p1necone

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721.
by p1necone 4y ago
Have you considered there might be a reason for that? That kind of "100% personal freedom, no government telling me what to do" libertarianism is impossible nonsense. It would exist for about three seconds before people realized t
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by p1necone 4y ago
Walking around barefoot is just a New Zealand culture thing. I make a decent software engineer salary and own shoes and I still walk around barefoot in public a lot because I like it more and it's socially acceptable. Someone got kicke
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by p1necone 4y ago
Try working for any large organization public or private. There's not much difference. "The Government" is effectively equivalent to hundreds of separately run companies as well, some of them are bureaucratic/ineffecti
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah I'm kinda the same. I stick around because interesting/useful stuff gets posted here, and the discussion is mostly also interesting/useful. But some days I wonder if I really want to hang around in a space where comments
725.
by p1necone 4y ago
It depends on the topic, with posts that are mostly about technical stuff (which of course is most things that get posted on HN) there's generally no hint of any of that. But when anything gets posted that can be linked to race, or cel
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by p1necone 4y ago
They're pretty darn good for laptop GPUs . This isn't really an Apple specific problem - GPUs with low power budgets are never going to beat GPUs intended to permanently run off of wall power. (I know there's stuff like th
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by p1necone 4y ago
I suspect the reality is that preventing illegal gambling via enforcement would be basically impossible to do effectively without spending a significant portion of the police budget on it. Allowing heavily regulated legal gambling is more l
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by p1necone 4y ago
I doubt that was really the intent. Back then so many people smoked, and cigarettes were so "normal" that not putting them in rations would probably be akin to not giving people coffee today.
729.
by p1necone 4y ago
The "if you get 3/5 you're doing fine" thing only works if you actually give As for 3/5 answers. Otherwise no amount of placation is going to make students ignore reality.
730.
by p1necone 4y ago
The population of California is ~ half that of France, and presumably California sells power to neighbouring states too, so it doesn't seem that out of whack.
731.
by p1necone 4y ago
The extra vertical space is better for reading stuff, and looking at code. It also allows for smaller laptops with the same usable screen space - they don't need to be as wide.
732.
by p1necone 4y ago
On the screen - after using 3:2 and 16:9 laptops, I'll never go back to 16:9 again, so it's a definite deal breaker for me.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Imo good software engineering === minimizing effort. More specifically: * Minimizing effort in both the short and the long term (biased towards the long term because it's... longer). * Minimizing effort as long as product quality is t
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by p1necone 4y ago
Well, no. But you can write your backend in JS/TS. I find backend code needs much less of a "framework" anyway (depending on use case, I'm thinking of CRUDdy-ish stuff). You just need to nail the API between frontend and
735.
by p1necone 4y ago
Why would I learn to use Rails when I can write an SPA in React in my sleep?
736.
by p1necone 4y ago
Isn't storing state in urls and then using a url shortener just a key/value store with extra steps?
737.
by p1necone 4y ago
Battlezone on the 2600 feels pretty mindblowing to me too, although only on a technical level - it's a bit of a boring game.
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by p1necone 4y ago
This is a bizarrely hostile attitude to have. Critique their work, not their age.
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by p1necone 4y ago
In my experience non stick pans are pretty awful, basically anything else is a better alternative. You can't get them hot enough to sear a steak properly without damaging the non stick coating, and the non stick coating is oleophobic w
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by p1necone 4y ago
> A globally coordinated reduction in production only increases the price of products for consumers. Which is great. Higher prices = less usage. We don't have to eradicate them entirely before we see any benefit.
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by p1necone 4y ago
I'd be totally fine with this if they paid for the scooter.
742.
by p1necone 4y ago
I want to see what would happen if we abolished all IP law except for trademarks. No patents, no copyrights. I personally doubt it would actually discourage anyone from producing art or innovating in science/technology, but it might ha
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by p1necone 4y ago
What about a compromise where the original works (and republishing verbatim) are protected for the life of the creator, but derivative works (e.g. writing a new novel with the same characters/setting) are only prevented from being crea
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by p1necone 4y ago
Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark, copyright law isn't even relevant.
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by p1necone 4y ago
You don't really achieve any more for debugging with this than you would inspecting memory values on an emulator though, you're not actually inspecting memory on the real hardware - any bugs that are only reproducible on the rea
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by p1necone 4y ago
Turns out Yoda was just a lisp dev.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah I agree. I think the problem with checked exceptions in Java is a combination of misuse on both the consuming and the throwing end. They're amazing when they provide a compile time checked way to make sure consumers handle stuff
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by p1necone 4y ago
"Exceptions you expect the consumer to handle" should be explicit return values on the function signature instead, via an Either/Result type or similar. Unless you're writing Java where you can force certain exception ty
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by p1necone 4y ago
> Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. The left of the political spectrum in the USA is mostly to the right of actual communism.
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by p1necone 4y ago
When I'm working on a hard problem and I identify that I actually do need to stop and just think about it more indirectly I find going for a walk to be pretty useful.

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