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by spcebar 2y ago
I strongly recommend Where Wizards Stay Up Late, which this article cites a lot. Fascinating history of ARPANET and building the infrastructure at BBN (on the team was Will Crowther of Colossal Cave Adventure fame!). Inspiring book in the s
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by spcebar 2y ago
If you're trying to market yourself as a react developer, creating a killer portfolio site in react isn't a bad idea, but as a general use case, I don't think React makes a ton of sense. React, in my opinion, shines mainly fo
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by spcebar 2y ago
Surely, just like systemd was, this will be completely without controversy.
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by spcebar 2y ago
The three companies you mentioned aren't in commercial aviation, which has been the bulk of discourse about the problems concerning Boeing. There is no other U.S. company in competition with Boeing for commercial aviation. And based on
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by spcebar 2y ago
Congratulations! Impressive work for any age. Is creating bespoke parts a requirement for your robotics competition or just a part of your team's ethos?
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by spcebar 2y ago
If you pull a blind cord to the right it stays up, if you pull it to the left it comes down. My whole life I've just been jiggling and tugging the cord to get it to stay or come down.
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Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
532 points by spcebar 2y ago|680 comments
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by spcebar 2y ago
Someday the COBOL programmers are going to cross the sea to the undying lands and there's going to be a reckoning for companies that have kept legacy apps around this long.
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by spcebar 2y ago
It depends on the product. If it's a site that you're directly making payments on, customers usually want to see something something that looks modern and recently updated. I don't have the wording for the survey question, bu
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by spcebar 3y ago
For the interested, a gallon of gasoline is somewhere in the area of 31,000 calories, so around 7.6oz should do the trick. As for the second part, turning into a car is suggested.
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by spcebar 3y ago
This article really assumes that AI is going to be the future for search. Maybe it will be, maybe it won't be, but frankly I think, regardless, nothing exemplifies the author's point more than Google flailingly chasing OpenAI. No
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by spcebar 3y ago
I respect responding to misbehaving constructively, but also letting your kids know that it's okay to feel a wide range of emotions is really important for healthy emotional outcomes. Anger is a bad parenting tactic, but also, anger is
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by spcebar 3y ago
That's an interesting choice. I like that from an ease of use perspective, but I don't love it from the perspective of knowing what you're actually accessing, ie, if it's a .JSON URL I'm expecting to be served a sta
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by spcebar 3y ago
I think it's a specific reference to one of the tenets of Cool URIs Don't Change, which was that you should drop the file extension from URIs. So, indeed, not that ugly, but also, not cool, according to the good people of the W3C,
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by spcebar 3y ago
I think this is a funny case of a false cognate. Vapeur is the French word for steam. Vapeur sounds like vapor, and steam is a vapor. So a steam gun is still sort of a vapor gun, but it's definitely a vapeur gun.
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by spcebar 3y ago
Google changed their SEO formulas and told people how to game them. People gamed them. Google has changed their SEO algorithms before to prevent things like tag stuffing, and they could do so again to change their criteria for what a valuab
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by spcebar 3y ago
Well, the ! character is pronounced 'bang', so you can read it as, `BANG!!! IMPORTANT!!!`
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by spcebar 3y ago
The main example I'd give of that is laying out elements. Best practice, at one point, was putting two inline-block divs next to each other, then it changed to 'everything flexbox,' then it changed to 'everything grid.&#
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by spcebar 3y ago
Killer robots created by a self aware LLM eliminate most of the human race. The only remaining humans are the prompt jailbreakers, who live like warlords, the bedraggled refugees who live under their reigns of terror, and somewhere out ther
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by spcebar 3y ago
The title of the book, behind the affiliate link, is, 'Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads'
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by spcebar 3y ago
This is cool! I assume I'm daft and just didn't look hard enough, but what is your privacy/data policy?
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by spcebar 3y ago
So the study is actually called "Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to cannabis use" and you can check it out here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/ar
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Ask HN: Portable Ergonomic Workspace?
1 points by spcebar 3y ago|2 comments
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by spcebar 3y ago
The fact that industry and special use cases like NASA are using it means that some consumer version will probably always exist, and if industry is finding uses for it, consumers might also find uses for it. VR could also fail catastrophica
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by spcebar 3y ago
I've had multiple clients who have been sued for wrong font sizes and incorrect contrast ratios. This is absolutely real and prevalent.
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by spcebar 3y ago
The article gives a variety of industries and use cases where VR has been prevalent/useful for years.
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by spcebar 3y ago
I like this article. It expands on the big question for VR. We have this technology, it's here, it's mostly good enough (with the caveats the article lays out) for a variety of purposes. But what is the purpose consumers will want
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by spcebar 3y ago
Take it fairly seriously. Using the wrong elements and markup messes with screen readers, which makes the web harder to use for people with visual impairments and makes your websites vulnerable to ADA lawsuits. If you need CSS help, there&#
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by spcebar 3y ago
Billing codes are complicated and the rules behind them change frequently. These seem like a case where AI could present a wrong answer with authority—probably a close to correct answer, but one that could cost a patient or practice.
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by spcebar 3y ago
I've found working in Godot a lot more intuitive than Unity (and definitely enjoyed the experience a lot more), but Godot still has a lot of rough edges, and version compatibility is very poor. If you go Unity you'll have access t

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