weberc2

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811.
by weberc2 7y ago
Regarding health insurance, we already prevent insurers from denying coverage based on preexisting condition. Surely we could pass a similar law to cover this case?
812.
by weberc2 7y ago
> These semantics are mental shortcuts that are harmful in this case to actually solving the problems we face. They frame the issue narrowly, which leads to a single viewpoint coloring the entire population. The population is largely def
813.
by weberc2 7y ago
> It is exhausting, but isn't not an objection, it is fact. You have to meet people where they are if you ever hope to know them. Using a single label, in this case 'third-wave', to describe someone is so incomplete and I
814.
by weberc2 7y ago
> The observation does nothing to further the debate because it assumes a broad unified opinion about a group of individuals These objections are exhausting. Yes, there are exceptions to every generalization. Generalizations are the only
815.
by weberc2 7y ago
I'm of the impression that "the universe is getting bigger and bigger" is the other side of the coin from "space time is curved in this really weird way". Also, I'm under the impression that a curved spacetime
816.
by weberc2 7y ago
I wasn't criticizing feminism in my comment; I also wasn't saying there was anything expressly wrong with the status quo (men trading off on work so women could have more family time)--I'm sure it works well for many families
817.
by weberc2 7y ago
I don't think it's a very good analogy. Martin Luther didn't blame early Christians that medieval Catholicism failed to look sufficiently like early Christianity; however, that's roughly what we see today--third-wave fem
818.
by weberc2 7y ago
This isn’t a uniquely female phenomenon. The expectation has always been for men to trade time with family for time at work.
819.
by weberc2 7y ago
Like I said, I wasn't commenting about out-of-range or those other things, I was commenting about the surprising undefined behaviors. :) JavaScript and many other HLLs have their criticisms, but they are generally far less surprising t
820.
by weberc2 7y ago
I like C, but you definitely don’t “get what you wrote” in any meaningful way. You absolutely have to understand all sorts of nuance about undefined behavior, the size of primitives on various architectures, etc. I’m not advocating for C++,
821.
by weberc2 7y ago
Optimize for the user who has 100s of tabs open or the user who has 10 tabs but one is Slack.
822.
by weberc2 7y ago
It's wrong. https://github.com/facebook/yoga/tree/master/yoga
823.
by weberc2 7y ago
I agree. If tipping really came to prominence during that time period, I wouldn't at all be surprised if it had a racist history. But given that no one at the time hid their racism, I'm surprised that neither article could manage
824.
by weberc2 7y ago
I'm pretty opposed to tipping as a practice, or at least the reduced minimum wage for tipped positions, but I was expecting more from those articles. If you strip away the appeals to identity politics they are much less interesting or
825.
by weberc2 7y ago
Minor bit of pedantry--Yoga is written in C++.
826.
by weberc2 7y ago
The parent’s comment is tautologically true: if nothing kills you first, cancer will eventually kill you.
827.
by weberc2 7y ago
According to the thread the company is 2 people.
828.
by weberc2 7y ago
Conversely, I don't see how a company like DO can afford to offload their customer support to automation for these "we'll shut down your business" kinds of tickets. Tweets like these generate a lot of press.
829.
by weberc2 7y ago
51 million households , so almost half of the US. Even less believable. EDIT: Why is this downvoted? The article states "Nearly 51 million households..."
830.
by weberc2 7y ago
As /u/tqi pointed out elsewhere, there have been several rubbish Guardian science pieces on the front page in the last few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20040897 https://news.ycombinator.co
831.
by weberc2 7y ago
I'm sure those things are interesting; however, you don't learn about them by cherrypicking sources and studies to suit a particular agenda. In particular, by challenging TFA's overt agenda pushing, the parent isn't advo
832.
by weberc2 7y ago
The difference is that with VMs, you have to configure the things that you get for free with container runtimes. Specifically, Amazon can take care of a ton of the most mundane security and compliance burden that our org would otherwise hav
833.
by weberc2 7y ago
Also, not needing to support log extraction or deal with unit scripts or SSH or bin packing applications onto VMs or mucking with ansible/packer/etc. Personally I don’t want to spend my time on needlessly tedious, uninteresting pr
834.
by weberc2 7y ago
Unless you have other software running, in my case. The Docker for MAC VM idles at 80% CPU (obviously not FF’s fault).
835.
by weberc2 7y ago
> That's why you don't let widgets hold program state, they should just propagate deltas and display current state. It's a different way of thinking about how UI can work, but imho it has a lot of benefits aside from just
836.
by weberc2 7y ago
In my naive opinion, it seems like a good choice then for languages (the ones with first-class utf-8 support, anyway) to operate on scalars and leave graphemes / user-text-editing-use-cases to libraries. (This is meant as an extention
837.
by weberc2 7y ago
If the parent's comment agrieved you because it was baseless opinion, I don't recommend the GP comment.
838.
by weberc2 7y ago
Like what? (earnest question)
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by weberc2 7y ago
Native look and feel.
840.
by weberc2 7y ago
I'm of the impression that public investment in education increased manifold since the ~60s without much improvement in outcomes. Presumably education is an example of goverment management gone awry (which is not to say that private ma

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