vpribish

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by vpribish 9mo ago
nah. the technical semantics is absolutely the point when we're talking about code. HTML is thing distinct from javascript and CSS and it's very useful to be precise about it in our context.
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by vpribish 9mo ago
I would like to opt out of your theocratic ideocracy
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by vpribish 10mo ago
hyperbolic. anonymity in your product could be a sensible design choice that your customers could value. fine. go nuts. but in general? hard disagree. anonymity is fragile and can't be guaranteed, privacy is a legal obligation whic
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by vpribish 10mo ago
I just started playing in the Erlang ecosystem and they have EIGHT levels of logging messages. it seems crazily over-specific, but they are the champions of robust systems. I could live with 4 Error - alert me now. Warning - examine these
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by vpribish 10mo ago
ugh. I have to replace my time rotors again - I thought regen was supposed to help with the wear while it improved range?
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by vpribish 10mo ago
we don't need clickbait
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by vpribish 10mo ago
well, it's an arts and crafts project and they may value avoiding petrochemical products in the end-product. regardless it's interesting to work through that whole process instead of just accepting it.
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by vpribish 10mo ago
I'm building personal, minimalist, website monitor in Gleam using the Erlang OTP. In the time-honored hacker tradition of added more problems to the problem i'm trying to solve I'm learning a new language (never done FP befor
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by vpribish 10mo ago
I started reading, then shifted to skimming, then abandoned it because it has said NOTHING in the first few screenfuls. is this a joke?
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by vpribish 10mo ago
this is so stupid i wish i could flag it twice
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by vpribish 11mo ago
It is not at all true that "Most investors can time this aspect of the market". This is laughably, absurdly, wrong - as if most people could predict the future. Here's a little advice I sincerely pray you accept : don&#x27
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by vpribish 11mo ago
Huh? That’s not what rhetorical means and those silly questions aren’t confusing anyone here. What are you on about, mate?
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by vpribish 11mo ago
you're being obtuse, GP clearly wants a locked down internet
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by vpribish 11mo ago
You win my comment-of-the day award with grace and subtlety.
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by vpribish 11mo ago
Yikes
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by vpribish 11mo ago
That's awful - just an awful way to teach. It's from more than a century ago when the point was to tame the children and turn them into good Prussian soldiers. You don't have to start with anxiety, shame, and dominance - you
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by vpribish 11mo ago
The behavior was lazy and dumb, not the person.
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by vpribish 11mo ago
I heard it was a stuffed bear. "tell it to the bear" they'd say, and point without looking up.
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by vpribish 11mo ago
I added ELIZA to shittalk for a statistical ML model to play bouts on 'stickfight' PVP game around 2000. :)
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by vpribish 1y ago
leaning "no, this is fake" since it's trying too hard. they made their point though
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by vpribish 1y ago
it's surprisingly hard to tell if this is a reporting a real thing or not
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by vpribish 1y ago
the space elevator has to go a LOT higher than that. also, the landing gear is down on the reentering shuttle. The big thing people don't get is that orbit is about sideways speed not altitude and this does nothing to address it.
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by vpribish 1y ago
that's so obvious in hindsight! was this really not discovered before? oh, it goes back to the 1980's https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i4/Microwave-Chemistry-Remai...
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by vpribish 1y ago
you will look back on this and feel so silly.
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by vpribish 1y ago
depends how sophisticated the investor in the story is. it thay are perfect homo economicus they would have been selling some of those inflated shares to do what they would have done with the dividends
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by vpribish 1y ago
ffs. really? the clickbait headlines need to stop - I'm for full banishment of people who post them and the publications they came in on.
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by vpribish 1y ago
nah. not the sort of thing this site care really engage with. fun read tho
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by vpribish 1y ago
ok, I went through it as a relatively normal software engineer (though i certainly can empathize with a lot of on-the-spectrum behavior in kind if not in intensity) - I have 3 takeaways. 1. Things that I brush off or bounce back from have a
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by vpribish 1y ago
"The rice is a little more fine-grained" nice writeup!
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by vpribish 1y ago
this. the HN discussion on subjects outside of computing and startups is awful. When it gets to anything else I know something about it's all overconfident sophomore bullshitters proclaiming and being deep. see especially health,

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