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squirtlebonflow··on Don't Run into the Woods
It makes sense why you are feeling that reaction to the reactions to your comments and how that relates to people's mixed reactions to the author's gamedev advice... what I can't understand is the phrase "rejecting criticality, as it relates to intention."
squirtlebonflow··on Don't Run into the Woods
Disagree entirely.
squirtlebonflow··on Don't Run into the Woods
Really? I find that it makes it so much more pleasant and easy to read. I read it much faster than I would have without bold. The author is telling you which parts of the sentence are most important, so your brain frees up that processing part where you have to figure that out.
squirtlebonflow··on Why you should probably be using SQLite
The vast majority of my development time for any project is setting up a server, database, web framework, etc. It's a massive pain in the ass and gets in the way of what I'm actually trying to do.
squirtlebonflow··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
I don't think you should write code where it makes a difference if the None came from a T that happened to be None or from a None.
squirtlebonflow··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
How is it natural to write code like that?

If it's None, don't put it in the cache. If T is None, don't put it in the cache.

if (typeof input != None) putInCache(input)

squirtlebonflow··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
Comments, updating dependencies, or documentation
squirtlebonflow··on Young people are flocking to astrology
Because nothing really ever happens because of random chance. Everything has a reason, and to pretend it happened because of random chance is to say you don't care enough what the reason was to try to figure it out.
squirtlebonflow··on Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
That's not... a good thing. Who cares about "the preservation of the species". If 7 billion people die and the remaining survivors are happier than ever, that's a huge loss IMO.
squirtlebonflow··on Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
If a mouse can get in your house, so can a fly. There are holes
squirtlebonflow··on Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
Why distilled water? It presumably doesn't rain distilled water outside.
squirtlebonflow··on Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
We aren't doomed as a species, but billions of people will die.
squirtlebonflow··on Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
Everyone being afraid is WAY better than people being convinced climate change is a non-issue.
squirtlebonflow··on Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative
It's much more complicated than that and that's it's biggest downside. I've been trying to learn how to use it but it's quite confusing figuring out their terminology and UI.

One thing that I did with it was make a Recipe type that has any number of Ingredient types in it, takes any number or arbitrary Dietary Restriction tags (e.g. Gluten, Dairy, Vegan), and takes parameters like cooking time and number of servings etc. So not only is a Recipe a note that explains how to make it, but it has a template with the boilerplate information pre-filled so when writing down a new Recipe, it's faster, and it has all that metadata, which allows you to construct Sets from the Recipes.

For example, I can have a document called Quick Vegan Crowd-Pleasers that is a Set of all vegan Recipes with cooking time under 30 minutes and 8+ servings. If I really wanted to go psycho mode with it, I could track every ingredient currently in my kitchen and filter recipes by what I can make with what I have on hand.

You can really do a lot with it. It's just time intensive to set up and also to keep up with entering data.

squirtlebonflow··on Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
...why is it crazy?

Pick any aspect of personality, and you'll be able to map it to two extremes.

squirtlebonflow··on Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
True. Pretty much everything worth doing is "draining"
squirtlebonflow··on Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
So you could camp every day and never get tired?
squirtlebonflow··on Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
Reading a book after a party is not "perfectly normal".
squirtlebonflow··on Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
I am always drained by solitude and sometimes by social interaction. help
squirtlebonflow··on Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
Ok, but that doesn't explain why extended periods of solitude are draining
squirtlebonflow··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
Ideally, merging the PR and having it be in production is a 30-60 minute automated CI process.
squirtlebonflow··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
Also, a bio+journalism dual degree is going to be much better at biology journalism than a straight-up bio major.
squirtlebonflow··on Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease
Fair enough, but for most people, health of themselves is way more important than the health of the planet.
squirtlebonflow··on Space After Periods (1993)
ivegottogivemyupmostrespecttotherapists

Doesn't that undercut yours?

squirtlebonflow··on Resilience requires helping each other out
Unfortunately, the term mutual aid has been co-opted by democrats to mean "charity". Likely because there is a stigma in our society around accepting help...
squirtlebonflow··on Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board
All you need is a chess board
squirtlebonflow··on 'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds
"Forever" means "never leaves your body", not "doesn't get transformed into a different chemical"
squirtlebonflow··on Contrarians Are Usually Wrong
I don't think this is true
squirtlebonflow··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
I have to agree. It suggested 13 exercises for me, most of which I've never heard of and have no desire to learn.

I'll stick with squat/deadlift/weighted pullups every day - no need to complicate shit.

squirtlebonflow··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
No it doesn't.

It says squat, deadlift, bench, and curl. Anything else is optional, but don't overcomplicate it.

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