vehemenz

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by vehemenz 4y ago
The midwest is significantly cloudier than the southwest, for example. Perhaps "effective sunlight hours" is a better phrasing.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
These are good points, but I would add that there are not qualified installers of solar in most areas. I'm not sure if you'd chalk that up to regulation or economics, but it's probably a little bit of both.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The only counterpoint that I can think of is that sex is public information. If the form's request for sex is salient IRL, and the form-filer's sex will be apparent anyway, I don't think refusing or having an expectation of p
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by vehemenz 4y ago
As always, it depends what you mean. In their historical usages, "gender" and "sex are synonyms. It shouldn't be surprising that past usage continues to the present, and it is not strictly incorrect to use language this
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by vehemenz 4y ago
For data collection purposes, a "sex" field is more informative than a "pronoun" field. That's not to say a "pronoun" field wouldn't be informative, only that pronouns supervene on sex except in outli
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I think the article does a disservice to its thesis by focusing on California. Half the country lives in places where subzero temperatures are an issue. Not to mention, the rest of the country doesn't have the sunlight hours to make so
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by vehemenz 4y ago
In general, I agree, but I think it depends on the context of the yard work. If you live in a rural area, cosmetic upkeep is optional, and you can work on things at your own pace. If you live in a "standard" exurban neighborhood,
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by vehemenz 4y ago
A good middle ground is to have your linter sort the classnames in a reasonable way. I prefer the “outside in” method. This keeps things readable enough so you can find classes where you expect them.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I don’t understand. Do you think there is something in the CSS spec that dictates developers must use high-abstraction classes? What do you think CSS classes are?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Tailwind is much, much faster than building your own stylesheets with deeper abstractions. In most cases, it is faster to use Tailwind than customizing an existing UI framework. SCSS and CSS in JS are more complex solutions than Tailwind. M
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by vehemenz 4y ago
In 2013 it was not a commonly held position that Google was primarily an ad company. It's neither here nor there, but it's worth mentioning that Google as a search engine was around for five years before that SEC filing. As I&#x27
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by vehemenz 4y ago
"Ahistorical" is not the word you're looking for, and even if it were, you're incorrect. Firefox and Internet Explorer (with a third party plugin) both had support for MathML reading for screen readers. The support wasn&
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by vehemenz 4y ago
MathML has more capabilities than the ad hoc notation of LateX simply in virtue of being XML-based. Whether these capabilities are ever realized is another question, but LaTeX had a pretty big head start and better tools.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
MathML's removal in 2013 in Chrome was a huge deal in the accessibility community. Fixing the bugs and vulnerabilities of MathML in blink would have been entirely possible with Google's resources. In hindsight, it's easy to s
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I regularly wonder how much of the "tooling" in modern development stems from not knowing or making an attempt to understand what GNU applications from 30+ years ago offer out of the box.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I think lootboxes should be regulated like gambling, but the way Valve implemented them was not as bad as what the industry at large has done. 1. Loot was cosmetic or a "sidegrade" of items that could be obtained through other mea
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Obviously a car doesn't need to do any of these things, especially in the age of the smartphone. A good tradeoff might be: 1. Physical controls for everything 2. A separate mini tablet screen for an advanced CarPlay-like dock that conn
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The style is reminiscent of an eighth grade essay. The thesis is as trite and obvious as they come. For bonus points, the writer cites sources without linking to them, including Forbes—the worst pay-to-play publication out there.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
What does this offer compared to Flowbite or Tailwind UI? Prima facie, it looks like a clone.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I think you might be an outlier. Netflix DVD rental was huge in the US—can't speak for Canada though. Everyone I know had it.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
* anything interesting
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Why do you think there is a "correct" answer to the prompt? And where did I fail to understand the task? Unlike ChatGPT, I will expect an argument.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I wouldn't say he's a grifter, but his career was basically made by the "enlightened meathead" circuit (Joe Rogan), in which his milquetoast views appear interesting. I agree that he gets good guests—not sure why—but if
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Reddit has "normified" over the years, like most of the Internet. Would the average person on the street have anything to say about the morality of incest? Of course not, and we don't expect them to. You will have to go to sp
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I think a human response would be something about seasonal change and that leaves falling are a normal, non-newsworthy occurrence. Strong winds and disease wouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There are two strategies in which you can have it both ways, to some degree. 1. Internal dialectic: Defend your position against objections raised by an imaginary interlocutor. I usually base my interlocutor on a real person who I disagree
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by vehemenz 4y ago
The things you are complaining about take a week, at most, to adjust to. I am a former Windows user who switched to Macs about seven years ago. Enter for rename is perfectly sensible to me. Personally, I use it more than Cmd+Down to open fi
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Why shouldn't the goalposts move? One's decision to use GNU/Linux does not occur in a vacuum. Windows and macOS continually improve and add features, and our expectations shift accordingly.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
There are people out there who don't know how to type properly, though I'm not sure if they'd be reading much HN. Most Americans under 40 would have learned touch typing in grade school.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Sustained 100 wpm is more than good. I am in the 99th percentile on typeracer.com, and in real world typing I almost never go over 100 wpm.

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