njharman

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by njharman 3y ago
I had same thought as your first sentence. But you lost me on the second. Evolution operates by being fit for your environment. If that environment is dominated by ecosystem destroying humans. Adapt or be replaced with life that has. Most h
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by njharman 3y ago
Blogs are far from dead. Mass appeal is maybe dead. Niches are alive and well. OSR ttrpg blogs paper wargame blogs (fewer) but still more content than I can keep up with. And niches have always been the strength, the value of the open web.
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by njharman 3y ago
The floor is all vacation days, not employed. Still "no time off" is not synonymous with "negotiated time off". I'm arguing with the title being wrong/misleading. Not whether USA should have mandated time off.
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by njharman 3y ago
I lived and worked US my whole life. I've had lots of paid time off. Probably less than French worker over 30 years. But still infinitely more than "no paid time off".
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by njharman 3y ago
I'm not spending game night constantly asking all my guests all the possible things (water, caffeine, booze, food, bathroom, chair, cushion, warmer, colder, more light, less light, music, different music, louder music, quieter music, p
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by njharman 3y ago
I'm surprised that educators think their goal is to get "more"/"most" students involved in the subject they are teaching. Lower education's educational goals are to expose students to all the things. So, t
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by njharman 3y ago
> When learning something, when you simply cannot grasp a concept however hard you try, what's the course of action? Learn by doing, don't learn by studying. Pick a (hopefully real) problem, solve it using classes. Repeat. Cont
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by njharman 3y ago
Depending on language there are ton of style choices. There’s style guides as examples of trivial. Non trivial include names, comments, logging, error checking, structure, ordering of operations that aren’t sequential.
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by njharman 3y ago
There's household device linking. One reason, streaming services/smart tvs want you to link phone/stream from phone. And all those services that want your phone number to verify/provide "2 factor". Yeah, they&#
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by njharman 3y ago
Those features are all much better provided by The Internet. Including finding and ordering a specialized physical book if you need.
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by njharman 3y ago
> People need to get to work, nobody needs to backpack through Europe That is why American capitalism/consumerism is bad. Our society would be far, far better served if people exposed themselves to different cultures, beliefs, exper
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by njharman 3y ago
I find C/C++, et al curly brace syntax and semi colon at end of line, maybe; syntax absolutely abhorrent. Erlang reads like a sentence commas, and period at end. There's very little syntax and it makes sense. The problem it is dif
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by njharman 3y ago
Contraire, it's illustrative of the content's quality.
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by njharman 3y ago
The marketing and fan hype is exactly same as for other lifestyle companies. Hence you buy these products so you can show and be seen having bought them and receive validation from your perceived peers.
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by njharman 3y ago
No. The assumptions you make are incorrect. And even if they were, your conclusion is also incorrect. Copyright does not require "pleasing". Only that the work have a minimum of human creativity. And courts have rules that is very
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by njharman 4y ago
If you think we as a species are all together chased/chasing crypto or AI/LLMs, you really need to step outside of the echo chamber. > OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January That's
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by njharman 4y ago
Newsstands, bookstores recommend items. Ones they put on front, at eye level, on the "look at this" table as you walk in. We don't typically hold them liable. In meatspace we don't generally hold those making recommendat
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by njharman 4y ago
Huh? They just make me feel competent at my career.
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by njharman 4y ago
Other relentless self-promoters, Edison, Jobs, Musk. If you don't have the talent to get many people to listen to you, then you can't change the world (Or, at least have no control over how you change the world which is kind of wo
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by njharman 4y ago
The post isn't about not teaching during code reviews. It's about not doing it badly, duh? I'm actually shocked at his example. It's obviously bad practice (and just jerk/toxic behavior (don't fucking be coy, E
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by njharman 4y ago
Apparently not, civil war and WWII (both balloons btw) search for "down" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army_Balloon_Corps and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
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by njharman 4y ago
Its not like USA have never violated other nations air space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_aerial_reconnais... but I guess we quit doing it to China https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07&#x
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by njharman 4y ago
It's a Felony to lie to federal agent. Who doesn't know that? Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, it's a felony crime to: make a “false statement” to an agent of the > federal government related to a federal matter. ... A “fal
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by njharman 4y ago
I learned TDD as a development method. Too many people imagine TDD is about testing. It's explained right there on the cover Test *Driven* Development. Not a testing method. A development process guided by unit "tests". In qu
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by njharman 4y ago
> think positive, be happy! This is correct. It is hard to do all the time. But it's a better way to live. Happiness / unhappiness is a choice (depression other mental illnessesses and additions are conditions to be treated, ou
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by njharman 4y ago
Now realize people do that with politics, science (climate change), etc.
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by njharman 4y ago
AI based compression is under current research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVa1xRaHTA0 Netflix has strong history of optimizing their streams. I bet they will be first to deploy.
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by njharman 4y ago
Because they want to keep the protection, I think called sec 240, from being liable for what others say using their service.
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by njharman 4y ago
I wouldn't define it as limited to online speech. And most trolling I'm familiar with is calling out asshats and holier than thou types in sarcastic and funny manner. No definition is as concrete, unmallable, and unchanging as you
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by njharman 4y ago
Mainly what does having an expensive, fragile human who requires tons of support (air, water, breaks) and legal liability & regulation offer over a remote or now/soon autonomous machine? Answer, not enough to be profitable.

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