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by richthegeek 5y ago
Definitely try some of the alternate first-line medicines. For me, methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta in US) works wonders. Many people seem very happy with Strattera or Adderall. My first few weeks were a rollercoaster, but the negativ
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by richthegeek 6y ago
That's an interesting statement to apply to natural languages. Consider this headline in English: "Man attacks boy with knife". This can be read two ways, either the man is using a knife to attack the boy, or the boy had the
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by richthegeek 6y ago
A nice middleground on your example is renaming during destructure: `import { check as ValidatorCheck } from "validator";` This keeps the context at the expense of a slightly more verbose import. Although the primary reason I use
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by richthegeek 6y ago
I had a colleague once who has IBS, but also he absolutely loved pizza. So, while he never gave notice, everyone knew he would not be in on Mondays because he ate an entire Domino's XL pizza the evening before.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
British person here: I get where you're coming from, sorta, but it's a pretty bad take... Uber has had their license revoked and returned repeatedly in London for the last few years because they have such a terrible reputation for
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by richthegeek 6y ago
I think it highlights something that is common in software engineering in general: it's incredibly easy to forget how much of development time is ultimately R&D. Paul benefited from Altwork's ten years of development, protoype
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Read up on the psychological problems of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon People are very psychologically affected when they feel they are being constantly observed, especially when that observation is on
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by richthegeek 6y ago
HN does have some policy around downvoting - you have to have ~600 "karma" before you can do it. Reddit doesn't any restrictions at all, and of course that's a massive echo-chamber. But Facebook and Instagram only have u
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by richthegeek 6y ago
The answer to this question is always "network effects". No-one that I know uses Telegram.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Seems like you're labouring under false pretenses then. A. What is the value of your equity? B. What is the likelihood of it vesting in the next 5 years? C. How much "total benefit" (salary increase, stress decrease, etc) wou
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Is it a new feature request? Seems like it'd fall under the same user story: As a user, I don't want to be bombarded with distracting emails and notifications every time I join a new board.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Giving a precise value for this doesn't work in any case. "Salt to taste" is inherently qualitative. Most pizza dough recipes quote around 5g of salt for 250g flour. Personally I prefer double that amount, and this is the cas
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Especially if you're saving time at either end by skipping all the Heathrow delays (long security checks, baggage check, etc)
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by richthegeek 6y ago
The first legit reason I can think of is if you have a particularly complex UI with fixed/absolute/sticky positioning and you need tooltips. In this case, CSS gets in the way and you need to render the tooltip through a tooltip an
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by richthegeek 6y ago
The late 2015 model is, relative to the mid-2015, much simpler. Only removing a few ribbon cables and prying the old battery out (heat and fishing wire works ok, I didn't need solvent). It was more like 30 minutes for me, but maybe if
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by richthegeek 6y ago
The same reason writing a program from scratch is more appealing than the pain of refactoring someone else's code.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
To be fair, native speakers often act like "you slightly mispronounced that word in the sentence, so I have literally zero idea what any of it meant and am doubting your intelligience" It's very frustrating in Polish, for exa
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by richthegeek 6y ago
My first CPU at age ~8 was a Pentium Pro, followed by a Pentium II. That was the last Intel CPU I ever owned. I stuck on an FX8350 for a while, and it was never the bottleneck for gaming performane compared to the GPU. For a non-enthusiast,
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by richthegeek 6y ago
From experience in Cyprus, they don't care even a little bit over there.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
That's not what it is at all. The placebo effect tells us that the thing we were doing did not cause the measured effect. If it's a placebo effect causing us to feel calmer, we could as easily hold a can of beans and be calmer if
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by richthegeek 6y ago
That's always been the way with PHP. It's always been the language of "you _can_ write nice code, but only if you follow strict rules and avoid this (long) list of bad practices that it encourages". > Doctor, it hurts
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by richthegeek 6y ago
It was explained wasn't it? The design parameters are different, as the purpose is different (transportation rather than leisure). "Bob is the last sheep" "But I see all these four-legged ruminants wandering around eatin
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by richthegeek 6y ago
It is rather ridiculous. "These two guys spent 6 months thinking about this problem to come up with this algorithm. Now pretend like you can independently come up with an identical algorithm in 45 minutes."
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by richthegeek 6y ago
The clicking/popping is a well-known issue for the Sony WH-1000XM2/3, and my wife had her XM2s refunded because of it. The pair of XM3 on my head has, so far, not shown any problems even while riding a bike in windy conditions.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
But it is something like a person selling both weed and meth next to each other, without any communication or acknowledgement that one is significantly more likely to cause harm.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Uber Eats has done this to me and it made me stopped using them. Driver needs to wait for the second meal to be prepared, pack it together, take a detour to the other place and spend time delivering it. So your meal arrives late, cold, and
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by richthegeek 6y ago
On an average year Yakutsk goes from −42.7 to 25.5, a measly 68.2°C (120.6F) range The record high is 38.4°C, and record low is −64.4°C, which is a historical range of 102.8°C (185F), although presumably not in the same year.
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by richthegeek 6y ago
Your comment has a certain accommodation to it -- you are probably fine where you are (in INTP land). I'm fine over here (as an INTJ). But yes, nothing about your comment came across as hypothetical conjecture. The tone is overwhelming
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by richthegeek 6y ago
This raises quite a few interesting questions and tradeoffs - how do you handle ugprades (i.e. yearly upgrade to latest/fastest CPU) without taking down the standby box? Have 3 boxes? How about instant handoff? I guess that would requi
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by richthegeek 6y ago
I'm reading this thread and I still can't figure out the point or how it protects things. What client would want to add some numbers without knowing what the result is? I can't imagine any interaction with a database where I

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