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Seems like this was intended for adjacent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591149

Realizing here that my typing skills are extremely limited by muscle-memory to things that I actually am likely to type. It certainly makes a game like this more difficult, but I w…

One could ask: what's the UX purpose of the "active anchor" indicator on the side navigation? One answer I can think of: if a reader is in the middle of a long section, and the hea…

Steve Wozniak famously would get a bunch of $2 uncut sheets, and have them perforated and bound into a tear-off book. Then, he would dramatically produce the book and tear out a sh…

I'm going to provide some examples of what I'm criticizing here – it will likely double my downvotes, but I want to be specific as long as I'm dissenting. This is just honest and w…

I guess this is subjective. But to me, there's a distracting amount of purple prose. Prose has a function, which is to tap into metaphor in order to help words describe a sensory e…

I have to push back here a little bit. It really depends. I mainly use Scala, and I think the majority of Scala code would be far less readable if forced to 80 columns, than if it …

FWIW, while I'm not sure I agree that JVM is the right solution for every problem, I agree with much of the author's sentiment from that time, which is: programs are written much l…

I found "Java for Everything" really interesting, so thanks for posting it. It also seems it's been featured on HN many times[1], and the progression of comments (from 10 years ago…

I think the answer is pretty clearly "no, but" (or "yes, if"). Of course it depends on what you're doing – if you're writing shell scripts, it might make sense to keep them at 80 c…

What I love the most about this, is that even though the author only intended (in the near-term, anyway) to use this once, they still A) took care to use some degree of engineering…

An interesting article, but I have to point out a more (in my opinion) entertaining take. As the pandemic dragged on and began to seem interminable, Netflix released a somewhat und…

A really interesting read. From the discontinuation notice[1] that the article links to: > Perhaps it comes down to this: indirectly, our own personal benefit for writing PlantStud…

Of course, saying "fat people should simply eat less" is by no means novel. It's the same as "have you tried _not_ being addicted to [drug]?" or "Why doesn't he just [obvious but i…

An interesting thought, but I think it falls apart a bit when it meets reality. Most people want to retire eventually, and can't really predict what the cost of living is going to …

I grew up a couple streets over, and spent a lot of time on Cowper because a good friend lived there. Always called it Cow-per (like the livestock). So it's interesting to know I'v…

Thanks! That thread leads to LEAP (Learning Early About Peanut allergy) which is a study that seems to have done a pretty good job of demonstrating that peanut exposure is in fact …

I was not hinting at any conspiracy, and my comment wasn't directed toward Israel in particular (knowing nothing about the study that the top-level comment alluded to). I was facet…

No, I didn't mean to imply anything like that. I guess I was just trying to say "surprising data needs detail." I should have just said that, instead of making light of how dangero…

Strictly speaking, if all babies eat peanuts, you'll get to "nearly non-existent" peanut allergy one way or another. But you need better data than that to conclude that the change …

I had parvovirus B19 a few years ago as well (mid to late 2019). I still have some nerve issues from it (I gave up on treating that; it presents like rheumatoid arthritis but the b…

So, what does it mean for consciousness to be continuous? Is some brain activity enough, even if you're completely unconscious (i.e. anesthesia)? For that matter, if it wasn't cont…

It's an interesting notion that the "my-ness" of my consciousness requires continuity – it must be continuous and uninterrupted. Here's a fun thought experiment – imagine slowly, i…

Changing classifications aren't going to affect the bet, because both of these gents know what they're betting on. If I could make a $10,000 bet with John Carmack, I'd go the way A…

Absolutely agree on Breath of the Wild. I think every successful console has The Game that really differentiates it (speaking as someone who never had a console growing up, just Si…