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Thanks for the heads-up. Not aware of any law like that from where I live, but I should file a ticket to remove the veteran status just in case.

Some funny anecdote, my fullname is relatively unique, two or three people have it AFAIK. On my upwork profile, they put the military veteran status because a completely unrelated …

> Category Theory is easy because it starts from nothing, literally. You can learn it at any age and with no almost no prior education. Same with various formal logics. I disagree,…

"Everyone has a meal plan until they get a fruit punch in the face." -Tyson?

This is useful for detecting file types of unknown blobs with custom file extension, when the file command just returns data. Though it doesn't correctly identify lua code for some…

Thirded. Nice to see fellow self-unemployed folks here, makes me feel a lot less lonely and useless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

it means puppy in filipino

Same experience as others, I see this job post every time, I applied at least two times with zero response.

Just talk to people with UDP, that way you don't have to do handshake, just speak without waiting for your turn. When they say "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that, can you repeat?"…

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html int function(void) { static int i, state = 0; switch (state) { case 0: /* start of function */ for (i = 0; i Huh, I did…

I haven't read the whole paper, but isn't one reason MMA wins because it has less restrictions on what moves you can do? Other martial arts have strict rules on what kind of moves …

> We’re now having to define what an expert in the field is now What do you propose, just delegate an authority who defines an expert and blindly accept what they say? That we shou…

There's no bayesian reasoning here, just someone assuming something to be proved to be already true. Statements don't become self-evidently true just because someone assigned proba…

People invoke Occam's razor too often that it has become pretty much a thought-terminating meme. Occam's razor only gets you the simple, convenient explanation, it says nothing abo…

It's called circular reasoning. Conclusion cites the premises, which in turn the premises cite the conclusion. Evidence (or lack of) is used to prove it self. When you start with a…

> I was just advocating against abstractions in general No, you are advocating against particular kind of abstractions, and dismissively pretend that most abstractions are bad. Oth…

Oh right, why did I say comma.

The code at https://jodavaho.io/posts/bash-journalling.html doesn't work for me. It looks like it is passing vim the -d args, which doesn't seem right since -d opens a diff view. I…

looks like it's in the experimental branch https://github.com/uidotdev/usehooks/blob/experimental/index...

> I've no clue what you just said :) This. Before you wax all philosophical, try to understand first what you are arguing for and against. Make sure to read what you wrote at least…

Yeah, what's wrong with those people. Don't they know javascript is terrible and not a real programming language, and people should do some deep soul searching before deciding to u…

...then you remember that most applications are also just one big fragile polished big ball of mud.

I'm still setting up the tiny tent for the "delusional parrot" camp, right next to the "it's gonna get better for real and change the world" camp, which seems to have a quite an en…

Is that even a game? It's just basic mapping, there's no logic or reasoning in that.