andrewvc

The idea that we must perfect ourselves before we enter a relationship with others is common in internet advice and frankly wrong. One of the main ways we heal and grow as people is through relationships. Relationships test us and can be a vital mirror, showing us things that would be otherwise invisible. They are also an incentive to do better for the good of others in our lives. Finally, they give us the chance to heal others similarly, our partners are never perfect either.

Does that mean that having kids will solve your problems? Of course not. The idea that you should be ok with or without kids is also fraught. It’s a question of degree, perhaps being obsessed with having kids is bad, but wanting them and being disappointed in not having them is fine.

I wonder if a slower web might be a better web in many ways.

Reduced page load speeds increase engagement. What if I want to decrease engagement with the internet?

“What do people enjoy, and why” is a much more interesting question than “what should they like, and why it’s only a coincidence that aligns with my personal preferences”.

The scale of those was small in comparison. That does not negate that the genocide happened, in which the Turk’s goal was to obliterate the Armenians as a people.

WRT the documents you mention, those are probably from the contemporaneous disinformation campaign on the part of the govt. Even at the time many foreign observers noted that the govt was exaggerating the Armenian “threat”.

The claims you are making are thoroughly debunked and not recognized by historians in mainstream academia outside turkey.

The stories are painful, and the legacy of that pain affects my family even today. My grandparents saw their family members and community murdered and had to rebuild their lives abroad. My grandmother, toward the end of her life, would weep, recounting the violence she endured, reliving the experience in her decline. These scars can persist across generations.

There are two excellent books I can recommend: 1. Black Dog of Fate, by Peter Balakian 2. They Can Live in the Desert, but Nowhere Else, by Ronald Grigor Suny

The first is more of a first person narrative describing the lingering effects of the genocide across generations in the Balakian family, very poetic. It’s a great read, full of life, and poignant in its portrayal of inter-generational pain.

The second is a straight history by a historian, tracing the events, causes, people, etc. It’s a dense, but good read.

The political problem of direct cash transfers is that people find them odious. Money is earned and should not be given, but food can be. This is incredibly illogical but it's our political reality, one that can hopefully be changed.

That honeywell lasted about one season. The wick refills are ridiculously expensive. It was cheaper to trash it and use anything else. I'm also upset with the wirecutter for that trash recommendation.

Its easier to point fingers at the other side than take any blame for your own.

The insurrection at the nations capitol is a singular event, one that Republicans need to reckon with on its own terms. Some have done this, and I applaud them. They are proving to be the grown ups in the room.

The idea that every social network deserves to exist on terms that are economically preferable to their owners is not some golden rule. These networks didn't even exist 20 years ago.

“It’s hard” is not an excuse.

Whatever you buy, spend an extra $50-90 for a good set-up. I'd rather play a $300 guitar with a great setup than a $7000 one with a bad one.

Would anyone here be comfortable running a WP plugin from the average 4 year CS grad? It is rare to find a CS grad who can write production code right out of college.

Let’s be clear, skills based certs are terrible at measuring things. You know what else is a terrible skills based test? A 4 year CS degree. I’ve interviewed a number of degreed working programmers who can’t solve even basic interview questions. Not gotcha questions, not difficult algorithms, but basics (read a file, sort a list of words, etc).

There’s lots of ways to learn, and this kind of talk just adds another barrier to people coming from non-traditional backgrounds. I understand this, because, as a self taught engineer, I’ve been the person at the table listening to engineers talk about how important a CS degree is and how you just need one.

Every time you make the point that you absolutely need a CS degree you’re telling someone who learned via another avenue that they aren’t good enough. At a time when we want more diversity and inclusion in software this message is the wrong message.

We need to think about how to bring education to more people through channels that work for them instead of telling them to fit themselves into a box that was designed for someone else.

On these projects you often find yourself needing to work on higher levels of abstraction. Types help here by instantly telling you what the data is and providing hints.

Types take extra time to write and maintain, but they significantly reduce the difficulty of working on large projects.

Candidly, I'm mystified by the complaints. Google's search works great, and has for years for myself and everyone I know IRL.

Any post about any product that isn't brand new on HN is going to get comments along the line of "Company X? Their product is garbage, it used to be great! I've been using <alternative that requires a ton of extra effort to setup> and once I got it going it was amazing!"

So, taken together with this, sleeping on the left side seems ideal.

   The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP) is used for synchronising
   data, such as mail, calendars, or contacts, between a client and a
   server.  It is optimised for mobile and web environments and aims to
   provide a consistent interface to different data types.

   This specification is for the generic mechanism of data
   synchronisation.  Further specifications define the data models for
   different data types that may be synchronised via JMAP.

   JMAP is designed to make efficient use of limited network resources.
   Multiple API calls may be batched in a single request to the server,
   reducing round trips and improving battery life on mobile devices.
   Push connections remove the need for polling, and an efficient delta
   update mechanism ensures a minimum amount of data is transferred.

   JMAP is designed to be horizontally scalable to a very large number
   of users.  This is facilitated by separate endpoints for users after
   login, the separation of binary and structured data, and a data model
   for sharing that does not allow data dependencies between accounts.

This sentiment is appealing, but there's little backing it. Humans have always shaped nature, and regardless of people, ecosystems are dynamic (1). We should be asking ourselves what sort of world we want to live in, and what we want our impact to look like. We should not harken back to a pre-human influenced time that never really existed. (Most restoration plans don't plan on restoring ecosystems to a fully pre-human state, but rather to some time where humans were present, but not as numerous).

We should instead say things like "this ecosystem was better 300 years ago, and we should try and return to something closer to that". That's wholly different from the narrative of natural being everything but human. It does, however, force us to qualitatively analyze what we're doing. Instead of saying "we changed it, now we have to restore it", it forces us to think about what the costs and benefits of restoration are.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_ecology#Human-media...

Would that yield an improvement? I don't know, but it would have an impact.

This can lead to endorsing advanced features instead of simple easily composable ones. The advanced features will be poorly adopted in the field due to not everyone being an expert.

This is probably the best single thing about golang. The language has many flaws, but this is not one of them.

This line of poor reasoning is responsible for so much lost productivity and buggy code. Even in the best case where a team is comprised of people who understand these intricacies well it still forces people to spend more time thinking about simple equality checks than necessary. The greater verbosity of === and type conversion is less mental effort.

In the real world very few people understand == and there's a good chance that even if you do whoever maintains the program you wrote won't. It's just not worth it.

This is very similar to the argument that you should use the minimum number of semicolons necessary in JS. You just need to memorize the exact syntax. It's an aesthetic argument only. It does nothing for the metrics that matter, like defect rate, maintainability, comprehension, etc.

Just because you know how to do something correctly doesn't mean you always will. I personally believe the combination of speed and weight makes olympic lifts inherently dangerous.

Most sports have a lot of survivorship bias. It looks like people can do them forever because a lot of other people have dropped out.

On Macs at least, using a headset with mic via bluetooth you get 8khz sampling, even if the headset can do more.

Sounds terrible. Tried a bunch of esoteric plist changes to fix it.

I switched to a USB wireless setup which works much better.

Supposedly there are fixes (http://ssrubin.com/posts/fixing-macos-bluetooth-headphone-au...) for this, but none worked for me.

I live in Minnesota and wear a lighter weight parka for most of winter. On single digits days like today however I bring out my heavy duty down parka.

I suspect that their partners in europe throttle with an algorithm so aggressive it flat-out breaks TCP.