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by wwweston 2y ago
Yes, restrictions are a problem where they’re a problem. YIMBY can help. They’re not the problem. You could not only ban all zoning/building restrictions but make it legal to shoot people who suggest or support them you’d barely begi
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The modern vaccine isn’t that bad. I went through it in 2012 after a bat weirdly decided to mess with my scalp at an outdoor concert. Treatment was a series of four shots (in the arm, not the stomach) over a few weeks of drop in visits to a
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What is it about Laravel specifically that you like? Also, since we're on the topic, I notice that the article also boosts it specifically as an advantage in scaling php ("Fathom's case shows that you can [scale] very effec
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Yes! I remember downloading this for working in an offline setup 20+ years ago. Still, maybe getting rid of the mirrors program 5 years ago had its downsides: https://derickrethans.nl/php-mirrors.html
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Ugh, that article. It took a few good points that represented real practical annoyances for working with the language, it added a monumental helping of perfectly dense refusal to consider merits that made PHP successful, and then when combi
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> current public health risk is low", and (EDIT: NOT the current strain) "50% mortality rate WORLDWIDE" (/NOT) I’ve not only found online articles that emphasize one focus over the other (low current rate of serious i
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I tacked that direction after my work with early Angular and React sites 2014-2016. It isn’t that I’d never work on an SPA or a site using front-end frameworks like that, it’s that it became very clear to me quickly that they weren’t necess
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Speaking as someone who has done this back in the early wild days of the web: * if what you're vending is the software instead of the service (not what people usually do now, but there was a time), then this approach does provide for
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Their comment seems much more directed at the incentives and outcomes of affiliate/content marketing than it does at you personally, so it’s weird to pretend it’s a personal attack. Especially when you underscore the incentive issues w
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> I guess it depends how you define bureaucrats. “If Gondor, Boromir, has been a stalwart tower, [those who work at public bureaus] have played another part. Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay
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It'll just be online! And the locations will periodically change and/or disappear. Or it'll stay up and outdated information will be what search will find. And LLMs will read all of that and give you questionable output. Who
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"being wrong about 230 is bipartisan" https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
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I think my (American) HS had two of these just a few years later, but I didn't remember any QNX connection!
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You do understand "If I can't mock people, what joy is there left in the world?" could make you look like an asshole, right? Just telling the truth in a low key softball way where we can all laugh, and of course you're l
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The Democratic Party are the ones that passed it. The Republicans didn't, not when they held the legislature, not when they held the presidency and the legislature. Even when Romney signed it in MA (to his credit), it came from the Dem
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I'm not sure I understand the criticism. This is bad? People like property rights. Progressives like them. Conservatives like them. Economies like them. Meanwhile there are substantial differences between the two wings, what services
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Yes, if only we could aspire to ideals -- no doubt better modeled in some golden past far far from modernity -- where more "close friends" excoriate each other viciously, obviously that's perfectly healthy and nobody could po
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Perhaps it’s the natural progression of peekaboo scrollbars that are only visible when you’re scrolling. Those sacrifice some utility for some pixel-scale gains and minimalist aesthetic, this just takes it a bit further.
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> but only after loading additional software which additional software? Also, these two statements: > it takes forever to use them to calculate useful things, and graphing is much better done on a computer > the rewards are signifi
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> I don't think you get it. They can just click around and see all of the numbers and all of the formulas. It's code and a UI. I'm glad you apparently agree with my statements like "Their user-facing side is a particu
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> Auditors understand and can check through Excel but they don't understand code. Spreadsheets are code. Their user-facing side is a particular form of livecode oriented around "sheets"/2D arrays of data tightly conne
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Exactly this. It's extremely useful to be able to say "with all document elements that matches this selector (whether there are any or not), do this." It's possible it's also situationally useful to say "if the
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Additionally, it's pretty obvious that many products wouldn't see price increases proportional to wage increases. This is especially true the higher the production volume / economies of scale. Imagine a burger joint where a
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Why, exactly, would those California notifications cause even mild anxiety (let alone "a psychological nightmare") if you know as you claim that they are merely "panicking about everything little thing"? If you're
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JS can do some cool things. Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes it's the most expedient way. On the other hand, we've exported high enough complexity and code payload sizes to the front-end and seen bandwidth rise enough th
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I'm at the point where I wonder what my options are for unauthorized capacity-expanding repairs.
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Tell me more about arrogance, like it's not arrogance and maybe even hubris for someone to assert they just naturally know their interests and how they interact with various policies (much less how parties are going to show up to sup
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Certainly blew the mind of the people writing the techdirt article if the opening paragraph is any indication: "Well here’s a surprise for you / This is… flabbergasting." It's almost like they thought they had good reaso
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Note this part: > This time, the FTC and DOJ even weighed in to support our petition. See also: https://www.ifixit.com/News/92942/the-ftc-and-doj-call-for-i... Elections matter.
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https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist... "the Earth has only one mechanism for releasing heat to space, and that’s via (infrared) radiation. We understand the phenomenon perfectly well,

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