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robotron··on U.S. Reels to a Meat Shortage and Prices Are Getting Weird
Guarantee its scale. I'm not a vegetarian but I've eaten meat analogues for decades - even before it was "trendy" - and they are actually better priced now than ever. The first few weeks of the panic buying had even my local kinda-small-town-turning-into-suburb grocery out of stock. Was hoping they would be a good alternative to have when my meat ran out. Guess I wasn't alone.
robotron··on U.S. Reels to a Meat Shortage and Prices Are Getting Weird
Part of the problem with meat processing plants are the crowded conditions the workers are in on the clock and on breaks. I would guess this is a little different with produce since you don't need slaughterhouses etc.
robotron··on Plan for 5 Years of Lockdown
You're thinking of the Bolshevik revolution.
robotron··on Plan for 5 Years of Lockdown
Will it? How do you know? Have we done that before to have an example?
robotron··on As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work
That's not a guarantee of anything. Reinfection or relapsing happens and is not explained yet.
robotron··on Some Churches Are Still Packing in Crowds
Unfortunately, we have the rest of the world to look at as an example of it being necessary.
robotron··on The Second Golden Age of Blogging
Social media links have to lead somewhere - not just videos and memes. Blogs fuel a lot of that.
robotron··on Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications
The Mint Guide page (Learn link) discusses Elm and it being one of the roots of this language.

> What is wrong with Elm?

> Elm has great developer experience, but it being a purely functional language leads to some boilerplate code and makes it harder to learn. Also, it's not possible to contribute or influence the language in any meaningful way.

robotron··on Avast caught selling user data
> I realize the recent news about Jumpshot has hurt the feelings of many of you

Wow, that's a nice way of blaming your users.

robotron··on The Joy of Coding: Observable
Doesn't work in FF mobile...
robotron··on On Pair Programming
You DnD. If you don't feel like you can do that, then I would suggest you're not in an ideal working environment for fostering productivity.
robotron··on On Pair Programming
Same. I'm introverted but find pairing works well for me. I don't like it if it goes on for more than a day in a row, however.
robotron··on Mozilla lays off 70
If you optimize for your devs use and not your users there's a problem.
robotron··on The idea of a 'robot tax' is gaining steam
Scale and artificial intelligence.
robotron··on Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?
Yes
robotron··on Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]
Their kids aren't going to have the same motivation to work as hard as the previous generation moving from whatever class they were in to the elite.
robotron··on On June 11th, the Strand was designated a landmark
Why is this here?
robotron··on 37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl
You have no clue how parenting works.
robotron··on What Happened to Software Development?
"Refactoring" and "technical debt" are just faddish meaningless words? Alright,buddy. From one old programmer to an even older one, you really are just being a grumpy old man.
robotron··on Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
I'm older, my eyes are getting pretty bad, and I have to have dark mode. This is why data on this is important.
robotron··on The 16-inch MacBook Pro is a repudiation of the ‘Ive Doctrine’
I guess you stopped reading there?
robotron··on Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8
That's why you do this instead:

<?php declare(strict_types=1);

Your code would flag an error in the IDE and throw a TypeError exception.

robotron··on Search warrant overrides 1M users’ choice not to share DNA with cops
Wasn't it actually a relative of his that submitted their DNA, not him?
robotron··on How streaming is changing songs
My circle of experimental music artists were doing this in the early/mid-2000s.We weren't streaming so much as releasing MP3s as they were done.

I expect (somewhat) that song length may also morph, if it hasn't already. There's no need to be concerned about how much time fits on physical media. There are just attention spans.

robotron··on The Showdown at the Window Seat
I can't sleep when the window shades are open...
robotron··on An outdated idea about solar panels has been slowing advancement: study
Terrible mobile site.
robotron··on Socialist Rifle Association
Thanks, this is really informative and appealing to me as an aging non-white anarcho-synd. I've been interested in owning some firearms but the conservative gun culture is a serious turnoff.
robotron··on Agriculture may have been humanity’s greatest blunder (1987)
The book Sapiens explored some of this. I can see how agriculture has shaped us and the planet negatively. Not sure what the alternative would have been, other than remaining foragers.
robotron··on DNA from cigarette leads to Dakota Access arrest warrant 3 years later
It will have to occur to someone they care about or themselves. By then it will be too late.
robotron··on San Francisco Declares the N.R.A. a ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization’
You have a good point but it's hard to rally around gun ownership when you're dodging bullets taking your kids out to shop at Walmart.
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