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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
Heh, Enlightenment (somewhere before DR13) was also what got me interested in Linux, as a kid. But, in retrospect, I'd classify it as a "pretty UI" rather than a "great UI."
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
(disclaimer: I work for Netflix. Edit: I should clarify that I wasn't involved with this article in any way) You can disable the behavior you mentioned. Go to your profile settings, and under "Playback Settings" you can unche
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
For me, it was QBasic under MS-DOS. SCREEN 13 is the start of endless possibilities! I think this kind of experience is missing for kids now – but I'd guess it's more about how ubiquitous computers are, and how there&#x27
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Feels: A useless language for a hopeless world (2020)(jeremyrsmith.github.io)
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
The comment about the lack of seasons was odd to me. I grew up in the Bay Area, but spent about 10 years in Southern California where there truly is no such thing (based on my schema) as autumn and winter. When we were moving back to the Ba
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
Not to downplay the cultural importance of The Very Hungry Caterpillar – but can I suggest another one of Eric Carle's books? It's called "Pancakes, Pancakes!" In it, the protagonist wants to eat some pancakes – but he d
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
Whether or not it's considered relevant here, I hadn't seen this before and I found it very moving. I'm glad it was submitted.
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by type_enthusiast 5y ago
What will happen to all the used gasoline?
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
That is a super interesting article, thank you for posting it! But, I guess my question is more about why the abstraction of "protein chunks" doesn't fall apart when there are relatively significant "diffs" in the R
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Knowing nothing about biotech – if Moderna and Pfizer were working from the same sequencing data, why would their resulting vaccine mRNA sequences be different? Even slightly? Edit: I guess what I'm asking is: presumably these vaccines
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Disclaimer: I do work at a FAANG. I'm not sure what circles you're talking about. "References" in the traditional sense may not be an important thing. But certainly being able to back your resume claims – whether with sk
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
> This seems like an argument that there are no priorities and no things that are more important than other things. I don't think you believe that. On the contrary, I'm arguing that making an impact wherever you can is better t
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
If the takeaway is, "never work on internal tools," I've worked at companies where the internal tools were more valuable than anything customer-facing. If you're great at optimizing SQL, probably just doing that in any p
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Interesting, I'll give that a try this Spring! Thanks for the tip. Soapy water in general doesn't seem like something that's problematic as far as eating the oranges later... whether it's technically "organic"
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
To contrast leaf-miners with other agricultural pests – before the leaf-miners came to town, we also had a bunch of Giant Swallowtail Butterflies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_cresphontes ) that made their home
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
I hate leaf-miners with a passion. I planted a bunch of citrus trees a while ago, and citrus leaf-miners ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllocnistis_citrella ) took a great liking to them. They nearly killed a few of t
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
For me, it was realizing that category theory is the mathematical language of abstraction – almost literally the "principle of least power" in math – and those abstractions often connect to programming abstractions. Even if you&#x
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
You might enjoy Scala. It has a range of usable styles, from "concise Java" to "somewhat Haskell-ish with OOP-ier syntax" to "type astronaut", and you can get by anywhere in between (as long as you don't m
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
TLDR: And in the darkness, be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
I think there's room for both things, and we don't really have to (passive-agressively) squabble about which is better. cats-effect is a meta-abstraction _and_ a concrete implementation of that abstraction. All of its functionalit
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
ZIO (the core library) is not really a framework. It's still a library for an IO monad – it's just a pretty different IO monad, in that it absorbs environment (e.g. `ReaderT`) and error (e.g. from `MonadError`) into one data typ
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
> A Haxe macro is just regular Haxe code with the same syntax and same standard library, except it runs at compile time, and it can operate on the AST of your program. They're like shaders, but for your compiler. Scala macros are th
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
A C programmer and a C++ programmer walk into a bar. A Haskell programmer describes how one would join them for a drink.
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Well, that puts some perspective on 2020. I mean, it's bleak perspective, but surely if we all write to our congressperson we can act now to prevent the heat death of the universe, right?
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
So, "their perspective" is that their home is where they live, and your perspective is that their home is an asset. From your perspective, they should be glad their asset has multiplied in value, and they should be happy to pay th
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
> What gives your parents more right to live there than anyone else? I mean they own the home, so presumably that gives them a right to live there. They went there and bought a home for market value, even if it was a struggle to do so. T
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
Two counterpoints: - Direct your discontent toward the corporations and landlords who are exploiting Prop 13 when it wasn't intended for them. It was intended to protect homeowners (often on retirement income) from skyrocketing propert
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
I guess you're implying that old people are the reason for high housing prices in SV. Respectfully, what are the bad policies my parents are responsible for, besides pioneering the technology that makes you want to live in SV? And buyi
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
This is from 2013, so I guess it comes up every so often (2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19184412 ). But, I've had it bookmarked since the first time I saw it come up. It's a great article for anyone wh
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by type_enthusiast 6y ago
FWIW, I don't think it's typical to have haleem for breakfast. My wife's family is from Iran, and when I mentioned how much I enjoyed the haleem (that my mother-in-law had sent us home with) for breakfast, they thought I was

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