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I agree with your take but interestingly it seems to be both an argument for, and against, calling it a spectrum. Humans are so good at adapting/conforming/masking, and we adjust o…

You just called yourself out- I don't think most people are aware of a "Clean Code" handbook. I had to google it. When most people think of "clean code", they are not thinking abou…

Maybe we should send in the marines every time Ohio State wins a football game https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/a-look-back-on-2021-ri...

Yep it's tough to be optimistic. I like to think about a micro-meteorite falling on my head. It's possible at any moment, and yet I always ask myself why I'm not worried about it. …

> movement in this country that defines itself largely by opposing what its perceived enemies support I think that some of the more devious politicians realized that a "partitionin…

There's probably just some ~Wordpress dev who picked from a selection of B-Roll. The CEO probably marginally understands bread and isn't a raisin french toast peanut butter freak.

I've spent probably 200 hours with MoonScript, was obsessed with it for a bit, and love it 90% of the time. The problem is that MoonScript's grammar is INCREDIBLY permissive. Commo…

I know a lady whose entire job was literally replaced by an Excel spreadsheet that I created in a few nights of intense VB programming. It wasn't my intention to "eliminate jobs". …

> The way they've worded this betrays the internalization of their suffering as a MS developer. While I feel less strongly about this Xbox/printing example, I remember Bill Gates s…

Every attempt at escaping mutability basically kills the language in the mainstream because so much of "real" programming is just bit-twiddling that gets too verbose when immutabil…

I use "The Boring Report" for this. It helped wean me off sensational websites, including hackernews, because I was able to get my "fix" without addictive toxicity. Some of the sum…

I think it also reinforces the basic fake news premise that experts are propagandists.

Not that the authors were necessarily doing this, but I think that simply attempting to associate misinformation vulnerability with mental illness really misses the whole point. Fa…

This reminds me of discussions about superfluous information in human language sentences. Consider the phrase "that man is bad" versus "that man bad". Somewhat crappy example, but …

Honestly this whole thread is very pedantic. Popularity doesn't define a feature, and the writer probably just plucked the word "feature" from a few not-great options. Either way, …

In flight school lore, during a training exercise, a plane righted itself from "uncontrollable flat spin" after ejection. Basically, pilot input can fight against the natural stabi…

I got sucked into a clickbait recipe video for "2 ingredient cake". The video was just over 10 minutes long, which I think puts it in a different monetization category on youtube. …

> lots of niches where LLMs are useful Isn't this a bit of an oxymoron? I feel like every comment on HN of mine now lately is just defending ChatGPT, but I don't think that's a rea…

There are plenty of situations where averaging two safe-but-opposite inputs would cause a crash. For instance, if you're holding hands/handcuffed with someone and walking toward a …

I see a lot of Navy pilots say "fingers and toes" to ground themselves, prevent white-knuckling, and as a "reality check". I started doing it in moments in life where I recognize t…

It's a significant money investment to renovate a space for co-working. Also, if you move spaces, you will lose some customers to attrition. There's a lot of overhead... it's not l…

I just pressed the "autocorrect" button on my phone over and over. Here are the results: > What’s your name is my sister is a teacher and I have to be in a school so I’m gonna go o…

We get it, it's bad at math, the same way a truck is not great for watersports. Definitely worth being aware of but hopefully has stopped being a source of outrage.

I'm not religious but I find the commercial and unnatural connotations of the electronic device to be a barrier - meditation often focuses on primitive physical sensations, whereas…

I can tell you about some failed experiments I did at age 13 with my buddies. We would go out to the concrete ditch behind the neighborhood and fill up various containers with gaso…