tomtheelder

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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Absolutely, and you can clearly see that there are other providers with better incentives. I live in SoCal and drive an EV. I don’t even bother with EA chargers, but the EVGo stations around me are extremely reliable and plentiful.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I don’t think that has anything to do with FP honestly. I think it’s a combination of package culture, the language making it incredibly easy to write poorly performing code, and the massive scale and cultural/corporate tilt of the JS
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Although you’re probably right, I think you’ve got the motivation of the pro office crowd wrong. They want folks in office because if any significant part of your team is remote then you are effectively working remote, even if you’re in an
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I think it was obvious what they meant given context.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
We need to keep in mind the framing of this- it’s a discussion about commuting vs wfh. In the universe of locations where that’s a serious conversation the US is an outlier in terms of poor public transit.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I'm puzzled by this read on the situation. For starters, vanishingly few programmers work in a pure functional context. Secondly, performance characteristics of functional programming are absolutely not dogshit. There are specific lang
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Actually having to develop (browser, IDE, compilers, etc) on a slow machine is pointless torture, but I do see the value in the app that you're building running in a resource constrained VM or equivalent. That way your dev experience i
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I think the intended audience is really anyone and everyone. It’s a very grand vision. I definitely see the appeal. I do not like owning and using a smartphone. A more functional device with a pared back interface is exactly what I would wa
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I think for many the decision to live in a HCOL metro area has never really been about proximity to work. I moved to Los Angeles without a job simply because that’s where my partner and I wanted to live. We were both made remote, but that d
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I’ll just say that personally the iMessage portion of Beeper is the only compelling offering for me personally. I do not care about centralizing my chats. I do care about being able to access my iMessage conversations on devices other than
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Unlike Detroit, NYC has a very diversified economy. In addition to being the primary finance capital it is a major international player in media, art, fashion, tech, and more. NYC is simply not utterly dependent on finance in the way Detroi
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I’m plant based these days, and it’s not just that. I eat all sorts of things that taste fantastic, but they don’t hit that specific note. It’s something specific about the texture or I don’t even know. I think it might be a signifier of pr
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I don’t think that’s what they mean. There’s like a satisfaction from the actual act of eating it. It’s difficult to explain.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I think that’s just gyms grading soft to be honest.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
The weight thing is absolutely real. You can’t just compare two completely different cars! Equivalent models usually gain a few hundred pounds in the EV version.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Does this mean you are rejecting it because it has syntax highlighting? It has theme support so you can absolutely turn that off if you’d like.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Yeah and that’s exactly what the video says as well: that people can’t consistently threshold break in emergency situations, which is why ABS is so valuable.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
HN doesn’t like hearing this, but e2e encryption is kind of an anti-feature for the vast majority of users. The usability tradeoff is real, and most folks don’t care at all about the privacy/security side.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I'm confused by which part of the conclusion you thought was silly. It seems like you reached the exact same conclusion than the video did, and I don't think it's at all obvious to most people that you are still supposed to t
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
It’s a very basic car. It’s expensive due to production scale reasons, not because it’s any sort of fancy vehicle.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
For sure, but it also means don’t have a meltdown about minuscule amounts in a food that basically no one eats that much of anyway. Edit: aside from the Swiss, apparently
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Which is of course something they mention in the article, but actually zero lead intake is not a viable goal.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Literally from the article: > JECFA most recently concluded that it was not possible to determine the health-protective limit. No level of lead is safe, per se. There is no safe level, but zero lead intake is also practically impossible,
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
It doesn't mention accumulation because that's already factored in. The levels they are talking about are a daily amount, not a single dosage.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
It’s literally just a religious private school.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Ok so they invented religious school which, again, already exists.
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Nearly all prescription medications have benefits that far outweigh their downsides, at least at a population level. I do understand to some degree the growing skepticism around prescription medications, especially because of some high prof
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I have worked extensively in Elixir and it only made me feel more strongly that static typing is the way to go. The sheer mental overhead caused by the lack of typing in Elixir is the biggest productivity killer for me when working in that
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
Research on this topic is beyond impossible and should be completely disregarded. You cannot possibly attempt to control for variables sufficiently, and I don’t think even the most fervent supporters of type systems would argue that they ar
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by tomtheelder 3y ago
I’m a little puzzled as well. It’s a phone form factor, it runs Android, it supports 3rd party apps… so it’s practically a smartphone, but then it’s not actually a phone and only has wifi for connectivity. If they sold a version that was ac

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