nitrogen

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by nitrogen 2y ago
> as long as they're the right ones? Which ones are the right ones? Yours? Mine?
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by nitrogen 3y ago
ActiveRecord is Ruby's nigh unassailable superpower for webdev. A few jobs back my last act in that role was moving all DB access from a separate Scala microservice into a Rails minilith, saving many, many lines of code and network ro
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by nitrogen 4y ago
This comes up a lot. But it's wrong, or at least incomplete. People who want to live in their house don't want the value of that house to go up, because then their taxes go up.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Several years ago someone stole my former startup's first hardware prototype, along with a bunch of other stuff. In 300 years, should my descendents have a right to claim restitution from the descendents of whoever stole my things? Do
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Maybe an English degree would be a good complimentary one? Muphry's Law strikes again: compl-e-mentary vs. compl-i-mentary.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
It's only flawed for beginners. With 10 years or more of experience, it's possible to design successfully based on that experience.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
the idea of Jesus had to come from somewhere What present-day meme will reach a similar level of distribution and hazy origins? Will we see future generations speculating about the true nature of Harry Potter, or the Jedi, or Chuck Norri
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Words follow that I hope might help you or someone else; but might not. I know sometimes the last thing one wants is "yet more advice." These are just things that work for me. I'm vegetarian and I eat a pretty healthy diet
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by nitrogen 4y ago
I'm curious what was wrong with the in-floor heating. Modern in-floor heating is really nice, though you have to account for thermal lag.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
"Pretty successful" is a poor proxy for "satisfies condition X." Kindle is known to be bad for anything where the spatial layout matters.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
They should, in a kids' math textbook.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Many of us have lost a sense of community and place we once had. I don't know what about our culture has done this, but it's bad. The marketing, political, religious, and cultural industries that divide and conquer us into ever
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Such subversively worded math problems should be avoided, no matter who the named parties are. "Jimmy, Jack, and John go to the store..." would be just as effective of a setup for a story problem without sneaking in moral displays
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by nitrogen 4y ago
I can see Who Let The Dogs Out and The Macarena making periodic comebacks, getting future reboots/covers/remixes, etc.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
A lot of posters here aren't interested in discussing the actual data. They're personally offended, and responding off of that. The perfect summary of much of modern political discourse.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
The number of tents, needles, etc. found on sidewalks and in parks/open areas.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Consider this scenario: 1. The US drops all agricultural subsidies and tariffs. 2. The US begins importing most of its food from elsewhere. 3. "Elsewhere" goes to war with a US ally and stops selling food to the US. 4. The US then
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by nitrogen 4y ago
I’ve always felt a little awkward when using the word but couldn’t articulate why. It's worth considering the possibility that the "why" is due to insidious bullying, a miasmatic reframing of language in the false name of u
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Modern Family became unwatchable when they doubled down on the incredibly long awkward pause reaction shot sequences.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
From 2014. The MERGE discussion is from 2022.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
I spent my first few years of life living in a city near a downtown. My friends were a mix of colors, nth-generation residents, immigrants, and refugees. Race had nothing to do with why my parents left. It had everything to do with the s
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Do the new CDs have the same watermarks?
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by nitrogen 4y ago
But fundamentally there is little common ground This is the lie we are all told to preserve the walls between "us" and "them," to divide and conquer our society. We are told to focus on the superficial differences bet
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by nitrogen 4y ago
we have far similar values with each other than with atheists. I would describe the values of the altruistic modern atheism of people I know, which has a lot in common with Christianity and Judaism at the big picture level, as "be go
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Even among people who seem financially stable, I've been surprised how many of my peers spend money as soon as they see it and have never had more than $X000 at the same time ever. The lesson of delayed gratification is actually a pre
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by nitrogen 4y ago
If one was really being mindful There's a sort of No True Scotsman fallacy combined with confirmation bias that comes into play with other spiritual practices with which I am experienced. For example, "If your prayers aren&#x27
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by nitrogen 4y ago
It's kind of like learning a subject from the final exam. If you can pick up on the patterns of an unfamiliar language and/or codebase and make your code look like it fits in, you're probably good at both reading and writing
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by nitrogen 4y ago
You have to be affiliated with an institution to submit to arxiv.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Environmentalism doesn't have to equal asceticism.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Even the absence of speech has also been described in those same terms. This category of rhetorical double bind is counterproductive to progress.

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