Izkata

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by Izkata 9mo ago
I have this vague memory of people being shown a rebranded Vista and being told it was a preview of the next version of Windows, and the response was mostly positive about how much better than Vista it was. It was just Vista without bad rev
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by Izkata 9mo ago
"Are we... bonding?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkGfF7LBlk4
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by Izkata 9mo ago
Probably slight confusion over the description, which I was thinking at first with the first "in the middle of" example - that English has compounds nouns so the existence of spaces doesn't necessarily work as a delimiter. Wh
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by Izkata 9mo ago
This gets into spoiler territory, but the walls in Attack on Titan weren't made with human labor. The first hint that something funky is going on was at the end of the first season finale, but we don't get the full story about the
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by Izkata 9mo ago
> Honestly, in my experience the original stuff largely disappeared. I vaguely remember watching some of it back in the early 90's, but never in school. The holiday specials would be on TV if you went looking for them, but that&#x27
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by Izkata 9mo ago
"Common core" math is an attempt to codify this style so more kids can get a deeper understanding of numbers instead of just blindly following steps. Like the people that created it noticed people like you and me (I do something s
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by Izkata 9mo ago
Through the gitattributes and gitconfig files, git can be extended to work with any external tool for specific file types. For example: https://github.com/ewanmellor/git-diff-image
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by Izkata 9mo ago
I swear I remember this being called a feature, they left something around after uninstall so that if you clicked a Zoom link it could reinstall the client seamlessly. An ease-of-use thing for less technical people.
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by Izkata 9mo ago
Except as a kid back then, the screensaver was trivial to install and neat to look at, and BOINC was a pain. I dropped it when they switched. I imagine some less-technical adults who were interested did as well.
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by Izkata 9mo ago
There's still nothing that's as configurable as SweeterHome was. It died somewhere around the Android 2 days.
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by Izkata 9mo ago
Late jump-in, but I also want to add a small analogy I've seen them use that says basically the same thing: It's like chemotherapy, short term hurt for long term gain.
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by Izkata 9mo ago
> I was pleasantly surprised by Biden for his withdrawal from Afghanistan You mean the one he postponed until months after the date Trump had already signed a deadline for?
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by Izkata 9mo ago
Also H, M, and L for high/middle/low of the lines currently visible on the screen.
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by Izkata 9mo ago
Capital letters for marks work across files without plugins.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> The library seems to be an antipattern of indirection. Auto-generated actions from slices are a codified way to do what was once considered an antipattern: Tying an action directly to a single reducer, instead of actions being an actio
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by Izkata 10mo ago
There was a period where BackboneJS models were used as the datastore for React, before Redux took over. I haven't used it like this myself, but could definitely see it as a way to do an incremental rewrite.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> > It's not like the wisdom is lost , it's just ignored in modern builds. > Or it is set out in building codes that they must design in a certain way. An anecdote: Two decades ago in college in the US, I knew several p
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Unless something has changed, "quiet quitting" means "do only what the job requires". Arrive at 9, leave at 5, no out-of-hours work functions, etc. It's more a return to normalcy, but with a bad name because it come
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by Izkata 10mo ago
That still does stuff like unmounting filesystems (which can take a minute with snap, if they haven't fixed it), you can go further with the (rather unsafe) SysRq key "o", which tells the kernel to shut down without any prepa
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by Izkata 10mo ago
I dunno, going to the last example at the bottom of the page and comparing the contrast slider all the way up and all the way down, all these enhancements combined turns it into a blurry mush where it's harder to distinguish the shapes
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by Izkata 10mo ago
I believe it's a legal term that's leaked out into general use: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_force > Deadly force, also known as lethal force, is the use of force that is likely to cause
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> Human lockpickers use feedback when picking. Or discover when locks are built really badly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeDcOhWvq7I
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by Izkata 10mo ago
I use an Android app called "Sleep", it just works by accelerometer with your phone on the corner of your bed. I've found it's not really good with its automatic rating and suggestions, but the activity graph has an extr
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by Izkata 10mo ago
"Deserved" is a stronger word than "earned" or "merited", there's a sense of satisfaction or entitlement (though negative) behind that word. Something like, to say that she deserved death means saying she
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> You can do better, friend. So can you. Your past experience was terrible, but that's no reason to ignore or misrepresent what others are saying. What GP and I are both seeing in the Renee video is assault with a deadly weapon on
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> By the time there is a revolution, i'd imagine that most engineers will have fallen to the working classes where they are technically a part of. "Working class" isn't an adjective+noun that refers to anyone who work
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by Izkata 10mo ago
Cotton shrinks, and that your dryer is too hot or running too long. Born in the late 80s, I think this was even a joke on sitcoms at one point (I have this vague memory of a husband pulling his favorite shirt out of the dryer and wearing it
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by Izkata 10mo ago
10x came from actual measurements a few decades ago, getting people to implement the same project and seeing what the result was. The two parts missing from the modern usage of the term: the measurement was within a given team (not overall)
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by Izkata 10mo ago
> This "spread it around" sounds like some trickle down ecodomics madness to me =) Trickle-down would be giving him the full 10x salary, then by his own choice he'd be doing something with it that benefited everyone else.
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by Izkata 10mo ago
I think even presenting them as options makes it even more confusing to newcomers. Usually I find that neither is correct and there's a change on both sides I need to manually merge (so I don't even pay attention to the terminolo

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