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by vekker 3y ago
I really enjoyed the Starting Strength program (I was going to abbreviate it at first, but then realized that sounds a bit sketchy out of context), and I noticed the benefits too. The only reason I quit a few years ago is because of my conc
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by vekker 3y ago
Another query language? Why can't they just implement Cypher... I still have nightmares from trying to learn ArangoDB's AQL.
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by vekker 3y ago
Angular has been pretty stable since the v4 release. I recently did an upgrade of a large enterprise app from v8 tot v15... Jumping 7 major releases, no problem with the migration tool.
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by vekker 3y ago
I hear this critique a lot, but what exactly is that pointless boilerplate? When I write a React application, I have to use a lot of React-flavored boilerplate too... useEffect, useState, useThis and useThat... What makes this so different
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by vekker 4y ago
The Angular API has been pretty stable for the past 6-7 years since v2 (well, since v4 if you count the Router changes), and the upgrade process between major versions is pretty smooth. Especially since the Ivy release, they've matured
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by vekker 4y ago
The most obvious ones. I'm still very new to GIS, but I find it amazing how difficult it is to simply draw some rectangles (of some specified dimensions) and lines on a map, and cleanly label the edges with distances. Annotating, movin
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by vekker 5y ago
Remembering nothing doesn't mean there was nothing. As I see it, there is the experience of reality from a certain frame of reference, from which the experience of "you" that makes up you (body, mind, perceptions, memories, .
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by vekker 5y ago
If they reacted too forcefully, that could mean retaliation by Putin and escalation of the conflict into WW3. Do we really want that? As a Belgian citizen, I'd rather not wake up to artillery fire in Brussels...
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by vekker 5y ago
I think it's not a silly conversation at all. It hints to something that is so fundamental about existence. You seem stuck in circular reasoning. The point is that when in an altered state, your conventional, "sober" model of
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by vekker 5y ago
Indeed, this sounds highly inefficient. Say, 15% of a daily rate of 800 euro for 200 working days equals 24,000 euro, recurring every year. Seems like a ton of money for just matching a candidate with a job, given that the freelancer still
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by vekker 5y ago
Is there a true difference between those two models though? In the end, the client has to foot the bill, no matter how the money is allocated between commission and candidate. As a recruiter, you could have a similar model for contractors a
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by vekker 5y ago
That's an appeal to authority and we know there's a big problem with censorship right now. (Medical) doctors and professors who ask questions about the effectiveness of vaccination policy have a high chance of getting fired. In my
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by vekker 5y ago
I've always been annoyed with JIRA's limitation of 1 task = 1 assignee, but IMHO assigning 2+ people to every task by default is overdoing it. Depending on the product and the team, many tasks can be pretty straightforward if the
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by vekker 5y ago
But it does do something and network effects have a tremendous positive impact on that utility: cryptocurrencies provide us platforms for decentralized finance. Make of that what you will; payments, providing liquidity, lending, storing v
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by vekker 5y ago
This discussion has no value if you were the only one participating. Facebook has no value if there are no "friends" to interact with. My point is, the same kind of network effects that make social media valuable, are also inheren
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by vekker 5y ago
That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Learning the Wim Hof breathing method changed my life for the better. And this is not meant as an advertisement for his business; you can find the same technique (with or without branding) for
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by vekker 6y ago
Exactly, that's also what I try to point out to people: there are already tax mechanisms in place. Just raise tax rates if that's the goal. It seems to me with a wealth tax they just want to force everyone to work & spend fore
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by vekker 6y ago
Uh, if that's true then yes, that seems really awful, but the market probably also makes it so the real estate prices are adjusted to that taxation regime, because buyers and sellers can take that into account before settling the trans
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by vekker 6y ago
Simplicity is also often an indicator of truth. I think you completely missed another important point hidden in PG's article, besides the obvious compounding effect, and that is that unrealized gains would be taxed under a wealth tax r
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by vekker 6y ago
Does anyone know if this is available as an API?
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by vekker 6y ago
Apples & oranges. Angular (web app platform) can't really be compared with jQuery (JS lib) I think. Angular had a rough, chaotic history which hurt its popularity, but if you check out the latest version I think you'd find a v
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by vekker 6y ago
I think that has more to do with the learning curve than with RxJS itself. Once you learn how to use it, it becomes an incredibly powerful tool.
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by vekker 6y ago
It's unfortunate there are so many React open source projects and so few with Angular!
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by vekker 6y ago
The exceptions that prove the rule? I find it strange that whenever it is pointed out that maybe 40% of Americans being obese is a problem and that maybe we should focus more on prevention through health promotion, it is quickly swept under
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by vekker 6y ago
Doesn't the same hold for PoW systems, except the X amount is in the form of mining resources? This is why people argue PoS blockchains are (besides being more eco-friendly) actually more decentralized.
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by vekker 6y ago
Everything old is new again... It goes back to the late 70s with Stephen LaBerge's and Keith Hearne's research, but as far as I know, those experiments were always involving one-way communication. A few years ago, the author of th
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by vekker 6y ago
They can give an incredible energy boost and moodlift in my experience, but if feeling physically more rested is the goal, then I wouldn't spend the time & effort to try to induce lucid dreams.
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by vekker 6y ago
Hey, thanks! I think a "lucid dreaming-based" video game would be really awesome. I'm pretty sure there are already indie projects like this actually, but I haven't tried them yet. So it would be fun, but for actual LD t
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by vekker 6y ago
Anyone interested in (lucid) dreaming? I've got a side/passion project that I've been working on for... quite a while. It's called https://oneironotes.com and it's a dream journal app for (lucid) dreamer
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by vekker 6y ago
What do you mean with "worse" in this context? I'm also seeing an uptick in news and rumours about UFO sightings/pending disclosure (not sure if confirmation bias...), but why would that be a bad thing?

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