sporkenfang

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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Kudos on the IDE, kudos on helping your girlfriend, but it could have done without the "I'll solve all the problems with technology and then she'll see me as the hero I am" schtick. It made it kind of an uncomfortable re
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
I've had a thing ever since grad school (I lived in a 400 sq. ft. apartment, so it was necessity then) that if I buy a thing, I have to donate something else -- particularly for clothes. It's amazing how much less crap I've a
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
For whatever reason, > "I've been able to track down some well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempts at fixing things that then blew up and became something much bigger. The folks who I pinged about it were amazed that I someh
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
There are two things I don't like here: - the author seems to call out specific individuals, by name, to their team leads, based on where they were ssh'd in, instead of bringing up the issue with that person first and asking for t
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
With you 100%. Sure, meeting people at work happens— in America people spend 8-12 hours a day there. But best to not act on anything until one or both parties don’t work at the same place. My dad had a slightly gross phrase for this: ‘don’t
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
If you want to go the low-commitment route, a lot of makerspaces have plenty of equipment for building / making activities and offer classes in subjects as diverse as TIG welding and sewing.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Actually, it's a relatively popular harvesting practice for non-organic crops -- kill them all at the same time so they're all ready to harvest. Differs by region, but afaik in the US foods labelled as organic can't be harves
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
You're correct, nobody is claiming that. I simply pointed out that "free speech" and saying whatever the hell you want are two different things. One is protected by law. One is not, and if I held an opinion you found morally
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
So the thing about free speech is https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment the first amendment means the government shouldn't be able to suppress what you say. That's all. Corporations aren&#x
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
I do! Not because I feel like I know anything, but because logically I know there's quite some distance between an engineer and someone wanting to be an engineer. I see it every time my team gets a summer intern. I got started by re-co
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
I found this (mental health issues of colonization) to be one of the most interesting parts of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. It drags on a bit but plenty of folks go batshit, so that lends a tinge of realism.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Research papers cite scientific sources, sorry. Out of curiosity I've read the document being discussed here and clicked a random sample of the links and none of them I clicked led to peer-reviewed science (though a couple are Go links
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
I think the answer is to put the money you'd spend eating fish toward solutions for this so that fish is safer to eat again, until that's true.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
This. Not interested in pen testing at all, just want to build things that don't suck from a security perspective. Happy to break things along the way to gain perspective, and I like to know how things work, but I'm a software eng
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Interestingly I had the opposite but complementary conclusion: if we end up forming many long term relationships through cooperation and maintain them we all are better off.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
I had no idea Hass avocados were mainly descendants of one tree!
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Possibly, but where I live we get the same sort of tourists from China. I'd love to see some of the more interesting parts of Chinese history in person, but I'm not entirely sure I want to brave a whole lot of people acting like t
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Thanks!
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
How can we stop it and replace it with saner, greener tech (or replace the use of fossil fuels altogether)? That's the better question once we know how it got here.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
> Also, typed function parameters are painful. Declaring a parameter as a `f: () -> int` instead of `f` requires that you think about what the signature needs to be. What if you don't know? What if you want to change it? This is
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Even if it means dying a year earlier I'm going to eat salted butter and drink red wine and enjoy it. Better to enjoy less than to have more you don't enjoy?
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Javascript frameworks. Try timing the loading of a text-only or text/html/css site, then your favourite site built with React or Angular.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
I'm hoping for a possible future in which there is massive rezoning in the U.S. so that mixed neighborhoods (residential, business, etc) within reason, like bodegas and offices and apartments and row houses together, not cement plants
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
It's not for no reason -- lots of people who go other places than America / English speaking countries adopt names in the local language as well, for convenience and ease of movement in the local culture. Explaining how to pronoun
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
C++ offers too many options for how to do things. C is a nicely restrained subset. The end.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
> I told the candidate you will not get the answer. I've had an interview like this. I said thanks for your time and walked out of the room. I'm not interested in being told problems are unsolvable, I'd really prefer to w
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Aptitude might be flat due to current methods of K12 schooling. Just a thought. I don't think people are any stupider now than they have been, just methods of schooling have changed significantly in the last 50 (even 20) years. I'
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
Er... I don't think that's universal, but sure, you'll find some programmers there.
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
> Does no one live in suburbia or have kids? The idea of sharing a car just doesn't make sense. it's part home / workshop / storage area. Maybe innovation solves this. Your rental minivan will dump its pod of crap at
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by sporkenfang 9y ago
That's the hard part of having a bunch of authors -- jamming together lots of opinions and fragments of work. Better to max out at 4-5, or preferably, 3, since it is easier to converge on a single topic and work on aspects of it instea

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