leeoniya

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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   this guy is a legend: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ (pretty sure each post has had its own HN submission) also see 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   > An amount that could easily be learned in a (good) 4-year undergraduate program. i think any kind of undergrad program can only ever scratch the surface of some of these topics. people spend decades becoming proficient in just a single
3. 633.▲
   by leeoniya 5y ago

   i think it's a sliding scale. if you were previously living on streets and frequently going hungry, then you can likely sustain yourself very well still without working. 1M translates to 27 years at $3k/month expenses. if you chos
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   i've met plenty who have regretted the timing, or having 3+ kids instead of two. but never about having 1 kid instead of zero and it preventing their otherwise early retirement. having one kid will delay any kind of FIRE strategy signi
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   the implication is that most people have a limit to how much money they can reasonably spend before they start seeking things other than more money in life. even a poor person can tell you that an extra $10M in their pocket will be no more
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   if you read the links you posted, a large portion of these are from people who weren't ready, or had kids with disabilities or adopted without enough vetting, or were not financially ready, etc. all parents go through difficult periods
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   > getting married and having kids i have not met anyone yet who is married with kids but would have preferred an earlier retirement instead. kids are more expensive than all the other things combined that you listed - no amount of living
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   and https://github.com/leeoniya/dropcss , if you're feeling adventurous ;)
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   by leeoniya 5y ago

   thats why i always buy my headlight fluid on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Headlight-Hilarious-Automobile-Hyster...
10. 640.▲
    by leeoniya 5y ago

    mapbox-gl is an engineering marvel. unforunately no longer OSS, but there's a fork [0]. not sure how actively the fork will be further developed aside from bugfixes. [0] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    > It's like normalising conversations about sport or TV. "But I'm not interested in sport or TV" becomes an unacceptable view because "most people" are. as someone who only watches the "popular" sp
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    the problem is 1. infectious disease that can kill others. it's great that they are remote, but they still interact with others sometimes. no one requires them to wear warning signs. as numerous others have pointed out, it's like
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    i've always wondered how anti-vaxxers would feel about sending their children to schools exclusively for anti-vaxxers. is this something they would feel no hesitation in doing, or do they actually appreciate that their unvaccinated kid
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    > I've got no idea at what magnitude I should start worrying ask your building inspector
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    > debt is probably one of the velociraptors. you probably mean Utahraptor; velociraptors were rather smallish, contrary to what the movies would have you believe. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    i imagine 99.9999% of people would take their chances with a sandbag round than a bullet. the fact that 1 in <some very large number> may hit your head in a way to injur you permanently doesnt change this.
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    ah, you're right. i missed that.
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    > If you just release the source and don't accept patches then that's not real open source this is commonly referred to as "source available".
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    i remember that on windows 95 (and maybe later) the login wav sound that played for 2s seemed to actually blocked everything else. simply disabling the login sound made the sign-in-to-desktop significantly faster.
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    somewhat related fft/data smoothing: https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/2017/08/07/asap/ made a recent demo vs a moving avg: https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/demos/data-smoothing
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    > Don't have money for that. and how about money to defend a potential lawsuit? you're gambling with more than just your job, honestly.
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    you're describing https://adnauseam.io/
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    no matter how clever you think you're being, if you have not consulted an IP attorney about this, be prepared for some unpleasant surprises.
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    you really should check with an attorney. to me this doesn't pass the sniff test. i work for an open source (AGPL) company, that uses one of my open source (MIT) projects as a core dependency. before i joined, i made sure that any code
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    here's one i like: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    coffee shop -starbucks -dunkin used to work in Maps. not anymore. :eyeroll:
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    yep. and please dont query the dom 100k times, or in a loop :)
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    reminds me of https://i.redd.it/469hjiwz3ga21.jpg
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    [2017]
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    by leeoniya 5y ago

    Sonos is another one that never got the message, until the PR nightmare that ensued. https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/30/21042871/sonos-recycle-m...