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541.
by strken 1y ago
If we take the most charitable interpretation, it's asking a question that's more like "how come older games that achieve a certain player count will have a fatter tail relative to their peak player count?" I'm not
542.
by strken 1y ago
That's an interesting question. I was thinking that my Australian English would cope a lot better with this; conversely, I sometimes struggle to cope with American English literature on the first read-through.
543.
by strken 1y ago
One PR every three days, while interesting for what it says about their development, has nothing to do with performance. I had a day last week where I put up ten small PRs. It'd be a bit silly to say I was especially elite that day. I
544.
by strken 1y ago
I'm sure the world's civil engineers will be pleased to learn that, since they already know the tensile strength of concrete and since they use surveyors to map a site, they're merely assembling bridges and freeways rather th
545.
by strken 1y ago
This is an absolutely ridiculous take. If my more traditional engineering friend spends a day putting together plans based on existing documentation of parts, is he suddenly not doing engineering anymore? Do you expect him to run off to the
546.
by strken 1y ago
Using npm's built in support for package aliases to simultaneously install zod@3 as zod and zod@4 as zod-next? Edit: reading the rationale, it's about peer dependencies rather than direct dependencies. I am still a little confused
547.
by strken 1y ago
48.3% of the Swedish population are overweight or obese, per https://data.worldobesity.org/country/sweden-207/#data_trend... . This is obviously not military age swedes in the 90s. Still, it's not too far belo
548.
by strken 1y ago
That appears to me to be a revealed preference for lifespan over healthspan, except couched in different language.
549.
by strken 1y ago
> Nobody wanted to live a long time but be unhealthy in their older years. If nobody wanted that, then why have we spent so much effort keeping older people alive and in agony for a couple more days, often in direct opposition to their p
550.
by strken 1y ago
I think Allen is arguing that, if the beached officers were either on full pay and forced to accept postings by law, or no pay and forced by poverty, they would not be able to reject commissions. They would thus be forced to accept adverse
551.
by strken 1y ago
In fairness to appendicitis, it dates back to the 1800s and the medical profession only stopped speaking Latin at the end of the 1700s. The English lay term is probably something like "bursten belly" that would also cover everythi
552.
by strken 1y ago
The first time I read The Glass Bead Game, the ending (of the first bit) made me laugh for about three minutes straight. My impression after reading most of the book was that Knecht's life was pretty good. I couldn't shake the fee
553.
by strken 1y ago
This is debatable. I believe the current state of the art is that cattle are lower impact than cropping, so they can more safely be grazed on land where cropping would damage the ecosystem. I agree that some land is too marginal for any kin
554.
by strken 1y ago
I know I'm interviewing them. That's why we need to talk. If they wanted to hire me enough to interview me, but at the end of a half-day of interviewing I'm going to walk away without a job, then they need to rewrite their po
555.
by strken 1y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but I deliberately ask how I did because it helps me weed out interviewers who think like this. Not so much "how did I do?" as "now we're close to the end of the interview, do you thin
556.
by strken 1y ago
While there are scepticism and hostility as a result of fear, I think HN is often so focused on trying to understand the world that it neglects to consider the people. I read most of the scepticism as being more about reconciling two confli
557.
by strken 1y ago
There are exceptions to this. Marginal land can't be used for crops but can support cattle, the permaculture people use animals for various purposes that help them grow plants more efficiently, pigs have traditionally been fed waste th
558.
by strken 1y ago
Absolute numbers are probably less interesting than the % change. If you're getting a 5% hit rate but you used to get 20%, that implies that someone who used to get a 5% hit rate is going to have a much harder time. I'm not sure t
559.
by strken 1y ago
I prefer medium roasts over light roasts, which isn't quite the same thing as dark roasts, but it's because it tends to get rid of fruity and acidic flavours and lets the richer flavours come to the front: brown sugar, chocolate,
560.
by strken 1y ago
Most of it is bullshit, but "I'm going to do X unless you tell me not to" is really good even at companies with a minimum of political shenanigans. It lets you politely and safely take ownership of stuff off of busy people.
561.
by strken 1y ago
I bet that a substantial majority of people's long term goals involve money to some extent. Want to live in a van and surf all day? You do actually need money for that, particularly if you want to do it indefinitely.
562.
by strken 1y ago
Cloudflare's actions seem to me to be similar to sending out letters saying "this client has been banned from using our services" using that client's own letterhead. Are they not misrepresenting the communication as thou
563.
by strken 1y ago
The sanctity of TLS certificates is the backbone of internet banking and basic privacy for everyday users. It's surprising that you or the courts would see this as a problem that only affects engineers, when it weakens the guarantees t
564.
by strken 1y ago
Why should it work that way? Disclosing the vuln before fixing it seems like a surefire way for my mum to lose her life's savings. Why do you hate my mum so much?
565.
by strken 1y ago
Cramming for an entrance exam is a revolting waste of a life. It's enabled by a system that cannot and will not evaluate students on their ability to commit to something that actually matters. I agree that "well-rounded" peop
566.
by strken 1y ago
One thing I've learnt over the years is that most so-called labour shortages aren't significant. Until the companies involved have started paying a lot more or providing cushy incentives, "shortages" are mostly just comp
567.
by strken 1y ago
Do you...not understand that the class on ethics in software development was completely pointless because it was neutered by a university administration that was too afraid to commit to any real ethical position? I thought I was pretty clea
568.
by strken 1y ago
Yes, I too enjoy that universities never send students to pointless filler courses. I really enjoyed writing long essays about ethics in software engineering for people who'd barely even read them. I especially benefited from being tol
569.
by strken 1y ago
I really appreciated trustinmenow's reply because it added a lot more context for me as a non-American. If your congress offloaded its ability to control tariffs and now requires a supermajority, that's not the same thing as if it
570.
by strken 1y ago
I'd be surprised if the US had enduring toilet paper shortages, given that its domestic supply is quite good.

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