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by pmg101 1y ago
This is a British thing called self-deprecating humour where he's already thought ahead to those who will critically ask, "wouldn't it be less effort to just open the Weather app every morning!?" and is jokingly acknowle
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by pmg101 1y ago
I'd like to think that posters to HN are good wranglers of prose. It'll be fortunate if that turns out to be a major industry skill!
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by pmg101 1y ago
Stepping back... maybe this could work out fine over the medium term? 1. Lack of junior positions means people stop training for SW Dev as a career 2. Therefore software is written by a slowly shrinking band of senior people in collaboratio
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by pmg101 1y ago
Not sure why you get down voted for this. Seems self evident that increasing pace of change of society tilts the rational strategy towards short-term over long-term gain. Do people disagree that the pace of change is increasing? Do people d
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by pmg101 1y ago
The sentence would not read well with a comma. It would be an example of the error known as "comma splice": that's why it should be a colon not a semicolon.
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by pmg101 1y ago
The title misuses a semicolon and should use a colon to join two somewhat-related ideas where there is a directional causality. > Prescriptive grammar brings the drama: that's why I love it
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by pmg101 1y ago
I think this is just the word "pension" being overloaded, meaning both 1. A state provided welfare benefit Or 2. A privately held long term savings/investment account
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by pmg101 1y ago
> Why would you... Joy!
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by pmg101 1y ago
There's a whole subculture among car people of "barn finds", well represented on YouTube but also long predating that. I bet someone would have been absolutely delighted to have that old Peugeot!
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by pmg101 1y ago
It could do but only for the kids that would be competing closely with your own children, so of a similar socioeconomic status. For children from much poorer backgrounds it's more likely that making their prospects even worse will just
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by pmg101 2y ago
I quite agree. It's simply a slider isn't it, with "no time, no knowledge, pure guesswork" at one end and "infinite time, thorough analysis, perfect understanding" at the other end. Clearly the left end is dang
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by pmg101 2y ago
Thanks for the tip, I went to investigate. I like everything about it except for the lack of third party messaging. I need to meet my friends where they are and that is on Signal or WhatsApp. Maps is also non negotiable, having maps in your
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by pmg101 2y ago
My experience is that once people have static typing to lean on they focus much less on the things that in my view are more crucial to building clean, readable code: good, consistent naming and small chunks. Just the visual clutter of addin
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by pmg101 2y ago
Man gives up day job to focus on hobby. Now hobby is his day job.
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by pmg101 2y ago
Why?
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by pmg101 2y ago
Would be cool if you could play one sided pong with the scrollbar and bounce a ball around the window.
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by pmg101 2y ago
It's kind of stupidity farming isn't it. Is there anything wrong with that? The stupid people get to do some engaging, which is after all what their brain evolved to enjoy, everyone's a winner? Maybe?
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by pmg101 2y ago
And decision fatigue is a real thing. Even if the ice cream flavour/engineering decision is maybe not perfectly optimal, there's some value in not having to make the decision myself
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by pmg101 2y ago
For me doing the dishes is a 10-15 minute chore in the sink with some hot water but most people don't seem to object that their dishwasher takes 3 hours to do the same job with superheated steam or whatever. It still saves them the 15
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by pmg101 2y ago
Unfortunately the people doing the fucking around will not be the people finding out.
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by pmg101 2y ago
I mean... A more accurate description might be, "They had already taken one step in the right direction, 15 years ago, all they had to do was make any further steps in this direction any time since then!"
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by pmg101 2y ago
I definitely start saying I'm $age+1 as I approach that birthday, as it seems more accurate. Round, not floor. Although I have to say I've not really encountered other people doing this.
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by pmg101 2y ago
In time for Orthodox Christmas Day on January 7
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by pmg101 2y ago
2010 Prius traction batteries are NiMH whereas most EV batteries are Li Ion I believe. Which might make a difference or might not, I don't know
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by pmg101 2y ago
I did this myself and it was some fundamental experiences of my life so from that point of view I'd say definitely go for it. Life is short. On the other hand... Now older I see the financial/compounding aspect more clearly. Speci
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by pmg101 2y ago
I love that in the listing every keyword is abbreviated, even F. for FOR! I lived through the era of type-in BASIC games, and had an 8-bit micro whose BASIC also had abbreviations, but I don't recall seeing magazine listings so vehemen
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by pmg101 2y ago
If you choose Brighton and zoom in on Hove Park you see the fingerprint maze there very beautifully rendered as a vector, amazing OSM has this detail!
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by pmg101 2y ago
Perhaps you didn't spot that the author was Professor Michael Mosley. Or perhaps that doesn't affect your assessment.
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by pmg101 2y ago
It reads to me like they're saying the side that consistently lies about something is slightly worse because at least the other guys are honest. I think the bigger point may be that GP considers it a choice between two evils - hence be
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by pmg101 2y ago
"Love and belonging" is the third in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. It's difficult to feel a sense of belonging if all your peers have access to something you don't, even worse if that something is your social space i

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