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by shantly 7y ago
The explanation I've seen is that yes, most people who buy certain products (a microwave oven, say) are probably done for a long time and less likely than the average person to buy one, but overall the group of people who just bought
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by shantly 7y ago
To charge, if you forget, misplace, or just don't want to carry your phone charger brick.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Well modern America has no real food culture. Most countries combine the same 5 local staples like rice, vegetables meat, local seasonings etc so they always have it on hand and know how to easily make something. Glad you threw in &quo
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by shantly 7y ago
Greens keep pretty well and have decent, smoothish availability year-round. I'd guess that's why they favor them at restaurants.
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by shantly 7y ago
Throw in all those Food Network chefs whose recipe books are full of ingredients you're, realistically, only ever gonna use for that one recipe, and the leftovers of which'll—let's face it—just end up sitting around clutterin
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by shantly 7y ago
All those goddamn "hands on time: 15 minutes!" recipes where the ingredients list includes diced-this and peeled-that and chopped-whatever and shredded-other-thing and it's clear the 15 minutes doesn't include getting al
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by shantly 7y ago
I like cooking well enough but not so much that I'd still do it if I could get the same results, at the same price, without doing it. Ditto house/construction stuff—I kinda like it but not enough that I'd keep doing it if the
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by shantly 7y ago
I can well imagine "ran a Youtube channel with x,xxx subscribers in High School" being way more valuable for getting into media work than a degree in media would be, which is something that wouldn't have even been possible no
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by shantly 7y ago
My "favorite" part of The Diamond Age was when he had a whole scene solely so one character could explain to the reader what another's (lame) motivation had been for the last half the book or so, as it had been in no other
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by shantly 7y ago
Modern cell phones are a hellish technology for people trying to plot stories. Every single person's carrying a superior version of a 1960s spy's kit, and can magically send anything recorded on it to anyone else in seconds. It ta
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by shantly 7y ago
It has been my observation that some people are really bothered by structural or technical problems in storytelling—and, conversely, highly value structurally and technically sound stories—and others don't seem to notice at all. This d
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by shantly 7y ago
> For that matter, I still buy boots made in the USA and they're less than 2x over boots made in Vietnam. Same, if someone can point me to ultra-cheap leather shoes from the developing world that're anywhere near as good as the
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by shantly 7y ago
Jesus. You can get a bespoke suit made by OECD-state labor and with decent materials for less than it'd cost to put together a jacket + trousers combo from Acronym. Granted, yes, you could also spend way more than that if you want a
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by shantly 7y ago
My experience was that what passes for "socialization" in k-12 school is extremely weird compared to the same among adults. I wouldn't rule out that it is nonetheless somehow important to kids' development in a way oth
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by shantly 7y ago
I'd say every single thing one does in a day is 2-10x as difficult and 2-10x as time-consuming (usually some amount of both, but the two don't always scale in propotion) when youngish kids are involved. Things that might be quick
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by shantly 7y ago
> Moreover, it's also important to understand what the second-order results of any state child-care policy are. While parents do mistreat their children, I am reasonably sure that child-care workers mistreat children more often. If
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by shantly 7y ago
The free rider problem is usually the reason We Can't Have Nice Things at the state level.
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by shantly 7y ago
Harder doesn't mean worse, necessarily. There are lots of things I'd rather do than my white collar programming job, and most of them are at least as much "work" as it is—they just don't pay nearly as well. [EDIT] t
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by shantly 7y ago
A little experience gets you that same red flag instinct in a hurry, too. [EDIT] it also makes you hesitate & second-guess and worry and experiment a bunch when contemplating using a recursive algorithm, which is deeply counterproductiv
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by shantly 7y ago
Modern web development really makes me miss "copy some files to /var/www/html" as a deployment system. Or maybe a cute little `ln` shuffle if you wanna get fancy.
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by shantly 7y ago
A news site seems like a weird example for an auto-scaling database use case, since, asked to design a news site from scratch, I would aim for 0% of public requests to touch the DB.
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by shantly 7y ago
Depending on what the interactions are like, it might fit well with the stereotype of men being extremely vulnerable to even blatant ego-stroking.
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by shantly 7y ago
It sure looks like prey animals (so, most of them) live every day of their lives in a slasher movie. If not something worse. But maybe a constant, very real possibility of being attacked then eaten alive is actually not horrible? IDK. Best
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by shantly 7y ago
It's a shift from supporting some defined, limited set of behavior to supporting a much broader set of possible behavior, to the point that it likely can't practically be fully enumerated. If that's somehow not the case, then
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by shantly 7y ago
Collectivism plus high degrees of personal liberty tends to run into unsustainable game-theoretical coordination problems in a hurry.
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by shantly 7y ago
> As far as I can see, there is precisely one scenario where GraphQL makes sense - and that's where you are building an unbounded number of front end clients which will consume a complex data model. And unless both of those things a
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by shantly 7y ago
I don’t get why GraphQL would be better at that particular use case than anything else, really. Capable of it, sure, but shifting the query-crafting to the client doesn’t really have any effect on that problem. [edit] I just mean it seems u
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by shantly 7y ago
I'd get on that immediately but I'm a bit busy climbing to the top of a tree so this fungus that's taken over my nervous system can proceed to the next stage of its lifecycle by getting a bird to eat me.
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Other good stuff: - Many university presses, especially if you've heard of the university. - Library of America for works by American authors in English. They're dense (bible-type paper, usually 2+ novels per volume) but more read
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by shantly 7y ago
> I'm sure they exist out in the wild, but personally I haven't seen a project where GraphQL really shines through. In my experience, HTTP2 and reasonably well designed RESTful endpoints are the right default to go with. There

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