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by _benton 1y ago
Hahahaha this got me. My sarcasm/satire detectors are clearly malfunctioning today...
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by _benton 1y ago
You can also schedule code to run each "tick" of the event loop, which is a non-blocking version of a while loop. Or you could promisify the send function and use normal async/await. let q = Promise.resolve(), sendA
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by _benton 1y ago
JS has an event loop, it's single threaded but still lets you write asynchronous code. let send = (payload, callback) => fetch(...).then(callback) fetch() returns a promise synchronously, but it's not awaited.
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by _benton 1y ago
Fascinating article. It's think the author's experiences are fairly context-dependant, with where you live, the political leanings of your social circle, your online community etc. But I have noticed an increase in the pathologizi
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by _benton 1y ago
I find it really fulfilling to meet strangers but I need to be in the right headspace and it needs to be the right atmosphere. "Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes -- if you're really looking." --
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by _benton 1y ago
Yeah fair enough :)
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by _benton 1y ago
I'm introverted and I enjoy networking and group activities and also meeting and chatting with strangers. I just can't do it all day every day, I need breaks. Having social anxiety is different from not knowing how to talk to peop
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by _benton 1y ago
I really should read Jung. So much wisdom in that.
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by _benton 1y ago
I mean push the devs towards writing native swiftui.
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by _benton 1y ago
I suppose it's only the bad ones that I notice, but I can definitely get annoyed by UI that's janky, choppy, or close-but-not-quite native. It's jarring.
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by _benton 1y ago
I agree with you but I think at a certain point with large teams, the marginal benefit of hiring n+1 becomes negligible and then dips negative. I've never worked for a company with thousands of devs but I imagine at a certain point the
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by _benton 1y ago
I don't think it's that hard for someone with experience writing shaders to emulate. The moat is that it's almost impossible to replicate with browser technology, which hurts web-based ui systems and is still a big challenge
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by _benton 1y ago
I clicked on this fully expecting it to be about the video game...
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by _benton 1y ago
I'm sorry but what you are describing is not what a zero sum game is.
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by _benton 1y ago
Yeah I agree. I think it's the same way as fashion - it's often not new styles, just new takes on the past. But it keeps things fresh and interesting.
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by _benton 1y ago
Inequality is possible in a non-zero-sum game. It's just as possible to have an inequal non-zero-sum game as it is to have an equal zero-sum game. Capitalism isn't zero sum because at its core principle are transactions, which are
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by _benton 1y ago
Nothing of what you said has anything to do with the concept of "zero sum". It has to do with if the resources in a system are fixed or if they are changing.
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by _benton 1y ago
UI change is similar to fashion. Things can't remain stagnant, they must change.
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by _benton 1y ago
I have a feeling this will be yet another case of the nerds thinking something is a huge deal and when people update their phones this fall I bet most people won't care after 10 minutes.
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by _benton 1y ago
What the article describes is pretty sensationalized and full of bias. Obviously there is plenty of room for it to go wrong but I don't think it's automatically the case that somehow paradoxically, giving the government less contr
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by _benton 1y ago
That isn't even close to being the same thing.
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by _benton 1y ago
What an incredibly bad faith response to someone simply expressing their desire to see an idea experimentally validated. That's really the only way we can know if a political system is viable. Eg. both communism and socialism seemed pl
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by _benton 1y ago
I sorta want to see them happen as an experiment.
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by _benton 1y ago
They aren't piggybacking, they provide the infrastructure, marketplace, and platform.
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by _benton 1y ago
Depends on the contract between the grocery store and the construction company.
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by _benton 1y ago
What right does a company have to piggyback off of another company? Like think about this logically? Should a grocery store be forced to sell my products without receiving any of the profit? Can I force a cafe to let me serve customers on t
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by _benton 1y ago
Then why not buy one of the multitude of houses that exist with alternative and open camera systems, that are also cheaper and more ubiquitous?
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by _benton 1y ago
Is it mandatory to be on tier 1 to have your app in alternative stores or can you do that on tier 2? Are the reduced fees on tier 1 in order to comply with EU mandates?
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by _benton 1y ago
I'm curious what becomes the breaking point for them to pull out of a region. Obviously it's about profit but at what point (if any) does it make profitable sense for them to leave?
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by _benton 1y ago
Yeah I forgot about that one. People who in the past owned some PC deciding not to replace it because their phone does everything they need.

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