dmalvarado

I though I knew TypeScript pretty well, but I can barely read that.

I often wish vehicles were equipped with a regular horn and a "polite" horn. As in "don't mean to be a bother, but the light is green now. Whenever you're done checking your phone is fine."

Man, I wish we didn't have so much plastic, but I do what I can, and that includes never microwaving anything in plastic. If it's a microwave dinner (generally the ones I like are in paper trays) I pop it onto a plate and cover it with a paper towel.

I'm trying to find a solution to my Aeropress that tastes as good. Taking suggestions? (I've tried Chemex and french press, haven't been able to get the same flavor)

> In order to make the buildings look smaller, less intimidating and messy, architects have come up with a "four or six windows in one" solution.

Is there a source for this assumption? "Architects have come up with..." makes it sound like there was an explicit discussion about how to make the building look smaller. A) Why would a Vegas hotel want to look smaller, B) Does it actually look smaller? C) Smaller than what? A building with no windows? A building with too many windows?

I'm not suggesting Architects are getting too much credit. I'm just suggesting, maybe the monster building had a terrible architect(s), and the Vegas buildings didn't use terrible architects.

Magic decorators is the trigger, I think.

Must be in office. Must work at least 40 hours per week. Eliminated days of rest. As if twitter's problems are caused by "employees not working enough".

I dunno how else to put it. Having EVERYTHING on AWS is a national security threat.

This isn't good, and someone who can do something about it needs to.

Is the light bending around some gravitational point, or is that an* artifact of the telescope itself?

If the former, that is astounding.

Edit: nvm I think I figured it out myself. There are objects next to smeared galaxies that are not distorted. The distorted objects must be behind the gravitational field, and the un-distorted objects in front.

WHAT.

The like / dislike ratio is EXTREMELY useful. I'm very disappointed that they would do this. I expect it will be much harder to avoid useless content with this removed.

It took me a long time but I finally got over the never-ending desire for ever sharper lenses. 50mm is a general purpose lens. Not like macro or super-telephoto. Sharp enough to get the gist of the image without being distractingly blurry is good enough.

Can you image if the hull did weaken to the point of near failure? They might have needed to offload everything right there where it ran aground, lest it completely fail uncontrolled. The canal would be closed for a very long time. Luckily they didn't have to make that call.

As a former Nikon user, that writing has been on the wall for a long time now. At lease 3 years when they first reported "catastrophic losses" They didn't have enough diversity to weather the rise of the smartphone, whereas Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, all have other lines of business to keep them afloat.

Really sad since they made such a great camera line. Perhaps a buyout is still possible.

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Please.

Developers casually looking at source code vs nation states paying teams of hackers to find exploits. With the goal not being to steal money, but to steal a government.

I can understand why it's not open source.

I am surprised that there is no digital option to preselect your candidates before going to the polling place. i.e. Make your choices, receive QR code. Go to polling place, scan, verify selections on voting machine, press big red button and walk out of there.

If each vote took 1 minute instead of 10, would there still be a line?

edit: Or if not shorter lines, maybe 5 voting machines instead of 20? or 4 poll workers instead of 10? Seems more efficient all around.

No issues with because he usually ends up at his destination intact. If, through no fault of his own, he didn't arrive intact, spooky experts probably didn't know what they were doing.

I can see how the argument still holds water if half the time the outcome of the election didn't go his way.

I've stopped judging a product on 5-star reviews. Between two products, I will chose the product with the _least_ 1-star reviews. But obviously, this method breaks down when a product only has 50 reviews. Also, I would expect a somewhat normal distribution of reviews for a quality product. More 5s, than 4s, more 4s than 3s, etc.

4, 3 and 2 are where the most honest reviews are. High 1 count is indicative of quality control issue. 5 star reviews is either a customer who was immediately excited about product or a fake review.

As an econ major, I've come to the conclusion that the dismal science is equal parts making models and explaining why they don't work.

My god, this describes me to a T, and every one of those bullet points sounds like a fantastic way to spend time working. It was only when I caused a production issue due to a refactor that I gave up on trying to making a behemoth codebase better for everyone who has to work in it, and that’s when work got sad and boring.

I will take this to my team.

God bless you. This has filled me with rage since lockdown. Can’t wait to try it tomorrow.

The ant analogy helped a lot.

Since we seem to have a good discussion here, there's something I've always wanted to know.

If I understand correctly, the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. As is mentioned frequently when staring at deep space, we are looking at the universe not as it is, but as it was, since it takes so long for the light to travel to us. Some objects in the Hubble Deep Field are over 9 billion years old, and some within 1 billion years of the beginning of the universe.

My question, as best I am able to ask it, is assuming the big bang theory is true, how can it be that we on Earth can be looking at something simultaneously so old and so far away? If everything originated from the same point, how can it be that we pick an object in the sky and say "that is what the object looked like 12 billion years ago"? Doesn't it beg the question, "well then where were we 12 billion years ago?" As in, how can we be here, observing something close to the beginning of time? Didn't both objects start at the same place?

I hope that makes sense.. Articles and videos much appreciated

So bizarre that this is being floated. Company has no idea what my cost of living is, regardless of where I live.

i.e. 1. Employee moved back in with parents, not paying rent. Should company start paying them less because they need less?

2. Employee works remote from Arkansas, has 2 kids in college and is sending checks home to support mom. Company pays them less because... Arkansas?

How about the number we agreed on is the number we agreed on.

> I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start).

Brilliant idea.

> Your password for Bluehost (double check that you spelled this right!)

uhhhh

Perhaps. I would argue that there is some difference between seeing someone fall off a cliff and watching someone being tortured to death.

Thank you for reminding me of this. As an 8 year old, this was hours of good fun, and frankly, I viewed them as guides on how to be kid.

I wish I still had them.

lol, if you go into settings you can change the Earth: setting to be "Flat"

Not sure what that says, but it says something.

Holy crap, you can download Netscape 4.7.2 from that site..

Also of note, this website is still running despite the HN hug of death.