is changed, update the comment when the code is changed. Well, yeah. But the point is that tests can be run in a pipeline that can fail if the tests fail. Comments going out of date has to get cau
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Would it be fair to say our minimum wage is now so low as to be basically non-existent, in that its effect on the jobs market is negligible? Or is there still some effect of having it there despite the fact that so few jobs actually hit tha
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Interesting article. I've also read that the amount of fluoride in a typical dose for a small child is lower than what would be found in a liter of tap water[0], so it may not be worth worrying about. [0] https://parentdata.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Well around 40% of households don't pay federal taxes at all, and presumably a large chunk of those who do are in the lowest tax bracket so they might not ever need to know how it actually works.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
It's exactly as useless as film, literature, art, and anything else that people consume as entertainment.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I suspect there's a lot more money to go around in basketball than there is in tennis.
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The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player(theguardian.com)
347 points by jgwil2 2y ago|282 comments

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