jononomo

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by jononomo 2y ago
I read the entire article based on the misconception that the title was "At some point, JavaScript not good", which I thought was an amusing title, and also a pithy way to express what I've felt for a long time. So I read an
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by jononomo 2y ago
In what sense is shadcn not framework agnostic?
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by jononomo 2y ago
Why would you hit `5j` when you could just hold `j` down for an extra tenth of a second and then just literally put your finger/cursor on any line you want?
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by jononomo 2y ago
using Vim without using h, k, j, and l for navigation is incomprehensible for me. 20% of the keystrokes that I perform in command mode must belong to that group of four keyboard navigation moves. In fact, I have Vim mode turned on in all c
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by jononomo 2y ago
$4800?
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by jononomo 2y ago
No, life is not simply anything that is very complex.
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by jononomo 2y ago
Another example of evolution deleting something instead of creating something. It is bizarre how many examples that people cite demonstrating evolution are actually demonstrating devolution.
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by jononomo 2y ago
Can you think of anything that might distinguish the complexity of life from the complexity of the clouds of Jupiter? Or do you think life is simply a nonsense concept?
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by jononomo 2y ago
I disagree. I think that life is a unique case.
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Then falsify my hypothesis by coming up with some plausible materialistic mechanism to account for the existence of life.
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You realize that those two ideas are identical, right? RIGHT??
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by jononomo 2y ago
Yes, I bite the bullet on the God of the Gaps. What I object to is materialism of the gaps. At least God has explanatory power. Materialism does not.
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by jononomo 2y ago
No. Biology is unique in the sense that life is the creation of God and is far more complex and awe-inspiring than any other subject.
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by jononomo 2y ago
> It is looking for any change in sequence with a positive payoff The entire reason I used the example of the combination lock was so that hopefully you would understand situations in which "any change in sequence with a positive pa
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by jononomo 2y ago
So you believe in a "force" that creates life?
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by jononomo 2y ago
There are single proteins that need to "evolve" somehow, but they need to arrive at a very particular shape, and extremely near misses offer no feedback information and are just as good as dead. But the combinations of amino acid
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by jononomo 2y ago
The thermostat was ultimately designed by a mind that has objectives. That is why it tries to control the temperature.
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by jononomo 2y ago
Natural Selection is not the interesting part, though. Natural Selection is the boring part. Obviously a working system will be selected over one that doesn't work. The interesting question is where the working system that Natural Se
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by jononomo 2y ago
Cracks me up how everyone seems to think this is the result of randomness and not of intelligent design.
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by jononomo 2y ago
People looked down on gambling in the old days not because the casinos were run by organized crime but because there was an understanding that gambling was motivated by greed and often caused people to waste a lot of time and lose all their
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by jononomo 2y ago
You think it is "fun" but actually it is "despair"
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by jononomo 2y ago
If you went back a full generation you would notice a very different attitude in society toward gambling. It used to really be frowned upon.
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by jononomo 2y ago
My mother, who was born in 1935, will not even buy a entry for a church fundraising raffle because that is "gambling" and she was raised by good Presbyterian teetotalers who absolutely did not approve of gambling in any form whats
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by jononomo 2y ago
Not at all. I'm just pointing out that freedom of speech is more important than anything else on Earth.
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by jononomo 2y ago
It is important to remember that freedom of speech is more important than having a functioning society of a healthy populace.
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by jononomo 2y ago
My workout buddy at the Y related the following story to me this morning: Yesterday his 11-year-old daughter was without her phone because she was being punished for something or other. They did various activities throughout the day and my
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by jononomo 3y ago
Do you remember the dot com boom of the late 90s, though?
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by jononomo 3y ago
I have been a standardized test coach and I can assure you that standardized tests are not as coachable as people think they are. Students plateau pretty quickly and you simply can't move their scores higher.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Are you still under 40?
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Ask HN: Why can't Apple Screen Time block certain websites?
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