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by wwweston 5y ago
> Java 11, with the introduction of lambdas, makes it trivial to express what used to require 10-15+ lines in 1-3 lines. Makes this bit from the OP shine: "Bill Joy ... was often comparing [Oak/Java] to more complicated and ele
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by wwweston 5y ago
In analogy to this discussion, it'd be the opposite, actually -- situational Feynman would be the person who knew he could practically gather specific unwanted matter into a bin or sack and take it out to the collection bin for most pr
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by wwweston 5y ago
For almost 4 decades 1/8" was a "just works" standard for interfacing consumer audio output from electronics. No fuss. More reliable than airpod pairing. Doesn't rely on battery life. No latency issues. Interference
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by wwweston 5y ago
That kind of dramatic change usually only benefits people with nothing to lose or a distinct next-level gain to make. Norvig definitely isn't in the first category and has many better avenues for gains than an attempted split of the US
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by wwweston 5y ago
News to me as someone who used them to do things as a kid (music sequencing, sound design, software experiments, vector/bitmap art). Modern machines are incredible and do so much more but these were useful in their time.
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by wwweston 5y ago
Would you say it's worth getting an ethernet card and fixing one with screen (likely leaky cap) issues? I've got one that I've wondered might be a good connected-but-not-TOO-connected device.
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by wwweston 5y ago
> "White supremacist has now become a label for a larger and larger group of republicans/white cisgender traditional-valued people. " White supremacist beliefs aren't even illegal in the US (whether or not they should
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by wwweston 5y ago
Someone doing all the content addressing within PHP would indeed be coupling the backend, and while I can imagine that being conditionally useful you're probably right that it would have drawbacks as a general pattern. Someone using th
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by wwweston 5y ago
Nice! Also seems to be written in more recent php versions/idioms.
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by wwweston 5y ago
After deep-diving on front-end stuff in the late 2000s, I got enamored with the idea of a templating engine that would let you address content into places in the document rather than strain it in via placeholders. Eventually, I wrote a li
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by wwweston 5y ago
> One idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands does not override the 99%. When the blockade is significantly funded from outside the country the policies are supposed to be about [0], when effective mechanics of the protest are
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by wwweston 5y ago
> you could create a market on “Will my date with [X] go well?” Why do I get the feeling one of the underlying key variables here would be how likely [X] is to like prediction markets?
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Where I live (Wales, UK), it was illegal to have anyone in your house (and obviously, that meant you also couldn't go into anyone else's house) until mid-2021. Maybe lead with that specific , then. You know, the idea that pe
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by wwweston 5y ago
Did it get easier over time? I've quit sugar for months at a time and found that 2-4 weeks was the most difficult spot for cravings, after which it eased off (though never went away). I don't have experience with alcohol, though,
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by wwweston 5y ago
> That said, sales doesn't equal actual sustained usage. Neither do open gyms. :) Though post-holiday covid peaks may have slightly altered the long-running wry observations about January in the gym.
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by wwweston 5y ago
Childcare is definitely an issue in so many contexts, can definitely recognize that. Hopefully that's something more people are thinking about going forward with an eye towards the social value of it and the problems of people facing i
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by wwweston 5y ago
There certainly was some disruption in gyms as workout places, but I'd be cautious about systematic conclusions like "broken everyone's regular exercise and healthy habits" given observable factors like: * increased pe
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by wwweston 5y ago
It's certainly worth considering mass shootings. They're unsettling and the apparently growth in frequency is alarming, and I think you could fairly attribute them to personal crises in meaning that lead to a path of resentment (&
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by wwweston 5y ago
Fair point! Definitely some 2nd order effects to consider.
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by wwweston 5y ago
Yep. A total lack of belief to the point of nihilism is a crisis of meaning, to be sure, but it tends to collapse towards either hedonism or depression rather than monomaniacal infliction of harm on the rest of the world. True determined ha
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by wwweston 5y ago
> normally I’d push all rate limiting to Redis. Here, we rate limit in memory and assume roughly uniform distribution between server nodes. Dumb question: what do they mean by rate limiting in memory vs via Redis? Does that mean keeping
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by wwweston 5y ago
I'm speaking of posts that I see from friends. I'm sympathetic to the problems of algorithms mediating what's seen; I'm often annoyed at the ways feeds are put together myself. I'm especially annoyed that the former
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by wwweston 5y ago
This borders on epistemological nihilism. Of course few assertions about truth should be beyond challenge. Of course there are grades of confidence and properly conducted discourse (including venues/methods of challenge) can improve th
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by wwweston 5y ago
> all it takes is a word like "COVID" or "election" to trigger their censorship system I can count multiple posts on my newsfeed in the last 48 hours on both topics, for better and worse. Whatever it takes to have som
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by wwweston 5y ago
> how is it unethical for me to click on a Beatles video when they're all either dead or fantastically wealthy? You're probably on the wrong track when your example happens to involve people whose level of success / compen
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by wwweston 5y ago
If consumers don't have the willingness to pay for a media service that not only covers operational costs of distribution but also fairly compensates those involved in making the media, then... that sounds pretty much like the definiti
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by wwweston 5y ago
I'd guess you're being downvoted because the article describes a different conclusion: "[long term] risks and burdens were evident even among individuals who were not hospitalized during the acute phase of the infection.&quot
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by wwweston 5y ago
If that were true, would we all just breath a sigh of relief and say "whew, it's only to prevent money laundering"? But AFAICT it's not accurate, and KYC checks exist to prevent other forms of illegitimate activity (e.g.
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by wwweston 5y ago
Happy to be educated if that's what you're here for. I also don't mind being insulted, as that usually functions as an effective signal that I'm not missing an educational opportunity (unless it's a very clever insu
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by wwweston 5y ago
> seems to still think its some scam despite the fact that it enables borderless financial transactions without KYC Not so much "despite" as "because."

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