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by jogjayr 4y ago
Only 3 developers maintaining a horrible codebase is a massive business risk. In this market, they could easily leave for better jobs within months of each other. Especially if they're junior and not company lifers. They money printe
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"One researcher famous for his extensive use of [Zettelkasten] was the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998). Starting in 1952–1953, Luhmann built up a Zettelkasten of some 90,000 index cards for his research, and credited it f
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by jogjayr 4y ago
I did a proof-of-concept for this a few years ago: https://github.com/jogjayr/pykg It literally uses npm, the NPM registry, and node_modules for Python dependency management.
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by jogjayr 4y ago
The Office isn't on Netflix US anymore. But I can still see that episode here in Canada.
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> more expensive food Poor people already eat less meat. On the other hand, climate change will make basic foods more expensive. I'm from India. I've seen the miseries caused when the price of rice or onions goes up. It becomes
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by jogjayr 4y ago
What's wrong with eating less meat? It's healthier and cheaper. And I'm saying this as someone who loves meat.
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by jogjayr 4y ago
You can let pastoral land that's unfit for growing crops return to the wild. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/most-dam...
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by jogjayr 4y ago
That's not true at all. "Ranching’s capital account is always in debt, because wild ecosystems store more carbon than the fields and pastures that have taken their place." https://www.theguardian.com/environme
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by jogjayr 4y ago
> Now the idiotic argument that is often heard is "well, if we didn't grow grass we could grow something humans want, like.. soybeans". Or we could let the wild take over that land.
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> Only grass can grow there Forests can also grow there. They are far more valuable for bio-diversity and as carbon sinks.
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> handwriting that becomes increasingly illegible to the general population Are younger people really not able to read cursive? I find that hard to believe; it's still the same letters.
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Nah it would be pretty easy to discover soap accidentally. People have been using ash to scour metal for ages. Someone scours a plate or bowl with some leftover fat or oil or grease in it and it cleans really well, because it makes a kind o
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by jogjayr 4y ago
Yeah the oil and hot water sounds crazy over-the-top. But India is a tropical country that's mostly warm year-round. Everyone probably took a dip in a nearby river, lake, or pond every day. Or took a bucket bath with well water, which
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by jogjayr 4y ago
> Veggie fast food is a great idea, would draw crowds, but it simply does not exist. You should find a decent selection of ready-to-eat vegetarian fast and frozen foods in any Indian grocery store. Most significant American towns, even o
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by jogjayr 4y ago
I am Indian, lived in Mountain View and Sunnyvale for nearly a decade, and never heard of either of those nicknames for those cities.
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by jogjayr 4y ago
> spend a ton of money fighting for years Twitter is worth $28b and Musk's offer was $44b - a $16bn delta. The most annual revenue that a single law firm in the US has made is about $4bn.[1] Any amount Twitter could spend on lawyers
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by jogjayr 4y ago
> you can sue them to close the deal but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze That really depends on the offer you accepted (A), the current value of the house (B), the cost of litigation (C), and the price you put on your time and mental e
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by jogjayr 4y ago
Most of Gattaca is shot indoors and the sets have a very minimalist aesthetic. It looks futuristic, but since their budget was quite low* it was also a way to keep costs down. The visuals bear no comparison at all to Blade Runner . It&#x
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> which is unusual It's unusual because a multi-repo environment makes it difficult to do, not because it's not necessary.
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by jogjayr 4y ago
> Individual projects should be able to upgrade dependencies separately. No, that way lies sorrow and despair. There should only be one version of any dependency being used in your company. Any deviations should require like VP-level app
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by jogjayr 4y ago
Black bean, bacon (turkey bacon, for me), and barley stew is my go-to Instantpot meal. I like to imagine I'm eating at a tavern in a vaguely D&D/Middle-Earth-esque setting. Sometimes I add turnips too.
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by jogjayr 4y ago
The Walmart near me here in Canada has rooftop solar.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
People in India are asleep right now.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705855
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> 130K would put you in the 50% tax bracket here Is the term "tax bracket" used differently outside of the US/Canada? Here it means your marginal tax rate (i.e. the highest rate at which your last dollar is taxed). Whereas
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all? I think pg actually has another article (can't find it now) where he discusses hacking identity to ingrain positive behaviors. For example making &quo
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by jogjayr 5y ago
No reason not to play the game, honestly. Even if it takes waiting an hour on hold (highly unlikely), a mere $20 discount on service is like earning $240/hour.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
> There was once a time where employees could request a ride with her directly from the app You'd share an Uber with her? Or would she be driving the Uber? Sounds fascinating either way.
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by jogjayr 5y ago
A Panenka is a specific type of penalty through the center. It's a sort of chip/scoop shot and it goes really slow. It makes the keeper look foolish if it comes off. But it's slow enough that even a keeper diving to one side
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by jogjayr 5y ago
I don't get the joke. It seemed somewhat plausible or serious to me because "ultimate" is slang for "really cool" in India. (At least it was when I was growing up; who knows what the cool kids there say these days.)

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