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Kudos on the IDE, kudos on helping your girlfriend, but it could have done without the "I'll solve all the problems with technology and then she'll see me as the hero I am" schtick…

I've had a thing ever since grad school (I lived in a 400 sq. ft. apartment, so it was necessity then) that if I buy a thing, I have to donate something else -- particularly for cl…

For whatever reason, > "I've been able to track down some well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempts at fixing things that then blew up and became something much bigger. The folks…

There are two things I don't like here: - the author seems to call out specific individuals, by name, to their team leads, based on where they were ssh'd in, instead of bringing up…

With you 100%. Sure, meeting people at work happens— in America people spend 8-12 hours a day there. But best to not act on anything until one or both parties don’t work at the sam…

If you want to go the low-commitment route, a lot of makerspaces have plenty of equipment for building / making activities and offer classes in subjects as diverse as TIG welding a…

Actually, it's a relatively popular harvesting practice for non-organic crops -- kill them all at the same time so they're all ready to harvest. Differs by region, but afaik in the…

You're correct, nobody is claiming that. I simply pointed out that "free speech" and saying whatever the hell you want are two different things. One is protected by law. One is not…

So the thing about free speech is https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment the first amendment means the government shouldn't be able to suppress what you say. That…

I do! Not because I feel like I know anything, but because logically I know there's quite some distance between an engineer and someone wanting to be an engineer. I see it every ti…

I found this (mental health issues of colonization) to be one of the most interesting parts of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. It drags on a bit but plenty of folks go batshit…

Research papers cite scientific sources, sorry. Out of curiosity I've read the document being discussed here and clicked a random sample of the links and none of them I clicked led…

I think the answer is to put the money you'd spend eating fish toward solutions for this so that fish is safer to eat again, until that's true.

This. Not interested in pen testing at all, just want to build things that don't suck from a security perspective. Happy to break things along the way to gain perspective, and I li…

Interestingly I had the opposite but complementary conclusion: if we end up forming many long term relationships through cooperation and maintain them we all are better off.

I had no idea Hass avocados were mainly descendants of one tree!

Possibly, but where I live we get the same sort of tourists from China. I'd love to see some of the more interesting parts of Chinese history in person, but I'm not entirely sure I…

Thanks!

How can we stop it and replace it with saner, greener tech (or replace the use of fossil fuels altogether)? That's the better question once we know how it got here.

> Also, typed function parameters are painful. Declaring a parameter as a `f: () -> int` instead of `f` requires that you think about what the signature needs to be. What if you do…

Even if it means dying a year earlier I'm going to eat salted butter and drink red wine and enjoy it. Better to enjoy less than to have more you don't enjoy?

Javascript frameworks. Try timing the loading of a text-only or text/html/css site, then your favourite site built with React or Angular.