skytreader

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by skytreader 5y ago
I have the Razer Black Widow Tournament Edition, Numpadless, Cherry MX Blue switches. I've had it since 2013, with a spotty usage record: I used it heavily at work 2013-2014, then only for gaming 2016-2019 (and I'm not a heavy gam
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by skytreader 5y ago
> Homemade system that is not in any way publishable. I can still access all the photos I took since around 2008, when I first started to nurture an interest in photography as a hobby. I never delete b-rolls unless they're absolute
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by skytreader 5y ago
So, it's easy to find a list of the countries with the highest inflation rates, but which of those countries actually forbid individuals from acquiring foreign currency? I assume you have a verifiable example? Not to mention, for an ev
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by skytreader 5y ago
The developer experience is just subpar. I believe this is a big factor why there's far less amateur content today. In terms of multimedia, I was able to do more with my 512MB Windows XP on rust-prone spinning disks and Flash 8 than my
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by skytreader 5y ago
> you can't just view source and copy paste My highschool computer curriculum was basically a hacker school program for web dev stretched across three years (senior year we did VB6). I managed to be impressive because I would dissec
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by skytreader 5y ago
Extremely basic HTML pages (is this brutalist? minimalist?) is pretty much the fashion for CS people isn't it? I mean, I get it if it's not your cup of tea but it's pretty much standard formatting, dark font on light backgrou
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by skytreader 5y ago
> For most users, popular products are likely to be more future proof Psh, the average user clearly hasn't heard of the Lindy effect[1]! /s Sarcastic condescension aside, I was really taken aback by the sheer fanfare Notion had
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by skytreader 5y ago
> But the author gave a project idea where most of the project was figuring out UX concerns of non existing users. > If you do UX then you need users to actually test what you write on. No offense to azhenley but why do you expect any
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by skytreader 5y ago
I'm sorry but I gotta call this out; this is just peak HN arrogance. All we have is an article relating an anecdote and the reaction to it is to second-guess the author's actions/interpretation of events. Surely, the author h
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by skytreader 5y ago
Same! I opened an issue on mypy only to receive a patient explanation why it's happening and to close it as a duplicate. Had quite a shock to see "Guido van Rossum" in my inbox it took me quite a while to realize that it&#x27
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by skytreader 5y ago
I'll defer to someone better informed than me but I understood that as a reference to the rules and regulations around F1 cars. The "Formula" in "Formula 1" means there are certain constraints (i.e., the formula )
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by skytreader 5y ago
I wouldn't waste keystrokes on the classic religious war being waged in this thread so I'm gonna throw my hat in this arena instead. I agree with you---that analogy sucks. Being able to drive an F1 car comes with excellent financi
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by skytreader 5y ago
> many many studies have been done that prove the will of the people hardly ever changes the will of government Studies such as? Citation needed.
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by skytreader 5y ago
In a world of imperfect systems and fallible humans, it's over-idealistic to say "Don't fight evil with evil". Simplistic, even. It's a counter-productive moral high horse because you can always find dirt on any aut
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by skytreader 5y ago
Monstrum recently did a two-part, almost 1h in total, video that covers about the first half of the article[1]. The other half is new info (i.e., not in the Monstrum coverage) but Monstrum has its own points presented too. As for me, in the
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by skytreader 5y ago
> No need to use something like stripe. Why wouldn't you consider using a third party (no idea if Stripe can actually do the example described) as true innovation in this space? With a third party layer, banks don't need to rei
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by skytreader 5y ago
https://onetypedpage.com/about/
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Project Gutenberg no longer blocks German users(cand.pglaf.org)
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by skytreader 5y ago
> The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ... James Joyce (who some claim is buried in the cellar) That's just...a very Paris rumor to circulate. :) Especially in the vicinity of Notre-Dame and t
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by skytreader 5y ago
There's a lot of inconspicuous ways to signal this. Disguise it as some nonsense. It's no different from the less serious appellations to "blink thrice if you need help". Some I just came up with: (a) you can disguise th
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by skytreader 5y ago
Not the person you asked but I, too, still use Chrome[1] for personal stuff on desktop. Why do I get a black-and-white vibe in this question? Like, either I support an open internet (by not using Chrome) or I am a horrible person for being
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by skytreader 5y ago
> In particular twitter has (primitive) transclusions: by manually breaking up your writing into awkward ≤ 280 char chunks you basically allow other people to quote and comment or reply to them, recursively. Although tweets can and frequ
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by skytreader 5y ago
> “Well, the problem with hammers is that there are so many different kinds. Sledge hammers, claw hammers, ball-peen hammers. What if you bought one kind of hammer and then realized that you needed a different kind of hammer later? You’d
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by skytreader 5y ago
Man, if we start taking issue with "Am I missing something?", how can we have productive, good-faith discussions? The only attitude I can associate with that is openness to learn, a genuine curiosity. How is a yes/no question
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by skytreader 5y ago
Look, this class name is pain in the eyes to read, let alone understand, but even I could immediately tell it isn't about Java because the name does not end with at least three design patterns. CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMother
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by skytreader 5y ago
Instantly fell in love with the presentation! Might give this a read-through just out of pure curiosity. In undergrad, my mnemonic for these operations was visualizing the matrices animated in my head. The more complex ones, it was actually
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by skytreader 5y ago
I'd love to see actual data on this but I doubt that a lot of people get hired because of their online reputation. And by "hired" I mean it directly lead to a job offer instead of just getting your profile noticed and getti
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by skytreader 5y ago
For a less serious take, I've been playing a game with Youtube's recommendation system that I want to share. It works like the Wikipedia link game[1][2] but more stochastic, I'd like to think. To play the game: 1. Have a spec
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by skytreader 5y ago
Incidentally, evaluating an image CDN is my current task at $dayjob. I've been comparing uptimes and, with the caveat that this data is not easy to gather and harder to compare across providers, I just noticed that imgix had twenty-fiv
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by skytreader 5y ago
1. For one, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br... -- the jury still seems out as to by how much exactly the spread is prevented, it seems to depend on the vaccine and social demograp

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