zachrose

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by zachrose 2y ago
Does `it` conflict with Rspec's `it`? Surely they've thought of this, but to my eye it looks like it would get confusing.
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by zachrose 2y ago
Yes, that’s exactly the connection that American Nations makes and the OP ignores
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by zachrose 2y ago
My read of Albion’s Seed and American Nations is that they’re more about how a regional culture was germinated and founded, under the idea that the culture (including legal and economic systems) is even more durable than a specific group. S
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by zachrose 2y ago
Applying Albion’s Seed to California misses out on Spanish missionary culture and the shipping merchants who came from New York City, which does not have the same puritan roots as New England. American Nations is a more recent book that des
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by zachrose 2y ago
Reading that the GBC standard specifies 1 ball per second, it’s fun to imagine a module that puts 1,000 balls in slow moving storage, taking 15 minutes to warm up and cool down
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by zachrose 2y ago
I’ve worked on several TS projects that don’t type check but still “compile” (emit non-TS JavaScript). To me that’s the difference between a linter and a compiler, and I wish those projects had stopped compiling when they could no longer ty
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by zachrose 2y ago
Perhaps it's the versioning? Like in the way that libraries for Elm 0.18 are often (mostly? always?) incompatible with 0.19. (N.B. 0.19 has been the latest version for almost six years.)
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by zachrose 2y ago
Maybe the idea is to order your vocabulary into some kind of “semantic rainbow”? Like a one-dimensional embedding?
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by zachrose 2y ago
I think it has to do with what you’re considering as artwork! There’s a traditional distinction between “fine arts” and “applied arts.” Fine art, like painting, is almost definitionally not supposed to be touched. Applied arts include fiber
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by zachrose 3y ago
> "How to program" isn't something the academy understands, so they generally can't teach it This was my (limited) experience with (introductory) formal CS. Which is sort of amazing to me as art schools seem in broad
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by zachrose 3y ago
I've been happily hacking on my Ikea Bekant for three years. I replaced the top, replaced the buttons with a double throw rocker switch (1), built a Mac Mini/laptop shelf on the back half, a KVM switch on a little shelf in the fro
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by zachrose 4y ago
Not sure, but the Dakar Rally hasn’t involved Dakar, Senegal since 2007. Most recently it takes place within Saudi Arabia.
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by zachrose 4y ago
Where does the water go after being used for cooling?
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by zachrose 4y ago
Sometimes they work together! I submitted an email receipt and it kept getting rejected because Concur only shows the first page of a multi-page PDF unless you go through some very non-obvious navigation to see the whole thing.
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by zachrose 4y ago
The audiobooks are also good.
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by zachrose 4y ago
Stop using them so much?
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by zachrose 4y ago
William F. Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyZAul60ok Mr. Burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othBTFk_W1Y
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by zachrose 4y ago
Imagine wanting to learn Postgres but not knowing how to use a package manager, for example
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by zachrose 4y ago
I guess what I’m wondering though is: what is being negotiated over what looks to me like 8 connectors? Why can’t they just be simple conductors?
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Ask HN: Why does this 90-degree USB adapter have a chip in it?
3 points by zachrose 4y ago|2 comments
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by zachrose 4y ago
About the same amount of land. In North America alone, 30,000 square kilometers for all oil and gas[0]. For a rough approximation, the US produced 14% of oil in the world in 2021[1] and this guy on Quora[2] says that 12% of the world's
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by zachrose 4y ago
A list and an index creates the possibility that the index is out of bounds, and then your code probably has to check for that scenario and figure out how to handle it. With a zipper such a scenario isn’t possible.
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by zachrose 5y ago
There are two options for doing things in JavaScript: 1) do it now, or 2) start it now and get back to me when you're done. JavaScript makes (1) the default. For any kind of object access (dog.legs[1].paw), assignment (const q = 5), ma
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by zachrose 5y ago
You’re really on to something here about systems thinking and the relative power of tools. I feel similarly about big IDEs and stateful, long-running test runners.
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by zachrose 5y ago
Unbelievable. It’s only five in the morning and I’m right where I work. And while the other poor sods struggle in on the tube, I’m going to get some milk out of a cow! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE
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by zachrose 5y ago
How about a meta-analysis of several studies? Respiratory function in patients post-infection by COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis DOI: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2020.10.013
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by zachrose 5y ago
Have I got this right? 8 K (8°C) is terrifying, but 1,200 ppm is almost 3x where we are now.
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by zachrose 5y ago
I’d like to see a vegan alternative to the pets/cattle meme.
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by zachrose 5y ago
Because not everything is a reliable business? Sometimes it’s nice to make something for fun or practical. I teach front end web development to a total beginner who is only just becoming aware that programming a web app with persistent stat
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by zachrose 5y ago
One has to wonder if they could then find enough people to staff such an institution.

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