parksy

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by parksy 5y ago
Those repellents bother my kids as well, and they're everywhere apparently but I can't hear them. Permanent tinnitus from far too many loud concerts in my 20s and 30s. All I can say to younger readers is: wear earplugs. You won&#x
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by parksy 5y ago
Ah, you're right, I misremembered. Has been a long time since I delved into this stuff. The main gist I guess is the two terms are an axis rather than exclusive. Thanks for the correction and apologies for any misinformation.
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by parksy 5y ago
I can hear that frequency all the time nowadays. It follows me everywhere...
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by parksy 5y ago
Is the basic concept of structured concurrency more about programming language design, or applicable to how a program is structured? I can do something like this in JS: async function doTasks(tasks = []) // Do some concurr
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by parksy 5y ago
It is thought provoking at the very least. The perspective I saw his views on abstraction from is the perspective of the product itself. Imagine there is some perfect solution for the ultimate technology. It's a perfect whole, every op
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by parksy 5y ago
Atheism is a rejection, non-acceptance, or indifference to theism, which boiled down to its essence is just a non-acceptance of deities being the creator or essence of reality. One can be atheist and hold hard-line rationalist views about t
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by parksy 5y ago
I mean a lot of what you said applies but that doesn't make the entire concept BS. On the one side of the coin you're right, it doesn't matter for a huge percentage of startups - until it does, and then it can matter quite a
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by parksy 5y ago
I've seen this sentiment a few times. I'm not totally against it, and a better analogy is always worth considering. I'm sure it's not the final iteration of analogies we use to garner more budget or help clients understa
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by parksy 5y ago
Happy birthday, the web. We're still ironing out a few things and I hope we figure it all out some day.
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by parksy 5y ago
One other thing I would check is disabling or removing the submit button after the first click. Just an onclicked event to set the disabled attribute will go a long way. Double-clicking on a lot of sites will submit the form twice. If peopl
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by parksy 5y ago
I also would like to be corrected in what my error was, for what it's worth.
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by parksy 5y ago
That's a good point, people in Finland use more per capita than 80% of the global population, so if everyone were to have the same energy standards as Finland we'd probably need more like 10k reactors and 600 per year give or take
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by parksy 5y ago
Here in Perth a good third or more of my electricity is keeping the house cool so some of that is going to average out. We don't have saunas but we do have hot water. There's going to be an obvious error of margin either side of m
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by parksy 5y ago
People just need to be able to speak freely. Likes and dislikes and other scoring systems just encourage echo chambers and are almost purpose-built tools for astroturfing. People are afraid to say their opinion because of the backlash. Not
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by parksy 5y ago
By population that's one reactor of this scale per million people. To replace all other sources of electricity, 8 thousand such reactors would feed the current world's population. We'd need just shy of 500 more to keep up wit
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by parksy 5y ago
One of the first principles I learned in programming was coupling and cohesion. This type of graph-based measurement of program complexity already existed some 60 years ago. I think your hunch is on point, I think because the author conflat
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by parksy 5y ago
Everyone has different experiences but my view of the problem is that it's not so much down to developer laziness as it is technological ignorance and reactive direction from higher up - the people who actually fund and approve the wor
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by parksy 5y ago
I am so used to articles with a meaningless header image that I totally skipped that the map they're talking about is right at the top of the page. My brain filtered it out. After going back and looking at it, I think the map is pretty
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by parksy 5y ago
Dang, I read that book not long ago, the priming narrative is also pretty strong in marketing etc. I'll have to brush up on the subject before I bring it up again. Though if priming is dead, it seems interesting the people who punched
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by parksy 5y ago
Our local one is https://www.noizemaschin.com/ - they're based in London and Perth Australia, it's kind of a hybrid maker space / underground scene. Good folk from all walks of life. Not sure about Denver but
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by parksy 5y ago
There's a group in my city who meet every month to generate wacky noises from all sorts of things. With this thing's built-in generator and layout I feel like you could build a primitive step sequencer with those switches and dial
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by parksy 5y ago
If we're going to reductio ad absurdum then OS's shouldn't let programs run if they interact with a device and don't explicitly handle exceptions for those devices. The OS is just a program and if it allows programs to c
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by parksy 5y ago
"Researchers first criticized essays written by the study participants and then told some of them to hit a punching bag. Afterward, they gave them all an opportunity to blast loud noise at the person who had insulted their writing. Peo
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by parksy 5y ago
I generally agree on all those points, there's a bunch of things I could critique, like shrinking the search bar behind an icon, or things I like such as the more concise breadcrumbs which make the hierarchy a bit clearer. But overall
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by parksy 5y ago
From what I gather the actual lattice requires neutrons. Their current setup uses an electron source (dynamitron) on tantalum which generates gamma rays. The gamma rays have the energy needed to push neutrons around inside the lattice. It s
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by parksy 5y ago
No dramas, understood re 1 it's no doubt beyond trivial to create a bidirectional transpiler. I wouldn't even know where to begin so good work on what you've managed so far. Re 2, shouldn't be a problem as we already hav
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by parksy 5y ago
The antidote outside of ruthlessly moderated special-interest "walled gardens" is a system no one really wants I think. It would need to avoid mechanisms that give community or interest groups powers to promote some content over o
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by parksy 5y ago
Some thoughts I had for the developer: Does it (or are the plans to) reverse compile? If I could input my regex and output melody script one could create an excellent interactive learning tool, and also more selfishly help with adoption in
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by parksy 5y ago
I had a similar reaction. I haven't heard of the author or their modelling prior, so haven't had much time to process the data, but I thought I'd bite, and took a look at some of the spreadsheets. The bit I was unclear about
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by parksy 5y ago
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, 'Look! This is something new'? It was here already, long ago; it was here before

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