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by savanaly 5y ago
I created two web apps to help when playing the boardgame Gloomhaven. Both were coded in Elm and were done partly because I had a need for them but mainly just for the joy of coding in Elm. I'll link the github repos of both, the demo
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I was a trumpet player for years in high school and college, practiced all the time at home and so did my brother so I experienced the situation from both sides. My opinion now is that it is irresponsible to make playing an instrument your
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Wouldn't it kind of defeat the purpose if you could simply change the age after?
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This is why UI is hard. In a parallel universe they made the re-run jobs button like you want, and there's some person at the top of the Hacker News comments in that universe making the complaint that it's too hard to tell what th
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Every time I see this issue brought up I think about how if you sum up all the money spent every year on US politics, including personal donations, industry lobbying, and the budgets of think tanks, you get a noticeably smaller number than
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There's de facto price controls on drinking water during a catastrophe or at least calls for them. That's what I was thinking of.
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The only modifier is that there's usually social outcry when prices rise in response to a shortage and demands for the government to step in and fix prices with force. Sadly that tendency means even if a food shortage is perfectly pred
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Based on the abstract you are overstating the conclusions of that paper to a ridiculous degree.
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Engineering is doing what you can with what you've actually got. If what you've actually got is an inherited tremendous ball of spaghetti css, a need to change just one thing on the page, and scant prospects for future changes in
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>And you know what? When the students blame you, maybe they are right. The teacher is supposed to use their experience to help students learn. Shouldn’t you help the actual imperfect humans in front of them, rather than imagining a bunch
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Yes. As in actively inviting a speaker that will be protested (picking a fight) vs simply defending their right to give a talk once someone else has invited them (reacting to a fight).
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Don't forget to give a watch to The Counselor. It had dreadful reviews because as a movie it's a total failure. But taken as a Cormac Mccarthy novel narrated by skilled actors and visually imagined by Ridley Scott it's a succ
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godecookery.com is the first result if I type "translation of the boke of gode cokery" into google. What were you hoping for? That it would be a top result for the query "good recipes"? That seems unreasonable.
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Taikyoku Shogi(en.wikipedia.org)
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In my case I downvoted because you're breaking the Hacker News guideline about accusations of astroturfing [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple...
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It was mutually beneficial to provide a better standard of education for millions of Indians. That doesn't mean the British didn't do other horrible things of course, but the idea they did some good is hardly "a load of BS&qu
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>fundamentally it's leveraging the wealth of a few people so they can extract some wealth from many more The insurance company isn't paying you out of the coffers of their wealthy owners. They're paying you out of the coff
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It doesn't need to be sympathetic vs antagonistic. I think the better dichotomy is scout mindset vs soldier mindset. Are they actively trying to change their beliefs or are they defending some notion? If the person you're talking
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Agree. There are other types of games besides straightforward puzzle and platforming games!
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Take it up with evolution.
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Yep, humanity and its demands are multifaceted. We want good stuff cheap and affordable as the rise of Walmart and Amazon goes to show. But we also want to feel unique and support recognizably human businesses. I don't see any reason w
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My worry is that a lot what I like about Elm is just not compatible with the normal JS library ownership model. What I like is a) Very few features, just enough so you can get your work done and there's just one good way to do it. If y
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I feel like this exchange is this skit writ small... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngRrkQayDA . Evan meant a congenial "why are you doing this" as in like..honestly why do they match negative literals? Everyone t
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Agreed. I anticipate the day coming in the not too distant future where I'll have children running around and my time spent on side projects will diminish to a large extent, and become sporadic. I'm very glad to looking forward to
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What little I know about the subject suggests it has to do with retention. It seems users of VR are much more likely to pick it back up after the initial honeymoon phase has worn off if the whole "picking it back up" process is ju
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Same for me but with sugar. Quit for a week, felt no different, went back to my usual (not particularly high) consumption. It's a bummer too because I had read so much strong criticism of sugar on HN and about how much it affects us wi
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Astral Codex Ten posited that conspiracy theories are part of the Epistemic Minor Leagues [0]. In other words a way for people to flex the part of their brain that doing real research and discovery stimulates even if they don't feel th
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I've always wondered-- is the error between tests correlated? Why does it not suffice to gather all the positive outcomes and test them again, then again and again until you have sufficient power depending on the rarity of the disease
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Land value tax
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You could also think of it as their job to ensure the possibility of obtaining well maintained and affordable housing for the majority of citizens who are willing and able to pay rent on time. Because if there were no eviction officers or w

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