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by klik99 2y ago
Oh the kids will be alright but what about me??!? I jest, of course, but I have very specialized skills in an industry that requires esoteric bespoke things, so I feel less at immediate risk. That said, I should start building those skills,
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God this reminds me of skiing in England - from 7-14 years old I live me in England and spent winter with my Dad in US often skiing. I’d be on real snow for the winter and on that thick plastic Astro turf they use in England otherwise. You’
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I picked this up during the magic eye craze of the 90s, and I will never not find it hilarious how people get shocked at my ability to find the differences. I always share the skill too, it’s one of those things people find impossible until
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This is actually a 100+ year old divisive point in literary/media criticism - the older traditional view is authorial intent is the only thing that matters, the post-modern view is authorial intent shouldn't be considered at all a
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Doesn't seem self-defeating if it aroused that level of analysis, seems like good art! Art can bring up questions that author didn't intend so it's often best not to bring the authors viewpoint into the discussion, or at leas
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Really wonderful, worth playing towards the end! I remember cookie clicker taking days to finish when it first released, I like this is a self-contained experience that ends, and really generates the kind of anxiety it's trying to comm
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I know a few people, one a good friend, who work in the Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta - until health stopped him (and a bit afterwards) he was in there daily putting the work in. Despite if you agree with his views or methods I hope everyo
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Last time I read this was in high school, it hits different at 40, HN is probably the only social media where I can be pleasantly surprised
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Yeah defaults suck, but Starter kits have existed for a while: http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/list_of_emacs_starter_kits.htm... For me at least it took a few weeks initially to get a set up I liked but then have ba
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I don't so it was a genuine question, checking if my understanding was correct. I guess it's more about the CL aspect. From the article "Richard Stallman is not a fan of Common Lisp; rewriting Emacs using it is not likely to
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For people who are more involved in this world than me: What're the chances of actually getting a supported full feature parity version of guile emacs? Like not anytime soon but, say, in the next 10 years. It's my understanding it
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I hated it on first watch, when it came out, due to expecting something different. Now I absolutely love it. I get why people don’t like it, like how Tom Cruise goes around almost but never actually having sex, the movie always hints at a s
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In Segways defense that self balancing tech has made and will continue to make an impact, just not world changing amount (at least not yet) and not their particular company but the companies they influenced - the same may end up true about
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We need some Masonic style secret handshakes, make it seem like some kind of cult. Though honestly ranting about something that was front page the day before is probably enough to out you
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I, personally, hate the trend because it's visually boring, but that doesn't mean there's upsides - buildings are safer, it's cheaper to build. Even though I subjectively don't like the style, I don't believe e
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I mean - this kind of service is designed to give users what they want, it's not too different than when youtube slowly responds to skeptics viewing habits by moving towards conspiracy. No one designed it SPECIFICALLY to do that, but i
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Exists in iOS too - once built an iPad black car dispatch app where one driver was constantly having issues. After weeks of remote debugging the car company owner just asked the driver to come in, as soon as he told me it was a Buddhist cal
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I call this WET, Write Everything Twice, as opposed to DRY, Don’t Repeat Yourself. If you need to repeat yourself, first copy and paste. If you need to a third time, then you can pull it into a function to generalize. But like nearly everyt
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Maybe I wasn't clear because I wasn't talking about doing anything, or suggesting that car manufacturers do anything, just I don't think this comment is the full story: > Modern cars are all built to be as aerodynamic and
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I don't fully buy this - if you optimized for aerodynamics and safety you'd get cars so far outside the aesthetic it would be ridiculed. No-one is making fun of the new USPS trucks for lack of fuel efficiency, they're saying
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Good article, though I do like some matte paints and some of the dulled color looks. The problem for me is not that these aren't good paint choices by themselves, but how uniformly dull every car is. Most cars come in 3-4 shades of gre
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Great user name btw
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Putting aside the vague hand wavy definition of what "highly processed foods" literally means, my suspicion is that there are two things making processed food worse for you. I've heard drinking juiced fruits is worse for you
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Probably in the minority, but I actually like the look of them. I find so many modern car designs indistinguishable from each other. Cars such a narrow range of design that's considered "good aesthetics" that everything looks
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Using examples from disparate sects of Buddhism as if there is some kind of monolithic “Buddhism” is like saying Judaism, Islam and Christianity, and all their various sects are the same. For instance on reincarnation, Pure Land Buddhists a
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The author says nitrous use doesn’t occupy any cultural space but for me I associate it with Aleister Crowley and the many “magick” things that he influenced- it was used before a lot of rituals they did. William James was a big early influ
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I suspect the future old man thing I will do is use a search engine when my kids ask plain English questions to a bot. I’ll tell them “but LLMs hallucinate, I don’t trust those things!” and they’ll just laugh off my old man ways. The irony
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I feel like it and Satisfactory redirects the part of me that creates and looks for novel ways of doing things from something that yields useful byproducts that actually change the world in tiny ways into something that yields nothing but m
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Yeah they originally had a separate branch "Rider Unreal" but now it's part of Rider, C++ support seems mostly the same across both, except for project support. If IIRC Rider doesn't support CMake projects, but it does s
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Don't forget Unreal as well - I've used Rider on multiple AAA Unreal titles that include custom engine edits and it is significantly faster than VS at loading massive projects. The integration is great and allows for seeing bluepr

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