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by xmprt 4y ago
As a programmer with a CS degree who has also dabbled in writing, I can tell that writing well is a lot harder than programming. A good writer can ask the right questions and present them in a way that their target audience can understand.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Genuinely question, but how much of that is Juul wanting to advertise to kids versus Juul wanting to advertise to an older Gen Z/Millennial crowd (half of Gen Z is over 18)? I think it's really dumb to advertise to Gen Z no matter
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by xmprt 4y ago
If comments can lie then design documents can lie even more. There are three tiers of documentation in my mind. Code, comments, and documents. Code can't lie (although it can be misleading with improper naming or bad abstractions). Com
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by xmprt 4y ago
There are a lot of online activities that people can do that don't require a keyboard and mouse. Playing games, video calls, watching videos/movies, etc. I don't think VR is particularly good at any of these things right now
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by xmprt 4y ago
Are used graphics cards worth buying or does bitcoin mining cause significant wear and damage to them?
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by xmprt 4y ago
> just as easily imprison the global south What do you mean by this? How does the US have the jurisdiction to imprison anyone outside of the US?
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by xmprt 4y ago
This is an even worse take. The only way startups are a good way to make money is by working at a VC. And that's only because they can buy into 10s or 100s of startups at once and only need one to succeed. > If you value options at
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by xmprt 4y ago
Here are a few reasons that I've heard and experienced 1. Standardized tooling 2. Fewer issues related to dependencies 3. Hermetic tests 4. Reduced code duplication and easier code sharing
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by xmprt 4y ago
In case others are wondering, they're not just two characters. They are the names of two pigs on the farm.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Follow up: How does the HTML "remember" the events to replay without any help from Javascript?
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What happens when the user interacts with the page while it's being rehydrated? Is that click eaten, does the user see some error, or does the page remember the click and run it when it has pulled in the relevant js?
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by xmprt 4y ago
I partly agree. But only partly because Google has tried crazy things recently too. Stadia seemed pretty crazy in my eyes and it's the kind of thing that most people wrote off but I had hoped that Google could prove them wrong. They di
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by xmprt 4y ago
This is state of the art stuff that would have been prohibitively expensive for most people. It's kind of like how a lot of home automation stuff was theorized back in the 90s and early 2000s but it only became mainstream recently.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Valve isn't buying steam.com because they don't want to, not because they can't. > Domain scalpers will demand ridiculous prices if they believe that you are affiliated with a similar-sounding domain or company Anyone sitt
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by xmprt 4y ago
I think the problem is that you've only been playing for a few days. Usually these kinds of games are actually fun for the first few days or weeks. It only gets back once you've already invested a lot of time and effort into the g
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by xmprt 4y ago
The breakdown for me was in step 4-5. > If A is the smaller amount, then the other envelope contains 2A. > If A is the larger amount, then the other envelope contains A/2. These are conditional probabilities so you can't sim
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by xmprt 4y ago
That's not what it's saying. It's saying one envelope contains A and the other contains either 2*A or A/2.
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by xmprt 4y ago
I mean that if the NFL didn't exist then the AFL would be popular. A better example would be Japanese Baseball. A lot of those players are great but very few of them ended up transferring to the American leagues, yet the sport is still
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by xmprt 4y ago
My claim is "Latin-Americans prefer just latino" The study that you linked backs my claim. I'm not sure what more you want from me.
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by xmprt 4y ago
> If you take the, say, 500 most talented players in the US at a given time, you can't just replace them with the next 500 most talented players and get the same outcome I genuinely believe that a league made of the 500-1000 rank pl
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by xmprt 4y ago
> But none of this matters because ... None of what you said matters because you haven't said anything to disprove my claim that "latinx seems like textbook virtue signaling especially when most Latin-American people don't
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by xmprt 4y ago
Are you saying that my comment isn't true? I read through the abstract and conclusion and the study just seems to claim that latinx is gaining broader recognition in college educated and younger people however there's still a gap
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by xmprt 4y ago
I'm actually for D&I but latinx seems like textbook virtue signalling especially when most Latin-American people don't even like it. I believe they prefer just latino.
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by xmprt 4y ago
I don't know if raising wages alone will help. Increased wages will just make cost of production more expensive and raise prices or allow landlords to charge more for rent. What's more important is solving housing, transportation,
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by xmprt 4y ago
My understanding is that initially they have version 1.4.2 and release 1.4.2. Then in the next commit, immediately after release, they bump the version to 1.4.3.alpha0 or something of that nature. I personally think that's messy beca
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Companies aren't allowed to auto delete messages for legal reasons. At any point communications can be subpoenaed for a lawsuit and companies will have to show them in court and if they are caught deleting messages, they could be in ev
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by xmprt 4y ago
On the contrary, I've had much better experiences with chat bots than I have had speaking with customer support on the phone. With a chat bot, I can wait for a response and be notified immediately. I wouldn't even mind if they too
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by xmprt 4y ago
> Did you want to get all the quality but at the low-ball price? Doesn't work that way. This is patently false. Look at innovation in things like TVs and personal computers. Technology has gotten significantly cheaper and significan
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And if you want to play Showdown, you don't even need to pay for cartridges either. Plus there's no grinding for EVs, IVs, moves, and items.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Impossible to say until you're actually old. If you're under 60 you still have tons of people in your age group to talk to every day. Once you hit 80 and 90, that will probably change.

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