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droidist2··on Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT
Not necessarily. Trying to make code over-DRY is also an anti-pattern.
droidist2··on Delaware will become the 22nd state to legalize recreational marijuana
Some states are actually banning most e-cigarette products while legalizing marijuana, it's bizarre.
droidist2··on TinyVG – an alternative binary encoded vector graphics format
Facebook/Meta will create a 15th standard; people will decry it for not following one of the previous 14 standards, but everyone will adopt it. Then Google will re-release one of their 14 but change everything to look more like Meta's.
droidist2··on No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
As someone who likes to vape, welcome to the party pal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OpIbiFmY60

droidist2··on NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
He doesn't babble that much in this one, it's just a brief interview.
droidist2··on Moderation is different from censorship
Sounds like the direction Google's search results have been heading.
droidist2··on Moderation is different from censorship
> This group has a problem with the content existing at all.

Yes, they're zealots. It's similar to how religious zealots refused to simply "change the channel" when they found something objectionable.

droidist2··on Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students
So basically the SATs are too easy. They could put more advanced math on the test.
droidist2··on U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
One confounding factor is that some words have multiple meanings or connotations. A "bank" doesn't have to be a financial bank. Or sometimes names can be chained together, like maybe "sperm bank" is based on "food bank" or "seed bank".
droidist2··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
Inkscape has actually gotten really good since version 1.2 this year.
droidist2··on 'We don’t have enough' lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says
The Sweden statistic is misleading because their population is concentrated in the south, similar to Canada and other nations with large areas of extreme cold. A better measure would be median density or population-weighted density.
droidist2··on The Scourge of Rent Control
That's my biggest problem with socialism in general, it replaces "This person is willing to pay me more" with "I just like this person better" or "This person has the right connections." Of course there are situations when "This person is willing to pay me more" isn't fair, but those other things are even more unfair.
droidist2··on Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
I should have been clearer and said "software to aid in running a payment processor" but I used "payment processor" as a shorthand. Just as "open-source Amazon" is shorthand for "software to aid in running an entity like Amazon."
droidist2··on Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon
So we should pivot to building an open source payment processor for porn?
droidist2··on Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]
Maybe American Factory (2019) or Gung Ho (1986). The latter isn't a documentary though.
droidist2··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
Also if you revoke a student's campus Gmail, that might prevent them from completing their coursework and getting any correspondence from the school.
droidist2··on Oracle started as a CIA project (2014)
And their own Hawaiian island (well, 98% of a Hawaiian island).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai

droidist2··on For many neurodiverse people, 'The Sims' has been a lifelong comfort
Under that definition though wouldn't the original Legend of Zelda games be open world?
droidist2··on Why React Re-Renders
What aspects of Svelte would have made it more suitable?
droidist2··on Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
> For one I have a sort of budget for how much javascript I will tolerate. Some is fine, like your standard wordpress config probably will fly, but not much more.

What about sites built with React, etc? Like would you be filtering out cool things like Ableton's "Learning Synths"[1] or do you mostly mean third party scripts?

[1] https://learningsynths.ableton.com

droidist2··on Little book about OS development (2015) [pdf]
That explains a lot! I've noticed a lot of times posts seemed older than their date says.
droidist2··on Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot
That makes it even higher since infant mortality drags down the averages.
droidist2··on Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
So pubs weren't insanely expensive back then?
droidist2··on How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
The insurance company probably has a hotline you can call to report medical billing fraud.
droidist2··on Abolish Zoning
>It isn't necessarily the density itself driving the demand; it's often the reasonableness of, e.g., being able to send a child off to the post office or supermarket to run an errand. Therein lies the rub: Density tends to be a sufficient condition for enabling that.

Which is exactly what I said:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31891305

Saying "Well if people love their density so much, why don't rich people cram themselves in the tightest possible density" is a strawman.

droidist2··on Abolish Zoning
It's not the density directly though that people desire, it's what the density makes possible. Having a large home close to this hub of activity is what many consider the best of both worlds, and you have to be very rich to have that combination.
droidist2··on Abolish Zoning
The fact that the few dense cities in the US where you don't need to drive everywhere are ridiculously expensive would indicate there's more demand for these kinds of places than we're supplying.
droidist2··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
Not the LockPickingLawyer (I hope he gets his hands on one soon) but here's a video review/demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNHFyc1oMwU
droidist2··on Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
Then again, adding a comment may prevent a bot from auto-closing the issue.
droidist2··on Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to average cost of mining
Aren't all their prices pretty correlated though? When Bitcoin falls like this, the altcoins do too.
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