joebob42

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by joebob42 4y ago
Absolutely. When I was younger I was pretty competitive and tried to be good at everything. These days I'm an expert engineer, and I try to let myself do the rest of the stuff I do just for enjoyment.
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by joebob42 4y ago
Having a goal, and creating an environment where you can frictionlessly work towards it for a little bit of time most days, is such an unreasonably effective tool. You'll never become a true, deep expert in something with 10 or 15 minu
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by joebob42 4y ago
I'm kind of surprised by all the negative responses. This is obviously a bad idea for a normal ui, but for the use case of "my app is literally just a checkbox and I want it to feel like an event to check it" this seems cool.
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by joebob42 4y ago
Hearthstone is such a catastrophe on this. There are multiple fun strategies that are literally rendered unviable because the animations slow you down too much and it's not possible to execute them well within the turn timer (for e.g.
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by joebob42 4y ago
meh i don't know. I have some races I tend to find more attractive on average. There is only one gender I have ever personally had a non-zero sexual attraction to. I don't think this is that rare.
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by joebob42 4y ago
There's also what looks like a perfectly lovely park a few blocks away
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by joebob42 4y ago
Unit testing isn't really the issue here, spectre / meltdown / rowhammer are pretty fundamental design problems.
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by joebob42 4y ago
This whole long thread makes me sad. Not least because I kind of find myself agreeing that tone tags do take something away from the joke. Not to say the commenter is flawed somehow for not getting the context, I didn't either right aw
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by joebob42 4y ago
Why do researchers add these statements in the first place if they are pretty broadly not complying with them? Does it somehow help them get published just to have the statement there?
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by joebob42 4y ago
I'm surprised how few cars this is in total. It's kind of cool the brand has such a big impact with only low thousands of cars.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think that might actually be the issue I have with it too now that I think about it.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I remember when amazon acquired twitch. The fact that aws would offer twitch's video delivery platform never occurred to me, but that strikes me as supremely cool for whatever reason. One random thing I've noticed which jumps into
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by joebob42 4y ago
"About to adopt" sounds pretty far from accurate to my reading of the two sources? It sounds like this is still under substantial debate.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I'm glad, but unfortunately I'm sure if the police / government decide they want this sort of technology someone else will build it for them.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I've never liked the streams API. We have a little tool at work that will suggest ways to replace things with stream-api equivalents, and every once in a while I'll get code review suggestions to do it, but it always reads worse t
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by joebob42 4y ago
It seems intuitively unsurprising that health insurance claims are not a reasonable source of information for epidemiology, but it's still interesting to see an attempt to examine that scientifically. Even the government and etc source
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by joebob42 4y ago
Sounds interesting, although it's one of those which really probably ought to include "in mice" in the title. Still, there's so much progress being made in health stuff generally. Makes me optimistic about my older years
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by joebob42 4y ago
Even the fall of the republic to "tyranny" / dictatorship took a pretty long time. You could pick a number of different starting points I guess but I think it'd be hard to argue it wasn't in progress post Sulla, whi
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by joebob42 4y ago
The roman empire seems like an especially terrible example of complex systems failing quickly given it existed in a partially collapsed state for longer than most major empires existed period.
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by joebob42 4y ago
Sorting is one of a few things that computers spend so much time doing, even a relatively small improvement over that state of the art can have a big impact. On the one hand this means if you can come up with a better way to do it in some c
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by joebob42 4y ago
Why would we build a solar panel that has a microwave emitter instead of just building a mirror?
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by joebob42 4y ago
Why did anyone acquire them then?
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by joebob42 4y ago
I mean, you would want to handle this correctly for a "real" thing, but this is just a cute demo and that's gonna be a close enough approximation to work for this I think.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I dunno. I'm reasonably well adjusted and apparently even decently attractive, and I still have a super hard time with the whole asking people out thing. I've been lucky enough to have people ask me out but otherwise I'm not
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by joebob42 4y ago
He "discovered" this? This has been my understanding of how this all worked for years, unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I think it should have died when it came out. Javas way older but I'd rather use that.
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by joebob42 4y ago
The pedal bit seems unimportant, I feel like the only relevant distinction is the actual top speed.
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by joebob42 4y ago
Agree. I'm a very levelheaded, defensive driver, and I never actually do anything to harm bicyclists, but they make my blood boil every time I get stuck behind them.
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by joebob42 4y ago
I mean, not always, but I can certainly imagine cases where it might be.
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by joebob42 4y ago
It's not nobody, but I think it's a lot less than 1% of people that are going to need to send a meaningful amount of money to places like that. Obviously providing some service to even .01% of people or whatever is valuable. But

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