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by pianoben 4y ago
> Even if one's "guy" is in office, I don't think we feel the same about it the way we did even as recent as Obama, and his administration was when we really began to see the social cracks forming. I really don't
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by pianoben 5y ago
From the buyer's perspective, it's as good as a veto.
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by pianoben 5y ago
Tell me you aren't raising an infant without telling me you aren't raising an infant, lol
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by pianoben 5y ago
Besides working there? Yes. If you're a qualified investor you could theoretically buy on the secondary markets, but not in practice. I've read that Stripe (like many startups) has reserved right of first refusal as part of thei
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by pianoben 5y ago
Fucking finally ! Someday our descendants will have sane and automatic filing like the rest of the developed world; I can only hope to live long enough to see the death of this stupid industry.
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by pianoben 5y ago
In my view, gRPC is the closest "binary" analog to OpenAPI, which is a transport-layer concern first and foremost with discoverability features. If your problem space is "a way to assign meaning to arbitrary bitfields",
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by pianoben 5y ago
> with Typescript/CoffeeScript (Google) cough Microsoft did Typescript, actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript#History
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by pianoben 5y ago
Got it in one :) Cars + Lumber + Oil narrowed it down pretty well.
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by pianoben 5y ago
I've said as much in previous comments, but I certainly want to use this device! It's got an open SDK, binaries are freely loadable and runnable. The Lua API at least is quite simple, and plenty enough to get a backend dev like
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by pianoben 5y ago
React Native is one cause. Another is that they ship a tremendous amount of cross-platform c++ Office code, which is not small.
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by pianoben 5y ago
The first font with a pre-existing theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMH96B8QWcc
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by pianoben 5y ago
Seasonal colds don't result in potentially months of "long-cold" symptoms, nor do they significantly increase the risk of diabetes, nor do they regularly hospitalize and kill people on a large scale .
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by pianoben 5y ago
That's just not true at all. Children have a 13% chance of getting long covid, for one. MIS-C is another (rare but) serious risk that comes along with covid. Children can and do end up on ventilators or dying. Why would you argue a
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by pianoben 5y ago
This is exactly how I feel as well! Units in isolation certainly deserve testing, but the actual long-lived value comes from testing the public interface of the module/program/etc. In one compiler project I maintain, I stopped w
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by pianoben 5y ago
I think the point is a little more general than that. You "win" by convincing people to pay you - whether it's for nothing, for regular work, or for superior work, is immaterial. This isn't a zero-sum game, at the IC le
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by pianoben 5y ago
There is no vaccine for children under five. As long as we've got children in our lives, we all need to go out of our way to protect them - even those of us with masks and vaccines are getting Omicron.
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by pianoben 5y ago
"To log in, enter your SSN, date of birth, home address, and" <closes tab> No way, no how.
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by pianoben 5y ago
Because to the author, it is a success. They got to build, learn, taste progress, have fun, and then hand it off for some $$$ when their priorities shifted. Does everything need to be measured in millions here?
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by pianoben 5y ago
In a word, therapy.
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by pianoben 5y ago
I agree, Foundation is a gem! The method naming is one of the assets - the names are clear, regular, and usually fairly obvious. The downside to that regularity and clarity is that the names are long . One CoreFoundation example at rando
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by pianoben 5y ago
If anything, the old syntax was pure and consistent with what actually happens - message sending. Dot notation muddies the waters, IMO, but certainly is convenient. Ditto the collection literals.
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by pianoben 5y ago
> In my view, excessive syntax is a crutch to make the language parser's job easier, not making the thought to code job easier. Obj-C seems to suffer from the excessive syntax? Another perspective is that the syntax of Obj-C exposes
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by pianoben 5y ago
I've been in the preview for a bit. 1) This doesn't seem to exist in quite that way, but you can prefix a literal with "def:" and the engine will return only definitions of that thing (so far as it can tell). It's
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by pianoben 5y ago
To me, this reads as "the telcos wanted the spectrum for themselves, and muscled out the satellite providers with the help of their inside man". If you consider the spectrum's value to be fairly represented by what telcos pai
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by pianoben 5y ago
The article wears its editorial bias rather strongly, and to me seems to imply that the public auction was a de facto giveaway to telcos. It fits my preconception of Ajit Pai's tenure. Is there another perspective here? Were other int
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by pianoben 5y ago
The entire undergraduate curriculum of St. John's College consists exclusively of reading The Great Books - the list is public and freely available: https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo
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by pianoben 5y ago
The background with Parson is that he is overtly hostile to the "blue" cities of St. Louis and Kansas City, and favors the more rural parts of the state. He has an especially hostile relationship with the press in those cities.
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by pianoben 5y ago
This is called having a "nuanced perspective". It's something of a lost art these days.
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by pianoben 5y ago
Same - I bounced right out. I'm not reading all of that.
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by pianoben 5y ago
Whew, glad it's not just me. I got an email threatening my Google account, and went in to the billing console to see a balance of $0.03. Three cents. The console won't even let you pay an amount that low!

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