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by jimbob45 2y ago
Reddit is a joke now. It’s all either bots or mod-curated narratives.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebrahim_Raisi His Wikipedia is kinda funny under Personal Details - Died (probably only for a few more minutes)
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by jimbob45 2y ago
But it would have made vastly more sense to do that when Israel had casus belli after Iran’s massive drone strike last month. Also, fighting a two-front war is very difficult even under ideal conditions (see: Hitler).
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by jimbob45 2y ago
How would this benefit Israel? Wouldn’t Khamanei just appoint someone equally or potentially even more extremist? Killing a general is one thing because there is experience and wisdom lost but politicians are largely replaceable.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Okay but would you want your ads on a porn site if the business was yours? That makes it seem like you approve of that behavior (e.g. drug use, gore, etc).
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by jimbob45 2y ago
C# and C++. In C#, you can use pointers but most people don't even know because they so gracefully become invisible. Also ref/in/out keywords are there when you need them and invisible when you don't. Likewise, you don&#
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by jimbob45 2y ago
He's right, though. Languages today shouldn't force you to jump through low-level hoops if you just want to write high-level logic. Likewise, the low-level devices should be easily and ergonomically accessible. Rust is phenomenal
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by jimbob45 2y ago
No they don't? The standard in the US is "innocent until proven guilty". "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Dart’s JS VM was reportedly faster than vanilla JS. It could have wholesale replaced JS if Google had really leaned into it.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Dart beat TypeScript to existence by a solid year. The web should run on Dart right now but Google fumbled the ball. Web search was synonymous with Google until they enshittified their product to irrelevancy a few years back. Where once usi
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by jimbob45 2y ago
That's just not feasible for the vast majority of people. Being constantly behind on security updates is a sound recipe for losing your personal data unless there's nothing you care about on the machine you're using.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
A camera to look at the skies and penalties for inmates that accept packages?
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by jimbob45 2y ago
it is still strange to allow for this class of products tailored to kids but parents are just supposed to universally agree should not be bought The US is all about freedom. We also allow people to smoke even though smoking kills more tha
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by jimbob45 2y ago
If your problem is with the class of product, then you should know to stay away/keep your kid away. If the product has broken with the class (say, adding asbestos to kids' clothes), then we would want to regulate that. Really, as
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Why not just ban the homeless then? They’re not hard to identify and remove.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
When your teacher criticizes you for not reading the boring book he/she ordered you to read, you stop enjoying reading and stop reading. I've read more books than most people, I think. I certainly was in the top percentile by th
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by jimbob45 2y ago
The goal of each step is to weed out the maximum number of applicants possible that you actually want weeded out . A quick FizzBuzz before the phone screen should clear enough of a number out to justify its existence. And, again, it should
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Well you need at least a phone screen and a final interview. Ideally you’d meet with the team in there somewhere. And then for tests, you’d want a FizzBuzz (doable in one minute or less) before the phone screen and then something more subst
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Fighting the modern US would be also be some sort of bizarre existential dread, knowing that every move you make is probably tracked and you have a decent chance of being killed with absolutely no warning. Legends of the Galactic Heroes d
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by jimbob45 2y ago
We haven't seen any major illness spread with a fatality rate of >1% since introducing clean drinking water & having antibiotics. Isn't that the exact story of the Spanish Flu? Low fatality rate at first which then mutate
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by jimbob45 2y ago
I wish we had a HN equivalent for the HR crowd because I find situations like this fascinating. HR is going to have to come up with a policy for how coworkers interact with protesters without getting fired because some level of interactio
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Yeah, there's sort of a bell curve to the ideal reddits where everything in the middle is totally serviceable. However, too small and the mods become overwhelmed and have to overban/overmod to keep up. Too large and the mods get p
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by jimbob45 2y ago
Why not just maintain dual citizenship instead of needlessly renouncing?
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by jimbob45 2y ago
You're joking but I follow the games somewhat more than casually and even I'm a little confused on which game is which and what is actually in each game.
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by jimbob45 2y ago
My favorite was the cancellation of a ban on menthol cigarettes because it would turn away black voters despite the NAACP ardently encouraging the ban[0]. [0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/health/fda-ment
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by jimbob45 3y ago
kids without "the right attitude" or a lack of innate ability are routinely excluded from sports, as im sure many of us here have experienced. You're projecting. Most coaches just want kids to work hard and have fun. They r
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by jimbob45 3y ago
This deserves its own post on HN because this is really neat.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
I like TurboTax. It just works, year after year. The fee is worth the peace of mind that I wouldn’t have by letting a government program lose my submission accidentally.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Birth control is not 100% effective and many people do not use birth control in a manner that ensures the highest effectiveness. If you combine the pill, a condom, pulling out, and cycle timing, it’s going to be 100% effective. Even just
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by jimbob45 3y ago
That sounds like the exact philosophy the Vulkan devs took versus OpenGL.

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