roguecoder

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by roguecoder 1y ago
It's not about splitting up the PR: it is about splitting up the _work_. If you don't have feature flags, that is step one. Even if you don't have a framework, you can use a Strategy or a configuration parameter to enable&#x2
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by roguecoder 1y ago
It is a bad thing for the people being left worse off by their parents looting the country on their way out.
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Isn't every country a country of Theseus? Not one American was part of America 125 years ago.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
That might be true, but this paper is wildly unconvincing. Cross-country comparisons have way too many confounding factors. Not least that economic growth reduces population growth. As for an aging population slowing the economy, Japan is t
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by roguecoder 1y ago
[citation needed] That is not what any of the studies I have read find, particularly not past the short term: past calorie restriction diets is one of the factors associated with developing obesity.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
How bodies related to food varies _wildly_. For example, my body has difficulty processing certain foods, so I lost a ton of weight switching from "healthy" fruits and veggies and plant-based protein to mostly pre-processed carbs
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by roguecoder 1y ago
In twin studies the only things that have been associated with obesity are past calorie restrictive diets and soda consumption. All these other studies are usually picking up on either socio-economic or environmental factors, rather than ac
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by roguecoder 1y ago
The Australian and English TERF movements reviving the worst parts of the 1970s "radical feminist" movement has been absolutely corrosive to liberal society. The anti-abortion stance of this group gives the game away: it is about
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Do you have examples where there has been criminal or civil liability for a purely-fictional game?
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by roguecoder 1y ago
It really highlights how bad crypto is as a solution to what it claims that it can't be a solution here. It is impractically slow, the user experience is too high a bar, it lacks meaningful consumer protections and it would not be able
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by roguecoder 1y ago
It's bothering evangelicals, not "human rights warriors". They want control and power.
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When it turned out video games measurably lower crime people suddenly got really quite about the social consequences of video games.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Crypto is a way for them to avoid the anti-bribery, anti-financial-crimes laws that were passed over the last hundred years. They know most people won't use it ever, but the people doing bribes were already willing to go above and beyo
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America has FedPay, but it hasn't been widely implemented yet.
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The work of processing a credit card transaction is 1/100000th the work of a blockchain transaction via proof of work. Credit card transactions can get enormously impractical and it will still be more practical than a purposefully-inef
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Pix did it in Brazil. FedNow could do it, but it would require anyone in government to know how technology works instead of how to collect campaign contributions from the companies they regulate.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Even if an informed majority wants to ban something, it should not be illegal without actual evidence of actual harm. And all legal enterprises should be able to access the infrastructure necessary to conduct business.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
* claim to be against This is about power, not preventing violence. It is classic 1970s TERF stuff. Dworkin identified real problems, but her solutions are bad and make the actual problems worse by targeting already-targeted people for grea
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Collective Shout is a foreign organization attacking American companies. The First Amendment does not mean you get to speak and advocate in secret, and it only applies to American residents.
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They aren't free as in beer, which is part of the problem. (The other major part being that the people who build them are in love with deflation, which makes them extremely hard to use as a currency.)
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Especially given the recent study that found people felt more productive while objectively getting less done. It's like saying, "marijuana is rapidly becoming a part of how people get through their day, but we understand not every
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by roguecoder 1y ago
You spent 20 years without autocomplete? I started using Eclipse's autocomplete & shortcut macros in 2002. It is fascinating to me how much of the enthusiasm around AI seems to be the result of people not knowing about/using t
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Even with working with an existing framework, we can define a constant `HIDDEN=true`
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by roguecoder 1y ago
... do people not know about browser developer tools? Unless a project has really messed up, it is trivial to see what styles are being applied to any element.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Web technologies succeed when they let people not have to understand things. React is the same as tailwind: it captures the box model experts already used to reason about web pages and made it literal. As long as the job of "web develo
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by roguecoder 1y ago
It is also a great example of where worse is better, when it leads people to doing work they always needed to do.
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The power of CSS is that it can capture semantics. Tailwind gives up on all of that.
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by roguecoder 1y ago
Why would you assume they would end up performing worse? I have yet to see a company that prioritized quality over profits, unless forced to by regulation.
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Many companies see it has a positive to not have monopoly-abusing competitors able use the government they bought to crush startups.
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They love standards so much they have two of them.

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