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by vlunkr 4y ago
I could be wrong, but it also feels like hotels have stepped their game up a bit with the rise of Airbnb. Prices are good, and even cheap rooms often have microwaves, fridges, and beds that aren’t absolute torture.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
The Mac App Store is pretty terrible. I wouldn’t trust them to do a better job with CLI programs than they currently are with desktop ones.
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I’m surprised that the title on HN is more clickbait than the original.
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The special thing that's going on with SBF is that it's a high-profile story. That sounds like a dumb tautology, but I think it's true. Most people don't know much about white collar crime because it just doesn't co
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Ideally yes, but it’s a massive undertaking.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
> unhealthy to be emotionally invested. I used to agree with this, but I've changed my tune recently. Working 8 hours a day on something you're not emotionally invested in for years is incredibly depressing and puts you at risk
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Agreed, it seems like a natural progression. The barrier for creating a podcast is incredibly low, which is why initially there wasn't this type of middleman. But monetizing a podcast, especially to the point that you can quit your day
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Selection bias?
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I haven’t used it much, but as an outsider it’s pretty hard to judge how much the criticism is exaggerated. People also hate Slack with a burning hatred passion, while I’ve used it for many years with very few issues.
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What if there are no apartments in your area? Or you have a large family but can’t get a mortgage at the moment? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to rent a home.
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> Now more than ever people have begun to add a layer of skepticism and treat information as separate from reality itself. This is pretty strong blanket statement. A disturbing amount of people have bought into conspiracies like Qanon in
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by vlunkr 4y ago
You may not read the books or travel to Russia, but someone else already has. ChatGPT will just generate lies, there’s quite a significant difference.
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90% of devs who like to talk about their salary online are in SF, and they forget that they are outliers. Even though the salary was probably a big part of why they moved there.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Yes, if your definition of “just fine” involves long waits, transaction fees, and fluctuating value. All symptoms of the fact that bitcoin and crypto in general is a giant casino for 99% of users. Certainly it’s a valid way to send money, b
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I would also argue that it's not due to a lack of funding, just misplaced priorities. Even one course on financial literacy would go a long ways.
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I disagree that "trads" are counter-culture, just looking at the numbers that is pretty ridiculous. But you could consider the more extreme groups counter culture, like alt-right, q-anon, incels, 8-chan or wherever they are now. T
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I don't work in security, but I've had zero good experiences with the anti-virus vendor market in my small amount of interaction. These next-gen ones will tell you that you won't even know it's running because it's
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I'm not saying that accepting those facts is arrogant, but that there is a subset of insufferable atheists that try to belittle religious people.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Awesome! This is a great article. I've been thinking lately about how ORMs are basically a band-aid meant to fix the weaknesses of SQL, so it's great to see people trying to solve the problem from the bottom up.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I agree with lots of the points here. However one of the great strengths of the SQL family is the FOSS history. I doubt something proprietary is ever going win everyone over. At least I hope not.
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Sure, anyone can be arrogant about anything, I'm just saying I don't understand it.
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You don't need to have a lawyer ready all the time, but you can still get one.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
As a religious person who has deeply considered leaving it, I've never understood the arrogance of some atheists. For me it was disturbing to try to internalize the ideas that the universe is uncaring, that good and evil are made up, t
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Nerd Crew is brilliant.
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Do they really pay influencers? I’m skeptical. There seem to be a limitless supply of megafans who will defend the bad decisions of corporations because they’ve invested their personality in it, not because they’re getting paid.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I feel like they’re missing the point on the Wii Sports comparison. Wii Sports managed to be charming and have a memorable style despite running on relatively weak hardware for the time. Nintendo tends to do this really well. Horizon Worlds
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This post from several years ago hit me a formative time in my career and helped shape the way I think about technology and my role in it as a software developer. My takeaway is that the most important thing we should do as people working i
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Web Design: The First 100 Years(idlewords.com)
1 points by vlunkr 4y ago|1 comments
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A query builder is much more flexible. For example, in some cases there might be an additional condition you want to add to the WHERE clause. You can't do that with parameterized queries, so you'd have to make a new query for ever
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That's true. I guess what I have in mind are ORMs like Active Record, which adds all sorts of magical layers on top the query building, but still somehow gets the some of the basics wrong, like being able to select arbitrary values eas

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