kolanos

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by kolanos 6y ago
"decimated" means to reduce by 1/10th. I doubt that's what you meant here.
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by kolanos 6y ago
http://programming-motherfucker.com
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by kolanos 7y ago
> Try 5-6x. I've met some blind people who listen to audio so fast, it sounds like noise to me. As someone who isn't blind, I regularly listen to lectures and audiobooks on 1.75-2.5x (depending on the base rate) without issues,
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by kolanos 7y ago
> My visual representation is definitely 3 dimensional and I am not sure what you mean by abandoning it? I mean, code is statement blocks and controll flow elements. It is data and connections between them at execution. I can imagine, no
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by kolanos 7y ago
It is entirely possible I'm still using my visual cortex. I was once sighted. When I'm in flow my wife tells me that my eyes spasm as though they're following some kind of pattern in space. I'm not aware I was doing this
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by kolanos 7y ago
Do what you're passionate about. You're going to have a learning curve no matter what, might as well enjoy the ramp up as much as possible.
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by kolanos 7y ago
On Macs, there's a screen curtain feature that can be turned on and off. The shortcut is FN+CTRL+OPTION+SHIFT+-. It might be different on older versions of OSX, used to use the right option key, but I've forgotten the keystrokes.
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by kolanos 7y ago
You can definitely continue as a software engineer. I'm living proof. It won't be easy, especially at first. For a while it will feel like you're working twice as hard just to keep up with your sighted peers. But eventually,
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by kolanos 7y ago
You'd think that site would be accessible. And while it's not terrible, all the unordered lists with a single list item in them is crazy annoying if you're using a screen reader.
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by kolanos 7y ago
Check out Edmunds.com, they will give you a rundown on changes for a model year over year.
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by kolanos 7y ago
> That's a glib assessment of course - it would imply no communities other than farms themselves. But I don't think its reasonable to assume or claim that most of the rural population is involved in things of direct importance
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by kolanos 7y ago
> The effective subsidies to rural living matter on a daily basis - rural life would essentially end without them. It would also mean the end of most cities as there would be no one to feed them. So who is subsidizing whose lifestyle aga
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by kolanos 7y ago
> On a per-capita basis, people who live in cities generate less externalities than rural dwellers. So I'm not quite clear on your point. Of course there's more externalities, 3% of the population feeds the other 97%. Cities co
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by kolanos 7y ago
> But there's also a refusal to see that people in those areas make enormous demands on the government to subsidize their preferred lifestyle in such remote areas. Roads, telecoms, and food/water/gas services cost money an
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by kolanos 7y ago
Is it doxing if they just republished already public information on the virology lab's website?
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by kolanos 7y ago
Google also broke accessibility of their search results with this change. Now instead of the page titles, screen readers only read the entire URL. If they don't fix this soon, I'll be permanently switching to DDG.
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by kolanos 7y ago
There's hard labor and then there's "Among the prisoners there are some so ragged and liceridden that they pose a sanitary danger to the rest. These prisoners have deteriorated to the point of losing any resemblance to human
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by kolanos 7y ago
The White Sea & Baltic Canal was dug by hand by Gulag prisoners. You can't be serious? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Conditions
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IOpipe Joins New Relic(read.iopipe.com)
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by kolanos 7y ago
How is a judicial authority not a part of the government?
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by kolanos 7y ago
Softbank Vision Fund looks like a Saudi money laundering scheme to me.
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by kolanos 7y ago
> It’s slightly ironic that were even having this conversation because the Chinese government is a (for all but a few) safe topic for Americans to criticize. Those unsafe topics are multiplying and the distinction is that China is attemp
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by kolanos 7y ago
If anyone is interested in a list of perpetrators of crimes identified through genealogy databases [0]. Most famously the Golden State Killer, who likely would have remained unidentified [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by kolanos 7y ago
If your workload isn't sparse, then AWS Lambda has a complimentary service called AWS Fargate built on the same tech designed for more predictable workloads). Here's a comparison with AWS Lambda [0] and a crash course in setting u
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by kolanos 7y ago
Can you provide any more substantive reasons than an ad hominem?
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by kolanos 7y ago
Henry Rollins has a great Iggy Pop story. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIIoI6c93c Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFls7s_djY0
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by kolanos 7y ago
> Because you think Chinese has no their own opinion, so they can't express themselves. That was not what the poster you're replying to was saying. Quite the opposite, actually. The other poster was describing a political sophi
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by kolanos 7y ago
> it just appeals to both vanity and laziness to think "I can wing it." Some people are just good at ad lib. What is charisma without improvisation?
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by kolanos 7y ago
Author here, the CLI tool is: https://github.com/jpignata/fargate Part 2 is still planned and is now being fast tracked since there's interest in Fargate.
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by kolanos 7y ago
Python is not weakly typed. It is strongly typed in that it forbids operations that are not well-defined. For example, adding a number to a string) rather than silently attempting to make sense of them. I agree wholeheartedly about weakly t

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