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by prescriptivist 5y ago
The irony of this point is if you ever watch a livestream from Hotz, he is, at an amazing level, literally taping together frameworks and systems to graduate to a point where he can begin to express solutions to a real problem. It's on
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I love George, but he's a bit of a reactionary to a fault and this anecdote is a perfect example. A person with deep knowledge and thoughtfulness will make almost the exact same point with much more nuance, aka Jim Keller: https:&#x2F
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Which isn't to say lexical scope isn't important in a ruby program -- it's paramount, especially for resolving constants -- it's just that after a while it's not that big of a deal that there is some ambiguity about
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Those are fair points, but I just kind of hold the entire program space in my head. I work on a pretty large and complicated Rails app that does real world things (handle money, deal with people and companies, etc) and it's daunting at
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
Not sure what's wrong with OPs account. Care to give examples? It roughly aligns with my experience during that time.
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Agreed. Twitter is the Facebook for the chattering classes. The reasons it escapes the kind of pitched battles waged by the media against Facebook is beyond me. Maybe it's because the toxicity bred by Twitter is organically driven by u
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I did this too and use facebook for the marketplace and half a dozen pretty active niche groups that don't have corresponding communities outside of facebook. I agree that it was tedious but since doing that I can't muster much ir
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I don't think I have it backwards, but I may be wrong. My interpretation is that there is there is subscription cooked into how they understand the pricing and return (profit) of their product. Based off this document this is part of t
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by prescriptivist 5y ago
Scrolling through this I see a fair amount of references to subscription products as a long term growth strategy. HN sentiment seems pretty positive about Rivian so I'm curious what folks here feel about that aspect of their business?
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Many of these species were considered done for by the time they were listed. The tools we have to rehabilitate our ecology from the brink of near total destruction really only came online in the late 60s through the 70s and it's taken
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Sounds like the limit is discretionary. From the NYT: "Scientists do not declare extinctions lightly. It often takes decades of fruitless searching. About half of the species in this group were already considered extinct by the Interna
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Just spitballing but maybe at that altitude humans tipped some sort of scale where they were more efficient predators of whatever was up there but below that altitude the larger pleistocene megafauna of the time represented a higher predati
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I didn't mean it in a "think about the children" sense, I was more responding to OP. It's hard for me to imagine adults spending their time watching these stupid clips constantly but you are right, it's not just lim
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I've never used Tik-Tok but what weirds me out is it seems like there are a ton of people in their early middle to late middle ages desperately making meme videos to try to capture the attention of all these children. It's grotesq
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In New England it is common to have a 2nd lake or country "home" called a "camp". Camps can be anywhere from a tar paper shack without electricity or running water and only an outhouse to a full on hunting lodge with sat
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Jesus that was way better than I thought it was going to be.
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Years ago I had an exchange with him on twitter where he argued that some pre-made taco sauce kit (possibly from Frontera?) made a kind of taco (possibly al-pastor or something like that) that was superior and more authentic tasting than an