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by blakesley 2y ago
Whoa, this post is actually really inspiring! It gives me a better understanding for why Echo Chess has more replayability than other lil' games I've toyed with. It makes me want to poke at new ideas now. Thanks for sharing this c
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by blakesley 3y ago
All these comments saying merely "S3 has no concept of directories" without an explanation (or at least a link to an explanation) are pretty unhelpful, IMO. I dismissed your comment, but then I came upon this later one explaining
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by blakesley 3y ago
This is great! It's definitely more Rubik's than crossword, though. Those Rubik's tricks are coming in handy.
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by blakesley 3y ago
> Squashing makes the diffs much more painful, such as by burying an important change in a sea of mechanical ones when they were originally in separate commits. Can you give an example? I don't even think I understand what you'
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by blakesley 3y ago
Regarding Python: Really? Obviously v2-to-v3 was an absolute fiasco, but since then, it's been great in my personal experience. Don't get me wrong: Python hasn't overcome its tooling problem, so there's still that barrie
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by blakesley 3y ago
> So many companies no longer pay dividends. So many classes of stock are now non-voting shares. This seems normal to me. (I'm in my late 30s) Dividends aside, you're saying you used to do a lot of voting and now, in 2023, you&
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by blakesley 4y ago
> What else would you do? Play video games, watch tv, “party”? Sorry, but this is such a sad statement to me. I mean, unless you absolutely love the field you work in, in which case that's amazing, go for it! But if you're like
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by blakesley 4y ago
DFM? Google searches for it aren't turning up anything relevant.
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by blakesley 4y ago
Err, what? You're not aware that we're destroying the planet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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by blakesley 4y ago
Maybe you're really good at working with uncertainty? This article focuses on the number of new things overwhelming our working memory, but I'd argue another big problem is the difficulty of leveraging abstractions even if you don
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by blakesley 4y ago
Love it! I refer to these kinds of puzzles as "state mazes", but maybe that's not quite the right term. Many variations are explored in "logic maze" books like Mad Mazes ( https://smile.amazon.com/Mad
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by blakesley 4y ago
I agree, but it can also be true that there are so many things wrong with the points being made that it's hard to construct a response.
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by blakesley 4y ago
Nice! I was having fun with it, but then I got to "divide the segment in half". It's super easy, but it's too zoomed in for me to click on the snaps I want, and I can't find a way to zoom out. Clicking "full sc
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by blakesley 4y ago
[Original comment removed by author 'cuz it's now moot] Edit: My bad, I missed a legit link in parent comment. That said, that link should have been front & center. (Edit 2: it now is. Good on you!)
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by blakesley 4y ago
That's certainly important, but again, there's just so many pieces to cooking that experienced cooks don't even think about anymore, but are still uncertain & awkward to noobs. Btw, your response implies that you deny thi
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by blakesley 4y ago
I think the language analogy is apt. Your statement that "cooking isn't that hard!" is similar to someone who speaks English fluently saying English isn't that hard. I fully defend OP's problem statement with the ic
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by blakesley 4y ago
No? I'm clearly the prime demographic for this app because your comment makes no sense to me. Most recipe videos skip the tedious (but important) bits, and many ALSO don't give notes about needed techniques. I often find that 1 re
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by blakesley 4y ago
100%! My company ineptly stumbled into a scenario like this, so to speak, and the result was as you described. After witnessing how that played out, I would expect a similar outcome in other scenarios.
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by blakesley 4y ago
Is this the equivalent of Poetry's `poetry show --tree`?
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by blakesley 4y ago
I like what you tried to do here, but then you got to #3. It's bizarre to me that you feel this process of Apple's constitutes "no artificial obstacles". Phone & laptop batteries used to be easy to replace. A few mod
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by blakesley 4y ago
I'm still pretty new to dev, but what's wrong with ORMs? And, importantly, what would you recommend instead?
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by blakesley 4y ago
I'm glad to see I'm not the only internet user who wonders "will this fail?" to the point that they try the problematic action before their original, intended action. It's this kind of thinking that got me into soft
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by blakesley 5y ago
Whoa, this channel looks great! Thanks so much for the rec!
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by blakesley 5y ago
If you're using Duolingo, make sure to do all the stories! They are much more conversational than the lessons.
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by blakesley 5y ago
Not sure where you're coming from here, but this 1-sentence comment sounds like something a serial killer would say. If someone murders your dog, no big deal to you? And sure, this dog was YOUR dog, but you would probably still agree t
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by blakesley 5y ago
Previous commenter should have said "freemium" instead
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by blakesley 5y ago
Are you just talking about grading on a curve? This happened to me in a graduate math class and I agree with you that it felt unnecessarily demoralizing. But it also seemed like a natural outcome of grading a hard class on a curve.
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by blakesley 5y ago
I made a similar adjustment when fully remote! I actually prefer to do other forms of exercise, but at the end of each day, if I haven't done any exercise, I just go for at least a 30 min walk. It's been surprisingly enjoyable and
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by blakesley 5y ago
Isn't it more natural that the summary comes first, before the details?
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by blakesley 5y ago
That works for one-offs, but becomes a problem when you're working with a set of interrelated features, like a class. There, the very first thing I need is a high-level overview, not a reference. Of course, the reference is still usefu

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