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jplona
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Sadly not colorblind friendly
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·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I think this is clearly a matter of preference. Shorter variable (or rather, appropriately short variables for the context) for me are easier to recognize and disambiguate. They take up fewer tokens, so to speak. When I see `p.Age` I don't have to go back and look at the beginning of the loop because I just read that line and I remember it.
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I'm actually quite interested in your N paragraphs about why the category is written the way it is, and especially about the principles under which it is (or was meant to be) effective..

Frankly it's something I've always wondered about, but as mostly a spectator of these kinds of discussions I've never seen anyone explain. Like a lot of folks, from my surface-level knowledge it seems arbitrary and likely meaningless. But so much so that it feels like I must be missing something.

Or any chance of a link to your previous cpmments on the topic?
jplona
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I had a similar thought, along the lines of https://xkcd.com/538/
jplona
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I could imagine that in practice you end up with a bunch of vulnerable people submitting themselves to experimentation by powerful companies, which is an unhealthy dynamic.
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I believe this is required by code in some places, depending on the location of the switch. Mine is inset into the counter top, so plenty of opportunity for water to pool around it which I think would rule out an electrical switch.
jplona
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I've always understood the increase in diagnoses to be more about increased awareness than about a change in human behavior.

E.g. it looks like autism wasn't defined as a spectrum in the DSM until either 1994 or 2000: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/evolution-autism-diagnosis....
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
My local big orange store sells both, there's a green pile and a KD pile.
jplona
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I have studied the properties of ketchup extensively at burger joints all over, and in my expert opinion Wikipedia has it correct here.

This is why ketchup barely flows when you invert the bottle, until you start banging on it and it gets moving and it all comes out at once (thinned by the shear stress of your banging and gravity)
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I want something like this for accurate room presence detection in my house (for lights etc) that doesn't require dozens of PIR sensors or similar.

My dream is that the lights in my long hallway gradually dim up in front of me and back down behind me as I walk.
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
What is the connection between cookies and prostitution?
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I think pants would work, if you put them in legs first.
jplona
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I suppose Flash could be considered a notable exception there.
jplona
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Summer breaks for teachers are much shorter than for students, especially when you take into account required continuing education and professional development.
jplona
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This was a puzzler on Car Talk at least once. There are more like it: https://www.cartalk.com/radio/puzzler
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's also possible they they're correct, and the average user of today has much less need for verbatim searches than the average user when the search engine was first designed.
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Many folks I know used WFH as an opportunity to move away from the city where you can get more space and quiet for less money.