neolefty

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by neolefty 5y ago
Yup, React is all functional these days, and pretty widespread. My team, for example, is "discovering" the benefits of functional approaches, and it's nice that it's a gentle slope.
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by neolefty 5y ago
Yes! I find that if I don't comment my PRs, my coworkers avoid them. But then in commenting them, I find quite a few ... not always errors, but cleanups at least.
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by neolefty 5y ago
And http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
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by neolefty 5y ago
Gaining CO2 has more of an effect: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200421/Atmospheric-CO2-l...
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by neolefty 5y ago
From the site: > The Third Thumb is a 3D printed thumb extension for your hand, controlled by your feet. The project investigates the relationship between the body and prosthetic technology in new ways. Looks like you control it with you
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by neolefty 5y ago
Cool! Some of my favorite sci-fi writers are programmers or former programmers — Andy Weir, Charlie Stross, Dennis Taylor. Although that may have more to do with me (as a programmer) than with any relationship between fiction and software.
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by neolefty 5y ago
Agreed. It definitely helped me be more sympathetic to a wider variety of single men. All of us can do better (in the article's case, that includes single men who are romantically frustrated) and _almost_ all of also us deserve some sy
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by neolefty 5y ago
Please stop using "Third World" as a term — it is no longer accurate, the AP has eliminated it from its stylebook, and is widely considered offensive: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/0
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by neolefty 5y ago
There are a few hypothetical exceptions discussed, but the authors were surprised to see that in all the cases they looked at, it seemed to help. > Extremely high profit margins (>55%) could trigger a negative reaction, although this
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by neolefty 5y ago
Key feature: Maintain browser state while switching machines > Even if you shutdown or switch to a different computer, your browser will always be on. Exactly how you left it. That means you’ll never lose tabs that remind you of somethin
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by neolefty 5y ago
Yes, it seems clear that people knew about these problems — they were obvious at one level of management — and they worked together to cover them up.
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by neolefty 6y ago
High risk to never really work though — it makes SpaceX and Raptor look conservative.
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by neolefty 6y ago
What's the incentive for attackers?
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by neolefty 6y ago
This is an excellent point IMO. Unregulated central institutions (such as currency) lead to anarchy, in which public interest is not aligned with benefits. For example, pure Bitcoin serves only Bitcoin, with disregard for laws about, say, m
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by neolefty 6y ago
It depends on out-of-loop review of the oracles by people, to ensure they stay honest, and that new oracles are honest. Over time, as problems come and go, I assume oracles will be added and retired, so this coin will require manual mainten
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by neolefty 6y ago
It's more a history question than a technical question. What's the use of Bitcoin or Ethereum?
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by neolefty 6y ago
The principles are the same — it's just harder to find collisions for larger digest sizes. (Although bugs in sha-1 add an interesting wrinkle to the discussion.) In fact one could argue that encryption without requiring infinite bandwi
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by neolefty 6y ago
The part that is government debt, I think of as private funding of government: * Government cannot cover its expenses through taxes * There is plenty of wealth out there though, and its owners are eager to "invest" it The problem
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by neolefty 6y ago
My guess: Someone who is not into management (or not good at it) may be powerful when they work on a problem but naturally narrowly focused — management can help them prioritize, see the bigger picture, and shift their focus when needed. Au
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by neolefty 6y ago
Are there large companies that you would like to work for? Keeping a healthy culture in a small company seems feasible. Not sure about large companies?
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by neolefty 6y ago
Correct, `useState` (and `useEffect` and `useContext`) are not pure. They are ways of managing impurities while writing mostly pure functions.
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by neolefty 6y ago
Same with WebStorm editing JavaScript & TypeScript! I'm so impressed that JetBrains can put a reliable pseudo-type system on top of dynamic languages like Python and JavaScript. My co-workers wonder why I don't just use VSCode
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by neolefty 6y ago
The goals here are kind of sideways from heat dissipation. * Different parts from different processes — for example DRAM and CPU need different processes, so it doesn't work to put them on the same chip — this integration is a step clo
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by neolefty 6y ago
Going back _would_ save the planet, but it's not the only way. There are routes forward, but they require global coordination and creativity. It's hard to imagine because there's no historical precedent, but I think it's
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by neolefty 6y ago
That sounds constitutionally suspicious. Think it will stand up in court?
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by neolefty 6y ago
It's also a lot of data to squeeze through a 250MB/s tube. 110+ hours to copy?
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by neolefty 6y ago
Thank you! This was really illuminating. Makes sense that a cytoskeleton & transport would develop first, making symbiosis possible. Great research design to figure out something so cryptic.
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by neolefty 6y ago
They looked for duplication events (and dated them using computer models of genetic drift) — where the whole genome is duplicated — which set species up for rapid evolution because now one copy can change while one remains unchanged and fu
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by neolefty 6y ago
From the product description: > Features: Anti-sulfur, ... Imagine the shipping warning labels.
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by neolefty 6y ago
A problem with local cemeteries (in the US) is that they require vaults in order to prevent collapse of graves, simply because it's a maintenance headache. You can even leave the bottom open to speed up decomposition, but you still nee

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