J_McQuade

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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I am not sure if this will be any help to you at all, but the technical skill of music - especially in (from your comment) heavy metal - has only ever been a tiny part of it. You probably know a guy in a local pub band who can note-for-note
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> activists or the companies they infiltrated Name them. Please. Why do you all refuse to tell me who's doing all the bad things you're so worried about?
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I agree that all of those things would be bad! But I repeat - 'citation needed'. And when I say that, I do not mean "it happened once somewhere", I mean - I need you to prove that this is a systemic thing that requires c
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
> Especially the “E” in DEI (equity), which means equality of outcomes, and is a rebrand of discrimination. Do we still do 'citation needed' around here? Find me one serious person who has ever argued for equality of outcomes.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Having used Scala and TypeScript a lot for work over the last ~5 years, I think I'm going to say static typing. It's lunacy. Computers mostly don't work in types, my brain usually doesn't work in types, and only a small
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Also, the company is based in a country that has 'fueled' more wars in my lifetime than any other country has in the last 100 years. Definitely avoid.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I always feel really grotty about evangelising for products, but I switched to Kagi about six months ago and it really is a better experience. In almost all cases, the search results are as good as or better than Google, and I don't ha
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
I kinda get why they think they don't want to enable this, but when I was a kid I once called 999 (in the UK) as a joke and let me tell you it was only once. My friends and I were there in the room watching films that we shouldn't
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
"here is how to to translate this query from T-SQL to PL-SQL... ..." "... but if you used our VC's latest beau, BozoDB, it could be written like THIS! ... ..." 9 months, max. I give it 9 months.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Not gonna lie, I've been using (and programming) GUIs since the Amiga and even I get thrown askew by "click here to enter your name" (expecting a subsequent GUI element to focus, or worse - a popup) vs. "click here to en
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Off topic, but this is the first I've heard of Antilisp and I love the idea - seems aimed at the sort of problems that I've definitely solved with a tangle of unmaintainable elisp before. Now I just need to forget about the whole
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Easily VSCode, if we're talking about developer reach. I'm not big into Microsoft stuff, but almost every 'serious' .Net developer I personally know is using Rider, so I can only assume that Visual Studio is retreating t
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Also with a prohibitively expensive license fee.
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by J_McQuade 1y ago
Oh wow, just had to log in and give you a high-five for livelove because this is the first I've heard of it and it sounds like the sort of thing I absolutely need to try out. I remember giving Love2D a go a couple of years ago with Fen
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
As a Brit, I thought "are they just describing the 'stiff upper lip' or something?". Which is doubly odd, because here that is more associated with upper-middle-classes. That cold stoicism that causes people to act &#x27
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
Yeah, but I'd hope that I can understand my users.
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
> I said I don't understand it, not that I couldn't. When your main goal to just get on with solving your actual problems, these are the same thing.
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
I have also had it and it tastes like drain cleaner with the texture of angry spam. Only a third of a bottle of Brennivin made the whole experience even remotely enjoyable.
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
I re-taught myself joined-up writing in my early-mid 20s, mainly because it looks nice. Get yourself a pack of Uni Jetstreams - they are not too expensive and glide about as well as any pen I've ever used.
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
3100 kWh is the figure set by the regulator as the representative annual usage used to calculate prices for e.g. tariff comparison between suppliers. It makes sense to use it here.
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
I only ever used ARexx on the Amiga back when I was a kid and it was amazingly powerful, though I'm not sure how much I'd consider this a function of the language itself rather than the ecosystem you got when all of your favourite
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by J_McQuade 2y ago
The last terror attacks in my country were part of an organised campaign to try and burn down mosques explicitly because of unhinged propaganda on TV and online. The fact that these attacks were not called "terrorist attacks" on a
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by J_McQuade 3y ago
I think I picked up a bootleg of this at a car boot sale in the early 2000s. Couldn't get it to work with my EU boiler, but it had a great cracktro.
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by J_McQuade 4y ago
You're entirely right. I'll try and remember that next time I encounter dehumanising rhetoric and will consider all the good it can do.
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by J_McQuade 15y ago
You'd want to contact the City of London Police over here.
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by J_McQuade 15y ago
I'd hate to be in the passenger seat when you break down.
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by J_McQuade 16y ago
But dude - that might take more than 21 days.
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by J_McQuade 16y ago
In my view, the best place to start for a good grounding in rigorous mathematics is Velleman's 'How to Prove It' As for a good broad overview of many areas, the title that springs to mind is 'the nature of mathematical modelling' by Gershen

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