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by yboris 5y ago
I can think in Russian, but with a 5th-grader-like vocabulary I'm missing out on ways of articulating some things. It also takes effort. And now that I'm trying it out as an experiment - it feels like I have a concept/idea, a
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by yboris 5y ago
Anecdata: I was born in Russia but came to the US at the age of 11 years old. I think in English exclusively. One tidbit I read is that people who think in a foreign language like me are in some decision processes more-rational [0]. I think
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by yboris 5y ago
Mildly related self promotion: see your function call graph for your TypeScript files. It might help you get a map-like view of what is happening in your code. https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
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by yboris 5y ago
The meat lobby is one of the most powerful lobbies in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008091680/climat...
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by yboris 5y ago
Vegan food is vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts -- all the things great for better health. I hope schools avoid the highly processed version of vegan foods that currently exist.
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NYC public school cafeterias going vegan on Fridays(nydailynews.com)
11 points by yboris 5y ago|14 comments
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My favorite read on this topic is Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett He's a philosopher who has spent a lifetime thinking about this problem, informed by the latest science of the day. Plus he's an excellent, lucid wri
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by yboris 5y ago
While 1% doesn't seem like a large percentage, when dealing with toxic materials, it feels like there ought to be a lot more safety-checks and aggressive monitoring in place.
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by yboris 5y ago
I keep having the sense that Texas (on purpose) overlooks a lot of crap like this. It's a state which seems to have the motto of "fuck everyone else, we should be allowed to do anything".
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by yboris 5y ago
Feel free to email me or jump in on any Issue on GitHub. Feel free to start your own discussion too! And no pressure :)
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by yboris 5y ago
My 4-year old project Video Hub App is MIT open source charityware desktop application (TypeScript, Angular, Node, Electron) and I'm happy to have people contribute PRs. I'm unsure what a "collaboration" would look lik
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Samsung Austin Spilled 763,000 Gallons of Acid Waste into Local Ecosystem(tomshardware.com)
40 points by yboris 5y ago|11 comments
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For those who like artillery games, I hope you've come across Gravity Wars - where planets affect the path of your projectile. I loved the game so much, it's what inspired me to learn to code! I've dragged my 10+ year old c
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by yboris 5y ago
A marvelous book comparing income and wealth across centuries is The Haves and the Have-Nots - A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic. One way to compare wealth is to see how many people's labor an
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by yboris 5y ago
Consider a hypothetical scenario: there is a fire in the woods and the government says "do not go into the woods". People choose to go to the woods and return as burnt victims. Hospitals should help these individuals, but if t
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by yboris 5y ago
Lessening the consequence of a COVID infection results in lesser chance of having to need a hospital bed. Whenever you use a hospital bed during a time of 100% occupancy, you cause one person who needs a bed to not get it, which can and
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by yboris 5y ago
Wild idea, but consider a psychedelic drug like LSD or magic mushrooms. They are a nice way to think different for a short period of time, and afterwards it's great to reflect. Do research before you try of course, so you know what it&
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by yboris 5y ago
Side-comment that doesn't apply in this case, but worth mentioning: "regardless of who they are" seems like a shitty blanket principle to have. For example, hospitals are overstuffed with COVID patients means regular patients
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by yboris 5y ago
> In a Pareto sense QOI, fpng and fpng-s are no longer competitive. Only JPEG XL and fpnge are on the Pareto Frontier for lossless image compression. https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1485976101692358656
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The Quite OK Image Format for Fast, Lossless Compression(qoiformat.org)
1 points by yboris 5y ago|1 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
Am I the only one whose mind is blown that there is no official download I can click to install on Mac? https://git-scm.com/download/mac I tried brew and it seems to have the old version; another download link gives me
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by yboris 5y ago
A crude joke comparing electricians and plumbers: https://i.redd.it/42ah3br6r2251.jpg
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Reminds me of how the "veil of ignorance" attributed to John Rawls while the original was developed by John Harsanyi. In the end, it doesn't much matter who did what, as long as good ideas got popularized. Bentham made an eno
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That Thursday feeling: welcome to the four-day week(thetimes.co.uk)
1 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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Get ready for the four-day working week(ft.com)
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Unsure where to ask. Worried about high costs. Suggestions welcome :)
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by yboris 5y ago
My Video Hub App is generating about $500 / month. It's a perpetual license for $5 per copy. I am planning to create another app that might generate a similar income stream. I've done 0 paid advertising - only some posts he
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Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy to Provide Affordable Generic Drugs(forbes.com)
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Or maybe we shouldn't center our lives around work - making sure we're 100% optimal for the capitalist system. Even at 50% efficiency, developers provide a tremendous value to a company they work for. If relaxing with some weed da
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by yboris 5y ago
My favorite diagramming software is yEd graph editor . My favorite feature: automatic layout (decreasing overlapping lines, etc). https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

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