npsimons

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by npsimons 3y ago
Name the most important thing in the news from two weeks ago. You can't. Neither can I. The difference between you and I is, I didn't waste my time or energy keeping up with utterly inane "news" that I have zero agency t
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by npsimons 3y ago
> The interface is more like printf See, I don't believe that's an improvement. Having used printf in C, I was relieved to be able to "redirect" whatever to a stream, and not care about whether it should be "%d&q
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Prohibition does work It didn't. We tried it. Look, I'm all for reducing consumption. I'm on board with trying to improve public health, or just health of everyone in general. But prohibition does not work. Didn't w
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by npsimons 3y ago
> What do you use instead [of std::iostream]? This is what I want to know. Having come from C to C++, iostreams were a big improvement over the "strings" and print functions of C. I even extended a base iostream class to have a
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by npsimons 3y ago
> He also simultaneously cites the Arab world as an example of an alcohol-free society, yet makes no mention of the relatively low productivity rates there. Even more ridiculous is that last I've heard, there is still alcohol being
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Can you go 7 days without drinking? Yes, but I've also been blackout drunk, more than once. I can't really keep beer in the house, because much like a binge eater with sweets, I have surprisingly little self-control and will
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by npsimons 3y ago
> winner take all for those who figured it out (Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, many others) What's really funny to me is the following quote from "Cluetrain Manifesto" that sticks out in stark opposition to the ab
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by npsimons 3y ago
I am what I consider "borderline" for alcoholism, although I've been told by professionals that I am nowhere near it. I'm still trying to quit completely (after having reduced immensely) my intake because no level of alc
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by npsimons 3y ago
This was also my understanding - the WHO classified alcohol as a carcinogen[0], and the statement "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health" appears to be true. [0] - https://www.who.int/europe/n
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by npsimons 3y ago
Kindly cite a problem with admitting mistakes and growing and learning from them. Then explain how consistency is a bad thing.
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by npsimons 3y ago
Given how many people here are disagreeing except on "be consistent", I feel I'm in good company in having that as my rule. I'm not being inconsistent, I'm learning, growing and adapting. "Strong opinions, we
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by npsimons 3y ago
> - In MATLAB, you use... quiver(). You know, because it holds a lot of arrows. Short and clear, eh? "Shaka, when the walls fell." Sure it's poetic, but WTF do you mean ?
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by npsimons 3y ago
As someone who gets mired in details, I can understand how it happens. It's so much easier to focus on something you can control and fix. Not excusing or defending it, just trying to serve up a reason why it happens.
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by npsimons 3y ago
> We need more languages that come with rigid rules for things like style, so we can stop wasting time and get on with solving problems. This is where I'm at now. Decades ago, I was an "only spaces, no tabs" guy. Still am
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by npsimons 3y ago
Yup. I feel that the idea of smart interconnected devices talking to each other to decide "okay, now is when it will be most efficient to run" is a really awesome thing, but it's been ruined by capitalism. Just a race to th
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by npsimons 3y ago
> I'd love to be able to put a wet load of laundry into my drier and press "make sure it's dry by tomorrow morning". So, I do a bit of this myself, manually. I've got a table of appliances and wattages, both rate
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Call me cynical, but from a dollars point of view this seems to be what customers want. I'm right there with you, except I don't give "customers" that much credit. Most people left to their own devices (ie, not brai
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by npsimons 3y ago
> I use [Reddit] as a resource for niche topics This is honestly the best way to use Reddit. I feel a lot of the hate is from people that haven't found subreddits useful/relevant to their needs, or are just plain ignorant. And
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? If you never curated your reddit experience, I could see how you might have this attitude. I won't deny tha
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by npsimons 3y ago
> zero lag. Obviously you aren't drinking enough.
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by npsimons 3y ago
Not strictly true; I, for one, don't hop on my bicycle without my helmet camera turned on.
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by npsimons 3y ago
You do realize that's satire, right? I'd hope the channel name ("Programmers are Also Human") would have given it away, but . . .
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by npsimons 3y ago
> What’s the downside of using org for readmes? Popularity. That's it. orgmode format was around long before Markdown, then all of a sudden Markdown got pushed hard for some reason.
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by npsimons 3y ago
They retired "links:" (or something named similar) to find websites that linked to a given one. Was very useful, and I've been fearing ever since that they will do away with "site:" next. There was also a time you c
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by npsimons 3y ago
I'm all for reducing bots and spam, but registration doesn't seem to have solved that problem for reddit. On top of this, siloing adds the extra bonus that it breaks things like The Internet Archive. There are a lot of communiti
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by npsimons 3y ago
Not GP, but https://fourminutebooks.com comes to mind. It's also just incredibly useful to get a "4 minute precis" and decide whether or not it's worth it to you to spend more time on that book.
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by npsimons 4y ago
> This is something some have a hard time understanding, but some of us prefer a non-modal editor and like having simpler key chords instead of key sequences. I'll second this. I literally grew up on VI - my dad installed it with
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by npsimons 4y ago
> We’re subsidizing companies that create unhealthy addictive food People love to bitch about the "diet industry" (which as a whole, seems to be almost entirely bro-science and snake oil), but the profits made there pale in c
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by npsimons 4y ago
> In the context where we have gone from obesity rates of 13 percent to 40, to suggest that people have a natural weight and that's the cause of this seems absurd to me. It annoys me too! Human genes haven't changed radically o
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by npsimons 4y ago
> I'm embarrassed to say it took more than a year to change my behavior, despite my clear understanding of the harm of snacking all the time. You shouldn't be - this is the crux to why weight loss is so hard, and something I

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