zogrodea

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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   Some will argue that "bigotry" has suffered from concept creep though. People will readily call me one for saying I believe gender is immutable or that I believe intercourse with the same gender is a sin, but I'm not wishing
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   Would you mind explaining what TFA means, as I've seen that acronym quite a bit here? "The f-g article"?
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   I think that impression you mention about the banners being mostly for spyware trash is no longer the case. If next to every site you visit does the same thing, then it feels normal rather than giving a hint something nefarious is going on.
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   Thank you for the time and effort you took to write down your thoughts! Appreciate it.
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   Hi Dan. Sorry for bringing up something irrelevant, but I was wondering if it was possible to hide from myself how many likes/upvotes I've gotten? I just don't want to be an attention monster whose ego is inflated on seeing t
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   Would you mind describing a few of the things you like about Nova IDE? I never tried it, but it has my interest. I'd be happy to hear what you like and dislike about it.
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   I think trust is a strict synonym of faith, capacity to verify or no. Trust means to believe someone's claims, without certain 100% demonstrative proof. It ceases to be trust when you verify the claims yourself, but the capacity to ver
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   I think your first sentence that one "can't slander the dead" would be highly controversial, especially considering "don't speak ill of the dead" is an English proverb. I personally believe in that proverb (the
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   by zogrodea 3y ago

   That excerpt you quoted reminds very much of Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History. The introduction starts by directly talking about that topic, on page 3 of the following PDF if anyone cares to read a little. He st
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Microsoft did choose to open source WPF a few years back [0], but I don't fully remember the situation there. I remember hearing discontent about the decision on /r/dotnet. The opposing reactions (discontent MS did open sourc
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    I think it's sarcasm or a joke, because there are two replies I've seen phrased like "I think [praise] but [suggestion]". Here's another. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342414
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    "That way, you don't have to remember lists of abbreviations" and... I can't seem to guess the last few words. Would you mine typing it out in full? Edit: Oh, "That way, you don't have to remember lists of abbr
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Thanks for the link. This sounds more useful to refer to (because more general_ than horseshoe theory.
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    There have been criticisms of decision fatigue which you are referring to. You might have already been aware, but it might be worth mentioning since those who disbelieve in it have been reported as better at decision-making than those who b
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    This essay from someone who has/had been actively editing Wikipedia for more than a decade is relevant. The point there is that there is a lot of unnecessary and superfluous spendnig by the Wikimedia Foundation on things irrelevant to
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    I didn't know about the Buddhist position on music, but (after finding this answer on Quora about it[0]) it sounds like something I very strongly relate to and agree with. Thank you for mentioning it. [0] https://www.quora.c
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    That's a nice username you have, and the advice you're giving seems good too.
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    I used to like music and listen to it (even tried playing an instrument and using DAW tools), but I found out that, despite my enjoyment, the OCD and intrusive thoughts it gave (I have medical OCD) are just not worth it. (Not a criticism of
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Some might have a problem that Palestinians sure being evicted from their homes by colonial settlers from foreign lands.
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Here is a reference. The Intercept brought to light US pressure to remove Imran Khan as democratically elected Prime Minister recently, and the way the ruling class has responded is unnerving. https://theintercept.com/2023&#
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Nice to see we're mostly in agreement, since (as I said in my previous comment) I'm hopeful for Flutter's future. The team writing their own rendering engine is unexpected and I hope to see the same engine used in other proje
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Flutter has had its performance issues in the past (like scrolling on iOS, and shader performance issues), and I recall someone saying that Flutter apps lag on an Android phone that is still able to play the latest games decently. However,
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Do you mind clarifying the "grey market" you mentioned? What does that mean?Illegal resellers of spare parts?
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    That's true. Curtness does often sound negative. That's a good point I hadn't considered.
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    That sounds like a wonderful idea. Thank you for suggesting it, and for doing it as well.
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    That suggestion about upvoting might work. It has less of a human element than a typed/written reply though (instead of someone typing text to express positive intent, it's someone incrementing a number to express positive intent)
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Sure, polarisation may exist elsewhere, but does that mean we have to bring it here too by talking about it? (Because the users on HN are subject to the same tendencies as everyone else, and almost invariably the kind of conversations that
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    I wanted to be a fan of TypeScript and get to use it daily on my job, but actual experience made me dislike the language. I think you already know the pain of external libraries (Express in my case) since you mentioned the ecosystem baggage
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    I have a related anecdote. I generated a pattern matching system for Unicode grapheme cluster breaks once (using OCaml which is similar to F#), and it turned out to be very slow due to the branch mispredictions introduced by pattern matchin
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    by zogrodea 3y ago

    Some may appreciate an anecdote of philopher AJ Ayer's near death experience as well. He is known for logical positivism so his thoughts are interesting to read. https://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-