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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Wish that doctors and those in the medical field had a bit a more humility about the complexity of the human body. This is pretty silly to me. All medical knowledge can potentially be proven wrong. Are doctors supposed to add an asteri
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Who said it was driven by magic numbers?
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I guess it depends on what level of conspiracy we're talking about. The parent comment referred to the Mandela effect, so that's what I was thinking about. Mandela effect, flat earth, anti-vax, Q-anon, reptilians, bigfoot, there&#
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I would argue that believing in one conspiracy theory makes you much more susceptible to others, because they all require a flawed type of logic. Conspiracy theorists overlook large bodies of evidence and laser-focus on tiny contradictions
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Sure, you can write a blog post for any reason, but writing about something you are not interested in is probably not going to be interesting. Like when teenagers talk about why one genre of music is better than another. It boils down to op
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by vlunkr 5y ago
You and the author are both making the mistake of generalizing games as boring based on your specific tastes. Unlike the author, I dislike online games, I want a more controlled experience. Unlike you, I dislike plot-driven games. I can&#x2
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> She knew that something was wrong. I insisted that everything was fine. This is how my marriage ended. It could be how yours ends too. I think this is the important piece of the article. It highlights the lack of good communication.
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I definitely remember a TV ad where someone hoses out their car after going to the beach. Unfortunately I don't remember the make/model and Google isn't turning anything up. I wonder if people incorrectly associated that with
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That's a very small minority of trolls. Most of them are just regular immature and uninformed people who have been taught by the internet to interact in bad faith.
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"Don't feed the trolls" was an important rule in old message boards that seems to have been lost in modern social media.
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I agree with this, but in spaces where bad faith is the predominant form of communication, you'll probably be accused of being a centrist for not falling exactly in line.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
You've convinced me to try ebay again. It's gotten so tiresome trying to identify whether or not you're buying garbage on Amazon. I put plenty of time into it and I still get burned occasionally.
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> And more of that. But just saying "a lot of dependencies bad" is not useful. I disagree. The primary problem is that proper dependency auditing is incredibly time-consuming, especially if you want to stay up-to-date. The real
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I think that's a big part. The standard library isn't great, and progress is tied to browsers. Additionally, tiny packages became the norm early on. Is even, is odd, is negative zero, left pad, etc. I don't know all the reaso
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Cool, I'm glad there's precedent for it. I'm not opposed to adding guardrails as the post suggests, but it feels like a band-aid on much deeper problem.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Pasting a comment I made about this a while ago: The reason this keeps happening with NPM is because of absurd number of dependencies in the average node app. I have a tiny app I've been playing with using create-react-app. There are o
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think for the average person, having kids might be the best way to have a positive impact on the world. Something like selling a company sounds like a bigger deal, but in 10, 30, 50 years, what will it matter? Some money is exchanged and
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> install these language runtime versions with your favorite package manager like Homebrew or Macports Package managers often don't have a way to install specific old versions of a package, or multiple versions of a single package.
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Same. We switched when we started an elixir project and pretty quickly switched all our codebases over. On top of languages we've used it for database systems in some cases.
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Yes, on Reddit, boomers and landlords have turned into huge Boogeymen.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Agreed, I wouldn't have that album any other way, but it would have been interesting to hear them complete a project together.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
There were tons of easy-to-use forums even in the late 90s that were full of people of all ages.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
If you're not familiar with Albini, he's worked lots of great bands. Pixies of course, The Jesus Lizard, Mclusky, his own band Shellac to name a few. Nirvana was good, but they've come to overshadow the really great music sce
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He worked on the 2013 remaster. Doesn't really seem like he washed his hands of it.
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The definition of faith as believing in something that can be disproven is a contradiction. You believe your religion is disproven, that is why you no longer have faith in it.
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I don't see that elitism in this article. Supply chain attacks are a hot topic right now, so it makes sense for them to make a statement about where the language stands with them. They make compelling points, and they're not calli
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The elephant in the room here is NPM, and I think the obvious problem there is the culture. I have a tiny app I've been playing with using create-react-app. There are over 800 directories in node_modules. That absolutely dwarfs the num
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think Guitar Hero is harder than the real guitar in the sense that it's hard to know what you're doing wrong because the feedback isn't so immediate. For me, when it comes to really fast sections, if I start missing notes i
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It's simple once you've done it a few times and understand that there are probably only a few numbers you need to enter. For example, If you don't understand the difference itemized vs. standard deductions, you might waste ho
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by vlunkr 5y ago
There's this great compilation video on youtube of Elon Musk promising fully autonomous cars "next year" since 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oZ-AQszEI Sorry for the dumb clickbait title.

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