WaltPurvis

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by WaltPurvis 3d ago
I believe people are downvoting this because it seems AI-generated, but this user has been posting comments/summaries exactly like this since long before ChatGPT existed.
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by WaltPurvis 4d ago
The sentence prior states: "Privacy is the default, not something you have to manage."
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by WaltPurvis 7d ago
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mkr94zm/a/iphone-duo-case... https://www.spigen.com/collections/iphone-duo-cases
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Bringing Primary Constructors to Dart(dart.dev)
1 points by WaltPurvis 26d ago|1 comments
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by WaltPurvis 26d ago
An inside look at the design decisions, trade-offs, and syntactic sugar behind adding primary constructors to Dart 3.13.
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by WaltPurvis 1mo ago
If HIV had been or become an airborne virus when it entered the human population in the early 1900s, there's a pretty good chance it would have been an extinction event for the human race. I suppose there might have been a few isolated
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by WaltPurvis 1mo ago
It definitely does. As I just learned today, Costco stores source buns from different local/regional bakeries, so the size and quality can vary widely. I also learned that people have been complaining about the Costco hot dog buns gett
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by WaltPurvis 4mo ago
Maybe I just missed it, but I don't see where DockDoor has anything at all to do with spaces.
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by WaltPurvis 4mo ago
One professor in one class has not fixed the problem. You can't generalize that to the whole university. Even for that one professor/class, it's not the case that the problem can't be fixed (it could be, quite easily), i
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by WaltPurvis 5mo ago
Many years ago I had such a profound insight in one of my dreams that I woke up and wrote it down on an index card so I wouldn't forget. Here's the pearl of wisdom I captured for posterity: "Emotions — it's emotions that
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by WaltPurvis 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/rSce4
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by WaltPurvis 5mo ago
We don't need an acronym; people just need to stop posting these utterly worthless comments.
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by WaltPurvis 5mo ago
It has been 30 years since Congress last passed a budget.
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by WaltPurvis 8mo ago
I've noticed the occasional momentary failure to resize a window, and this probably explains it, but it's worth noting that the cursor changes to a "resize arrows" cursor when it enters the resizing zone, so as long as I
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by WaltPurvis 8mo ago
In what way does it make fun of it? It's simply an example of it. And with no apparent way to turn it off. (Edit: There is a non -apparent way to turn it off. I still think having irritating visual effects doesn't constitute maki
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by WaltPurvis 9mo ago
One time in Boston a stranger literally pulled me back to the curb as I was about to walk out in front of a turning UPS truck. (This was long before smartphones; I was just being an oblivious idiot without any technological assistance.)
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by WaltPurvis 10mo ago
I can't imagine why this article link is on HN, but I'm glad it is. The 280ZX was the first car I remember actively lusting for.
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by WaltPurvis 10mo ago
Similarly, my sister-in-law is a hospitalist, so I've come to consider it a commonly used and widely known term, but now that I think about it I don't believe I've ever heard anyone use the word except in conversations with m
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
It's not going to be good, but it's really just an accelerant for a denial of reality that's been building for a long time. I mean, there are corners of the Internet where people still vigorously deny that video of planes hit
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
The paragraphs on all pages are formatted quite narrowly, displaying only 3 - 6 words per line. If this bothers people, it can also be changed with Stylebot or the like, using a rule like this to change the max-width, which is set to 400px,
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
If you have Stylebot or the like installed, you can get rid of the highlighting with: a { background-color: transparent; }
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Exporting fossil fuels nets the government <$150 billion per year, while the federal government's debt is >$37 trillion (and growing by trillions per year). It's impossible to expand the sale of fossil fuels enough to make a
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
The article says the software developer is making a six-figure salary and the prison system withholds 10%.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> prisoners being coerced to work is payment for their crimes. On the other hand, that job would have gone to someone else at market rates. This kind of thing drags down the market rates. That's a different problem, for different i
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and I believe most or all of the other Ivies, all fund 100% of the demonstrated financial need of every student, and they do not consider the financial needs of applicants when making admission decisions.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/T5uin
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/9FzGF A really good article, although it's weird for the NYT to try so hard to frame the explosion of cheap green energy technology coming from China as somehow potentially nefarious or dangerous.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
The "point" the article is trying to make is that there is a decline in literacy so severe that it means "the end of civilization" -- a strong claim, to say the least, and one that demands rather stronger evidence than a
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I'm sympathetic to the concerns motivating this essay, but the charts related to test scores are ridiculous. The y-axis is so compressed it makes it look like performance has dramatically plummeted over the least 20-25 years, but the a
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
This drives me crazy, too, but it seems like the misspelled version is now more common than the correct one. I imagine the dictionaries will eventually cave to common usage and say both versions are correct, and I'll remain bitter ab

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