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by icambron 2mo ago
I think generally the opposite is true. A place with bad coffee but great decor can charge the same as a place with good coffee but crappy everything else. And so to maximize profitability, it does just that, meaning that at any price level
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by icambron 6mo ago
I actually wanted it to play them as it went, so that it would be <unsorted><sorted> each time through, with the former shrinking and the latter growing.
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by icambron 7mo ago
It does look terrible, but I haven't found it to be unstable, personally
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by icambron 9mo ago
I use it regularly when driving an unfamiliar car. I also don’t think it’s ambiguous: it’s a drawing of a gas pump and an arrow telling you where it should be from here, which is a convention from signage the world over. “Paris ->” has n
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by icambron 9mo ago
In 2004 or so, 1.00 was an intro to Java course. I took it very cynically to pad out my units; I was a course 6 senior at the time. I got side-eyed by TAs a lot.
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by icambron 9mo ago
You need to read their entire comment as a joke.
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by icambron 1y ago
Another one is, believe it or not, trees: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...
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by icambron 2y ago
Luxon author here. Obviously I (and many others!) put a lot into Luxon, but only because it seemed so useful. Now that it's hopefully becoming obsolete, I get to look at it fondly as a nice bridge to the future, and I appreciate all th
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by icambron 2y ago
In the US too. Every family I know has a little balance bike for their toddlers
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by icambron 2y ago
Putting aside all the sleazy parts for a moment, there is some good advice on actually writing a cold outreach email. But this part seems mistaken, or at least would be if I were your outreach target: > My best rule for writing good subj
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by icambron 2y ago
I don’t get it. The document setting out this fact is the license, which also tells them they’re allowed to use it at all. The MIT license is short and simple and very explicit about lack warranty. If we were to say “no one reads the licens
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by icambron 2y ago
Seems like it enables you do things like use git repos as per-customer or per-some-business-object storage, which you otherwise wouldn't even consider. Like imagine you were setting up a blogging site where each blog was backed by a re
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by icambron 2y ago
I notice this one a lot. My sense of time is attached to how much I’ve changed, and my rate of change—-at least for music consumption—-attenuates as I age, dilating time. A couple years can seem like an eon when you’re 14 and each new album
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by icambron 2y ago
It’s loud enough you hear earlier repetitions as a vague buzz in the distance, then crescendoing to a blare on your block, then receding with agonizing slowness like some hellish echo. And the whole time you thinking, awake now and very ann
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by icambron 2y ago
I don't see why the security question answer has to be stored in the clear. If you have to give it over the phone, the agent can type it into a form field that hashes it and compares, just like a password on the site.
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by icambron 2y ago
The “why not” form just seems to be a special case of “explain why this code is weird”, which is my commenting metric in its entirety
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by icambron 2y ago
Instead of patronizingly giving women a false hero, instead introduce them to a real one: Klara Von Neumann (yes, that Von Neumann) who was the first coder for what we might recognize as a digital computer in the modern sense. She had to pi
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by icambron 2y ago
To have all these thoughts, I think you'd have to have never really used an LLM to help you code, or to be almost comically closed-minded when you do. What they feel like when you actually use them is a combination of a better SO and a
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by icambron 2y ago
thanks!
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by icambron 2y ago
I'm interested, specifically with the vim keybindings, which would make getting started with it much easier for me.
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by icambron 2y ago
I don’t really mind paying for SSO. It’s fine. But I hate that it’s the one feature in the “enterprise” tier that I need, and now I have to talk to a sales rep and sign a contract. You could have just charged me more per seat and it would h
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by icambron 2y ago
FWIW, it worked fine on my phone. Brave on an iPhone
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by icambron 2y ago
It’s like wordle: different word every day and everyone gets it. At least that’s what the text says once you get it.
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by icambron 2y ago
Helps keep everyone on the same frequency
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by icambron 2y ago
It wastes a fair amount of your time blabbing on about this cartoonishly evil company, but that evil company has no real effect on the gameplay, so it's just distracting and irritating. And it's not some sly or evocative social co
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by icambron 2y ago
I don't know of anyone who thinks any idea can solve any problem instantly. And I don't see where I've expressed any view of the complexity or simplicity of anything. The discussion I thought we were having is whether it is w
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by icambron 2y ago
Allowing people access to bullet proof vests sure seems desirable to me! But also I think the "treating the gunshot wound" analogy is a better fit. A crop that produces vitamin A is a treatment for population suffering from vita
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by icambron 2y ago
This seems confused to me. I don't see how bees playing, octopuses reacting to harmful stimuli, and cuttlefish remembering things is evidence of consciousness, and the article seems to confuse those things with bees having fun, octopus
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by icambron 2y ago
I just read this whole thread, and it's all very silly. You've laundered "I don't like the water" into "it is not recommended that you drink the water" which are really different things. The latter implies
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by icambron 2y ago
I'm not quite following; are you saying it's not recommended that you drink American tap water? Or that there are bunch of other countries with sketchier water full of drinking fountains?

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