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by debok 2y ago
I'm also incredibly curious about this. I sent them an e-mail. Let's see if they respond.
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by debok 3y ago
In my church we still use the Genevan Psalter in our worship. It is not the same as Sacred Harp, but many of the same principles apply, and it makes for excellent communal singing. I could definitely hear the similarities, but it is hard to
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by debok 3y ago
Having built serverless apps and "old-fashioned" apps, I seriously believe the old fashioned way is better. The best of both worlds is to host on AWS EC2 or a similar product from your web service provider of choice.
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by debok 3y ago
Am I reading that graph right? That confidence dropped in all the measured categories? That's wild.
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by debok 3y ago
A kettle uses ~1.5KW, a geyser ~2KW, an oven ~5KW, a stove about ~3KW. These are fairly high estimates I got from some quick googling. If you add these all up, and account for some more appliances (HVAC, fridge/freezer etc.), I think i
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by debok 3y ago
I completely agree with you. My wife and I made many lifestyle "sacrifices" in order to have kids. I put "sacrifices" in quotes, because driving in a cheaper car than your professional peers is only a sacrifice if you yo
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by debok 3y ago
Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?
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by debok 3y ago
It's ironic that my password manager also added to the noise. The one thing I do control makes it even worse.
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by debok 3y ago
I found the following 3 measures quite helpful to make my smartphone less intrusive in my daily life: 1: I don't bring my smartphone into my bedroom. My bedroom is a personal and intimate space, no need for the outside world to barge i
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by debok 3y ago
See my answer to your sibling comment by thorslilcuz. Kamq also makes a good point.
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by debok 3y ago
Huh, interesting that this is the hill I have to die on. If I google "are trampolines death traps" the results seem to be about 50/50 yes/no. Anyway, here are the benefits: 1) More freedom, as they can get on the trampol
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by debok 3y ago
My wife and I take the approach of allowing our kids take risks too. Even though it is not that socially acceptable. If people want to judge me for letting my 4yo boy help with building and lighting a fire, then let them. There is so many t
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by debok 3y ago
I'm not saying that we don't learn from the mistakes of the past. There were many misplaced wars and crusades in the past, and we should learn from them. However, the author of the OP article is throwing shade on JBP because he is
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by debok 3y ago
I don't know why HN is so anti-Peterson. He has been tremendously helpful to me, and 12 Rules for Life helped me a lot when I was going through self-inflicted tough times. The article derides him for for stating platitudes, truisms, an
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by debok 3y ago
The South African situation is very nuanced. The ANC had a violent faction, and a more peaceful faction aimed at reconciliation. The well-known Nelson Mandela belonged to the latter faction. Note that I said "more peaceful" and no
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by debok 3y ago
Huh. I read the story more as an exploration on what the phrase "human life is sacred" really means. To me the whole AI thing was just a backdrop.
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by debok 3y ago
I worked for a bootstrapped startup where the opposite was true. While the company was in survival mode, employees were highly valued and the owners had a "we're in it together" type of attitude. When the money started rollin
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by debok 3y ago
Yes, that's a very apt description
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by debok 3y ago
Hi Lars Thank you very much for this write-up. I lost my 21 year old brother in law to leukemia a few years back. Even though I didn't experience the same severity of pain as my wife or in-laws, I was still there through all of it. I s
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by debok 3y ago
I used to not mind the Youtube ads, but it became a nuisance lately. I installed an adblocker for the first time somewhere mid-2023. If I knew that youtube would continue to show me one skippable ad for every ~10 minutes, I would gladly dis
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by debok 3y ago
>Homelessness >Hunger >Slavery >Genocide All are greatly reduced in the last 100-150 years. Globally. In large part thanks to "Western" contributions to science. The rest are some very developed and sophisticated atroc
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by debok 3y ago
Something that wasn't really addressed in the article is that smooth operation of the economy also saves lives. To put in terms of the infinite trolley problem: The longer the trolley gets, the bigger the probability that one of the pa
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by debok 3y ago
I have to disagree on this one. Most jokes that I have heard or read weren't funny at all. And seeing that I'm a dad, most jokes that I tell aren't funny either.
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by debok 3y ago
I love the last paragraph, it's a great attitude to have. We should apply it in other areas of our lives too. It's like putting up Christmas lights, we rarely enjoy our own Christmas lights, but people driving or walking past our
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by debok 3y ago
The ASP.NET framework is nice. I had more struggles with Entity Framework, to the point where I regretted not just writing raw SQL for my data access needs. This was also back in 2019 when I last did serious work in C#, so things might have
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by debok 3y ago
In my experience, this is mostly a JVM issue. When I code in the JVM, I feel like I fight my frameworks and libraries more often than writing actual code. Looking at you in particular, Spring Boot. I had similar experiences in C#.NET and Py
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by debok 3y ago
The Russian peasant built their brick ovens with a flat top large enough to lie on. This gave them a warm place to sleep or lie down. It is explained in the footnotes on the linked story.
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by debok 3y ago
You mention in the article: > Which undoubtedly well meaning civil servant long before World War II came up with the brilliant idea of registering religious affiliation during the census is lost in the mists of time. I guess this happene
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by debok 3y ago
Yeah. I was hoping for a list of hacks that got promoted to standards. That would have been a really cool read.
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by debok 3y ago
I'm less predisposed to mysticism, but I agree with you conclusion on "You don't get to keep anything." I would also add "You don't get to buy your way in." Often in the gospels we hear Jesus say things th

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