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by nikofeyn 7y ago
according to the article, it's been around for months.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i would think elixir and erlang suit that better. they both have beautiful binary pattern matching built in, and are perfect to wrap up disparate pieces that talk to each other. they also share some commonality with common lisp that a lispe
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Less code, loose coupling. Do one thing and do it well. Keep the external API simple. > It's always easier to change a small thing instead of a large thing. So make a small thing, and only make it a big thing if you absolutely
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i agree. it's a UI element that forces me to behave to how it wants to behave and not how i want it to behave. i want to just scroll through a page without having to delicately hover and click my mouse. the extra few pixels are not wor
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
so what are your suggestions, exactly? just allow everyone to do what they want because a slight reduction in that might inconvenience them and things are going to happen anyway so why bother? what are you even arguing for?
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Settle down. ... It's a virus and our medical system has limits. Shit happens. We react and (hopefully) come out well on the other side. so your response is to just throw our hands up in the air and say "shit happens"? h
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
are you seriously arguing that heavily taxing insanely wealthy people is unethical? i mean, we're literally living in a moment in which public school closures means many kids don't have reliable access to food anymore. there are
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i don't mean to be pessimistic, but my worry is that after this is "over", everyone will go on and on about how it's the best of humanity that got us through this. but in reality, it's the worst of humanity that cau
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Also, we should forever be thankful that such a mild version of the coronavirus mutated a structural upgrade like the furin cleavage site. If this had happened with SARS, MERS, or a hemorrhagic fever it could have been real trouble. wo
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
meat eating is pretty low on the things causing all of our problems. for example, population growth, which is directly mentioned in the quote you provided, is a serious issue.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> This is currently a matter of legal debate, but I don't think platforms can be held accountable for (most of) the actions of their users. it's not a legal argument being discussed. facebook certainly enables the actions of it
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Then you aren't looking hard enough. > That you don't see it hyped on TV doesn't mean it is not there. no need to be condescending. and who watches t.v. or ads? your response doesn't elaborate on anything. i don&
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> VR is light years ahead in terms of practical potential i agree VR is light years away (it's been just around the corner for years), but i don't even understand its potential. what are the big applications? i just can't
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
how do you go from literally not even monitoring people to banning all travel (and then continue to not monitor)? that isn't "normal". it isn't logical.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it's a wrong assumption. i've had enough exposure to know that the u.s. government is not equipped, logistically at a minimum, to deal with these things. and people are not equipped either.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i didn't. i didn't mention a single other country. it's an historic fact that the u.s. has not dealt with the same level of disturbances other countries have dealt with. and the u.s. quite clearly struggles with these emotion
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the greatest weaknesses in the u.s. is a sense of self-entitlement, selfishness, and an inability to stay calm in any sort of "panic" situation. the u.s. government and general public have no idea how to sanely handle emergencies
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> The China approach shutting everything done can further slow the spread, but at massively increased costs and long term risks of reinfection. china did the things they needed to. if they didn't, the costs would be many magnitudes
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the u.s. has been extremely lackadaisical regarding the virus. somehow they thought that a travel ban was an end all solution. when i came back from china in january, there wasn't any tracking, questioning, checking, or anything of the
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> It's also misinformation to assume SSRI's work the same way for everyone. the person you replied to didn't say that. the point is to defer to professionals and not your own hunches.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i don't trust this plane at all and can barely trust boeing's other planes now. i certainly don't trust the FAA or beoing themselves. this essentially amounts to a government bailout by the FAA. from their language on their o
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that time must have been such a special time to be a programmer and computer engineer. so much uncharted territory!
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Andy Gavin (Naughty Dog) – How Crash Bandicoot Hacked the Original PlayStation(youtu.be)
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
we've come a long way from "failure is not an option". this is typical musk spin. of course we can't be afraid to fail, but that isn't what happened here. catastrophic failures should not be considered "oh well
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
aka "the media".
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
well g-mail still barely works in chrome after the update they did, so i am not sure it's malice in this case.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> I'm an emacs user, and find the windows-y keyboard shortcuts foreign, so I have to think about them, and prefer just using the right-click mouse menu. it's a little surprising to me that you can't remember cut, copy, and
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
israel gelfand, a top russian mathematician, has books aimed at high school students that served as education materials for distance learning in russia. the series covers algebra, functions, trigonometry, graphs, geometry, and more. https:
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
my girlfriend got one of those, and i absolutely hate it. it wakes me up with light in a way that makes me feel bad. it honestly puts me in a bad mood immediately. one thing i have noticed being a night owl is that even during periods where
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
your paraphrasing of rich's thoughts seems like he is missing what type driven development is really about, and that is domain driven development. the idea behind letting types lead the way is not to just blindly rely on static types.

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