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provemewrong··on Propofol-induced deep sedation reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation
I wouldn’t call MDMA downer.
provemewrong··on Scrolling your website past the iPhone X’s notch
Somewhat similar to this https://giphy.com/gifs/iphonex-26n79WqJAIUBjiaEE (intentionally stupid looking, coming from /r/ProgrammerHumor).
provemewrong··on Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Another fan of containers. I switched to Chromium/Safari a long time ago, but installed Nightly 57 the other day out of curiosity, and containers is definitely the best feature in it. Only thing I would love even more would be a private/incognito container (or basically private tabs alongside regular tabs without the need for opening a private new window).
provemewrong··on Sublime Text 3.0
IIRC there's a Sublime plugin (obviously) that supports copy pasting formatted code with syntax highlighting. I definitely remember using it at university. Printing to PDF to get syntax highlighting just sounds like an unnecessary step in between.
provemewrong··on Sublime Text 3.0
I don't live in the United States so my purchasing power from two hours of work is exponentially smaller, but I get your point. Truth is, I don't really use Sublime (or any other text editor) that often anymore, because I'm working with Java and using IntelliJ IDEA for that. If I used Sublime Text professionally, I (or my employer) would have bought the licence in a heartbeat.
provemewrong··on Sublime Text 3.0
> One note: Jon needs to show the new adaptive theme with matching title bar for MacOS on the main page.

Wow, that's nice! Since it's not the default, if you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't even know about it.

provemewrong··on Sublime Text 3.0
Noone's stopping you from buying more licences, if you really want to support the dev. I think it's overpriced as it is (as another commenter mentioned, considering the competition is FOSS), but I might buy it one day, when I have more disposable money (assuming I won't have switched to VSCode or $hotNewThing by then). I really do like Sublime, and I'm happy 3 is out of beta, but seeing the userbase migrate to Atom/VSCode is worrisome, and makes me doubt $80 is worthwhile investment (I'm mostly worried about third party plugin devs, which was once Sublime's biggest strength).
provemewrong··on iPhone X
Yes, you must be the only one.
provemewrong··on iPhone X
That's what I assumed was going to happen, but nowhere in the keynote was it black.
provemewrong··on How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US
I think this is definitely the problem in the United States. In my country they don't just willy nilly prescribe opioids. The best you get is ibuprofen. For example, after a terrible shoulder injury or tooth extraction, that's all you get. It helps with the pain, but doesn't remove it 100%, doesn't get you hooked though. Of course they give IV opioids after surgeries and such, but even then something mild and in small doses, and only for a certain period time. I remember still feeling pain after an appendectomy, but they refused to give me any more tramadol and just switched to IV ibuprofen. It's just not a thing as a prescription medicine. Except maybe for terminal cancer patients or something equally drastic.

Going off on a tangent, what my country might have a problem with, is benzos, however. They're prescribed like psychiatric vitamins.

provemewrong··on How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US
Me too. Besides what you mentioned, I'm particularly fond of /r/mdma, /r/psychonaut and /r/rationalpsychonaut (for discussions about psychedelics sans spirituality and religion). Also /r/nootropics. And /r/drugs in general. Don't forget /r/trees, which is of course the gateway subreddit, but it's rather boring in comparison.
provemewrong··on How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
I order my Anker stuff straight from China. On second thought, IIRC the Anker charger I bought from AliExpress was delivered from a warehouse in Estonia, so there wasn't even the typical wait involved.
provemewrong··on How Spotify shuffles songs
(2014)
provemewrong··on How to write Common Lisp in 2017 – an initiation manual
I had (and still have) a similar aversion to emacs, so I used to use Sublime with SublimeREPL plugin, which allowed me to run Common Lisp and Clojure (or any other language with a REPL) inside the editor. Pretty much a makeshift IDE, with an interface you're already used to. I've since moved on to VSCode, and I bet there must already be a way to replicate this in it, I just haven't had the need to work with Lisp since to explore this.
provemewrong··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017
Some observations.

Wouldn't have thought of built-in help as a popular (47.1%) way of teaching yourself.

Oracle usage only 16.5%, but I guess it makes sense considering the web developer proportion.

CoffeeScript as the third most dreaded language, behind only two instances of Visual Basic. But reading the definition of "dreaded" in makes more sense.

Sharepoint as the most dreaded platform, ha ha, no surprise there.

Clojure as the top paying tech worldwide, wow. But missing entirely from the list in US, UK, Germany, France sections, so where are all the Clojure devs? In general that's... comforting, if only there were any Clojure shops in my country (okay, admittedly I've heard about one startup using it).

provemewrong··on Beautiful Online SICP
Here's a direct link, if anyone else is looking for it.

https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-epub/blob/master/sicp.epu...

provemewrong··on Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA
Speaking of. Audio captchas are one of the most spooky things I've heard. Noise in the background and muddled voice listing numbers. Think numbers stations, except they try their best to make the numbers unintelligible (just like regular captchas tend to do with written words).
provemewrong··on Nike’s Vivid Shoes, and the Gray Area of Performance Enhancement
Similarly, clipless cycling shoes. Either hard plastic in cheaper models or carbon fiber in more expensive ones to stiffen the sole and allow more energy transfer to pedals. But then again, everything is carbon fiber in modern cycling.
provemewrong··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
Each has their place. Nokia 3310 for remote detonation, Casio F-91W for a time bomb.
provemewrong··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
Only thing bothering me about it is the keyboard. It fits in the overall aesthetic, but I feel like they chose style over substance and regular keys would be more usable. Any comments from first hand experience?
provemewrong··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
Not to mention detonates a bomb like no other.
provemewrong··on Awesome OS X Command Line
No. It's probably the most frustrating syntax I've had the (dis)pleasure of working with.
provemewrong··on Whatever happened to Winamp?
Exactly, foobar2000 killed Winamp, for power users at least.
provemewrong··on Show HN: Finally contributing back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shrug as a service.
provemewrong··on We Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (2012)
Ignoring the refresh rate, you could draw black using e-ink screens.
provemewrong··on Lenovo will adopt the ‘Moto’ label for its smartphones
G4 Plus has MSM8952. G4 Play and G3 both have MSM8916, and Nougat was announced for G4 Play.
provemewrong··on Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8
s/Clojure/ClojureScript
provemewrong··on Lenovo will adopt the ‘Moto’ label for its smartphones
Also ruining Moto brand and reputation by dropping support for their devices. Moto G used to get two years worth of Android updates, meanwhile the G3 is just a year old and isn't getting Nougat. Their Moto G4 Play has the same SoC and is getting the update, so it's just Lenovo doing this instead of, say Qualcomm dropping the support.
provemewrong··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
Well the whole reason that we have a representative democracy is that the average citizen has no idea how to run the country, so they elect more competent officials that represent their interests to do so. Obviously the flaw is that those same (on average) incompetent people are the ones who elect the leadership. But as far as I know we haven't come up with a better alternative. What do you propose then? A dictatorship? Authoritarian state?
provemewrong··on Video Games Are Boring
I picked up skateboarding again in my twenties after not skateboarding since middle school. Places where people discuss skateboarding online are filled with these kinds of people. Meanwhile I've lost interest in video games at the moment, but I still believe I will pick them up again at some point. I tend to switch hobbies, trying to find what I like. My interest in particular things can fade in and out. That's why I think "growing tired", "losing interest" or "moving on to other things" are better descriptors than "growing up".
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