g7r's comments

On: Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

[g7r]

We use Cargo Cult to refer to this phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

On: Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for y...

[g7r]

Can you please share a couple of examples on how you use Anki?

[rticesterp → g7r]

I put in random facts and categorize them. Topic of reading comes up, I can never remember books I’ve read. I started making Anki flash cards of book summaries. I review this and other topics for 15 minutes a day

[feintruled → rticesterp]

I had an idea like this for helping introverts with icebreaking small talk. Flash style cards for each person, with info on what you spoke about last time, and a pre-prepared opener for the next time you bump into them. With the card info being updated each time you meet them.

[rticesterp → feintruled]

Exactly! I've found I'm a lot more talkative and I appear to be more of a fast thinker with this approach. I have about 15 subjects (outside of coding - sports, wine, pop culture, national parks, current music, popular fiction, tv shows, movies) that I try to be knowledgable on and the flashcards help

On: It’s not hypocrisy, you’re just powerless

[g7r]

It works the same way at international level, A-countries vs. B-countries.

On: 3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since t...

[g7r]

This isn't a whataboutism, this is a case law.

On: Russia halts deliveries of rocket engines to the U...

[g7r]

A good way to lower possibility of conflicts is to deepen interdependencies between countries. This is how EU works, for example.

Loose ties on the other hand lower the barrier for countries to initiate a war.

[hlbjhblbljib → g7r]

This conflict would have been simpler if the EU wasn't dependent on Russian Gas.

On: Steam's login method is kinda interesting

[g7r]

This strange solution looks like a legacy of times when Steam used HTTP instead of HTTPS. Maybe they just didn't bother to update working code after migration to HTTPS?

On: UX Issues with Notion

[g7r]

5% is a lot! But even if it wasn't, it is not a proper justification for breaking basic things.

On: UX Issues with Notion

[g7r]

No, I don't want do disallow editing. I do want to allow it but protect the content from accidental edits. Every time I publish a Notion page and forget to lock it, it is being accidentally modified. Some people notice it and undo. Some don't. In the combination with useless page history it is very difficult to reason whether the edit was accidental. The page could remain in accidentally modified state for a long time until author notices it.

[tracyhenry → g7r]

Does "lock it" both allow editing and prevent accidental editing? What's the magic going on that distinguishes between real edits and accidental edits?

On: Go 1.16 reduces significantly reduces sizes for bu...

[g7r]

Go linker generates relatively big binaries due to static linkage. For some cases binary size is becoming an issue. 100+ MB binaries aren't uncommon in Go universe.

[copperx → g7r]

Can't you just use dynamic linkage?

On: Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

[g7r]

How employers would reason when their employees start getting UBI? "Hmm, I was paying my employees say $1000/mo that was barely enough to survive. Now government gives them $500/mo. That means that I can can subtract $500/mo from their salary".

[akvadrako → g7r]

Wages would probably go up under a UBI because workers don’t need to work as badly, giving them more negotiating power.

Your example only applies if there is no market for jobs.

[grecy → g7r]

Which is precisely why we have minimum wage laws, and why people are free to choose where they work.