silverdrake11 (u/silverdrake11)

silverdrake11 commented on Shaving is too expensive johnwhiles.com/posts/shav... · Posted by u/fanf2

> I think that it's also important to consider that it's much easier to cut oneself when using a double edge razor.

I've actually found it to be the opposite in my case, after having used a double-edge safety razor for almost 7 years. When I use the DE razor, I know exactly where the blade is and it gives me greater control if I need to go over a spot again that I missed. With the disposable razor, I've always found it difficult to tell where the blades are on my skin, which makes me prone to errors. The multiple blades in sequence also make it much more nick-prone when going against the grain for a closer shave, or as in the missed-spot scenario I just mentioned.

But yes, you're right - it's basically impossible to travel with a DE razor without a checked bag. Even just carrying the handle without the blade in your carry-on is a risk. I have an acquaintance who lost his DE handle to a TSA agent that wasn't interested in understanding that the handle by itself poses no more risk than a toothbrush. So, if I'm flying, I'll suffer with the disposable razor and never shave against the grain.

silverdrake11 · a year ago

Bevel makes disposable safety razors for travel. Yes disposable double edged safety razors. They are quite nice nice. It's a plastic handle with standard double edged blade in there but it's non removable.

silverdrake11 commented on MessagEase decided to go subscription-based, here's some alternatives · Posted by u/sciv

rsaarelm · 2 years ago

Thanks for the post. I had also been using MessagEase for years and was blindsided by the popup and confused how there's almost nothing about it online. So now I'm googling for messagease stuff from the last week and found my way here, I guess this thread is buried and invisible on actual HN.

I jumped over to thumb-key for now and am treating the brain-breakage as just some healthy neuroplasticity exercise since I'm not very serious about mobile typing.

silverdrake11 · 2 years ago

I was looking into thumb-key. What differences are there? I noticed the same layout is available

silverdrake11 commented on Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar bitecode.dev/p/asyncio-tw... · Posted by u/BiteCode_dev

shanemhansen · 2 years ago

Great article. I had the misfortune of writing a bunch of twisted code over a decade ago and I wanted to remind the author that twisted has a feature called "inline callbacks" that allow you to use yield. https://twisted.org/documents/16.4.1/core/howto/defer-intro....

So twisted code can actually look like:

    @inlineCallbacks
    def doIt():
        responseBody = yield makeRequest("GET", "/users")
        returnValue(json.loads(responseBody))

iirc `returnValue` throws an exception of a specific type. It's ugly, but it's also the logical implementation of async on top of yield/generators.

silverdrake11 · 2 years ago

Nowadays twisted supports this syntax:

    async def doIt():
        responseBody = await makeRequest("GET", "/users")
        return json.loads(responseBody)

See https://patrick.cloke.us/posts/2021/06/11/converting-twisted...

silverdrake11 commented on Life is not short dkb.show/post/life-is-not... · Posted by u/dbrereton

bwest87 · 3 years ago

> You should organize each day as if it were your last, so that you neither need to long for nor fear the next day.

I've come to find this "live each day like it's your last" advice to be pretty unhelpful. My favorite quote about it is, "all that goes to show you is some people would spend their last day giving you stupid advice".

The problem is that if it actually was your last day, most people would give the finger to all of their responsibilities and go party, eat cake, see friends, familiy, lovers, etc. Which is simply not an actual way to live your life. It's a way to exit your life.

An alternative framing that I've come to find more helpful is to take your life expectancy, and cut it by 2/3. Now what do you do? For example, if you're 20 years old and your life expectancy is 80 (ie. 60 more years), pretend that you only have 20 more, so you'll only live until you're 40. It's nice cause it naturally adjusts as you get older. You'll have smaller windows to work with.

This approach strikes a nice balance. It gives you enough time to be able to really do something and change directions if you want. But not so much time that you can really waste any. It forces you to ask the hard questions about whether your day to day is truly connecting with your dreams, and whether you're on a path to get there.

