Falkon1313

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by Falkon1313 3y ago
It varies. I don't really keep count of it. Usually a couple of vacations a year, plus whatever sick days I really don't feel like working, and the occasional long weekend. Also it's not unusual to start late or knock off
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Yes, it's just the new style of spaghetti, this time with lipstick and a bow tie. One notable difference is that now the GOTOs are implicit and only in your head, so it's notably even harder to comprehend than the old style of spa
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Yes, there's a command line. Check LuaBinaries for that. Also, if you want a fun way to play with it, see the LÖVE game engine. You can be making your own simple 2D games in next to no time. And I think that's a nice playground
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I don't really think that's quite correct. To someone reading (or authoring) a document, the end state/goal is having that string of text visible and formatted well enough. They don't care about DOM objects. The main re
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I'm just sad that they spoil perfectly good fresh, juicy, crunchy onions. They call it 'caramelized' but don't even put any caramel in. Which is probably good because actual caramelized onions would be gross too. But w
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
On a personal level, we also have to remember to say "No, I can't stay late tonight, I have things to do." or "I had to work a double shift yesterday, so no I am not going to be in first thing in the morning." and s
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>breaking creative work down into bite-sized chunks In my decades of experience in multiple companies doing 'agile', that's something that we've always ostensibly strived for, but in practice it almost never happens i
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Not many jobs still pay you for the work you did a month, a year, 10 years, or 25 years ago. Not many jobs pay you just to sit at home and make up stories either. Of course many people want a job like that. But the actual day-to-day doing
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Ah, yes, those are the right ones! I was looking at the wrong code block. There are lots of triangles and also arrows, so commonness of font support would definitely be something to be careful of.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Sure, this question's probably pretty basic. Why draw it out with paths and all that instead of something like the following? Do SVG text elements not scale well? <svg> <text class="logo">Y</
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I have an electric blower/vacuum/shredder, which I bought because previously raking could take hours and then having to bag up a dozen or more bags of leaves. Blowing them into a pile then vacuuming and shredding seemed easier for
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Labor costs are a bigger percentage than materials. Those have been going down relative to efficiency for many years now, but there are limits to how much you can cut people's pay. Both relative to inflation and in absolute terms.
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
When I hit burnout I had a therapist for awhile, and that was very helpful. But I certainly wouldn't want my therapist to be owned by and reporting to my employer, nor would I want to lose my therapist if I switched jobs. It's li
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
I did eventually throw out my floppy discs and a couple of years ago I finally scrapped my windows 98 PC after transferring files off the hard drive. I still have data going back to around 95 though, and I like that. Pictures and chat logs
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
>More companies should employ such coaches and schedule regular sessions for all their employees. Yet another fluff meeting that detracts from getting stuff done, adds pressure to deadlines, and is just supposed to make us feel good like
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
No need to cut them if you occasionally idly rub a rough rock against them, filing them down before they can get long.
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
People often make the assumption that everyone was just roaming primitive hunter-gatherer cavemen chasing deer across the plains until one day somebody just happened to suggest "Hey, why don't we stop here, start some large-scale
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
I agree. Statements like this miss the point entirely: >Most concerningly, they hallucinate or confabulate: they make things up! That's exactly what they were designed to do! To generate creative responses to input. To make thing
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
It actually works really well for some viewing patterns. For myself, it's the best recommendation algorithm. When I'm listening to 80s rock, it gives me a bunch of other 80s rock, notably including things I've enjoyed listen
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
I have no data but anecdotes. I'm in my 40s and whenever I played squads, trios, or duos, I was playing with people in their 20s or 30s. Also, it's one of those rare online games where you can queue in at 3am or in the middle of
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
As the saying goes, "Y is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.", although that has totally different meaning. Similarly, the y in 'finally' makes an i sound (as in the i in 'machine'), while the y
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
Mountainous areas have awful cell service. And when you're new to an area, your carrier probably has your entire region colored as 'Excellent' on their coverage map, even though the only places you can actually get a signal i
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
And there were likely multiple competing and incompatible formats in the early days. Utility is greatly reduced when some of the stuff you want won't work with other stuff.
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
A couple of economics games I really liked were: Capitalism Lab, which builds on the original Capitalism and Capitalism II by adding several more options (some through mods). Wall $treet Raider, which you can learn a lot from about various
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
Yeah, at a job I worked at before there were two differences between our branded product and the store brand: The packaging/label, and the amount of thickener so that it would have a slightly different texture. Otherwise, same employ
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
V-bucks aren't really store credit though. They're non-refundable and it makes sense because you can also get them through in-game actions. Maybe an 'Oops! I didn't mean to do that.' undo button immediately after
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
Yes. Also I think they do it right on two counts. One purchase of the Battle Pass (<$10) gets you many skins, emotes, and v-bucks, enough to get each season pass for free afterward, as long as you actually play it and are enjoying it. A
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
As an adult who plays Fortnite (and has since the relatively early days of Battle Royale mode), I agree. I didn't even enter a credit card at all for a few years, and once I did decide to buy in, there was a full checkout process. Eve
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
Yeah, that's a good one. I have found, however, that denormalized tables designed for the queries that you need to do can make a massive impact on performance, especially at scale. However, it's also a massive pain in the Automat
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by Falkon1313 4y ago
Yep. And then you get bloated constructors taking in a dozen arguments many of which are just needed to pass along to the parent class constructor, and - drum roll - the CI tools complain because your constructor is similar to one in anoth

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