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They are also great against mosquitoes

We used to have tons of eucalyptus trees in my hometown in northern Mexico. Then an unusual winter arrived 10 years ago, temperatures dropped to -24 Celsius. All the eucalyptuses died and with them a big percentage of our vegetation and shade. I don’t know why we are so obsessed with foreign flora in our cities.

Yeah, let’s impose our benevolent superior ideas on the ignorant majority. I’m sure no one has tried that before and it has never lead any country into dictatorship.

In that photo the plane looks totally vertical. Is that common on crash accidents?

Windows 11 is driving me crazy. Sometimes clicking icons in the taskbar to bring something that is already open doesn’t work! Come on Microsoft! That’s the most basic and common functionality in Windows!! Don’t break it!!!

A few months ago the ISS passed through my city during sunset, while me and my family were hanging out outside. It was an amazing experience. I saw it first, it was reflecting the sun so it looked like a shooting star but it was too slow for a shooting star and too fast for a plane. It was too bright for it to be satellite? So I googled ISS position and it matched! We were able too see it for a while.

This guy from Uruguay is biking from Uruguay to Alaska. He’s in my city at the moment in northern Mexico.

https://www.instagram.com/tabarealonso/?hl=en

“ Another reason we don't like Russians is”

And that’s how wars are maintained. They vs us. Who is we?? How can you dislike millions of people just because they were born inside a border different than yours?

I care about testing and that’s why I hate to break my tests every time a refactor comes. If the behavior doesn’t change my tests shouldn’t break. Tests should meant to be there to give me confidence about the main functionality. They should tell me when my main functionality is broken or not after a change.

It’s not very useful to me if I get red tests just because the structure of my code changed. Those red tests don’t tell me if the functionality is the same or not. If my tests break every time even if the functionality is the same, then I start to ignore the warning, I just blindly make them pass. They become “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”.

> Depend on Concrete Classes - Tie things down to concrete classes - avoid interfaces wherever possible.

Well, yes, if those classes are implementation details why would you want otherwise?

Just to write “unit” tests with mocks all over the place that later will be broken after the first refactor?

Not only anime. As a kid American shows and movies were full on “ninjas” and “karate”. My favorite cartoon was TMNT and one my favorite movies was Karate kid.

Same with other subjects, I used to hate my history class in elementary school. It was a chore, as just say, to have to remember dates for things I didn’t really care about. Later in life, I became a history lover after finding really interesting subjects.

I’m from Chihuahua, I always explain the dog comes after the state, not the other way around XD

I had the same issue a few weeks back. My solution was a variation of a SO answer. It was frustrating to not find an official answer.

Here in Mexico we had a similar scam that ran for months, if not years. There was this site (or sites) pretending to be an official government’s passports website. It was the first link in the search result for “pasaporte mexicano”. I personally know people who fell for it, the page would ask for bank deposits to get your Mexican passport.

The page looked legit, it even had https and the url name looked fine, the only thing giving it away was that it missed the official .gob.mx domain at the end, but regular people don’t Pay attention to that. It was the first result link! And they didn’t remove it for months, amazing.

Edit: I thought that scam was removed already, but no! It’s still there, the first three links (the only visible ones on mobile) are scam websites.

https://ibb.co/PMHCQ31

He is OP

I’ve been using HN search a lot more lately. In the past I just used it to find old posts. But now I use it to research topics, the same way I used to use Google.

Complex times to be a Catholic. It’s sad to see our church divided with so many shades of gray, even in the traditional side. God bless you and Merry Christmas

Feliz navidad!

Feliz navidad al mundo hispano!

There is, some countries are reaching dangerous low fertility rates. But, then again, a lot of people in reproductive ages would consciously try to avoid getting pregnant in the middle of a pandemic. I guess we’ll only really know decades later.

I once met someone from the North of England. I went to a college in the US as an exchange student, the first international student I met was this girl from a northern town in England. We started chatting, but I couldn’t understand a thing. I felt terrible! I didn’t understand a thing of English! How I was supposed to take college classes in English if I couldn’t understand a simple conversation!

Then other students came from other countries and then I figured I just didn’t understand that particular accent.

She pronounced where as “wa” or something like that I was really confused.

I had a really similar experience during college. I was trying to display a binary tree in the command line. I was not able to solve it while awake. I went to bed with that problem in my mind. Then I dreamt the solution. I woke up and the dream made sense. I couldn’t believe it so I tried in the code and it worked! That was a surreal experience.

You made me remember that one time I tried to pronounce the word “facade” during a call. I knew the word and the meaning, since I had read it before several times in different situations. But, I had never heard the pronunciation before and that was the first time I had to use it in conversation. Hopefully people understood by context. Coming from Spanish spelling has been a headache while learning English.

Touch feedback is important for a lot of us. Specially when I’m concentrated while debugging something, I don’t want to have to look at my keyboard. But I see value for other use cases, maybe having both the touchbar plus the F keys would have worked fine?

I’m not a beginner using React any more. But useEffect is not straightforward at all when compared to the old methods (disclaimer: I also have a OO background).

Another thing that is not straightforward at all is to know when it will re-render children components and when it will not. I had to go through several blog posts to begin to understand it.

Then all that extra complexity starts sucking more when you figure out that an old server-rendering framework would work just fine for the app you are developing, it didn’t have to be a SPA in the first place. But React was chosen just because it’s the cool modern framework.

Same here, for the first time in 8 years I’m considering to upgrade.

That explains why it works fine in my computer, where I haven’t logged in. Thanks for the tip.

Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?

Right, but have you ever worked in a place where no practices at all are being followed? Where there are hacks after hacks, giant classes with giant methods, no interfaces, static methods, bad names everywhere, you need to find a bug? good look, you want to write a test to avoid regression? Ok that would take you 5 times more time.

I agree, following a “best practice” without understanding the “bad practice” that it’s trying to prevent is silly. But just discarding best practices because no one understands the reasons behind is also silly.