helen___keller

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by helen___keller 3y ago
I lived a pretty “safe” childhood, and was basically addicted to video games from 5 years old (when the Nintendo Gameboy was released), but notably I still experienced plenty of boredom and unstructured play. I had a friend 10 minute walk d
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by helen___keller 3y ago
In a pre-internet society I think universities rightfully earned reputations as being the closest place to a true bastion of inquiry and free speech. There were conflicts and exceptions over the years, but generally universities would lead
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I live in Boston and my car’s HUD displays this information (speed limit and such). Sometimes it gets it wrong despite living in a major city center. Once my car even alerted me when I was going the wrong way on a one-way — except that I wa
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I’ve worked on a product where half the backend (basically, the control plane but not the data plane) was completely serverless: lambda, DDB, step functions, api gateway I think it was generally convenient as being very low maintenance. The
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by helen___keller 3y ago
My understanding is that this tends to be difficult because certain really-dynamic-stuff that Ruby offers (effectively metaprogramming) are not supported by Crystal, but are heavily used by Rails. On the other hand, Amber offers a look of w
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Crystal is basically taking Ruby and adding compilation and a strong static type system. I enjoy writing it but don’t think there’s any particular reason to try/learn it, unless you happen to also be a ruby dev who prefers compiled, st
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> or maybe just dialed back the "how many gas stations are in the US" type questions, after realizing this wasn't the best predictor of good performance. These problems (known as fermi problems) have been out of vogue for
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Over Christmas I flew to another city and rented a car for week. Hertz had great deals on EVs but not so great for ICE so I specifically avoided hertz and went with Avis instead. I like EVs and have a charger at home for my own car, but may
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Yes it’s laziness. It’s essentially equivalent to hearsay without proper citations. However it opens the door to less lazy conversation for those who care to ask for sources, and most importantly it sets the baseline expectations that thos
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended 8:30 AM as a minimum start time, that's not the same as "the science" definitely saying one thing or another. This is a nitpick at best. From outside a given field, one gene
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by helen___keller 3y ago
While you’re correct that GNSS is not 100% accurate (like everything in the physical world, it comes with error bars), I think the point stands that the error is unrelated to the movement of continents. Ultimately GNSS is just measuring you
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> Be aware that most people dry their clothes the usual way - by hanging them. Does it release microplastics? From context it’s quite evident GP is referring to machine drying. Clotheslines don’t have a lint trap.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> We absolutely can. Make it straight up illegal and start applying some serious fines. I guarantee they will stop. We can ban ads in certain location/manner/topic but not blanket ban all advertising speech, which would be a 1s
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I understand why people hate advertising but if I’m honest, I don’t agree with having an “adfree city”. I personally like the aesthetic of visual overload that you find in ad-laden cities (let’s say in Tokyo). It makes the space feel living
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> Greed is not an explanation, because greed is everywhere in the supply chain, right down to the bottom. The question shouldn’t be why they wanted to (since why wouldn’t they?), but why they could. Although I agree with you, I think the
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I wish someone would tell my employer, who requires me to badge into my office to sit myself and work remotely with my coworkers who operate out of another office
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Yes, there exist company cultures and management styles that greatly assist remote teams
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Agreed but the image of loyalty is valuable even if loyalty is never worth giving
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by helen___keller 3y ago
This is exactly the tradeoff, right? By definition this is more efficient communication when you can ping someone irl, interrupt their flow, and get an immediate response. And yes, it’s significantly worse for deep work. In exchange for los
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by helen___keller 3y ago
“Conventionally (un)attractive” aren’t well defined, but usually mean someone at the intersection of several/many beauty standards. Thin, busty, blond. Tall, dark, handsome. Pale, smooth skin, double eyelids. I just used one example fo
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Right, I largely agree with everything you’re writing. If you see an otherwise attractive guy and then he stands up and you realize he’s under 6’ and you are instantly turned off, you should examine your own preconceptions of beauty and ref
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by helen___keller 3y ago
As a “woke SJW” I don’t think we’re on the same page for what it means to be “critical of the idea of a beauty standard”. For example, to me being critical of a beauty standard is rejecting the following statement: “All else equal, a person
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by helen___keller 3y ago
economics have been largely unpredictable since the industrial revolution. i have no idea what the situation will look like in 1-3 generations when the largest gen dies off, declining birth rate, etc it does suck for a large number of young
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Computational complexity isn’t really related here. Complexity has to do with formal languages and asymptotics, this is about natural language and fixed size data sets.
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Services and infrastructure can and must grow as well. It’s one thing if you disbelieve your government is prepared to solve these problems, but the difficulties of managing a growing population are neither novel nor intractable > It’s a
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Non editorialized story: > The "Keep STEM Talent Act" […] would exempt foreigners who graduate from American universities with master's or doctorates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields from employe
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by helen___keller 3y ago
I don’t think Wikipedia has that issue though. Pick the cutting edge in your field, in mine Wikipedia is reasonably well informed I think this is really only an “issue” when it comes to politics and culture wars
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> When local zoning authorities require ground-floor retail in new developments, but the local vacancy rate for such space is over (say) 5%, then the developer receives a "lease put option" - allowing him to rent that retail sp
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by helen___keller 3y ago
> I don't think you appreciate just how incredibly massive this country is. On the other hand, I don’t think you appreciate how much vehicle usage in this country is tied to round trip commutes to and from an urban center I don’t th
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by helen___keller 3y ago
Noted, although in my case I don’t have kids but I’m preparing to have them in the next few years. Part of that preparation is being willing to work my ass off to build a strong financial foundation - but I ended up heading to Amazon (reput

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