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by zwkrt 6y ago
GP of the thread here. Things that straight people stereotypically do that gay men stereotypically do not understand: - Treating every person you date like a potential spouse instead of a potential friend - Getting upset when your partner f
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Re: percentages. I just picked 5% for a talking point. It is definitely more than 1%, but it really depends on how you define 'homosexual'. Some surveys might count someone who has had a same-sex partner in the past but now does n
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by zwkrt 6y ago
This is especially interesting as same-sex dating is even more skewed toward online interaction, probably just due to the fact that we make up only ~5% of the population; any person we meet in public is straight 19 out of 20 times [1]. [1]
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by zwkrt 6y ago
> I'm pro basic income, but definitely don't support paying more to be unproductive than productive. I never understand this perspective. Supporting UBI is a statement that all people deserve a bare-minimum existence, even if t
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by zwkrt 6y ago
Don’t minimize the importance of acting though if you constantly find the same stressors intruding on your thoughts. If meditation helps you deal with street noise, that’s great, but you might also consider closing the window. I see lots of
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by zwkrt 6y ago
The only reasonable way to fix an institution is to get the majority of its members to want change.
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by zwkrt 6y ago
For a fun hack-week project I created a graphql server that would automatically create any necessary SQL tables to support a query given to it. So if you made the query query { user { name email {
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by zwkrt 6y ago
I have been feeling the same way as you. I excelled working at Amazon and a few other companies for a decade, but I decided that the nature of the work just wasn't for me anymore. I felt like I was building systems that would fundament
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by zwkrt 6y ago
But there are tools that don't follow this paradigm. Famously, grep fails with err=1 if it doesn't find a match, even though 'no match' is a perfectly valid result of a search.
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by zwkrt 6y ago
You are wrong! Obviously the application layer on top of TCP could be the bottleneck, but TCP itself has mechanisms to ensure traffic is flowing as fast and as smoothly as possible. Look up "TCP Flow control" and "TCP Congest
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by zwkrt 6y ago
All employers will value the enterprise over any one of their employees individually. When is the last time you saw an employer shutter their business but continue paying their employees? It isn't that they aren't trustworthy, it
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by zwkrt 6y ago
> A lot of people rent their basements out because they can’t afford not to. Why do they have a mortgage they can’t afford?
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by zwkrt 6y ago
A landlord who is 'out on the street' because they are no longer getting the rent from their investment property is in no different or worse a position than a worker who becomes homeless because they no longer have a job. A landlo
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by zwkrt 6y ago
who says that?
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by zwkrt 7y ago
“It is the most boring, long-winded, repetitive, condescending, infantile bullshit we’ve ever seen.” After a few more invectives, he posed a question: “Do people find comfort in tedious, bureaucratic, pandering authoritarianism?” Apparently
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Similar comparisons can be made between the US and otherwise ostsensibly 'poor' countries that provide free education.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
http://nohello.com
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I disagree. If these devices were free they would still increase the power divide between those who can wield force and those who can’t. Maybe even more so.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
If you know you are expecting an expression, then it is easy for the parser to understand ‘-‘ as a unary negation if it is the first symbol, otherwise it must be a binary subtraction operator. Expr: ‘-‘ Expr { return -1 *
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by zwkrt 7y ago
You could make a PR, it looks like the language doesn’t have environment variable access!
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Note: requires watching a video for the actual content.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
It seems like a silly metric. Almost all code gets abandoned, and at an alarming rate. Unless you happened to build a popular database or an operating system component, it’s likely that your code is gone in 10 years. And if not, your code i
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by zwkrt 7y ago
A computer cannot emulate itself, I can be programmed by humans to emulate itself. I.e., no introspection was involved in the part of the computer.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
This is a west coast phenomenon, I’ve found the Midwest and east coast to have a lot more variety. It feels in Seattle like beer bars have a “token” stout in the same way that they have a single house wine. Hops must be what sells though.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
I think the real moneymaker is that AWS keeps making their servers more efficient but doesn’t lower their costs
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by zwkrt 7y ago
A mentor of mine once said that information acquisition is intentional, like eating, but learning is subconscious, like digestion. He liked to say “you can’t help but learn!”
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by zwkrt 7y ago
They’re engaging, which can’t be excluded from their benefits. There was something visceral about watching Apple pull ahead in 2011-2015. IMO bar charts are better at showing relative sizes of scalar numbers as opposed to 2d shapes. A circl
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by zwkrt 7y ago
zwkrt’s Tenth Rule of Startups: Any sufficiently complicated tech company or venture-backed enterprise contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a credit union.
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by zwkrt 7y ago
So living in an ugly home is the only one of the three with no effect on the physical well-being of others?
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by zwkrt 7y ago
Is there logic to the authors assertion past “that isn’t what XML was intended for”? It is a pretty nice data format if you want wide compatibility and schema integration.

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