zinckiwi

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by zinckiwi 2mo ago
That’s 02025 thinking.
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by zinckiwi 3mo ago
There is still the remote possibility of a fumble or tackling the ball away from the defence in those cases. In the underarm bowling incident it was made physically impossible to win. In baseball terms, he had to hit a home run with the bal
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by zinckiwi 1y ago
Grew up in HK. In typhoon season the bamboo scaffolding has a little give and flex that metal scaffolding doesn’t, and you’d be glad for that.
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by zinckiwi 1y ago
Ih-DEM-po-tent. Also: huh-MODGE-en-us. Like nails on a chalkboard to me when I hear ho-mo-GENE-ee-us.
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by zinckiwi 1y ago
I go with tupple. There is precedent (see: tuppence).
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by zinckiwi 1y ago
Or irritate _everyone_ and pronounce it with a soft J. Zhif.
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by zinckiwi 2y ago
Comparing against the intel era is a bit apples (excuse me) to oranges. Technical generation gaps aside, Apple products hold value well.
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by zinckiwi 2y ago
Recommend Roald Dahl's "Boy" for a fascinating glimpse.
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by zinckiwi 2y ago
I have. I was a 0-2 beer/ day drinker, usually when cooking dinner, so hardly problematic. Lots of “empty calories” and a growing tide of evidence though. I reasoned: if it’s easy to give it up, then it’s a no-brainer. If it’s _not_ ea
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by zinckiwi 2y ago
Price anchoring, I suspect. Apparently, people simply won't accept mobile games at "game prices" ($20-60) instead of "mobile prices" ($0-3). I am the opposite, refusing to engage with anything freemium, but I am als
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by zinckiwi 2y ago
A fee, I suspect, that exists solely to be waived.
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by zinckiwi 3y ago
I am not an expert so this is just my gut talking, but I suspect that the effect of emissions on the energy that the planet absorbs from the sun dwarfs the heat that our machines produce by some very large multiple.
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by zinckiwi 3y ago
We live 20 minutes' walk from our kids' two schools. They walk. The majority of our neighbours do not. I agree, bonkers.
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by zinckiwi 3y ago
I'm thinking: cross town errands, 40 or 50 miles round-trip, traffic, maybe it's winter and the usual range is cut by a third... plus general headroom to reduce anxiety. ~100 miles seems like a good target for the 99th percentile
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by zinckiwi 3y ago
This seems like the goldilocks zone to me. A day's urban driving comfortably, and fossil fuels for the very occasional long trip.
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by zinckiwi 3y ago
I never had a problem with the explicit lifecycle methods in class components, and the concept of a functional component effectively being the render method in isolation. To me there’s only one clear advantage to hooks and that’s sheer redu
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
American translation: graduating with anything other than a 4.0 or a 1.0 is wasted.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I don't know how they did it -- probably a highly sophisticated combination of machine learning and focus groups -- but YouTube will reliably dismiss the video controls brought up by a tap pricely 60ms before I reach the moment in the
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
There's probably a bit of the algorithm that is dutifully noting your long-time, consistent interest in n, and making sure to reward you for your dependability by canonising it ever-stronger in your profile.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
At least they have the precisely correct blue, though. https://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.htm...
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
Catch-22. You often can't legally search for a job as a tourist. Typically, like the US H1-B, a sponsoring company needs to "prove" that they tried and failed to source the employee onshore first, and therefore immigration is
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I’m not knowledgeable about Canadian work visas specifically, but many countries extend them only within the context of specific employment. In other words, he may need to take what he can get, in a rough economy, under immense stress (as s
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
As another commenter said, no choice. That's just how it works. Conversely, we're confused why banks in the US are willing to do a 30-year fix in the first place. That's an awfully long time into an unknown future to commit t
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
In my experience the concept of a 30-year fixed mortgage is uniquely (or close to it) American. Certainly in NZ anything beyond a two-year fix is rare.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
An Amazon?
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
You mean it’s not illegal. It’s absolutely cynical — “how can I win this game by stopping my opponent from playing?”
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
At least this is open play with ball in hand, and there is danger there. I fully admit I am not very familiar with American football, but the completely accepted "taking a knee" to run down as much as two minutes of the clock at t
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
Especially when global search is only ever a Cmd-Space away.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I have 4 kids whom I love dearly, and I don't _regret_ having them. But often I wish I could be in a sci-fi movie where I get to live two lives simultaneously; one with, one without. It's not as much the excitement of my alternate
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
Sure. But not using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software more .

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