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by mercer 6y ago
Wow. I've not used Spring, but that sounds terribly tedious and indirect. I imagine it's worth it though?
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by mercer 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if in various post-mortems we will conclude that advising against face masks even though they do 'work' was a mistake. It's understandable that our governments might advise against their use bec
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by mercer 6y ago
I disagree. It's quite possible that this disagreement is particular to The Netherlands, but we're /steeped/ in US culture. We also 'hate' the US. It's complicated. If you listen to a conversation any thir
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by mercer 6y ago
Maybe. I used to assume as much, and as a solo developer I think there's a good chance I would pick a non-native solution when necessary. However, not only am I starting to doubt this, I think it's even less of an issue for a star
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by mercer 6y ago
I would love to keep using it, but as another commenter pointed out, the hard limits on rows/records is a deal-breaker for me. Other than that, it's a great tool though!
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by mercer 6y ago
My experience is that as a technical person with a beefy computer, I am mostly frustrated by the knowledge of how much of a waste these apps are, and how much faster they could start/run on my devices. But a lot of my non-technical f
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by mercer 6y ago
> I have taken multiple university courses in theoretical physics, in artificial intelligence and in neuroscience, including on the topic of consciousness. > ...I can tell that without a doubt... > If you believe...then you are fra
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by mercer 6y ago
Possibly interesting fact: the writer of The Egg also wrote The Martian. Haven't read the book, but the film was great and much funnier than I expected.
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by mercer 6y ago
That's marketing!
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by mercer 6y ago
Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we figured out how to center HTML elements both horizontally AND vertically!
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by mercer 6y ago
On my phone I find the regular site difficult to use anyways, so I go with hn.premii.com, which has a dark theme. For those who don't mind using a bookmarklet or using something like TamperMonkey, this bit of js does a pretty good job
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by mercer 6y ago
I wrote a Chrome plugin that highlights new comments and that allows me to tag users. I spend too much time on HN :P. Was fun to build though, and surprisingly 'useful'.
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by mercer 6y ago
I was with you until the tabs thing. What is wrong with you!
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by mercer 6y ago
That's pretty rich coming from an anthropogenic climate change denier.
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by mercer 6y ago
I recently started playing Cities and felt the same way. But then I also started playing Minecraft again on server set up by a friend of a friend. And the feeling is completely different. While most of us (5 players) spend out times doing o
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by mercer 6y ago
What a magical time... I remember being wowed by having a string of text follow my mouse around.
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by mercer 6y ago
I think one important difference is that if you call a method, things fail when the method doesn't exist, or the wrong arguments are passed. With message passing, the callee can decide not to respond to a message. Or to respond at a la
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by mercer 6y ago
>> I dunno, it's all speculation of course, but I'd say my 'usefulness' has gone up once I didn't have to bow to my bosses' whims. It's hard to quantify that, of course, but even if I go for a quanti
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by mercer 6y ago
I played Minecraft from an early alpha on (paid five bucks for it I think?). There was the year where I set up a server and played with my flatmates and, in another country, a sibling and his close friends. A big part of my daily routine wa
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by mercer 6y ago
To a degree I feel discussing this is a distraction of my basic point (we have become productive enough even in just a few decades to indulge in these experiments). But honestly I think it's a great point. Our taxes did not go down,
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by mercer 6y ago
Nobody paid my mother to raise me well. Nobody pays me to call her, or visit her. Nobody pays me to coach my younger siblings. Nobody paid that one great teacher to cultivate a love for programming in me, when just doing okay was enough. No
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by mercer 6y ago
> Of course people want to be useful and creative. But peoples usefullness and creativeness has to create atlest 2xUBI of taxes (one that goes back to the worker and one that goes to someone who get UBI but doesnt work) + all the other c
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by mercer 6y ago
Possibly. it's an interesting point. I'd say no, though. My experience so far has been that my government has had no problems repealing (to various degrees) things like health care, education/student loans, or public ownershi
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by mercer 6y ago
> If I had a shitty, dead-end job, and someone offered me (eg.) 80% of an average paycheck in my country, FOREVER(!), i'd probably quit, and live off UBI, and do other stuff (fun for me, but litle of value to to wider society, and w
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by mercer 6y ago
What's the deal with him?
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by mercer 6y ago
Is it hard to understand that people here apparently care much less about some athlete who plays a rather US-centric game of sportsball than they do about a Rock 'n Roll 'icon'? Also, keep in mind that flagging a submission i
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by mercer 6y ago
> Amazon did not fire these people without cause. They fired them because they violated company policies. Holy shit. That's just a tad removed from justifying killing your slaves for questioning the plantation's 'company p
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by mercer 6y ago
If he's good good judgment and ethics, surely his missing the point should make you question your judgment? Ultimately what you 'know' is his behavior, not whatever impression he's given you?
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm still not convinced he isn't!
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by mercer 6y ago
I do hope you stopped doing this. Parked domains have frustrated me so often!

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