CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
How does a superfluous apostrophe make anything clearer?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
How did your thinking work there, not to get that? Not (mostly...) mocking; genuinely curious.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
It angers the language pedant in me. Surely they meal electrically charged?!? Even in these modern times, not everything is electronic!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
TBF, it doesn't feel like the rarest of names.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Oh and the English island never had an s sound, but is spelled like that because of confusion with isle So the German cognate (I assume) Eiland probably hasn't had one either. Makes sense, since the Nordic Eya / Øy / Ö
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Oh god how tiresome these libertarians can get. Particularly when they've let their brains be turned into mush by reading too much Ayn Rand, or Mises et al. Hope you grow out of it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Many of us grew up with cars having spare tyres as a matter of course. Now car manufacturers are extracting value from their customers by degrading our experience (of safety and expedience of repair), forcing us to pay extra for a spare tyr
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> My original comment started with "but it feels "prior to the MongoDB-is-webscale memes"" Which feels off by six generations or so of memes. It feels prior to "memes" existing in the first place (at least t
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> cries in millennial "Generation Z", I think.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Depends on what you mean by "healthy". Physically, yes, sure looks so. But that's just one definition.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I know places that still do it that way. Not necessarily tiny places either.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Some elements are inevitably going to end up being de-prioritized, and pushed further into the future. Features that do end up having a lot of demand could remain a priority. Why, that sounds positively... Agile. In the genuine origina
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Git would be popular without github, Yep. > github just makes things easier. Which is the transition between steps 1 and 2 of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Though the last step is nowadays perhaps unnecessary, depending on how you lo
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by CRConrad 2y ago
No, GitHub won because of git, lots of VC (later MS) money, and brilliant marketing that makes people think "Git won because of GitHub".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You're kind of disproving the point you're trying to make, IMO: Saying "GitHub made git the standard!" is kind of like saying "Facebook invented social media!" Nope, MySpace did. Or blogs, for that matter. Face
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I definitely think GitHub had a lot to do with it. And I definitely think you're wrong. GitHub has managed to get itself conflated with git, and has benefitting hugely from this confusion.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
This discussion was about git, not GitHub. There's a difference.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
It's sad that this discussion about git being the standard turned into "Why GitHub won" -- shows that people conflate the two. Who said GitHub had anything to do with git becoming the standard in the first place? (I only even
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> In German, "cancer" is literally "krebs", that is "crabs" Crayfish, I think. The German for crab is Krabbe. (AFAIK.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah yeah, but that doesn't explain the grammar of the sentence fragment I quoted and italicized. I still don't understand what that bit is supposed to mean. Can you explain it?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
ISWYDT, and I don't like it. Hope you're proud of yourself for coming up with it, so at least someone gets something out of it.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
And of course, come to think of it, skateboards. Were those originally invented by nailing rollerskate trucks under a plank, or what? I'm fairly sure skateboards use bigger -- certainly wider -- trucks nowadays, but rollerskates defini
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Paywalled. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240803083713/https://www.ft.co...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This is a heavily vibes-based petition, seemingly designed to be emotive at the expense of clarity. Is it about DRM stopping games from working? MMOs being shut down? Live services dying? Por que no los dos? Both are dick moves, vergin
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by CRConrad 2y ago
What does this: > These kinds of critique are kinda premature - even if they're done by Internet famous people like pirate software mean? “Internet famous people like pirate software” — is “pirate software” a person on the Interne
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I got the same impresssion, that the demo wasn't implemented as a single "clean" run. Another indication of this is that the next passage, about eliminating "bloat" from failed inserts, shows the table containing t
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The geometry, with the front and rear axles turning on opposedly-angled tilted axes, looks identical to that of (the old four-wheeled kind of) roller skates. Swiveling the axles into a turn makes the whole thing tilt -- and conversely, tilt
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by CRConrad 2y ago
From that video: "This card doesn't fit in a Rolodex, because it doesn't belong in a Rolodex!" Yeah, and it doesn't fit in a wallet either... So it's going to get thrown away as soon as he's turned his b
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by CRConrad 2y ago
At a wild guess: American Psycho? (And if so, how are we to interpret that? ;-)

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