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by maxbond 2y ago
Think about standing in front of a bright infrared source, like a space heater. You can't see the infrared, but you can feel it on your skin. If you pay attention you can pick up more subtle infrared sources, for instance certain kind
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by maxbond 2y ago
Good luck with that. Try switching to audio. It'll let you close your eyes and properly recline. That's a lot of the battle right there. Something contentless like the sound of a waterfall is ideal, but if you can't do that f
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by maxbond 2y ago
If it is broke, and you can't fix it, then it's a loaded footgun and should be removed.
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by maxbond 2y ago
> Synthetic fertilizers is the required technology and accepting that is the wisdom. Again, I don't want to get into a debate about agriculture, I'm trying to discuss the quote, but these are the types of assumptions I'm s
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by maxbond 2y ago
I don't want to argue the point (but I also am not dismissing your points, the position I put forward is definitely not unassailable), but I think there's an opportunity to make my original point better here, which is; sometimes w
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by maxbond 2y ago
I don't know that I know what it means, but I'll tell you a thought it brought to mind. A while ago I was having a discussion, and someone asserted that synthetic fertilizers are necessary because composting doesn't scale. An
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by maxbond 2y ago
It could be rejected for sure. I personally don't think it's working well. I don't support it really.
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by maxbond 2y ago
My mistake. Thanks for the correction.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Also, realistically, I don't imagine the phone number literally just telling you that the service wasn't available and hanging up. I imagine it would offer you options to get various pieces of information (the URL of the website,
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by maxbond 2y ago
I think what you've gotta do is say, "You can't call, but here is the number anyway," because customers aren't necessarily interacting with your page anymore. They're interacting with AI summaries of your page.
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by maxbond 2y ago
> What he didn't know at the time is there is no phone number for Facebook customer support. Part of the problem here is that Facebook (though in fairness, they are not unique here) has left this traditional path of escalation void,
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by maxbond 2y ago
IANAL but I would think there is a standing issue here? Surely they should be suing Tesla and not Musk and his trust? Someone in the comment section had the same answer, and the author responded "I don't know." The complain
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by maxbond 2y ago
"Rice has a lot of arsenic" reads the same as "rice may have arsenic in it — potentially high levels" if you don't take it as literally applying to all rice in all circumstances.
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by maxbond 2y ago
I doubt they meant it as being inflammatory. It's just a fact, if you don't read it as being perfectly literal. I parboil my rice and pour off the water before cooking it to try and avoid arsenic exposure (which is more or less a
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by maxbond 2y ago
I think you can credit a win to IRC recently, too, when someone tried to buy control of Freenode and it seems (as least as an onlooker) that everyone successfully coordinated upping stakes and moving to a new network. I don't use IRC,
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by maxbond 2y ago
I think everything you said was true, but I would point out that I think of this as a practical rather than ideological position. I'm not saying it never makes sense to build inside of a walled garden, I'm saying there is a costly
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by maxbond 2y ago
My reading (and maybe I'm wrong because the comment was terse) is that IRC will never die, because it is not a commercial interest that can be shuttered. It's an open protocol and anyone can spin up a server. Any community you bui
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by maxbond 2y ago
For what it's worth, sometimes I get very frustrated with HN, but I think the reason I keep coming back is because it provides me with a lot of context. Eg, I pick up a lot of information about techniques people have applied to certain
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by maxbond 2y ago
I'm curious why, if that's what you think about this place, you not coming here?
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by maxbond 2y ago
I had a very difficult to track down bug that ended up losing us a very big fish client, that came down to parsing a binary file with an ad-hoc parser that looked for the index of a header. They didn't realize that after the header was
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by maxbond 2y ago
You can use whatever high minded references to philosophy and psychology you please, but from what I've read from you in this thread - you're missing the point. You aren't understanding the criticism, and you're addressi
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by maxbond 2y ago
I propose the following razor: Never attribute to jealousy that which can be explained by a difference of perspective. Jealousy can explain any criticism of anybody. That makes it an epistemic hazard; you can always fall back to it, and you
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by maxbond 2y ago
Probably most of the time you just want to crash, but that's a pretty easy requirement to satisfy. I don't think either approach has a particular advantage there.
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by maxbond 2y ago
The try/catch is basically a different stack, and a single try/catch frame may be many stack frames. I've found that for complex stuff I have to walk up and down my abstractions to understand how exceptions are flowing, and t
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by maxbond 2y ago
No sorry, I'm not tuned in to typescript at the moment. I've mostly used fp-ts in the past because I haven't found a better runtime type system than io-ts, but I haven't written typescript in a while. Mostly responding s
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by maxbond 2y ago
But that doesn't explain why they would have miscellaneous work product (emails about "fix this character's head") and a long history of under the table animation work.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Well, we want the same thing, I guess we have opposite ideas about how to achieve it.
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by maxbond 2y ago
An invalid URL in a config file is exceptional. An invalid URL typed in by a user or from an external source (eg the body of an API request or inside of some HTML) is Tuesday.
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by maxbond 2y ago
Lovely bit of history. Thanks for sharing. There is an interesting undercurrent of the blind and the history of hacking. Iirc Cap'n Crunch learned about phreaking from a house of blind people who could also hear and whistle the control
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by maxbond 2y ago
Huh, interesting. So is this a situation where a library uses one error type for everything, so there are several function calls which could have triggered it, or where the documentation is lacking so you know where it was triggered but lac

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