MrVandemar

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by MrVandemar 4y ago
I refer to the fact that, however beautifully typeset the document is, the substance of the document is abhorrent and objectionable. So: a beautifully presented piece of horrific fucking shit. I'm not American either (thank goodness).
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
> Upon reading the supreme court's Dobbs v. Jackson Decision, I was quite intrigued by its meticulous, book-like typesetting. Apparently you can polish a turd.
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
I also do this, but I don't like my browser cluttered up with thousands of accumulated bookmarks, many of which I don't return to. So I export them every month, delete the embedded favicons, and then wipe. If I want to find someth
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
An excellent and considered reply. When I say that Rust seems obtuse, I mean I've been bashing my head against its philosophy and syntax for some time without reaching the magic "hey this works and I'm suddenly productive&quo
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
I'm in the market for a new compiled language. Rust seems obstuse. I was toying with picking up Go but haven't committed yet. I want to write a Roguelike. I'm here and listening to you. Sell me on it.
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
I use an aggressively minnimal set of (valid) HTML because I prefer to write in HTML rather than Markdown-flavour-x. Omitting the closing tags where possible is less about saving keystrokes than minnimising interruptions to my writing flow.
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
Makes me wonder if the person who made the comment had themselves written a compiler, or, as I suspect, not.
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
I don't know what this says, but the English words that stand out remind me of a quote from the original Hitch Hikers, somewhat of a paraphrase of Orwell's Lesson of Newspeak: "The best way not to be unhappy, is not to have a
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
Yes! Plain python is almost always crystal clear and self explanatory. But "idiomatic python" which people seem to compete to be "more idiomatic than thou" is none of these things. It's actually a barrier to learnin
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
In the end, it's whoever pays for the rights. I think it was a piece of music from another film, also by 20th Century Fox, that they used as a temp track, and Scott liked it so much he made it happen. Goldsmith was not best pleased. It
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
I think Scott did this to Jerry Goldsmith for ALIEN as well, except Jerry wasn't happy about reusing music.
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
The world is full of interesting people doing interesting things, who come with interesting problems, who don't even know there might be a software solution for it. On a tiny scale, I'm a programmer. I happen to be between program
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
You misunderstand Tyler's philosophy -- he's railing against the idea your job and your identity should be the same thing. They definitely shouldn't be. Here's a hypothetical concersation, loosely cribbed from an old cri
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
> If the person creating this website are reading: Please do not pop up a "sign up for newsletter" pop up before one can even take one decent look at the article. Or ever.
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
Don't you love English. The langauge where polar opposites "sucks" and "blows" can mean in the right context exactly the same thing .
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
It's still littering. Used toilet-paper is biodegradable too. Would you care if I threw some on your lawn? Anyway, throwing away food is appalling. It costs a titanic amount of resources to grow, make, manufacture, transport, package a
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
Others have said, but spending time with your spouse is important. But, equally important (and it's a big part of having a good relationship) make sure you're stepping up and pitching in around the home with the chores. Nobody li
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by MrVandemar 4y ago
Curious. I built a site in Vanilla PHP that lives solely on my laptop for now, for much the same reason. The reason it's not live to the world is that I couldn't find anything considered "best practice" for secure user a
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
It's terrible. It's called "littering". And you're modelling it for them as "adult behavior". No. No .
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
I haven't looked into it I'm afraid. However, if any of what you're looking at is tree planting, remember: * "Planting a tree" implies a mature tree in 20 years time. Actually, it means someone dug a hole and put a
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
I don't know about ethics, as such, but you, as a consumer, can make decisions that are better than others. For example: it's better for your health to eat pasture-raised, free-range animals (and stay well away from feedlot raised
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
That's not how it goes. Not if you're attributing it to Robert Burns, anyway, "The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!"
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
Doubleplus cool idea. What's the podcast?
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
It's a lost battle I fear: Java is not coffee; Swift is not to move quickly; an Apple is not something you eat; 'C' is not a letter of the alphabet; Google is not a large number; Python, Pelican, and Gnu are not animals, and
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
I wonder if it has the walking tiles bug? Crazy, but it made the game kind of fun back in the day (if a little preposterous).
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
There's a free short course on Udemy somewhere from Peter Barker who is a professional voice over artist. That's worth looking up - there's a section that covers correcting and improving a lot of common speech problems, from
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
Not just proof read it, but read every word out loud. You'll pick up mistakes, awkward sentence structure, poor word choices that you never would by reading it silently. Reading alound means you don't skim.
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The impact of binge watching on memory and perceived comprehension(firstmonday.org)
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by MrVandemar 5y ago
I browse with as little javascript as I can get away with and I'm sorely tempted to wrap my entire site content in <noscript> tags.