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by wryoak 2y ago
I think this is missing the forest for the trees, as well informed as it seems to be. Other feature of “C-like languages” like traditional control flow (for loops, single branch if statements), impurity, mutability and so on (all features m
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by wryoak 2y ago
I don’t think 5% take a flight because that’s all who can afford it. I stock groceries for $13/hr part time. According to a quick google, a salary in excess of 100k/yr puts one in the top 10% of global earners, so why are half of
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by wryoak 2y ago
I would love to take trains or boats over planes but I’m just not wealthy enough. At least in North America and East Asia, the costs of these modes (sometimes flat out, but always when factoring in the resultant costs of room and board and
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by wryoak 2y ago
What made you happy about the job from which you were laid off? I think it would be worth exploring that more to figure out what you should do next. It’s also ok to never program outside of work, to have no side projects… it’s probably heal
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by wryoak 2y ago
Only for those losing the game because they’re forced to realize the best players are rising to the top because they were playing the game the way it is most efficiently won, not the way we idealize it. Now I would prefer our systems measur
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by wryoak 2y ago
Currently reading Harriet A. Washington’s “Infectious Madness” which talks about the gut biome’s suspected role in mental illness, movement disorders, and neurodivergence
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by wryoak 2y ago
Doesn’t seem that surprising that parents would act in any way necessary to prevent others from limiting or competing for their offspring’s opportunities.
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by wryoak 2y ago
Yes but Satoshi is very strongly a _name_ in Japanese - yours might be comparable to the question “Donald loosely translates from Gaelic to world-ruler?” Nakamoto is quite common as a name as well.
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by wryoak 2y ago
This is my favorite conspiracy theory now
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by wryoak 2y ago
Should include a mention of prefers-reduced-data. I wouldn’t want proactive loading enabled on my smart phone for example (bandwidth caps), but on my laptop I would. Except when I’m hotspotting with my phone! So how can we give power to the
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by wryoak 2y ago
Then why do we keep code after it has been compiled to a functional executable? Why do we (those of us working on teams) have rules limiting how code is written, or even in what language? Why do we study abstraction strategies like OOP and
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by wryoak 2y ago
A good analogy for how good prose looks different in different languages, to different cultures or professions, etc.
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by wryoak 2y ago
I used to scoff at the 10mg edibles. When I left the US for several months, I had no access to my former daily habit and my tolerance returned to normal. Now I’m back in the US and a 10mg iced tea or gummy is exactly as much as I want. Thos
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by wryoak 2y ago
Since code is primarily for communication between humans, I suppose we should look to the humanities and ask them what good writing is, but therein lay a parallel exercise to one suggested in the article.
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by wryoak 2y ago
I’m skeptical of your first claim, about mouse-use supposition, but am a long time kool-aid drinker of your second claim
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by wryoak 2y ago
We haven’t even got a decent plan A figured out and these quitters are devising a plan B to deplete our finances, political will, and attention span
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by wryoak 2y ago
There are many games coming out for the Switch still on top of the huge library already available, many of which are now discounted because they’ve been out a while. Iirc they’re not even going to announce the successor until 2025, meaning
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by wryoak 2y ago
There are probably some exposure-based biases at play here. Developers deal with privacy every day as a matter of their hobby/profession. Salience leads them to see privacy issues everywhere and pervasive incentives for antagonistic ac
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by wryoak 2y ago
It depends on the student being taught. Most (HS) students will do better with the excellent teacher than the subject matter expert. Perhaps what you actually want is for unusually bright or creative students to have access to experts? May
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by wryoak 2y ago
Agreed, in full honesty, it is actual merit, because it is work applied to learning and succeeding. And I also agree with the underlying implications of your sarcasm: our system blows because it will never be able to sort us based on our in
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by wryoak 2y ago
You can use flex or grid to opt out of margin collapsing and get your easy center alignments and justifications. You’re right that it’s super hard to accomplish that but you have to remember it’s also hard to accomplish that in real life if
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by wryoak 2y ago
Margins are only collapsed in the vertical direction
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by wryoak 2y ago
Doesn’t seem like that would play nice with margin collapsing, like what if you had two box elements with that style that would otherwise undergo margin collapsing, how should they render? What’s the baseline margin to combine if they shoul
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by wryoak 2y ago
I didn’t really see good examples of their claims in the unrollnow link - was there more on x proper? Admittedly I’m not an iOS/macOS dev so I’m probably not the target audience of this CtA. Or maybe I’m just too keen to the irony of u
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by wryoak 2y ago
I recently did a RTW trip and I’ll tell ya I met a lot of blue collar folks, from every continent, doing the same. It’s really just a matter of how you organize your life, because I met a lot of _single_ folks of all backgrounds, but I met
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by wryoak 2y ago
What a ride Personally, I used them with great success traveling RTW. Being able to still use my home number (on rare occasions) while having a cheap local eSIM was great. Usually just for data (navigating) but sometimes having a local numb
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by wryoak 2y ago
Gosh I hated the characters but it does bring up a good point that I think applies to most art of the twentieth century and beyond: it’s too close; there’s too much; that which will stand the test of time yet stands obscure among that which
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by wryoak 2y ago
One of Wired’s stranger takedowns
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by wryoak 2y ago
It’s too slow. If it were built into my composition tools - as I’m sure it, one day, will be - I might, but I can compose at even a phone’s keyboard faster than I can direct my browser to chatgpt to prompt, review and copy it. But I’m sure
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by wryoak 2y ago
Sifting through the triggering or boring parts of HN to get to the stuff I’m interested in learning about

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