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by undecisive 5y ago
It reminds me of a concept I've been hearing a lot recently: Dictionaries do not define words. They tell you what a word is being used for, but nothing about a dictionary gives any moral or philosophical credence to any particular defi
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by undecisive 5y ago
>> But this presumption of "I feel comfortable with X and therefore nobody else needs help with this" > I'm having trouble finding where anyone said this I'm indicating the general tone. I'll be more ca
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by undecisive 5y ago
I think this is one of those cases where my internal model of the world doesn't match many other people's. The statement "Mental dysfunction" in my mind has absolutely no negative connotations. As far as I'm concern
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by undecisive 5y ago
Beautiful, bravo. Also, looking at the way their payment and submission system works, it is quite literally "buy now, pray later"
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by undecisive 5y ago
I believe you're reading Bible2.0 - it's ripe for decentralisation. The new one has improvements, such as "Our father, who art in blockchain, hallowed be thine nonfungible token. Thy singularity come, thy Ðapp contract execu
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by undecisive 5y ago
> You are under literally zero obligation to fix or update anything, just like it says in the text of the license you picked. That's great for you, and the other commenter who said the same. I'm pleased you feel comfortable eno
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by undecisive 5y ago
> No. I'm very clear with demands on my time That's great for you, and the other commenter who said the same. I'm pleased you feel comfortable enough with that. Would I be right in thinking that you have spent a significan
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by undecisive 5y ago
That's great as a snapshot - but add in a time axis. A year down the line, 20 companies are using your code. Two years down the line, 100 companies are using your code. Now you have a choice: Do you continue donating your time, servers
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by undecisive 5y ago
Senior developer here. I've been on both sides of the process. Firstly, let me say that I hate the idea of take-home tests. I don't consider myself particularly woke, but it seems obvious that forcing people to find a two hour slo
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by undecisive 5y ago
This often takes a long time for people to understand. Java applications are not "native". Think of it in terms of human languages. C and C++ (and many - but not all - compiled languages) get compiled into Native program, so they
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by undecisive 5y ago
Given that the author doesn't use the word anywhere else (apart from the title of the book that shares this article's title) I suspect the author is fully aware of this. Might be worth pointing out the word politics is, for many,
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by undecisive 5y ago
Based on recommendation from HN, a while ago I picked up an EspoTek Labrador: https://espotek.com/labrador/ Again, not exactly the best oscilloscope in the world, but amazing considering the price ($29).
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by undecisive 5y ago
Yeah. So given the choice, I'd never register a single one. Unfortunately, the agency that runs the scheme won't allow me to visit my bed-bound mother without "evidence" of a clear test, despite the fact that the system
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by undecisive 5y ago
I've had my first run-in with the UK's test-and-trace system yesterday. I did an LFT on Tuesday, and registered it - but hit the wrong box, said I was positive, clicked send, panicked, didn't notice that there was a link to f
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by undecisive 5y ago
Could you explain the question? As far as I understand (which is little more than this twitter thread) the flush command should only return a success response once any data has been written to non-volatile storage. If the storage still requ
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by undecisive 5y ago
This is bizarre. I wonder how many of us saw that title, thought "That's a really simple problem, surely?" came up with a solution and then were shocked when their coffee-lacking brain actually came up with the patented solut
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by undecisive 5y ago
> "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. It might be worth pointing out that you are dismissing a comment discussing a page that is (lik
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by undecisive 5y ago
Same here, but my browser still uses orange as the theme colour for HN, which is interesting - I guess it grabs the dominant colour from the favicon (it even does it on sites that try to set the meta theme-color, which is interesting)
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by undecisive 5y ago
The comment was pure sarcasm - but kind of you to check!
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by undecisive 5y ago
Absolutely agree! (Though... I suspect there may be some other caching tech in there to help handle the load, and I don't think Fly.io would be cost effective enough for HN - would be interested to know for sure though) But if we are b
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by undecisive 5y ago
> I’m changing the title of this page just to screw with mods on the orange website Loving it! What orange website could they be talking about? I wonder what would be achievable, around the $15 mark WITHOUT needing a minimum order of 100
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by undecisive 5y ago
Alas, I feel like the word "Ordinary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this title! The upshot is, so long as your postgres + rails app isn't doing some kind of DB write with every request, and doesn't do much - or idea
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by undecisive 5y ago
You're doing the same thing. You haven't mentioned Gorski here, you've mentioned "the article" vs "Thacker". You've ignored that one is actually a peer reviewed article, and that the other is clearly
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by undecisive 5y ago
Have you actually read that article? It's expecting a whole lot of detailed evidence from an article. And maybe they're right? Maybe the article should have provided more excruciating details. But the details it does provide - jus
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by undecisive 5y ago
On the article in question: > Footnotes > Provenance and peer review: commissioned; externally peer reviewed. While it is an article, it has (in theory) been peer reviewed. Compare that to this article: > Provenance and peer review
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by undecisive 5y ago
Any time. I will point out though, I would rather be undignified and call out bad arguments, than saying it takes a "certain type of person" to show bad arguments. Prove me wrong. Show me the arguments that actually do make sense.
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by undecisive 5y ago
This is all utter horse manure. > We have very strong prior knowledge that diseases arise naturally Correct. We also have very strong prior knowledge that existing diseases can be manipulated and produced by means of unnatural selection.
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by undecisive 5y ago
"People whose whole job it is to study bat-based coronaviruses managed to cause a variant which escaped." "A virus whose whole job it is to mutate and infect mutated and infected people." I think most reasonably sensible
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by undecisive 5y ago
That's what I'm saying. I recognise that's not what the law was intended to do. The problem is that individuals and small businesses would rather interpret the law in a way that isn't going to get them in trouble, even i
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by undecisive 5y ago
A lot of this depends on personal definition. If the site allows you to visit it, is it working incorrectly? If a site works correctly, but would work even better with a cookie, is that cookie essential? Obviously this isn't the way th

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