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by jonahx 5y ago
Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?
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by jonahx 5y ago
An interesting feature would be to allow people to "disagree but show" for comments they disagreed with but considered at least thoughtful/civil/in good faith, and then combine that with user stats: When other comment on
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by jonahx 5y ago
Your first paragraph is insightful. The second is an incredibly uncharitable take on a well-crafted list.
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by jonahx 5y ago
Interesting. What do you attribute this to? Is it mostly just lifestyle choice? Or would most of them prefer to have a wife/gf but don't have one for whatever reason?
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by jonahx 5y ago
I am saying things like this: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/cgo/ast.go#... belong in the source code, not a Why doc. No variable naming can give that context.
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by jonahx 5y ago
>No need to interweave documentation and code, in most cases. Locality is the reason, and it's a good reason. Of course, I don't want to see paragraphs of explanation inline, but a one-line comment giving context for some choi
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by jonahx 5y ago
There is also an audiobook version, for some reason not linked from there: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
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by jonahx 5y ago
Wrong. Keep using the word, and keep piling on the hate. "What junior does not understand, is not magic." To that, I say the difference between a mid-level and senior is that the senior knows "magic" actually is bad.
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by jonahx 5y ago
I've been on HN for years and I still can't figure out how to format text as a quote I don't think there is a way comparable to markdown, since the formatting options are limited: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by jonahx 5y ago
>tinygrad will always be below 1000 lines. If it isn't, we will revert commits until tinygrad becomes smaller. Love this ethos so much. Wish more projects would follow suit.
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by jonahx 5y ago
I mean, in the same sense that it's "a problem" when a con man gives the same pitch as a trustworthy salesman. The solution isn't for the trustworthy to stop honestly describing their products. It's to gain a reput
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by jonahx 5y ago
>is because it's almost impossible to express this feeling to someone without that person drawing the conclusion, to some degree, that you enjoy their company less than they thought. Not only is it not "almost impossible"
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by jonahx 5y ago
>You can't measure how much the other person truly wants to cancel, because attempting to take the measurement will alter the outcome. I get it. Again, the point is, so what? Take the measurement and alter the outcome. Or decide
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by jonahx 5y ago
We're saying the same thing.
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by jonahx 5y ago
>And sometimes there doesn't exist a way to communicate your true feelings without potentially causing pain. Being mature and communicating truthfully cannot solve this problem. That's because it's not a problem. The poin
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by jonahx 5y ago
>I get enamored with apl/k/j every time I see it and was looking for excuses to use it despite everything. You should do it. Nothing in my programming career has changed the way I thought so much as learning J to the point of
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by jonahx 5y ago
As a swimming experience, you're getting what you pay for.
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by jonahx 5y ago
The source is an over-engineered mess of nested abstractions. So yes, you can do this, and I have, but it's not a lot of fun.
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by jonahx 5y ago
To use your analogy, what if a popular screwdriver company started a trend among young carpenters to use their screwdriver handles as hammers? And then large numbers of carpenters were driving nails with screwdriver handles instead of ham
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by jonahx 5y ago
My addition... Annoyance 0: The default behavior is to pause when you remove a single earbud while listening to music/podcasts. But, especially when working out, this is not what you want, because you just wanted to scratch or wipe of
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by jonahx 5y ago
Not a downvoter but... > Pontificating about how they should just change their notion of right misses it completely. The ask isn't to change their notion of right, but to understand that (yes, sadly) there is a tradeoff between &quo
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by jonahx 5y ago
This was the only statement in the article I disagreed with.
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by jonahx 5y ago
> and somewhat more likely to be successful basketball players. And some people find math easy, and are somewhat more likely to succeed in math. I wholeheartedly agree with your point, but there is no "somewhat" about it. The
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by jonahx 5y ago
Point taken about making it clearer it's a popup rather than a link but... > You need drill down pages for these links. If I click one, I expect a page with detailed information, a drill down, not a pop-up summary GIF. I disagree he
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by jonahx 5y ago
Linus takes a seemingly opposite stance when discussing word-wrapping commit messages: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611...
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by jonahx 5y ago
> and it doesn't particularly matter whether it is good at its job. I would amend that to: "it doesn't matter whether it excels at its job, as long as it's good enough." And those modern, cheap toasters are go
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by jonahx 5y ago
The quote isn't an argument against IQ. Here is a 3 minute video of Kay elaborating the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI9rPNxFG5Y You'll notice he presupposes that IQ exists, is real, and is important. H
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by jonahx 5y ago
This feels like a motte and bailey. It proves that not all sustained incompetence is malice. But you need to prove a stronger claim: That sustained incompetence, by an actor capable of competence, and who would gain from incompetence, is no
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by jonahx 5y ago
The article has some misunderstandings about idiomatic ruby imo. > Ruby keeps going with its methods-first approach, except instead of each we have a new set of methods commonly implemented on collections, as below: And then you show map
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by jonahx 5y ago
"The electronics and the mechanics and the fabrication took me a year. Then it took me an afternoon to program the computer to actually activate it"

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