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by myfavoritedog 3y ago
Any time a language forces you to create boilerplate that could be autogenerated by your toolchain, it's not a feature.
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
Conveniently, the solution is the editor that thousands of developers have taken time to improve over decades so that the author didn't have to start from scratch. What are the odds that the solution involved a popular, mature tool tha
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices I've been on multiple sides of this environment over my 3+ decades in the job market: managed people in office, managed people while I worked remotely, worked in an office,
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
they don't believe people could consciously want to make things better The hard part is that often they're right, especially in California - as with the Sepulveda Pass Freeway Expansion Project, where TFA says that the commute t
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
Can second that recommendation. On top of the good advice in the book about your back, the author also has a lot to say about the missteps a lot of doctors will make in treating back problems. Those missteps can serve as red flags in eval
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
And yet, when the Democrats control Congress and the presidency (like they do now, like they did in 2010), they do absolutely nothing to show us how wonderful their programs could be -- if only they had control! Government programs don&#x27
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
I used Dexedrine some years ago because I was dealing with a lack of focus, tiredness, and brain fog. For the month or so that it worked, it was pretty awesome. My mind felt like it was hammering away and as sharp as I was in my twenties.
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by myfavoritedog 4y ago
My wife remembers what clothes people wear and the colors of their cars, their houses, and even the shutters on their houses. I remember what computers people own, what the bread-winners of the family do for a living, and an insane amount o
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Probably the same way that they're blaming Trump for Russia's aggression during the non-Trump presidencies before and after the Trump one. It's almost like reality doesn't align with their tribal narrative but they can&
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Standard frameworks give you text frames with minimal hooks to customize them and "good enough" performance. They're great for dumping a log file to or for small documents, but when you want the fine control of a text editor
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
A very difficult aspect of indie game development is that the quality of the end product is easy to discern. We all can tell if someone creates a game that's got good graphics, sound, gameplay, is fun, etc. The indie developer who do
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
That's only true if the burglar knows that the owners ignore the dog's barking.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
SSDs gave my laptops longer effective life. Turns out that the main reason my laptops felt so slow after a few years wasn't software bloat. It was cruft in the file system.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
You'd think that would be the first sentence on their landing or at least their about page.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Yes, freedom is in equilibrium with collectivism in any functioning society. The mistake people make when acknowledging that a freedom/collectivism equilibrium exists is to assume that freedom/collectivism changes are also in some
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
The US government should require schools to divulge this information and make sure that students/parents applying for government-backed student loans are keenly aware of and agree to the financial risks implied by the statistics.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Fairness can only be achieved in a competitive environment without unnecessary and contrived leverage. It's really hard to find something fair when unions elect politicians who write laws for unions that allow strangling negotiations
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
The withdrawal from Afghanistan should be instructive of why we should not be eager to see a big power-grab from the current administration. The main three causes of this shipping kerfuffle are: 1. Environmental regulations on trucking. 2.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
That blog is a false dichotomy built on top of a strawman. The strawman is that it's all about "getting rich". Ramsey (the one I've heard talk the most) is mostly about just getting people to stop digging themselves dee
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I applaud your current open-mindedness, although your past open-mindedness could have used a tweak. If you are serious about looking into meditation further, read Sam Harris’ book Waking Up. Sam Harris is about as far from a “woo-woo bulls
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
There’s something really satisfying about making yogurt. I make it a gallon at a time in an instant pot. The family loves it.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I saw a stat a while back that showed that any higher levels of policing of minority communities was directly attributable to higher levels of disturbance reports from within the communities themselves. So police aren’t just looking for off
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
No True Scotsman defense incoming, as people pretend that a “very very small niche” is what it means when high-profile congressional members put forth positions that are not vigorously denounced by the media and their political allies.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Not surprising since those are all Sinclair stations just repeating canned statements. What’s really scary is when mainstream media outlets from a variety of corporate entities all repeat the exact same talking points that are exactly in sy
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Built an ISP back in the mid-90’s with some friends as a startup. Dial-up, ISDN, Frame Relay, DSL, etc. My one piece of advice is to not overestimate sales. We engineering types tend to underestimate how hard it can be to sell things. We
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
The ironic thing is that the people on Hacker News understand security. They know that a lack of voter ID, mass mail-in balloting, ballot harvesting, lack of chain of custody of ballots, lack of ability to observe the counting of ballots, e
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
We should have seen evidence of a variant in the USA by now, if an earlier one had existed prior to the main outbreak.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
What does that have to do with Google's use of your SSID? If someone wants to use your SSID signal to image what's going on in your house, they don't need to have first gotten your SSID from google's mapping database.
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
Right, if those cases were COVID, why wasn't there a mass outbreak at that time in their area, causing a surge in hospitalizations? When asked, most of the people I've talked to couldn't even point to other people to whom the
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by myfavoritedog 5y ago
I'm really skeptical of the "I had a bad cough in late 2019, must have been COVID claims". I saw quite a number of them on social media last year. It seemed like people were eager to grab some sort of celebrity or a part of

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