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by strken 2y ago
Are so many of them anti-union? I don't see much evidence that they're any more against unions than the general population. It's surprising to me that nobody has pointed out this article has far fewer anti-union than pro-un
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by strken 2y ago
A pedestrian safety feature doesn't need to be ugly. Consider trees, or big rocks, or unusually sturdy art installations, or nice wrought iron poles with decorative flourishes.
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by strken 2y ago
According to the CDC, 38.0% of the adult US population is pre-diabetic. 11.6% of the total population have actual diabetes. It's very close to half. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/ind
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by strken 2y ago
> When faced with the choices "be fat" or "exercise regularly and make good dietary choices to lose and keep weight off" most people choose "be fat". I think this is where education comes in, because when I
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by strken 2y ago
I never noticed that Medium blocks pinch-to-zoom on mobile! (At least, in Firefox for Android.) That's a really obnoxious design choice in itself, and it's particularly bad when there are desktop screenshots in an article like the
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by strken 3y ago
This feels to me like saying "hey, you don't need to buy a fire extinguisher to keep your house safe from bushfires, the primary way of protecting it is clearing vegetation away from the walls." While technically true, it pre
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by strken 3y ago
The GraphQL explanation isn't correct, either. It's not about defining a contract: if you wanted to do that, you'd just throw an existing tool for enforcing schemas at your JSON (Swagger as the article suggests, json-schema,
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by strken 3y ago
I don't agree that you need React or a vdom for composability. I remember a lot of server-side libraries with an API something like html( body( div( p("hello world"), class: "blah&
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by strken 3y ago
I find this kind of attitude frustrating because it likely discourages people from exercising, when they could benefit a great deal from doing both exercise and caloric restriction. Exercise is so connected to everything else in life, like
880.
by strken 3y ago
It probably differs by stores and locations, right? I can imagine one city having a huge problem and another having barely any issues.
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by strken 3y ago
It's likely a mixed bag. One of my grandfathers died before reaching the current age of my retired parents, and the other was still doing calisthenics and running. I have the impression you'd need to look at much larger sample siz
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by strken 3y ago
In the US, two thirds of adults are overweight or obese by BMI, and this is roughly the case across most of the developed world. That proportion is likely even higher by body fat percentage, since BMI tends to incorrectly label unhealthy bo
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by strken 3y ago
Is it a choice? Most projects I've worked on had times when they became overwhelmed with requests; a queue handles this case, but more capacity just makes it rarer. Ideally you want enough capacity to handle X% of requests within Y mil
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by strken 3y ago
I think there's a strong connection between identifying and fixing problems, and between fixing problems and getting a reputation as a fixer.
885.
by strken 3y ago
I use the phrase virtue signalling pejoratively to refer to things like https://www.shell.com/sustainability/nature.html . It's precisely because of the existence of real virtue that virtue signalling is able to be
886.
by strken 3y ago
I think that general feeling -- of playing a game where the majority of players know the rules and you don't -- is something most people have felt at one point or other. I've certainly felt like that in foreign countries or at new
887.
by strken 3y ago
I have problems with both. Trusting Visual Studio to build everything means you don't have any idea how to build anything without it. Once you get to C, for some reason you're now writing a makefile to tell the compiler how to fee
888.
by strken 3y ago
I agree, but that's the human condition, not some software industry peculiarity. As per Shelley: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and
889.
by strken 3y ago
I'm actually having difficulty working out in which accent they don't rhyme. Presumably talk is different, but I'm not sure how.
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by strken 3y ago
I think this is confusing code with output. If you work for a company that builds medical software, then your output is something like quality-adjusted life years for patients and has nothing to do with the code you incidentally use to get
891.
by strken 3y ago
I saw a huge difference when I moved from a tiny rural town to a city. I grew up comparatively close to a decent-sized town, in that it was a 20 minute bicycle ride or more than one hour walk to the nearest supermarket, but in the city I fo
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by strken 3y ago
I really enjoyed it and it didn't get under my skin in the slightest, but the gloating about squares and true hackers on HN is annoying the hell out of me. I don't think the work delights in getting under the skin of squares, I th
893.
by strken 3y ago
"Hey mum, can I move back into your two-bedroom ranch house in North Carolina?" "Oh honey, of course you can!" Note that he did in fact move back in, so this conversation must have happened in some form.
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by strken 3y ago
I liked it. I also think he sounds like a dick and a tiring man to know, and I'm confused by the people who themselves confuse dislike for the person with dislike for the writing.
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by strken 3y ago
He got drunk, did a bunch of coke, and stole a brass penguin from the hotel he was staying at ; also a spot of tax fraud and theft of a suit, but I care less about that. I get that the lobby of the Hilton is not an art gallery, but an arti
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by strken 3y ago
I stand corrected: did the maths wrong. Centuries it is.
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by strken 3y ago
Methane has a short half-life in the atmosphere, so its cumulative effect after a few decades is close to CO2 unless you're constantly outputting more, and that's assuming you're not burning it. In the case where you're
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by strken 3y ago
Might be "700 manual reviews per 1000 trips" getting misinterpreted as "700 out of 1000 trips needed manual reviews". If some trips were pathological edge cases that required near-constant reviews and a substantial major
899.
by strken 3y ago
I am now considering what I would write in a manifesto. It wouldn't be a bad exercise, although sharing it with other people would lock me into a bunch of opinions that I might regret later.
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by strken 3y ago
This becomes very obvious when you turn up to a conference and half the talks are by developer advocates running you through their product.

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