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by CRConrad 2y ago
You started out so well, but then it all broke.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Woom and Isla and probably a few others now make aluminum frame bikes for kids that are much more appropriate weight for their sizes, though at a bit of a cost. I remember coming across Isla while researching online for my kid's s
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Those were already somewhat common around here, back when I taught my kid to ride some... 17-18-19 years ago. But it felt rather superfluous to buy a separate gadget that he'd use for at most a few months, when the same effect could be
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> "Virtue signaling" means someone is acting only to signal their own virtue, and not because they actually believe in the thing they are doing or expressing. [Emphasis altered -- CRC.] Really? I never knew it had to be a nec
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...I despise Lord of the Flies and always believed it was unrealistic, and was gratified recently to find that a similar real-life situation did occur and it did not turn out like the book at all. But that's stretching the meaning
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I used to use a Caffeine app on the Mac, back when I used one of those (~2014-2018). Dunno if it was the same one linked in TFA or another. But on Windows this same functionality has been available for free as a part of Windows PowerToys
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Isn't it a historical fact that the eastern and western roman empires used "barbarians" in their armies? Yup. > If the vikings fought for these empires, then why not the anglo saxons and other germanic peoples? That&#
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Romans had contacted Britain by the 1st century BC (the history buffs amongst you may have heard of the leader of this expedition). Eh, wasn't that...? I think more than the "history buffs" amongst us may at least have
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by CRConrad 2y ago
As I understand it, those were gross payments -- ~"for John Hawkwood and his company of merrie men" -- and he paid his men out of that. But some of their compensation probably also came from whatever they were allowed to loot wh
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> In lieu of that, maybe we should just get some kind of high priests to run the scrum meetings? My new mantra: If the Scrum Shaman doesn't have a feathered mask, a rattle with bones in it, and a small fire for burning pieces of sac
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It got posted on here. Was it perhaps https://spike.news/ ? HTH!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> we all love the emoji so much? Who says we do?!? I certainly don't.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
However you thought you'd "come to know the meaning of the word", you hadn't. Because you didn't know it. "To know" something requires what you think you know to actually be true.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Here here. Where, where? "Hear, hear!" HTH.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I'm actually fine with trying to be virtuous rather than promoting rapists, corruption, racists and so on. Stuff like that is exactly what's so dangerous with virtue signaling: It leads to conflating tiny, or possibly non-exi
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The reason corporations don't do things like this is because they are interested in scoring brownie points without undermining the status quo class related power structures. And above all, without incurring any actual monetary cos
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Aha, interesting, thanks! I had no idea; I'd always thought it was from "master copy" like in, say, a manuscript that is duplicated by hand. (Sure, the life of a mediaeval monk working in a scriptorium was pretty strictly reg
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, heck, of course I didn't mean anyone should go back and rename shit in already existing repos! Sheesh, what a crazy waste of effort that would be. But for new projects it really doesn't bother me that the default nowadays is
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...his mom who grew up in rural China (educated, got a medical certificate which doesn't let her practice here, thinks it was a mistake because she knows many people who got really rich thanks to economic expansion back home and i
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Dunno if you were kidding, but either way: That's the first I've ever seen of this having anything to do with clothing. (Unless you count the bamboo-and-grass headphones as clothing.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Hmm, "Cargo cult Agile"...? Yeah, the way "Agile"[1] is too often practiced, the way that has made everyone under ~45 hate "Agile", with its focus on Scrum and meetings and tickets and the ceremonies of &qu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Sure, it's sometimes used inaccurately... but show me a term that can't be used inaccurately. That's just humanity doing its normal thing. Is it used too inaccurately? ...ehhh, I'm not convinced, but it might be b
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You're beginning to look very, very, wilfully obtuse.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> In my language "master" translates to maestro, which predates US slavery and symbolizes something completely positive: a master of some - usually artistically relevant - craft with followers that branched from the original (l
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> _with the same originating meaning_ [Citation needed], as they'd say on Wikipedia. I don't think that's the origin at all. Why do you?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> a phrase derived from something that's incorrect and never existed? As I understood from the article, "cargo cults" exactly as in the widely-used metaphor did exist; it's just that they were a small minority of wh
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...much as I did a couple of years ago when we were all socially pressured into renaming our "master" branches to "main" branches. Hey, at least it's two letters -- 33% -- shorter.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> You need a history of the assumptions so that new developers can know what's legacy and what isn't. Isn't this (at least in part (and perhaps only approximately)) what Architecture Decision Records are for?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> A fairly well fitting, inelastic waist line will rapidly inform you of any overindulgence. This works well: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/nva-leather-belt-blac... . (Out of stock, though. The nearest
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by CRConrad 2y ago
A bit down in TFA it talks about exactly that and why it doesn't do exactly what they want.

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