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by msluyter 3y ago
I think this -- whether something should be illegal because it could be used to harm others -- isn't a particularly helpful way to frame things. I could drop a refrigerator from a crane onto the jerk who lets his dog poop in my yard,
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by msluyter 3y ago
> So what should it do? Continue futilely braking to a likely-fatal accident when it impacts the truck? Or swerve to avoid? Just speculating, but I'd wager we end up with a suboptimal solution to particular instances like this in fa
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by msluyter 3y ago
Is this actually legally viable? I'd be worried that you could be technically considered to be under contract and get fined for late fees/penalties on top of other charges, get referred to collection agencies, etc...
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by msluyter 3y ago
I think one example where duplication > abstraction is in tests. I personally find tests that have a ton of extra helper classes/functions to do stuff like set up fixtures or do assertions to be painful to deal with. Taken to an ext
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by msluyter 3y ago
Random story. I used to have a pretty intense phobia about returning things, and 90% of the time I'd opt to just eat the cost rather than doing so. When we had our first child, we bought this automatic rocker/chair thing. I got it
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by msluyter 3y ago
FWIW, I think Scott Galloway has an interesting take on this: https://www.profgalloway.com/work-from-office/ One of his arguments is that for younger employees, in that it provides an opportunity to create social conne
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by msluyter 3y ago
I'd be really curious to see a non-anecdotal exploration of this thesis. (My own anecdata points in the opposite direction.) I ran across this study via random googling: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318
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by msluyter 3y ago
"Limes Against Humanity." ;)
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by msluyter 3y ago
Weird, having bought/sold a number of houses in the last ten years (our family moved several times), I can't say I've ever run into a real estate agent that seemed like a "high pressure" salesman. Perhaps its just t
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by msluyter 3y ago
Are you assuming that the intent behind feedback is always benign? IMHO, in work settings it can represent a sort of a power play, esp. if done in public. I, wise, experienced, and objective, have the perspicacity to critique you, a humble,
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by msluyter 3y ago
I feel seen. Diet Coke is my albatross, and it has all the hallmarks of a serious addiction. I'm currently going through another round to trying to stop, and I'm seriously always thirsty and craving it.
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by msluyter 4y ago
This is why I no longer play it -- it also suffers from a severe kingmaker problem. But like others have noted, for me, Settlers was sort of a gateway game that led me into wider world of eurogames and many years of enjoyment & camarade
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by msluyter 4y ago
A compelling narrative on the topic that went around a number of years ago: https://slate.com/human-interest/2005/12/my-coffeehouse-nigh...
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by msluyter 4y ago
Unmentioned reason: for the lone developer, the temptation to be "clever," or do interesting experiments is harder to resist. For me, sometimes that's driven by boredom. I've occasionally found myself switching paradigms
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by msluyter 4y ago
I have keratoconus and scleral contact lenses reduce the flaring enough to make night driving possible.
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by msluyter 4y ago
I've been trying Github copilot. It's especially good for suggestions based on localized context. For example, if you have this: def do_thing(): print('doing a thing') def do_thing_2(): pri
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by msluyter 4y ago
This article overlooks the potentially positive impact of your peer network. All of the things that the article suggest you shouldn’t do are things that make you valuable to your peers. And your peers may be instrumental in helping you find
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by msluyter 4y ago
"1. You can’t have enough new content every month, subscribers therefore don’t keep the subscription year round." For our household, this is true of all streaming services. We rotate them, or subscribe for short stretches. For exa
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by msluyter 4y ago
IMHO, I think this is by design, with the goal of moving people to Apple Music. These days, it's all about rent extraction (aka, subscriptions).
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by msluyter 4y ago
Indeed. Thirteenth amendment, section 1.
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by msluyter 4y ago
You can also add a comment for searchability, as in: > big hairy command with --lots --of arguments # foobar Then you can search for 'foobar' via fzf or whatnot.
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by msluyter 4y ago
My first real job was for a sdet position and I was asked how to test a function that takes 3 numbers representing lengths of sides of triangle, and determines whether the the numbers can form a possible triangle. E.g. (in python), de
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by msluyter 4y ago
Related: anecdotally, morning sunlight really improves my overall sleep. Learned about it here: https://hubermanlab.com/sleep-toolkit-tools-for-optimizing-s...
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by msluyter 4y ago
I think it may hinge on whether you use wrist pads. I use them and definitely can't wear a watch when I work.
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by msluyter 4y ago
I once made the mistake of doing something like ‘viewed as a binary representation of a number, where pyramids on their side are zeros and those standing are ones, such that the number is odd.” After that my friends wouldn’t play Zendo wit
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by msluyter 4y ago
Thank you for introducing me to this rabbit hole. Here's a NYTimes article from 1976 -- note, many issues with the OCR, but still interesting and entertainingly written: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/26&#x2F
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by msluyter 4y ago
I recommend this Huberman Labs podcast about ADHD: https://hubermanlab.com/adhd-and-how-anyone-can-improve-thei... Huberman is a neuroscientist and everything he recommends appears to be backed by peer reviewed research. He
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by msluyter 4y ago
Wow, this brings back memories! My roommate in college was really into Brian Eno, and I recall many a night when we'd go to sleep to this. HN is pretty great sometimes.
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by msluyter 4y ago
"HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform." This has always surprised me. At several companies I've suggested to the hiring folks that they post on HN and I've rarely seen it happen. But IMHO, although yo
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by msluyter 4y ago
I think that's mostly correct, and at beginner/intermediate levels of play can very much be true. Back when I used to play, I'd often run into people who specialized in weird gambits like the Grob or the Latvian, because even

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