npsimons

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by npsimons 1y ago
> Also, serious off-topic question to the motorcycle enthusiasts here: how do you cope with the fact that your weekend leisure ride is often a massive noise disturbance for hundreds of people and animals? AFAICT, the noise is the point.
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by npsimons 2y ago
Holy crap! It's the "Loving Common Lisp" author! Haven't had a chance to finish it yet, but it's awesome and I really appreciate the updates!
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by npsimons 2y ago
> a cruise, but a cruise with ~30 other people, not ~6000. This is the sort of thing that tempts me - an enchanting vision, like something out of "Death on the Nile", only minus the death. Just a small floating hotel that tak
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by npsimons 2y ago
Sounds like a very expensive way to do nothing. I can do nothing at home virtually for free.
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by npsimons 2y ago
> An embedded Lisp that supports a true REPL would be a god-send. I might be misunderstanding your requirements; "embedded" can mean so many things these days. But what do you think of ECL ( https://ecl.common-lisp.de
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by npsimons 2y ago
> I don't want half finished changes forever committed to history. This is exactly why I hew to squash+rebase. As I like to put it "I don't care about every little sneeze a developer had." Git has spoiled me with this
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by npsimons 2y ago
> Most definitely sharp edges, and your bevels, matter when you are really pushing it, especially if you are racing, and most especially if you are on extremely hard or even water-injected snow. I have to ask, as someone into alpine tour
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by npsimons 2y ago
> So what people do is instead of carving perfectly, they deliberately slip to create some friction and slow themselves down. As an amateur alpine tourist who is deathly afraid of that feeling of "loss of control" from incredib
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by npsimons 2y ago
> I think interesting take on the same idea I saw lately was "Every Dead Body on Mt. Everest Was Once a Highly Motivated Person". It seems not that new but still. I mean, everyone dies. Not that I'm elevating Mt. Everest c
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by npsimons 2y ago
Forget the up-arrow, C-r is a life-saver for us Emacsers who have to go to CLI for whatever reason.
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by npsimons 2y ago
It's not short, but I was introduced to the concept in a video series on FLOSS Linux audio tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPPPeq82hw&list=PLf_MTToSAx... Specifically, you can play with it yourself with a t
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by npsimons 2y ago
Honestly, for public facing read-only websites, it's perfectly fine to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. There's just too many cases where you aren't going to get everyone to put " https:// " on the front of URIs
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by npsimons 2y ago
> Show me a program that has no bugs and I'll show you a program that does nothing at all! "Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that ev
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by npsimons 2y ago
> I find some people just give feedback poorly and equate that to others not taking feedback. Too true! I find it helps if I think of it as an engineering problem: "what can I say that will make these people not commit the same erro
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by npsimons 2y ago
> you just don't see how Always, always assume this is the case - it might frustrate you to no end, but until you have conclusive evidence something is "wrong", it's best to ignore it and toodle along with whatever
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by npsimons 2y ago
> "I'll think about it" Unless you're being totally earnest, this one reads like "I'll take it under advisement"[0] [0] - https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ed82da6b-db48-49aa-a105-f190e6
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by npsimons 2y ago
To play Devil's advocate, I'd like to point out that many of these egotistical assholes are "trying" to "help" - by "trying" I mean their communication skills are poor, and by "help" I mean
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by npsimons 2y ago
This is awesome! While I'm nowhere near being able to leverage this right now, I am currently going through the painful process of "databasing" raw documents into SQL, and I can tell you that perhaps the hardest part is get
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by npsimons 2y ago
> it sounds like you're describing the possibility of calculating his expected weight gain based on how much he ate and how much he exercised, and I don't think that's possible. This is a joke right? This is exactly how
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by npsimons 2y ago
> Remarkable the hand waving people go through to excuse dishonesty because they want to believe it so badly. What I find remarkable is how badly people want to ignore just how bad fast food is for you. They'll use anything to d
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by npsimons 2y ago
> It read like a ban to me. Then you need to increase your reading comprehension. I nowhere said or implied "ban". Or you need to examine your biases; are you perchance a libertarian? Or really right-leaning in any way. If you&
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by npsimons 2y ago
> I haven't tried those, but surely it is easier to overeat on fries and hamburgers compared to a salad? This reads like someone who might not have been in America much. Friend, let me introduce you to ranch "dressing": h
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by npsimons 2y ago
> But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it. That's one of the few things I still remember from it, and the takeaway I had was
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by npsimons 2y ago
The simple fact is that no amount of alcohol is good for you. Same goes for smoking anything , marijuana included. Also, processed meats are definitely carcinogens. Yeah, cancer can "just happen" to anyone, but there are undeniab
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by npsimons 3y ago
> i guess that means you can't write security bugs in lisp, right? I know this is sarcasm, but there's a reason Greenspun's tenth rule holds true.
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by npsimons 3y ago
> From testbench to fitting 10k screens across 700 stores, without intermediate testrun in a few stores?!? People often forget that when "moving fast and breaking things", some parts are more frangible than others.
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by npsimons 3y ago
> Take the parts that work for your team and scrap the ones that don't. Precisely. Any time someone utters the descriptor "best practice", at best, you do yourself a favor by examining it with a critical eye and judge whet
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by npsimons 3y ago
> There should be a Tell HN that is just an 800-comment-long thread full of these stories because I love them. As gratifying as they are, they get repetitive. Once you've heard one, you've heard them all. I'd much rather h
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by npsimons 3y ago
> but I would say the decline has strictly been a failure of software. I would argue it's a failure of policy , and more specifically certain people enforcing a policy top-down on an industry they have little, if any, competence i
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by npsimons 3y ago
> There's a lot of water in the bilge, and I'd really love it if I saw someone holding a bucket. Here's the depressing reality: there are a lot of people in the bilge with buckets, quietly bailing like mad so they don&#x

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