jonahx

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by jonahx 5y ago
> no one wants to explain themselves to a stranger we will never meet again Even though I, personally, feel the way you do, the above doesn't ring true. Many people crave those small interactions with strangers, and welcome the opp
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by jonahx 5y ago
For example, if the cause was a pollutant in the local Boston environment, or anything else peculiar to that environment.
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by jonahx 5y ago
This was my attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28646279
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by jonahx 5y ago
To add to this, the boy at 3 o'clock, whose head is split in two equal pieces, is the key to the sleight of hand. Does his head stay or does it move? If it moves, the boy at 2 o'clock should count as 2 heads in position B. If it
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by jonahx 5y ago
Are there any partial mitigations you can take until these are patched?
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by jonahx 5y ago
Do you give up rights to your work by posting on Medium? Also, do you have a link to your work?
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by jonahx 5y ago
> so it's really up to the individual to determine what is and isn't interesting. True. The claim I'm making is that what people think is "interesting" is usually (ofc not always) determined by the factors I men
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by jonahx 5y ago
> but interesting tech becomes interesting because it (purports to be) a better way of solving problems than whatever the old way was. You would think so, but this is wrong for the same reason that "the most popular product is proba
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by jonahx 5y ago
Vonnegut drawing graphs of famous story plots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ I saw him do this bit in person in the early 90s and never forgot it.
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by jonahx 5y ago
I'd just add that while he's a high-school teacher, much of the content would be equally applicable to undergrads or to anyone wanting to brush up on subjects like calculus and trigonometry.
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by jonahx 5y ago
This video may help convince you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IFTN2Toak
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by jonahx 5y ago
A fairer analogy is that GP is saying, "I don't want to use a van to bring my stuff, but prefer a pickup truck." From the customer's POV, it makes no difference.
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by jonahx 5y ago
> "you have to make it easy for third parties to fork your website" That's not the requirement I'm talking about. It's "multiple developers you don't know, of varying experience levels, will work on th
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by jonahx 5y ago
> No one has made this static website you’re talking about. It doesn’t exist. This one does. The imperfect app that exists beats the perfect app that is vapor. Another poster whipped one together since this was posted, because it's
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by jonahx 5y ago
> All the extra baggage is just part of the development environment. If you want to skip my tools, they're quite easy to bypass and replace for any other transpiler... or you can just ignore my sources, reindent my compiled files an
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by jonahx 5y ago
> L’Oréal to Walt Disney and Dow Chemicals... display the hammer and sickle on their premises. Wow. Quoted just so others don't miss this. It was news to me.
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by jonahx 5y ago
You must mean: https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI?t=214 I agree it's a great explanation, and the video format feels right for this. Still, it's not the video per se that makes this great, but the way the concept has b
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by jonahx 5y ago
Yeah, that's why I used the qualifiers "most of the time" and "usually". But even in that example, while the animation instantly conveys the high-level idea, it's still a bit magical: "I get what's ha
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by jonahx 5y ago
Yes. Most of the time, what you want is not a clever visualization of a complex algorithm, but a simple distillation of its essence. Static diagrams are usually simpler than visualizations. And if you feel the inherent complexity can only
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by jonahx 5y ago
Go takes an alternative approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWApoImHuf8
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by jonahx 5y ago
That sucks. It's hard for me to imagine working with someone so insecure that they would find a convenient, hierarchical organization of report results by severity patronizing.
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by jonahx 5y ago
> If I were writing a report on a piece of software for my boss and I found unsanitized inputs to an SQL database, I wouldn't highlight that any more than anything else I found as he would know that was severe. I would. And as some
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by jonahx 5y ago
Your premise: > If thousands of daily reports warn of damage that must be fixed immediately and most are of no consequences (obviously) is correct, but your conclusion: > then the problem is that the reports don't accurately refl
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by jonahx 5y ago
Probably not using git ideally. Do you clean your history after working on a feature?
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by jonahx 5y ago
The README for the parent repo ( https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless ) answers these questions in detail. Short answer, recreating this tool's features in vanilla git requires using the reflog, which isn'
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by jonahx 5y ago
One important reason: Because Java encourages inhertance-based designs, which are especially dangerous if your goal is to get inexperienced programmers to write simple, straightforward code. Go does not have inheritance.
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by jonahx 5y ago
Codidact is a community-controlled, open-source alternative to SO: https://meta.codidact.com/policy/codidact-faq
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by jonahx 6y ago
Prior art: 1. Plant UML: http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/umla/SoWkIImgAStDuNBCoKnELT... PlantUML supports many diagram types, and there's a nice VS Code plugin with side by side live preview. 2. https:&#x2F
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by jonahx 6y ago
> what's the determinant of the 0x0 matrix (over your favourite field or ring)? 1, because 0x0 seems like a more elegant base case for the recursive det formula than 1x1.
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by jonahx 6y ago
It was reproduced to even more dramatic effect just a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

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