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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Sorry, to clarify I mean there was probably little actual reason to migrate to the east coast of North America at that time.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Off topic from the post but something I find fascinating. I live in Maine and recently became aware of the Vail Site in northwest Maine, which purports to be around 13000 years old [1]. The beringian migration predates that by a few thousan
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Yep that makes sense. I could be an outlier on exclusive left shift key usage.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
I guess I assume that left key dominance is more common because that's where some modern laptop keyboards elect to retain the control key and add the fn key.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Looking at the keyboard layout makes me wonder. How many devs here actually use the right shift key and/or the right modifier keys? I've been programming for 20 years (15 or so using emacs) and I exclusively use the left shift and
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
> Anything delivered by Costco doesn't come in plastic bags, but reused boxes. Order from Costco, then, as they seem to have fixed it already. Personally I think people should avoid grocery delivery unless they really need it. In an
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Huh. I haven't been logged in on any of my devices and I never get pestered. Thanks for the update.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
OT but one thing I've noticed is that Twitter has scaled back its aggressive modal/login prompt when viewing the site without being logged in. This seems to have occurred recently. It seems like it would have nothing to do with th
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
I have a Ford and actually prefer the build-in SYNC maps. The SYNC maps will do interesting things like go into split screen at various times and visualize the lane I'm supposed to be in. It also will show the speed limit on roads I am
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
I have multiple friends who received second draw PPP loans for their businesses in summer 2021 under the current administration. They received a significant percentage of their 2019 revenue in a full distribution to spend on payroll and som
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Or horizontal autoscaling based on demand.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite HN comments of all time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16424423
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Plenty of people live in in multi-story walk-up units in small and medium sized New England cities that have mediocre (if any) public transit that becomes nonexistent if you have to commute for work.
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
Anecdotal, but I've returned more purchases in the last two years than I did in the last 20 years combined. Part of that though is I have bought way more stuff yearly than I did before. This isn't wise in precarious times, of cour
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by prescriptivist 4y ago
> That's all you really have to engage with here; you don't have to let cortisol trick you into believing this is an amassing of the forces of "cancel culture isn't real" that you must mobilize against. At least
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
Agreed. Also a Rubyist that has worked on some fairly large Python codebases and aside from your points (builtins vs object dispatch) I've found certain forms of list comprehension and moreso, decorator abuse, to be some of the most di
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
The examples in this article don't really do anything other than interact with the outside world in total isolation from each other. How does one declare dependencies between scheduled fibers and communicate shared data?
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
He's already starting talks with Ukraine. He is realizing what a poor calculation this war was.
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
For the most intense emergency situations: If you take up wilderness camping (hiking, floating, snow travel based) you accrue the kinds of equipment that can carry you through most realistic emergency situations. But, more importantly, you
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
I agree, the return policy is a feature not a bug. However I have been surprised at the generous timeframe within which I'm allowed to return a book. Seems like there is a compromise to be had there.
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
No I didn't.
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
Do anyone (NewRelic or DataDog) actually do that? I have found New Relic focuses on large scale observability (distributed tracing) not actually understanding low level implementation specifics and building tuning profiles. NR doesn't
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
I don't move money, but if I did I would do it like we do for most objects in our system (like interacting with S3 objects for example), I'd represent that transaction (in the money sense) in Postgres with a state and the job woul
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
Our solution was to build middleware/interfaces that only push jobs after a transaction has committed. There is still room for some inconsistency -- a failure to enqueue a job doesn't rollback a committed transaction, for instance
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
It's a contrived example, as I say. The point is constructing intervals and doing the interval range checks requires importing those functions everywhere and constructing shape objects for them to use. Don't read the code literall
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
Rails and Ruby bake in a lot of really nice, ergonomic features for every day programming, not just larger architectural decisions. For instance I am working on a React Native app in my spare time and so much of Javascript seems tedious. Ex
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
The blitzkrieg hypothesis is hardly settled science. Don't know why you are so confident this is what happened.
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
> I grew up on Tex-Mex and I was dumbfounded at the sight of a wet burrito?? But you learn and grow :) Maybe for you. I, for one, will never accept rice in a burrito.
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
> why it is not enough for the author to trust they intuition when it comes to well-being? Good question. I found the section where the author experiences the mind-meld with an Osprey to be the only charming part of the piece. It's
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
There is a strangeness to this piece that I can't quite get a handle on. For one thing, it is a transcendentalist tribute, the contours of which are predictable: an intellectual living in Boston owns a vacation home in Maine. They go u

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