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811.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I think the pacing of Enders game isn't right for Hollywood. The middle of the book, where he's in battle school figuring out politics and strategy is the best part. And what kid doesn't want to be in the battle room? They ba
812.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Not if the code is wrong, and therefore the conclusion may be wrong. I'm no scientist, but I don't think the point of scientific papers is to get unfounded ideas out into the world.
813.
by vlunkr 5y ago
> But then the human walks against an object, and she does this standard video game 0 mph duck-walk Who cares? It's a video game, that's how they work. I'd rather have developers work on making things fun than trying to ma
814.
by vlunkr 5y ago
So do airpods actually sound better than the standard wired headphones? If they don't, this is a lot of fancy engineering for some pretty bad headphones. Maybe they just didn't fit my ears or something, but I've always hated
815.
by vlunkr 5y ago
This post by Aaron Patterson made me realize it's fine to debug with print statements https://tenderlovemaking.com/2016/02/05/i-am-a-puts-debugger... In rare cases I pull out a real debugger, but most of
816.
by vlunkr 5y ago
It's amazing that people can look at that model and think that lego has gone downhill. This is one obscure flaw.
817.
by vlunkr 5y ago
It's especially bad for video games, but I don't see people discuss that so much. Think about this, probably 99% of games that are over 10 years old cannot be played legally on any modern hardware (console games at least, PC games
818.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I like to think they tried to talk to more sound engineers but their dialog was inaudible.
819.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Same. I started turning on subtitles because of noisy kids, but now I have them on most of the time. I hear lots of people say they are distracting or they ruin comedic or dramatic timing, but you quickly get used to it. You learn to read t
820.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I agree this is a problem, but IMO it's pretty specific to social media, or other free online services. Typically a business can reach 1.0, then seek to expand their market, or release the next big version, get people to pay for a bigg
821.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Oh, I guess I didn't really know what FLAC was lol. cool!
822.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I'm considering taking a break from spotify premium and I'm wondering what the cheapest way to buy music is these days. It seems like buying and ripping used cd's might actually be the way to go. Of course you don't get
823.
by vlunkr 5y ago
IMO it is a legitimately useful site, but strictly for beginners, and probably only for html/css. It teaches you the basics and has the sandbox to test things out. It's fine, just not what you want to see when you're looking
824.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Agreed. Maybe along with air purifiers they spent money on other new resources as well.
825.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I don't think that's a contradiction personally. Most reasonable people accept that some level of censorship is necessary for a good discussion, especially when hundreds or thousands of people are involved. HN style moderation doe
826.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I don't see why you would blame that on streaming. There was plenty of low-quality content before netflix. Movie budgets have gotten huge, in order to guarantee a return, they play to the lowest common denominator, including internatio
827.
by vlunkr 5y ago
This is only half the story. Yeah, you can get a mortgage easily, you just can't easily get the house you want, because everyone and their dog can also get a mortgage and bid against you.
828.
by vlunkr 5y ago
JS has lodash as a very good (IMO) "little utility function" library. But for some reason people decided that instead they would rather shatter it into 1000 pieces.
829.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Of course you don't have to be an engineer to use it, but if he's really claiming to know nothing about encoding, that's quite the contradiction.
830.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Exactly, and I'm sure they want to keep their lines open for the real emergencies.
831.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I'm sure people do that, but the fact that they only have one password to remember, and (hopefully) don't have to rotate it would hopefully deter them
832.
by vlunkr 5y ago
The title says "correlated" so they're not necessarily claiming causation.
833.
by vlunkr 5y ago
> I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads. Do people really do this? Does this explain the dumpster fire ecosystem of NPM?
834.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I think this attitude, which is becoming increasingly prevalent on the internet, is probably causing tons of unnecessary unhappiness. How many periods in history have there been where the average person was comfortable taking a pay cut? Eve
835.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Well studio/1-bedroom isn't really an option for families, and rates go up quickly after that point.
836.
by vlunkr 5y ago
On top of the things you mentioned, the pandemic caused supply shortages, meaning new development was slowed at a time when it should have accelerated. Also, I don't have evidence for this, but there seems to be phycological impact whe
837.
by vlunkr 5y ago
Just don't bother with it. Disconnect the tv from the internet and get a dedicated streaming device. The apps and OS will almost certainly be better than what's on the TV
838.
by vlunkr 5y ago
I don't know why you've decide to compare these things and get immediately hostile about it.
839.
by vlunkr 5y ago
This is nonsense. If you go to a jazz festival in the US people will talk about miles Davis too.
840.
by vlunkr 5y ago
It's cool that they have so much unused footage, but the idea that this is going to uncover some new info about how they broke up is pretty dumb. This isn't ancient history, 50% of the band is still alive. Paul McCartney has talke

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