slingnow

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by slingnow 4y ago
Perhaps you shouldn't wrap so much of your self-identity in code that you wrote for a paycheck. The correct response when given such a clear fix is to learn from this person, thank them, and move on.
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by slingnow 4y ago
Here's an equally odd question: Why encourage physical activity in school given that most employers don't reward it? -- Why encourage ANYTHING that employers don't reward? I hope this question doesn't really need to be a
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by slingnow 4y ago
Safer for the engine? Absolutely. Safer for you? Definitely not. Which one are you optimizing for?
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by slingnow 4y ago
Exactly. I see more and more of this clickbait-style title applied to scientific articles. I instinctively no longer read them. The fact that this is ALSO a twitter thread is just icing on the cake. It's about one step away from "
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by slingnow 5y ago
This guy didn't lose 200K. He claims he lost 200K by "not doing something else". Putting opportunity cost as a hard loss is stretching it, and sure seems like it's just there to make the title more clickbaity. I guess I
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by slingnow 5y ago
This is one of the most unreadable websites I've seen in a long time. Right off the bat you're assaulted with multiple levels of unreadable thin grey fonts, and it doesn't get any better from there. It almost seems like this
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by slingnow 5y ago
Sounds like you're finally ready to change the world!
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by slingnow 5y ago
What does whether or not a rural town can sustain a subway have to do with autonomous cars? Roads currently exist that human beings can currently drive on. If you tell me you have a fully autonomous car, I would expect that to mean it can d
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by slingnow 5y ago
Are you just saying things that you think are true? Have you ever tried to do even rudimentary image processing in foggy / rainy / nighttime conditions? Cameras are absolutely not better at seeing through rain and fog.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Interesting that you took a quote that _specifically_ said "basic understanding" and took that to mean "expert in everything there".
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by slingnow 5y ago
Are you kidding me? Crumble overnight? Have you not heard of the massive data breaches from the credit reporting industry? They got a minor slap on the wrist and everything is continuing as though it never happened. I don't understand
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by slingnow 5y ago
What is with this kind of low-quality forum fodder making it to the front page? Just asking a general question about something that can't possibly be known? Who is this of interest to? Hey everyone, what's your opinion about how t
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by slingnow 5y ago
From the article: “My idea was that this should only ask for three minutes of your time,” Wardle told me. “It doesn’t addict you, it doesn’t record your data, it doesn’t track you, there was no way to pay for it or run ads against it—basica
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by slingnow 5y ago
Actually this is logically impossible, since you can't prove a negative.
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by slingnow 5y ago
100% absolutely true. However, planting trees for long term planet health doesn't really create any buzz and has a poor ROI for VCs. Hence: this scheme.
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by slingnow 5y ago
In your opinion do _all_ of the ultra wealthy also avoid _all_ behaviors that might be considered unhealthy? Seems like a weird conclusion to make.
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by slingnow 5y ago
This is a really well made tool and I love playing with it. Out of curiosity who is your typical customer / use case for this functionality?
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by slingnow 5y ago
This idea that going 20% over the recommended oil change interval will cause you to "pay a lot on the tail end" seems dubious. Could you quantify what you think this will cost a person? What exactly is the "tail end", an
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by slingnow 5y ago
Cool build, but it doesn't look like it would actually stand up to the typical stresses of mountain biking (rock strikes, water, mud, debris, etc). On super smooth singletrack I could see it being fun though.
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by slingnow 5y ago
You realize you have full control over your resume, right? "It appears on my resume" makes it sound like some other controlling entity has put it on your resume, so that it now just appears there as a matter of fact. What an odd s
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by slingnow 5y ago
You're right. Since you enjoyed it, EVERYONE will enjoy it!! I'm sure there's a neurological link SPECIFICALLY between snowboarding and creativity!!
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by slingnow 5y ago
This wasn't funny the first time someone said it. The hundred millionth time doesn't seem to fare much better, either.
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by slingnow 5y ago
> HN is what reddit used to be like when it first started. That's exactly the problem -- HN is now reddit-lite.
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by slingnow 5y ago
You aren't missing much. This is one of those crazes that I don't really understand
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by slingnow 5y ago
Are you not aware that decompilers exist and that is likely the reason this code looks the way it does?
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by slingnow 5y ago
Good to know. Thank you.
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by slingnow 5y ago
How is this the top comment? This is just a flat out bad approach to pathfinding, as previous comments have pointed out.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Thank you, this gets posted here so frequently. And other articles from his site.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Exemplary? Have you even tried other stationary bikes? You can get a BETTER stationary bike for less than the cost of a Peloton bike.
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by slingnow 5y ago
If we end up losing 2% of the population due to covid, I look forward to the news briefing that this loss is just a rounding error.

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