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by vgel 5y ago
For context, the Edict on Maximum Prices was such a dismal failure that Diocletian ended up retiring shortly after issuing it... so take the restrictiveness and exact prices with a grain of salt (0.0001).
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by vgel 5y ago
> It makes a huge diffidence in Seattle knowing the bus takes an hour and driving by myself would take an hour and a half. Where in Seattle is that true? I used to take the bus all the time before I got a car, but now it's hard to j
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by vgel 5y ago
I think it's easy for an expert to pick up the shallow aspects of a programming language. For example, I've been using Python for many years, but just the other day started designing a card game using Squib ( https://squ
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by vgel 5y ago
Except every dog adoption place around here has requirements like "Must be an experienced dog owner, have a 5 acre yard, own your home, and be able to do 50 push-ups without getting out of breath. Expert sword-swallowers preferred.&quo
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by vgel 5y ago
What did you find difficult about raising crickets? I remember as a kid I had a lizard and a cricket box for feeding and it was just a matter of adding cricket food and cardboard tubes (disregarding the one "dropped the box of crickets
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by vgel 5y ago
The author responded to a similar argument in a follow-up post: > Your bug doesn’t bother me (or my paying users). If it did, I’d have fixed it myself. When submitting a bug report, you are not working for me, you are working for yoursel
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by vgel 5y ago
Specifically, the context seems to be 7% of people joined the team due to his writing, not that he is worth 7% of the team. Others in the thread seem to be reacting negatively based on the second interpretation.
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by vgel 5y ago
This is genius, definitely going to give this a try.
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by vgel 5y ago
No, each square the user clicks could be a checkbox that is submitted to the backend as a form when they click done.
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by vgel 5y ago
I don't believe this scenario (a reduction in wages) is likely. Here's my reasoning. If a company was paying SV wages to someone, that must be because their labor is worth > that amount to the company. Salaries within SV, not
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by vgel 5y ago
> As for the location-based pay part, I bet none of the people who were furious about getting "adjusted" after moving out of the Bay Area ever complained about their colleagues in Bangalore working the same amount as them and m
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by vgel 5y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin
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by vgel 5y ago
Obviously anyone can attach any email to any commit, but why does the frontend UI work like this: gh_profile = get_profile_with_email(commit_email) and not this? gh_profile = get_profile_with_email(commit_email) if not gh
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by vgel 5y ago
Yeah I think in a practical sense you're right, since AFAIK using mode 2 is fairly rare because most software assumes overcommit, and even if a program is written with an understanding that malloc can return NULL, its in the sense of
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by vgel 5y ago
It's not necessarily unquantifiable -- the kernel can count the not-yet-copied pages pessimistically as allocated memory, triggering OOM allocation failures if the amount of potential memory usage is greater than RAM. IIUC, this is h
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by vgel 5y ago
CS classes (and, far too often, professional programmers) talk about computers like they're just faster PDP-11s with fundamentally the same performance characteristics.
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by vgel 5y ago
There's room for nuance here, though -- while "democracy via revolution" is a good backstop[1], it's self-evidently a higher-friction method of regime change than electoral democracy. People in the USA or EU are more res
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by vgel 5y ago
Thats why it was posted... because it's a novel interviewing technique. It has nothing to do with how much you make.
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by vgel 5y ago
Next time you have a panic attack: get a large bowl. Fill it with cool or cold water. Take a deep breath and dunk your face in the bowl for as long as possible, ideally 20-30 seconds. Make sure the water goes up to your upper cheeks /
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by vgel 5y ago
Curious about how concurrent edits work. In, say, Figma, two users can simultaneously each create a text box and type into it. In my naive understanding of how Hyperbeam works, the remote Chrome instance would be receiving two streams of in
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by vgel 5y ago
Good to hear it's on the roadmap!
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by vgel 5y ago
Since AFAIU it's a video stream without any DOM, is there any accessibility affordance?
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by vgel 5y ago
I'll have to check it out, I used it as a kid but not in years.
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by vgel 5y ago
anti-example, Godot's is also horrible, and Unity vs Godot are the two main options for 2D development :(
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by vgel 5y ago
> Of white wines, it's generally only expensive chardonnays that get malolactic fermentation (which gives it the "buttery" taste, yuck), I also hate the buttery taste, but I've definitely bought cheap(ish, <$20 a b
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by vgel 5y ago
I write Rust at $WORK. Using `unsafe` to meet a deadline makes 0 sense. It doesn't disable the borrow checker unless you're literally casting references through raw pointers to strip lifetimes, which is... insane and would never p
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by vgel 5y ago
Oh hmm, you're right. I've always done it with the other order and never had problems. Forget where I learned it that way...
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by vgel 5y ago
Oh, interesting. I guess it makes more sense, in that case. Would be nice to have an explicit "Anonymous editorial" / "The editorial team" byline, though.
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by vgel 5y ago
Linux Magic SysRq + R S E I V B key chord will immediately shut down while still properly flushing disk cache and such. A bit annoying to enter, but a handy tool to have in your toolbox.
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by vgel 5y ago
What confuses me about this is why are they so slow with F_FULLSYNC? Since that's the equivalent of what non-Apple NVMEs do under, say, Linux, and they manage to be much faster.

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