LaGrange

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by LaGrange 8y ago
It's really frustrating. I'm an anxious, big person with a naturally loud voice and poor perception (not due to bad hearing, but due to being very easily overwhelmed). Talking in open spaces makes me really self-conscious, and, co
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Pretty sure the "great productivity while WFH" is contingent on having a dedicated workspace (I mean, I guess it can be shared with other work-from-homers in the household, but it should be dedicated). Which isn't something e
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Galaxy brain: if your config is programmable, it can read whatever terrible configuration format you want. That means my settings.py (yes, I'm forced to use Django) is configured via environment, which is populated by k8s from - gasp
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Settings.py is uniquely bad, though, IMO because it tries to be a badly defined dict(), instead of exposing proper configuration interfaces. Ruby config files are common and usually fairly great, see for example the Vagrantfiles. And you wo
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Ah, the developer who's 10x because their work slows down everyone else 10 times.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
Yes, I think that it's likely that a dysfunctional institution would be unable to prevent you from doing that, and it's likely the reason why you're a part of it.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
D3 has libraries that do many other things, and TBH I feel like selection is the most "aged" part of D3. IMO modern component libraries such as React, Vue or Mithril do a much better job of maintaining a binding between data and t
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by LaGrange 8y ago
So d3 is actually a _set_ of libraries, of various kind, most of which happen to be useful for data visualisation. Through its richness, there's a good chance that at least _some_ of those libraries will fit your use case well enough.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
I mean, just google anytime he talks about security or licensing. And, frankly, people more expert on, say, C, than Torvalds, are dime a dozen. Okay, a large heap of dimes, but still. They just tend to swear less, and in the OP you can see
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by LaGrange 8y ago
"Smart and honest" is literally the justification Trump voters would usually employ.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
A celebrity who speaks with a highly authoritative voice whether they have any idea what they're talking about or not. Sounds about right.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
This is not entirely true. I mean, sure, they could not work for _Google_, but almost the entire field of eCommerce involves either contributing to surveillance, or benefitting from it as much as you can. You basically get a choice over the
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by LaGrange 8y ago
> ga.js still sends enough information that Google can reconstruct most of everyone's browsing sessions on their backend. Every time someone asks me to add GA to a website I get a little bit more bitter.
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by LaGrange 8y ago
No, if you intentionally made that data public then it's done. GDPR doesn't, say, force you to remove political views of Theresa May from newspapers, despite that being covered by personal data, because Theresa May made those view
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by LaGrange 9y ago
> I think RCS is a great idea and Google should be pushing it. There is no end-to-end encryption, so no, it's not.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
Pretty sure XMPP included extensions for sending arbitrary HTML and binary attachments. Now, support for janky mobile connections, that's another matter.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
What? No. Check out Jupyter, for example. Of course that's a totally different platform, but I wouldn't call that "static".
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by LaGrange 9y ago
> Also, could one build a local positioning system that has a few ground In _Russia_ during _war with Russia_? Sure, go ahead, you drive the truck and I'll monitor your progress and provide snarky commentary from home.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
So this is second-hand knowledge, but AFAIK current drones work well against technically inferior enemies, but foes such as, say, Russia, should be able to sufficiently disrupt communication to render them useless.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
Well, if you'd approach the issue _sensibly_, then the answer could be "why not both?" Disaster preparation is very much about community. A mistake or lack of luck can easily wipe out your "preparation." A disjointe
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by LaGrange 9y ago
> Why does it always seem as if such proposals are written by clueless people? Whenever you start to think that a complex thing was done by a clueless person, you should stop, and consider the possibility you might be lacking a clue your
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by LaGrange 9y ago
SQL Alchemy is pretty good at helping you build up complex and dynamic queries. I actually grew into mostly disliking Python, but other languages don't have SQL Alchemy. There are some tools for that in other languages (Squirrel in Go,
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by LaGrange 9y ago
Uh, neither? A good query builder library, though not one that tries to excuse you from knowing actual SQL. If you try writing SQL by hand, you _will_ eventually mess up and introduce SQL injection somewhere.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
Uh, no? I mean, the software you write _may_ be the reason, but it's in no way implied by the fact that you're a "vi user", I've ran fairly large pieces of software from old MacBooks with little problem, though _yes
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by LaGrange 9y ago
I thought so too when these started to get common, but for one reason or another I _never_ had to fix one of these in like 15 years I've lived with them, compared to the almost regular maintenance the old stuff required.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
Some people found out their audiences actually tend to read threads more thoroughly than articles. Personally I've found that Twitter enforces a certain discipline that makes things easier to read. In particular you don't get to d
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by LaGrange 9y ago
> What is the evidence for this? GP's burning vision, of course. I once had my vision burn so hard my landlord charged me for the floor paneling.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
That's crazy talk, every story is about one thing, everything has one clear reason, and there's only one flavour of ice cream, and it's raspberry.
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by LaGrange 9y ago
> It can be reusable and yet unique on each page. And those should get id's, and are not rare at all. I _think_ what's going on here is that, in the, excuse my French, _enterprise_ sector it's very common to have some sort
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by LaGrange 9y ago
Go ahead and allocate and deallocate lots of tiny objects in a short period of time. Depending on GC, you'll either run out of memory, or grind down to a halt.

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