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New comment by omgitsabird in "Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles"

omgitsabird — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 04:48:47 +0000

Seems better with a border radius of 1.25rem. Also making the border thickness very thin seems to help, as well as some making it more oblong.

New comment by omgitsabird in "SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test"

omgitsabird — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:16:54 +0000

"I think its really awesome to see just how fast you can move on these things, if um... you just get a bunch of people who really want to do it"

-- Andreas Kling on this progress: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5_tW_eovM)

New comment by omgitsabird in "Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out"

omgitsabird — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:03:46 +0000

Then, not too long afterward, they forget everything.

New comment by omgitsabird in "SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test"

omgitsabird — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:00:10 +0000

Aren't there some hard problems on leetcode?

I can see this analogy as:

"Don't do your math homework. Instead, find hard math problems in real life to solve."

New comment by omgitsabird in "Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?"

omgitsabird — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:56:54 +0000

I guess I was implying that I don't view the benefits between the prior and the later as an onto mapping.

New comment by omgitsabird in "Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?"

omgitsabird — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 05:50:15 +0000

> We avoid the fanfare of Docker, as really it's not needed for Java apps; they're somewhat self-contained anyway and it created more problems than it solved.

What does this mean?

New comment by omgitsabird in "Web3 is centralized and inefficient"

omgitsabird — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:09:46 +0000

Also, those services are much more than email, so the analogy that the author is trying to build to bolster their argument doesn't really work.

New comment by omgitsabird in "Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters"

omgitsabird — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:57:10 +0000

Sure, but how does this system work? Especially with newer services, like ride sharing, where people use personal vehicles to transport people within these areas?

New comment by omgitsabird in "Inflation and the housing question"

omgitsabird — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:54:42 +0000

> If you nationalize housing and hold prices low, then there will be supply shortages where some folks will not be able to get housing who would happily pay your price.

If you nationalize housing, wouldn't you also subsidize supply?

New comment by omgitsabird in "Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters"

omgitsabird — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:45:37 +0000

How will that ever happen when delivery, moving, construction, etc are essential parts of the economy for "large parts of cities"?

New comment by omgitsabird in "Writing a device driver for Unix V6"

omgitsabird — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 05:46:50 +0000

yeah, there is a lot more in the last 16 years...

i too suffer from immediate references to tell me i know nothing, but we are all the same, reading the same stuff, even right here...

New comment by omgitsabird in "We changed our roof and cut CO2 emissions"

omgitsabird — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:38:00 +0000

To preface, I am not trying to nitpick here. I am generally curious.

Is this a correct usage of amortization?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amortization

New comment by omgitsabird in "Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain"

omgitsabird — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:20:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia

New comment by omgitsabird in "Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain"

omgitsabird — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:19:09 +0000

It seems strange to imagine telling someone who isn't going to experience anything ever again anything at all.

New comment by omgitsabird in "Ask HN: Neurodiversity/ADHD Friendly Companies"

omgitsabird — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:15:02 +0000

This is interesting.

What are you looking for specifically? What does a neurodiversity program look like at a company? What, to you, makes a company neurodiversity-friendly?

New comment by omgitsabird in "Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane"

omgitsabird — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:32:50 +0000

Speaking of diffuse, how do you sequester something that is at super low concentrations like atmospheric methane?

As an analogy, my home reverse osmosis filter doesn't even come close to touching things that are in the parts per billion.

Also, it isn't as if atmospheric methane is evenly distributed across the globe [0]. How do you expect to collect methane across borders?

[0] - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4798

New comment by omgitsabird in "Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane"

omgitsabird — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:02:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential

New comment by omgitsabird in "PHP – The Right Way"

omgitsabird — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:20:23 +0000

> created by language amateurs > all of that is gone and they are still stuck with a subpar language

The argument is that the language is "awful" and "subpar" because it has "early decisions" like "multiple thousands of built-in" global functions introduced by "language amateurs"?

Sorry, but I remain unconvinced.

I agree that there are real reasons that PHP fails as a language in particular use cases, but it seems rare that those reasons get articulated in these threads.

New comment by omgitsabird in "PHP – The Right Way"

omgitsabird — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:34:17 +0000

There are a plethora of articles for "foo best practices" or "bar done right".

I feel like you are stretching a quote to fit a premise that doesn't match the context of this thread or article.

New comment by omgitsabird in "PHP – The Right Way"

omgitsabird — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 10:24:15 +0000

> more mature infrastructure and better language

What does this mean?