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by vsnf 2y ago
> Parental "help", e.g. doing most or all of the work for a science fair entry, is an open secret among Asian communities. This has been a meme/running gag in countless sitcoms and Sunday morning newspaper comic strips for
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by vsnf 2y ago
Given how pointedly opinionated Go is about how codebases should look like (unused variables are a compiler error!?), I'm somewhat surprised that `if err != nil return err` isn't some kind of built in warning. I do think Go as a l
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by vsnf 2y ago
This behavior is reflected in car attitudes too. Many Japanese drive with a detached seatbelt. Not even the presence of children changes this calculus.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Didn’t llama have a 700 million user clause that was widely interpreted to specifically exclude the FAANGs? How does that figure into this official Google release?
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by vsnf 2y ago
Me too, but I suspect we have differing reasons. I’ve been very nearly mowed down by cyclists, on the sidewalk, on numerous occasions, multiple of which looked like acts of attempted assault. Cyclists are insane, and between their negligenc
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by vsnf 2y ago
While your broader point is well taken, isn’t Uber a famous Go shop?
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by vsnf 2y ago
Security programmers and dev-ops people too. Two areas famously disproportionately represented by furries and co.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Indeed. In my company Slack, our primary professional communications tool, I can count a few people with anime avatars. Not very many, but it counts.
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by vsnf 2y ago
elicit transitive verb 1: to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) her remarks elicited cheers 2: to draw forth or bring out (something latent or potential) hypnotism elicited his hidden fears https:/&#
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by vsnf 2y ago
I’ve tried so many times but I just can’t come up with any compelling use for a raspberry pi. It seems well suited for making a NAS or plex server, but other than that, idk. Everything else I want to experiment with is better served by an a
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by vsnf 2y ago
As far as intelligence agencies go, the treasury department is massively underrated.
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by vsnf 2y ago
> Still, the victims' families should be taken into consideration. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be scrolling through Twitter and come across a video of someone you know being murdered. Maybe so, but I don't want you
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by vsnf 2y ago
> They are re-victimized when the videos are shared > Same thing with murder videos Philosophically, can a dead person be re-victimized?
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by vsnf 2y ago
> If anyone has suggestions how to prepare for this in advance, let me know. Backup your phone to cloud storage prior to travel, wipe it, hand border agents a nearly empty phone, restore once across the border.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Fair enough, the chant as we learned it was “no taxation without representation”, so you win this one. But my point was that it wasn’t just childish tantrums about taxes, it was also about being forced to buy into a monopoly, not getting an
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by vsnf 2y ago
Not having a representative vote in parliament was kind of annoying, but what do I know
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by vsnf 2y ago
I don't quite know what you mean by "rely on" here, but the isEmpty fields are implemented on the iterator interface, so any of the standard container types implement it by default, including lists, sets, and maps. Also to ad
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by vsnf 2y ago
To me? No. But its extra characters that I need to scan and process, it's syntax that can't be autocompleted by my LSP/IDE, and it's at least one mental leap away from what I really want to do. I am interested in the eve
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by vsnf 2y ago
Dart has a lot of built-in methods similar to this. Yes, that includes `$n.isEven` and `$n.isOdd`. It's especially nice with iterables that have `.isEmpty` and `.isNotEmpty`. I make regular use of all four. It cuts down on clutter and
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by vsnf 2y ago
I find this continues to be true in my adulthood. With the blessing of remote work (or failing that, an office culture that doesn't mind), I'm very happy to take a midday walk and enjoy the outdoors. I'm very certain that if
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by vsnf 2y ago
This will further contribute to the already profound difference in quality of life between the red and blue states. But because this and the other confounding issues are emotional ones, the affected populaces will not vote to change anythin
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by vsnf 2y ago
> Junior in 2019, was one promo away from principal when I left in 2023 I'm broadly unfamiliar with Microsoft's promotion culture, but this strikes me as incredible. But in the "something seems incorrect" sense of the
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by vsnf 2y ago
This is how I write my compilers. Indeed, it's how I write all my software.
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by vsnf 2y ago
> or click the following link if you have the FireFox browser (Chrome’s implementation of WebAssembly has much worse performance). Now that is interesting. I've been on the FireFox train for 20 years but I haven't seen a "
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by vsnf 2y ago
> Modern website developers should learn a thing or two about optimization from this. I'm just as anti-bloat as the next HN'er, but optimizing websites is almost certainly not a business interest, therefore not an imperative, a
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by vsnf 2y ago
Because it's not about the acting, it's about the celebrity. It also explains why some of the biggest earners always play themselves, and the character actors earn less.
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by vsnf 2y ago
No, but it would be nice if the bar had some kind of tooltip associated with it denoting who it's for.
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by vsnf 2y ago
A good burger will run you $25 in Boston. Wages are generally higher, but still. It's kind of insane. That being said, I noticed probably even 10+ years ago that fast food prices were a pretty bad deal.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Yes, except for the "defining them upfront" part, which sounds similar in theory to checked exceptions in Java. I'm very partial to this, especially in Go, where nobody ever bothers to propagate errors properly and instead
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by vsnf 2y ago
I guess that’s my point though. What is desirable about Visual Studio itself these days that one would need Rust support in it? I don’t see it as having much of an edge, especially in areas where tight Windows integration isn’t necessary.

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