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by mberning 3y ago
They mention getting tested for sleep apnea and the difficulty of doing the study. It need not be difficult. I did an at home sleep study and got my results in a few days. It was easy and made a huge improvement on my sleep. Instead of gett
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by mberning 3y ago
I’m a bit incredulous that Java’s tooling is in the “sucks” category. You could say a lot of negative things about Java, but the tools available freely and commercially are in a league of their own.
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by mberning 3y ago
Using consultants as a potential fall guy for some big and risky initiative is extremely common in my experience.
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by mberning 3y ago
I got about 1/3 through it.
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by mberning 3y ago
I need to re-read it. I probably finished the last book 20 years ago. Then I saw the films. And in the intervening years my opinion and attitude towards it, and the genre as a whole, has shifted toward the negative. I don’t know why. Maybe
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by mberning 3y ago
I agree. Most of the 30ish page document is completely open for interpretation, or misinterpretation. It would be much better to focus on the capabilities and outcomes.
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by mberning 3y ago
Not much to say about geothermal heat pumps. And the whole discussion about electric vs gas cost is a perfect example of why we need plentiful and cheap nuclear energy. Electricity should be so cheap that everybody wants a heat pump because
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by mberning 3y ago
Ah yes, John Gruber, the famous mind reader and person not generally motivated by political or personal animus. This does not belong on HN.
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by mberning 3y ago
This is such a rabbit hole. The automotive/milspec side of things is very deep. I ended up building a $1000 wiring harness for my $500 riding mower. Madness.
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by mberning 3y ago
You have no idea. This is not some database field that you can just alter with one statement and update a field on a screen. Things like this get hardcoded into hundreds of thousands of lines of assembler and cobol and need to be changed an
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by mberning 3y ago
People may assume that a lot of this mainframe software is "running just fine" but nothing could be farther from the truth. Often you will find that this software was fine when it was written 40-50 years ago, but now it has a lot
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by mberning 3y ago
It persists in many places due to the deeply ingrained belief that, for one reason or another, it would be technically, practically, or economically impossible to migrate functionality off the mainframe. Somehow the people in charge of thes
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by mberning 3y ago
I must have missed where they discuss the type system. They go to great length to explain that there aren’t classes, methods, etc. and showcase modules such as String, but it’s not clear to me how you know what can be passed to String.whate
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by mberning 3y ago
It seems odd that Valve would preemptively go and ask Nintendo for their input. Curious if they have done that for other items on Steam. It would seem that if Valve allowed this on their platform and Nintendo became upset about it they cou
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by mberning 3y ago
I agree. I tried to use it for some basic programming questions in a language I was not familiar with and it made up so much stuff that wasted my time because it looked reasonable, but was fake.
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by mberning 3y ago
This is exactly what I was referring to. The sad part is that once an area is zoned solely residential and built up, even if the zoning is changed, it is very hard to bring in the light commercial establishments because they just don't
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by mberning 3y ago
I agree. What are the chances that a young person taking this for the first time will recognize the side effects and know that it is from this vs something else. I guess they can always go to the doctor after the fact, but in some cases t
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by mberning 3y ago
If you can envision a suburb in which people are allowed to have a grocery store, hardware store, pub, etc. intermingled with the housing, then the suburb gets a lot better. You can walk or ride a bike to get 90% of the things you need for
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by mberning 3y ago
It's demoralizing when the government can move with lightning reflexes to protect corporations or rich individuals that are "at risk", meanwhile many things which would directly benefit working class people get kicked down th
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by mberning 3y ago
Let's not oversell it. They appear to have reined in several problems of their own creation/exacerbation. Hopefully it sticks. I sure hope it does.
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by mberning 3y ago
If lenders actually had to evaluate their chances of getting paid back what percentage of students do you think would not receive a loan? 50%? We need to make student loan debt dischargable in bankruptcy and the problem will be solved overn
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by mberning 3y ago
I think they are building all this on the hope that they can convince tech addicted kids to strap this stupid ass thing on for many hours per day. I think “on the person” computing devices are reaching their “peak tobacco” moment. Every day
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by mberning 3y ago
It is so painful to be reminded of a bygone era and how awesome it was. It didn’t matter if it was metal, cars, photography, whatever - there was a niche community for you. And it was amazing. Most that still exist are ghost towns. It’s lik
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by mberning 3y ago
Was it similar to pingplotter?
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by mberning 3y ago
Seneca seemed to have an Aristotelian streak.
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by mberning 3y ago
You can get the cliffs notes version of virtue ethics from the stoics. Very approachable and clear to implement in life. As an aside, I find it amusing that a piece in the New Yorker has the gall to criticize Aristotle of all people for mea
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by mberning 3y ago
I love riding e-scooters all around our downtown area. It’s fun, cheap, and way more convenient than driving or taking a cab/uber. But I do worry about the safety of it being around pedestrians and larger vehicles. And out in the burbs
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by mberning 3y ago
Conan, what is best in life? I don’t think we can look too much at our ancestors to conjure a definition of happiness. It’s probably wrong to labor under the idea that people ought to be happy. The fact that the human mind has such an infin
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by mberning 3y ago
Synology has nice support for time machine backups. Very easy to set up in DSM.
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by mberning 3y ago
It would also be nice to have an “explain” option where it shows how or why a value was updated. I am specifically thinking of Ansible which has a multitude of locations from which it sources variables. It would be nice to be able to spy on

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