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by robby_w_g 2y ago
The overhead and maintenance involved in setting up these home automations have always seemed to spend more time than it saves. I'm not convinced that automatic lighting is better than just flipping a light switch.
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
> "This family has two mommies. They love each other so proudly and they all go marching in... the... big parade," sing the lyrics. Other terms featured include "trans," "non-binary" and "queer." &
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
The proposal[1] explains several cases where try…finally is verbose or even can result in subtle errors. The upshot for me is that this feature adds RAII to JavaScript. It makes resource management convenient and more maintainable. Seems li
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
Except now Reddit is taking away the primary method of using Reddit for many users
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
> 0 bytes uncompressed, 25 bytes gzipped! Compression Considered Harmful
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
Not sure if you’re just trying to advertise your project, but I wouldn’t use Pyodide in that case. I’d personally rather use the tool linked in the OP article for something like an OS in the browser
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
I think Pyodide is what you want. https://pyodide.org/en/stable/
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
I think it's fair to evaluate a company's behavior before engaging in business with them. And I personally dislike persons in power abusing their position, which is why I remembered the company name almost two years later. I haven
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
I recognized the name Replit and couldn't remember why. A quick search reminded me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
I tried phind after seeing it linked here a few times. It felt like it was a slower Google search with extra steps. The sources it used for the answers were the sources I would have found by searching "site:stackoverflow.com [my questi
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
Jagex is not using bot farms, they’re relying on gold farmers to produce in game resources. The Old School RuneScape economy relies on these gold farmers because most players don’t want to take the time to gather the resources themselves. M
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by robby_w_g 3y ago
> It's because of this and that, hundreds of excuses that dance around the simple truth: you're an incompetent programmer. Classic arrogance and naivety from a Casey follower. Name call all you want, you can't hand wave th
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
Interesting how you provided a direct counter example and your comment got flagged for it. I thought the free speech absolutist crowd wouldn’t mind someone disagreeing with them
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
> timing/frequency optimisation Or in other words, how to spam people as much as possible without them disabling notifications in frustration.
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
As far as I can tell, useEffectEvent is just the useEvent hook but renamed to reduce scope. useEvent was originally going to provide performance optimizations when creating event handlers in a function component and it was going to solve th
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
> Oh right, this doesn't follow the narrative that crypto is useless for everything. As someone with casual knowledge of crypto, that jargon in the first paragraph sounds useless to me
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
I think tailscale could handle this problem pretty well: https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole/ You can configure the default DNS for devices when they connect to tailscale. This way, pi hole is opt in for us
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
This succinctly nails what I love about Tailwind. It gets rid of the cognitive load of reviewing a css change and having to think through how the change will ripple throughout the site.
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
My project currently pulls in the airbnb rules, which in my opinion has too many rules. It might be nice to start from a clean slate, I'll give Rome a shot next weekend
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
Over the weekend, I converted an app from JS + Create React App to Typescript + Parcel v2. The typescript tooling was extremely simple to setup with only a few added packages... until I had to setup eslint. That's when I had to install
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
This comes off more as pathologically lying rather than paranoia.
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
The potential user base for skyrim on macOS is much lower because there simply isn't a large user base of gamers on Mac platforms. Mac users of Steam represent 2.45% of the total user base in the following survey: https://st
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
> It hurts to see Bezos and Musk in yachts but the side effect of their wealth is companies like Amazon and Tesla that have a net positive effect on society in terms of products and employment. Corporations have a net positive effect on
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
There's an unreasonably grumpy commenter below that disagrees, but I personally agree with you and found this to be a fun read. I was interested in the topic before reading, but it could have easily been a slog of technical minutia. I&
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
> When you benchmark an O(N^2) algo may seem fine but then three years later the data has changed and is now an order of magnitude larger The GTA Online loading screen bug is a recent example of this problem, with its in-game purchasable
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by robby_w_g 4y ago
Screenshots of tweets shared on reddit is so much faster on my phone than loading Twitter mobile. The screenshot is better UX too since I often get re-directed to a sign up page when I load twitter mobile
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by robby_w_g 5y ago
I don't care how much of a jerk someone is, you just don't make false accusations like that. Musk is also in a leadership position where his opinion is highly valued by many thousands, and he decided to abuse that authority and po
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by robby_w_g 5y ago
Prior discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26724237 The CEO has posts in the thread as well.
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by robby_w_g 5y ago
> I bag on Amazon a lot on here (which if I were to review with my therapist is likely because I had an absolutely HORRENDOUS experience in an interview loop with them my first step out of college that still makes me nervous in interview
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by robby_w_g 5y ago
> I imagine this will get them in some sort of trouble. I'm not sure about this. I bet Google is happy to collect the text data of up to 500 million users with zero restrictions from Telegram's end on how the data is used. I&#x

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