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by ythn 9y ago
This sounds like a statement made by a professional web developer. A lot of non-web-developers find themselves needing to throw up or maintain a basic website for this or that, but the web development scene is a freaking nightmare. > It&
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by ythn 9y ago
I'll never buy a latest gen XPS ever again. I bought my wife the latest and greatest XPS last year (Cyber Monday) and it had the most ridiculous problems. For example, WiFi would randomly disconnect, Chrome couldn't play Netflix (
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by ythn 9y ago
Even to the detriment of themselves... see "Tragedy of the Commons"
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You prefer a hard spoon? ...it'll hurt more
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The assumption is that we will somehow "terraform" Mars so that it will be earthlike before Earth is destroyed.
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Reminds me of an anecdote in Richard Feynman's book in which the Brazilian education system revolved around memorizing definitions without understanding the underlying concepts: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-bra
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Unless it is VSCode - because who can hate such a good IDE
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> You learn all this ridiculous nonsense, and when you get out, what are you applying that to? Who cares about learning history? It's not like those who don't understand it are doomed to repeat it or anything. I'll leave t
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by ythn 9y ago
Using regex in python to scrape some data from a website works just fine for me... shrugs
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by ythn 9y ago
I was under the impression H-bombs utilized hydrogen in the atmosphere to feed its fusion reaction. If you send it up to "outer space" it wouldn't have any fuel to fuse?
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by ythn 9y ago
> The air travel industry is a _great_ example of what happens when you don't simply blame the human, but look to fix the true problems that caused the human to make a mistake. Contrast to my company: Our phones require you to dial
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by ythn 9y ago
Wife hacking?
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Toxicity isn't the only property of alcohol. Sure, drinking too much water in too little time will kill you, as will alcohol. But high doses of water are going to have relatively benign effects on your brain compared to high doses of,
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by ythn 9y ago
> Never trust CNN on anything. They're just a propaganda outlet at this point. Seems like every news network is in the pocket of one party or the other. Are there any (relatively) unbiased sources left?
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by ythn 9y ago
I still maintain that it is much more difficult to start a fire with a lens or mirror than people seem to think. Post a video of using your fresnel lens on different material types (paper, cardboard, wood, pine needles) and see how quickly
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by ythn 9y ago
I think it would actually be quite difficult to start a fire with this. Speaking as a former boy scout who had to build a fire with a magnifying glass for wilderness survival merit badge - it's really easy get smoke, it's quite di
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by ythn 9y ago
To me it seems disingenuous to call that "election hacking". "Election hacking" conjures images of manipulating voting machines, but what Russia did based on that link you provided was simply find unsavory things the DNC
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Also Japan is xenophobic so such a solution would never fly anyway
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It doesn't support "stones" (st?) either. I tried "20 st -> kg" (Game of Thrones uses stones as units of mass) but it didn't work.
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Fwiw I think the logo looks great
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Under the hood, the extension is using: https://ocr.space/ocrapi
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Because everyone is so much more energy efficient by virtue of high energy bills
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by ythn 9y ago
Sure - I have a farm that I run. A high schooler asks if I'll hire him so he can make an extra buck. I say sure - I'll pay 10 cents per egg that he gathers. Soon he drops out of high school and demands to be paid a living wage wit
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by ythn 9y ago
They are self medicating because there is no proper treatment. We can roll the dice with treating mental illness, but it's not very consistent or reliable and often produces undesirable side effects. At least, that's what I'v
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by ythn 9y ago
If something is too complex to be explained to a college freshman, it might be time for a paradigm shift to simplify (I.e. Ptolemaic astronomy vs heliocentric) Algebra and calculus were one bleeding edge research that only the elite underst
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by ythn 9y ago
Is it possible to make a company that doesn't pay a "living wage" to its employees without being accused of abuse and exploitation? Serious question, what if I made a small side business just for fun where I paid school child
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by ythn 9y ago
Seems like they need debounce? Most JS utility libraries (lodash, etc) have a debounce function...
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"zero tolerance"
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by ythn 9y ago
Is there any way to delete documents? I uploaded a trash document just to try it out, but now I can never delete it - only "archive it" which is bugging the OCD side of me
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by ythn 9y ago
What if I have a blocking function call (i.e. listening on a socket)? Seems like there is no choice but to put the blocking call in its own thread...

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