LaGrange

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by LaGrange 7y ago
Eeh. It might be perception, but I feel like it was the other way around — around the time iPhone came out, a lot of apps eschewed compliance in favour of achieving clearer identity. I think that cleared the way for electron — I actually va
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This is not blaming young people, though admittedly it's keeping its context implicit, which isn't helpful. This is a reaction to _way_ too many articles and posts that went "don't worry, coronavirus ain't so bad, o
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...rule one of accessibility is let the user configure how they access your content, and you just chose to override that. So that's a pretty weak excuse.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> If your boss is taking the time to give you a 1-on-1, then there is an opportunity for both sides to listen to each other. Naw, there's an opportunity for your boss to divide & conquer, and for you to screw over your coworkers
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Depending on the customer and the work, I might not — or, to be more precise, I might only know some aspects of the product's quality based on what the customer tells me. Or I might only directly know whether certain aspects of what I&
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> This is what kill files were for, which every half-decent news reader of the time had (something that's still lacking in most contemporary web forums). ...that just didn't work, as I even wrote: with active trolls _most_ thre
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by LaGrange 7y ago
4chan was started by people too awful for Something Awful, and I mean you're self-aware enough to recognise that they used slurs to scare people off, so you _know_ it was always a horrible place.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> I'm too young to have been a part of Usenet, but it seems to me that there's no good way to recreate the space described in the article without keeping most people out. Hahahah no. So the biggest problem of usenet wasn't
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> As I'm sure you know, not everyone trying to socialize is out to get you No, I mean, it might be hard to imagine to a person who believes into might makes right as strong as you apparently do, but a couple of tiny restrictions ac
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Okay, this is a narrative that is occurring in your head, but it's not occurring in everyone's head, Oh, for sure, I'm not saying this approach won't work for you. I'm saying that if you're using that appr
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> People assume that even at networking, social gatherings, or speed dating events. Doesn't matter what their initial impression is as you can change their later impression. They literally wrote "cold approach," so no, thi
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Kinda. It's easy to just say whatever comes to your mind. Actual honesty requires introspection and self-criticism, learning honesty _to yourself_, if you will.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I like this answer because it starts with finding a setting that the other strangers chose likely to meet some strangers, instead of finding ways to lock some random person in a conversation. It's the first sign of basic respect that c
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> "Hi , my name is .. <reach out hand for handshake>. What you've been up today?" ...why is this guy randomly talking to me? Are they selling something? > - Start conversion with something you notice about the oth
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by LaGrange 7y ago
It's good that they don't. I'm fine waiting a bit longer for a slightly better charger port.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...I'd reject any job offer in IT requiring certification anyway, and while I like spite as much as the next gal, I don't think it's worth as much as a certification costs.
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...and, in case of IT, it's a great example how some doors are best left unopened.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...good thing that there's pretty much no one making them, then. There's plenty of people saying that it effectively augments documentation, and provides a form of it that's quite useful.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> There are no (stable) alternatives. BTRFS certainly not, as it's "under heavy development"¹ (since... forever). Note that they don't mean "it's unstable," just "there are significant improvements
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by LaGrange 7y ago
The difference between a snapshot being a backup and not being a backup is literally the guarantees made by the provider. If the snapshot feature is documented as a backup, it is DOCUMENTED AS A BACKUP. Unless, of course, I suspect the prov
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by LaGrange 7y ago
They literally use the word "backup." I wouldn't _normally_ expect snapshots to function as backups, but once they market them as such, I do. Yeah, sure, it's probably yet another case of a sales team getting over eager
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> "the hardware you use to listen to the music is worth more than the music itself" ...at which point it's reasonable to maybe stop conflating price with value.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Whats nice about it is that it not only is a very capable VCS but also a complete project management tool with tickets/issues, wiki, blog, mailing list and user management. That is not nice. That is way more things that might not
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> It's an incredibly awful community where players will initiate votekicks simply for getting killed ...lol, that's nothing, expect people getting kicked for having a feminine voice.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
The 2fa has to provide something more than a password to be worthwhile. If it's easily defeated by growing through my copy of Capital then it's not worthwhile. Finally, I don't have a single set of recovery codes, I have at l
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...there are other 2fa methods that don't disable at least one "personal" factors, whether that's a password or using finger/face/whatever. Not that great against cops, but stands a chance against many abusers,
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...oh yes, having your passwords printed out is such a great improvement. Considering how likely the "hacker" is to be a person sharing your household, you might as well put them on a post-it note and stick them to the screen. Rec
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"Be minimalist and don't use third party libraries and services. Except for ours. Use ours, because we don't have two decades of cruft under our belt excuse me, we're /minimal/. The article kinda uses a langu
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Other way around: if the hotel gives lower prices _elsewhere_ we'd lose out on price comparison sites.
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...which is pretty big. Back when I was with them (long time ago), a big thing internally was enforcing hotel prices (i.e. the hotel couldn't offer a room for cheaper). Basically there was the feeling that it got us a lot of bad blood

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