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by mercer 6y ago
Or on the autism spectrum. A lot of people with HFA/asperger's would describe their inner experience as very much like 'HSP' even if from the outside they wouldn't be obviously considered so.
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by mercer 6y ago
Counselling might help too, perhaps. It can be very difficult to explain what you need and why, but doubly so when the other party has difficulty hearing and understanding what you're trying to say. A professional counsellor can really
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by mercer 6y ago
I often find myself disagreeing with your views, but in this case I mostly agree. I'm open to ideas of how to best deal with extremist thought (and subsequent action), and I do feel simply arguing that speech should be fully free is ni
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by mercer 6y ago
http://www.emojidick.com/
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by mercer 6y ago
How do you define non-destructive? It's possible to do peaceful protest that are nonetheless economically destructive.
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by mercer 6y ago
Where does it leave the people who lack trust in that kind of delegation? What do we do about that? I'm inclined to agree with what you describe, but it worries me how many of them (us?) have come to feel that it doesn't work. We
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by mercer 6y ago
I think some of the favorite programming concepts I've learned about in the past years have been multiple dispatch and pattern matching.
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by mercer 6y ago
My impression is that Clojure has found a niche, for better and worse. Back when I looked into it, I loved the lispyness but the JVM underneath it never quite 'clicked' and there was something about the ecosystem/community th
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd suggest just adding a question mark.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say most shows fall short of The Wire. Game of Thrones was /good/ for the first three seasons or so, then got worse and worse. The last season, in my opinion, is so bad that in hindsight I wish I hadn't watched the e
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by mercer 6y ago
Both are exhausting, honestly.
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by mercer 6y ago
Oh yeah, I've found 'the reason why Rome collapsed' type arguments to be at this point mostly a kind of 'Rorschach Test' for the ideology of whoever is promoting it.
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by mercer 6y ago
While I have it pretty good as programmer, especially in covid times I get lots of calls from clients. I suspect they do so in part because they're going crazy isolating. The pressure to pick up the phone knowing it'll significant
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by mercer 6y ago
I have a third party dock about the size of zippo that plugs into the USB-C port, and has another USB-C port for charging, HDMI for picture, and a 'regular USB port for pairing and whatnot. it's great to bring along to friends so
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by mercer 6y ago
The JIT efforts for Elixir/Erlang apparently offer 30% speed up, worst case, and while I'm way out of my depth here, apparently it's a relatively 'naive' implementation. I'm very curious why there isn't as
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by mercer 6y ago
FWIW I'm balls-deep into Elixir, pardon my language, and I almost never write recursive functions.
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by mercer 6y ago
I hear LiveWire for Laravel is pretty decent, even if it's not quite the same. I quite liked this Elixir podcast episode where they interview the creator of LiveWire (and Alpine.js): https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-e
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by mercer 6y ago
I've found that the vast majority of clicky stuff I do leads to a URL change anyways, and these are just proper links to the new URL that LV then intercepts. In your Counter example, it's true that for the 'degraded' ver
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by mercer 6y ago
Elixir's/Phoenix' LiveView (and clones/similar approaches). It's been discussed plenty on HN, so I don't think I need to elaborate too much. But I'll just say that as I'm using it in more and more new
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by mercer 6y ago
As a programmer / software engineer, I've found that I often look for equivalency with policy and whatnot, because it seems like there are lots of similarities. The impression that I get from my country (The Netherlands) is that w
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by mercer 6y ago
> So, if Spotify is so bad, as would seem evidenced by all these HN threads that pop up from time-to-time, why do people continue to use it? Aside from amount of content (which wasn't an issue earlier), I suspect the primary reason
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by mercer 6y ago
> Every now and then (maybe one out of every 20-30 songs) I will discover a shiny new gem of a song that really resonates with me. So I drag that song up and add it to my slowly growing playlist. I take a similar approach, but I've
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by mercer 6y ago
Great storytelling in the broadest sense, so not just writing, but world-building and branching narratives where my choices actually matter.
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by mercer 6y ago
Agreed. Even with the incredible detail in the world I can't but wonder what Bluepoint, Panic Button, or other successful could've done to make it work on previous-generation consoles.
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by mercer 6y ago
I bought Witcher 3 on PS4 and Switch but I exclusively play on the latter device. Sure, it looks like someone smeared vaseline on my screen, especially in hand-held mode. but it's still surprisingly pretty in its art direction and the
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by mercer 6y ago
Other players, myself included, feel that it's a piss-poor Deus Ex too. If bugs and performance were the only issue, I'd just have left the game until I got my next-gen console. I asked for a refund because it's a bad game in
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by mercer 6y ago
Plus it had an open world where most of it could be realistically lifeless other than wildlife and monsters.
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by mercer 6y ago
Plenty of the criticisms are not specific to a particular console.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm also playing through Witcher 3 for the first time and it's baffling how the one thing that made that mostly mediocre game one of my favorites is not that great in Cyberpunk.
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by mercer 6y ago
That's untrue. They explicitly targeted current-gen consoles, told us the game runs well on them, and even released a themed Xbox One!

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