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by prezjordan 5y ago
Why is conspiracy theory in quotes? It was a conspiracy theory, peddled by conspiracy theorists, and laundered into the public discourse by conservative media outlets. One of many dozen such claims about COVID-19. A broken clock is right tw
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208 countries and 10,000 trials wouldn't change the fact that conspiracy theorists peddled this thing as one of many miracle drugs. When a broken clock shows the right time you don't need to apologize to the clock. For me, as a US
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To me it's acceptable to both wait for trials to prove the drug is effective, while also continuing to criticize very public figures for peddling it as a miracle drug (a) far before they have evidence to back it up and (b) while we hav
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by prezjordan 5y ago
I have a couple cool JS projects with 5K+ stars, they used to make for good conversation topics in interviews but now I don't even bring them up. Work experience is so much more interesting to talk about.
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They're playing the ref - and they're doing a fantastic job of it.
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I learned best in Scheme because you don't need to parse your input and can just evaluate a tree[0] (Parsing is, in my opinion, the most boring part about writing an interpreter!) Chapter 7 of Crafting Interpreters lays out how an eval
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by prezjordan 5y ago
You are not correct under any lens in any context
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by prezjordan 5y ago
It is not more harmful to watch videos about Astrology than videos about how the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a false flag operation.
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by prezjordan 5y ago
You may like Fossil! https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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I worked at a non-profit with a lot of happy ex-FAANG people that wanted to do some social good for a while. It definitely happens! EDIT: (I just answered the inverse of your question didn't I?) People definitely grind leetcode for a F
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Pretty sure Angular and only Angular!
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I apologize if this is pedantic but you can absolutely "render" KaTeX server-side: https://github.com/jdan/thatjdanisso.cool/blob/902f1c421b02b... MathJax does not support this because, IIRC, it run
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by prezjordan 5y ago
Strongly encourage anyone reading this to take 20 minutes to download ucm and run through the Getting Started guide: https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/quickstart/ Programming with a codebase manager and a scratchpad
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Not with funds in a Roth IRA. Everything must be at "arm's length" (otherwise a lot of people would purchase homes using their Roth)
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The riff on cancel culture sort of soured the entire post for me, to be honest. But otherwise I really enjoyed this read and hope you get it sorted out.
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I don't think it's necessary to debate ETH as a public good but... Vitalik is by far the most impactful recipient of the fellowship grant so "just one of the recipients" is doing a lot of work here.
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I miss the days when the unfathomably rich would at least build a university or a park or something. The future is just so boring.
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by prezjordan 5y ago
Not a dumb question, very much appreciate you keeping an eye out for your password security. It uses an OAuth flow so you're actually entering your credentials on accounts.spotify.com (Spotify-owned) and then Spotify gives this develop
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I've had a lot of fun generating art from sha-256 hashes recently too! https://hash.jordanscales.com/ It's not materially different from just seeding a RNG with the hash, but actually reading bytes from the hash i
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by prezjordan 5y ago
New on the page is their own hardware: https://stripe.com/terminal/stripe-reader
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The difference is that Uber and Doordash have a lot bargaining power
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2011: https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/amjad-joins-codeca...
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Found the APL programmer
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Wow, wonder if he’ll get the same support[1] from the free speech crowd as AGM. [1]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1392756490138791937?s=20
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by prezjordan 5y ago
> $6,000 post-tax contribution to IRA, then Roth Conversion "post-tax" is the important bit!
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Starts to ramp down at 125k, and at >=140k you cannot contribute to it. Instead you contribute to a traditional IRA, then immediately convert it to Roth and file an 8606.
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Using SHA256 Hashes to Draw Turing Machines(hash.jordanscales.com)
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Not a bit! Could be life-threatening. I'm unsure what the flashing does, but please reconsider it? EDIT: Just checked and the effect is only visible on Firefox. Works fine in Chrome.
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I would hate to be at the same bar as you on trivia night. Thanks for this comment - this is unbelievably interesting.
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by prezjordan 5y ago
+1. Unfortunately saw that and couldn’t help but the think the author was also warm to Adams’s “red pill” content.

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