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by katzgrau 5y ago
> I wish I was a more unethical person. I feel like I could do really well in this space Chasing money for ... ? The answer to that question doesn't usually lead anywhere good. Stay ethical, if you are you're killing it.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> Generally fueled by the ideology that sobriety is somehow superior to any form of intoxication. Huh? Perhaps fueled by the idea that intoxication leads to more harmful events for society, its members, and the individual. Perhaps we put
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Your luck is an unexpected gift. Put the money away, living off a small percentage to maintain a comfortable but average standard of living for someone with your abilities. Consider finding enlightenment (seriously). If/when enlightene
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Ultimately people want information from scraping, because to a lot of businesses, the information is what's valuable. Consider, apart from a tool for general purpose scraping, what information a specialized scraper might obtain for a v
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by katzgrau 5y ago
It's easy to blame this on Amazon, but anyone who's worked in retail for a big company knows that this is just your standard low level employee incompetence and power tripping. It's really a swamp down there. Glad I made it o
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by katzgrau 5y ago
On that note, my wife either sets to the absolute minimum (60F) or max (80F) and alternates between the two extremes as she inevitably becomes too hot or too cold with one of those settings. I've tried my best to help her understand t
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Basically if you forget to query over an index and incur a full table scan, things are going to get very expensive, and it'll probably be a surprise since devs aren't going to bother checking charges run up.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I was going to say the same. I'd takes notes, but most of my attention was on the professor and what they were saying. When there was something I knew I wouldn't remember, that's when focused switched to taking good notes. Ot
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I'm not sure you intend it, but your comment kind of makes Wolfram sounds like some sort of crank. He's a leading thinker obsessively interested in this idea that everything around us is the product of a simple, fundamental rulese
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Seconded. It's a door that's better off not opened. Of course, it's hard to know really good advice until you're well beyond not having taken it.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Separately, I used to keep an ssh session to one of my servers open with lynx running, so I could browse HN and have it still look like work to a non-dev
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Was thinking the same - sounds like someone was really bored. And if you have to be in VS Code, why not a plugin or curl script which outputs to a file, which is then in a VS Code tab.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Although it's been posted a number of times, this is the first time I came across it - and also one of the rare times I've read something posted on HN without skimming anything. Gems like this are the thing that keeps me hooked on
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I feel particularly compelled to highlight that this one above is sarcasm, OP. I actually almost read it as sincerity.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I get a certain (artistic?) satisfaction in bringing order out of natural disorder. Trimmed bushes, groomed/edged lawn, mulched beds - can't all be a throwback to a bygone era, can it?
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I don't think most people would actually utilize a handkerchief, especially one of the flimsier pocket squares that comes with a tux. But it looks cool.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Guilty as charged. To be honest though, my (detached) garage looks much better with them - possibly because a lot of the old garages in my area actually are old carriage houses (or replacements for them)
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by katzgrau 5y ago
No touchbar, I'm sold
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Gonna have a tough time leading by misleading, for whatever reason that may be
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> “Believe in science” is just a new religion for the intellectual class. Amen. Credentialed scientists are now the high priests of yesterday. The layperson is expected to defer to their authority and all cases, and ignore that they too,
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Def, as far as we know, we're just a little slope upward. And I'm not sure what the Y axis is even measuring.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
When I was in Paris, I ate at McDonalds once for two reasons: * Pulp Fiction (Royale with cheese! Had to do it) * I was kind of exhausted from trying to find something substantial to eat (lots of lightweight fare, not great for big ol Ameri
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by katzgrau 5y ago
It's a good idea to hire a retired contractor or home inspector to check work quality throughout the project. It's extra expense but serves as insurance. Just having someone will keep the GC (and usually the subs) honest most of t
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Some reasons: * Because it's something to do. Being retired is boring. * Because whatever they're doing is providing some meaning (even if it's just getting richer and building on their ego) * To stay relevant/up to date
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I have Knuth's TACP sitting proudly on my bookshelf and ... I flipped through it a couple of times thinking, wow, I'm never going to read this am I.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> unless I'm also signing that they can use it for other stuff. Person at desk during signup: "Just press agree and then insert your thump on the reader below." That "agree" part is where they inserted their vagu
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by katzgrau 5y ago
I had this same exact idea years ago when I worked in NYC. Except the name was "New York Shitty" I think I wanted to make it primarily for the name.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
Backend devs definitely know that, but it's management or outsiders who seem to think otherwise. I've performed both roles in my career but have always been impressed by talented frontend devs ability to make some otherwise batshi
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by katzgrau 5y ago
AKA, be a backend developer, because tech changes less frequently there and backend devs get more respect than front end and "full stack" devs, regardless of how talented they are. Sorry I said it, but it's true.
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by katzgrau 5y ago
> many people can use substances without addiction My stance is that the majority of people regularly using some substance probably sit somewhere on the spectrum of addiction. Most people just never bother to quit, because it hasn't

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