Of course, Seneca didn't have life expectancy tables to work with. But I think he would have approved. :)

silverdrake11 · 3 years ago

"long for nor fear the next day" can be interpreted as to fulfill your responsibilities so that you don't fear the next day.

silverdrake11 commented on A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes thewhyaxis.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/donohoe

nkozyra · 4 years ago

It looks a bit like Pinot Noir was already on a pretty clear upswing, could this not just be a correlation with trends in wine in general - dryer, less sweet/bodied reds?

It would be interesting to see a comparison to whites - are Chardonnays and Pinot Gris also on an upward trend?

silverdrake11 · 4 years ago

It's more plausible to me that the movie was a product of its times rather than the cause of the trend. Maybe there was more interest in wine during that time, and more discussion about the different types. It would explain why a movie centered around wine was developed and became a box office success.

silverdrake11 commented on Amazon denies stories of workers peeing in bottles, receives a flood of evidence theverge.com/2021/3/25/22... · Posted by u/brundolf

silverdrake11 · 5 years ago

It seems like a logistical problem and lack of public restrooms. There is no easy solution. Let's say you are driving in an urban area, where can you go? Maybe there's traffic too. Where are you going to park? Or you are in a rural area and the next gas station is miles away. Your options are clearly limited.

silverdrake11 commented on How to Interview Engineers defmacro.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/tosh

silverdrake11 · 5 years ago

Two issues with this methodology. First as he states there is a difference between talent and IQ, this does not seem to tease out the difference.

You can imagine someone with alot of experience but slower thinking speed doing just as well as someone with less experience and faster thinking speed.

Second this is also relative to the problem being asked. With the tic tac toe one, you can also think about someone who maybe has been on leetcode alot and has no actual work experience and is generally slow, to be fast on this particular problem since they happen to have studied that before or have exposure to it.

You can also imagine the opposite someone who is really fast at thinking and has experience, but they haven't looked at binary trees in 10 years so they may be slow thinking about a particular subject.

silverdrake11 commented on Why Not Rust? matklad.github.io/2020/09... · Posted by u/dochtman

stephc_int13 · 5 years ago

In the videogames world we - need very good performance - don't care about memory safety (not an issue) - also need fast compile time

silverdrake11 · 5 years ago

You should care about memory safety in any language. The point is to reduce bugs and have more maintainable code, that doesn't introduce memory errors when something is changed. Or when making something concurrent.

Now of course if you use a garbage collected language, then you aren't in control of memory, so it's less of an issue. But if you are using C++ for high performance applications such as gaming, then you are in control of it and need memory safety.

silverdrake11 commented on Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial businessinsider.com/germa... · Posted by u/tosh

EdwinLarkin · 5 years ago

I think UBI is a failed project from the beginning. We dont need UBI per se we need to provide basic utilities at fraction of the cost or for free.

Housing should be free so should be food. We are incredibly efficient when it comes to building real estate or producing food.

We can set a basic standard for quality of housing and food (you get seasonal fruits,veggies,bread,flour,chicken etc etc).

You should be incentivized to learn how to cook and take care of yourself and acquire additional skills.

The usefulness of UBI will be diminished by inflation and market behavior.The money you get wont actually help you to get things that you need.

silverdrake11 · 5 years ago

Producing food makes more sense. Certain types of food is very cheap. Housing and real estate though, it seems is much more expensive and difficult to provide.

silverdrake11 commented on Covid-19: What do we know about “long Covid”? bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m... · Posted by u/nico_h

latchkey · 5 years ago

If you're interested in or even doubting the long term effects, follow one of the larger (91k+ and growing) survivor groups [0]. It is anecdotal, but the stories are very real and quite intense. Even odd things that you don't hear about in the news, like excessive burping [1] and of course, the heart breaking children tag [2].

You don't want this thing if you can help it.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/search/...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/669615740453955/post_tags/?p...

silverdrake11 · 5 years ago

It's possible someone got excessive burping a month let's say after they recovered from covid. How do we know those events are related? In a month all kinds of medical problems could happen in a sample size of 90,000 or w/e the amount was, that could be completely unrelated.