NateEag

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by NateEag 5y ago
I have tried writing for the sheer love and joy of words many times. I rarely get good results, but I have certainly enjoyed trying. I work hard to avoid fancy words in my writing these years. I value clarity over ornament in most of what I
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by NateEag 5y ago
I was referring to u/fao_, yes. You're right that it was a shallow dismissal and not a constructive critical comment. I'm sorry for that poor behavior. Thanks for calling me out. For the record, I picked up the first book of
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yes - you validate the email address to improve your UX. It reduces the odds of the user giving you a wrong email address then having to either jump through more hoops to get signed up or give up. You're absolutely right that the acid
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by NateEag 5y ago
It'd be nice if someone taking joy in writing was at least acceptably mediocre at wordsmithing.
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by NateEag 5y ago
All that said, there are a number of really good email validators out there in the wild. One of the oldest can be found at http://isemail.info/about , (along with a test suite to write your own implementation and some sage a
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by NateEag 5y ago
So, yes - similar to TRAMP in Emacs: https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
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by NateEag 5y ago
https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/
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by NateEag 5y ago
> And yeah PM's are useless wastes of space, but I'm glad they are there to help the rest of us ineffectually get the next Frankenstein up and limping. I have worked in several positions where there was no project manager. Doin
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https://norris.org.au/cattack/
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Yup, definitely not a felony. But I stand by my claim that Disney pursues copyright lawsuits harder than the government prosecutes some felonies.
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by NateEag 5y ago
Yup: https://www.copyrightuser.org/create/creative-process/going-... It's often hard to win melodic copyright violation suits, because IIRC you have to show intent to copy, not just they the melodies are simi
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by NateEag 5y ago
It's probably a copyright violation, in which case you can expect the Disney cartel to pursue it more aggressively than the US government pursues felony charges.
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by NateEag 5y ago
For anyone interested in social systems that help avoid this top-down, centralized failure mode, I cannot recommend RFC 7282 enough: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282 A whole lot of wisdom is captured
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And those types of universal standards arrive by a process not unlike evolution - everyone who wants to has a crack at the problem and the solutions compete for a painful decade or two. Eventually a winner emerges from the top few frontrunn
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by NateEag 5y ago
My favorite litmus test for "Big Data" is https://yourdatafitsinram.net . If you can fit it into RAM on a single machine, you probably shouldn't be using complex distributed systems for working with it. The develop
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by NateEag 5y ago
> To add my two cents, peace is not simply lack of war, it's an active way of being. Reminds me of the Hebrew word "shalom": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom
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by NateEag 5y ago
> If there was value in permanently pushing it all the way, would the body have evolved to leave it at baseline? Sure. Evolution is not a designer. I'm no biologist, but I think it's pretty clear that evolution gets stuck in lo
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by NateEag 5y ago
Definitely happens. Composting guides tell you not to compost raw potato peels because instead of a nutrient-rich compost pile you'll grow a bunch of potatoes and they'll get much of the good stuff from the pile. That said, I supp
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by NateEag 5y ago
Wow, this is fascinating. I do not recall hearing of this workaround before. Thanks!
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> If we start from the principle that everything makes sense... > > So, what are we not seeing? Not everything makes sense. Humans are not rational creatures. We are complicated things that are far more driven by emotions than by d
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by NateEag 5y ago
s/worried/wordier/
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by NateEag 5y ago
sure thing. Glad to have introduced you to it!
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I've never heard of this ability. Do you have a link describing it? I've been maintaining an iOS app generation framework at $DAYJOB, and I've never found a way to run Xcode builds on physical devices short of actually regis
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by NateEag 5y ago
StreetComplete is a wonderful Android app for contributing to the OpenStreetMap project: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete The UX is good enough that my five year old can use it (with a little help to re
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by NateEag 5y ago
I've been trying to automate my smartphone configuration and backup lately. I use a lot of apps from F-droid, and was pleased to discover fdroidcl: https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl I now have a script that instal
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by NateEag 5y ago
I think iOS devices are much more secure than a Linux desktop. Any iOS device that has not been registered with Apple for use on a dev team or rooted can run only built-in apps and ones instslled from the iOS Store. That means it can only r
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Okay, interesting. Thanks for sharing!
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Though no one has ever written either of those sentences for any reason other than to put up a strawman to tear down in their defense of grammar. I'm a fan of learning grammar well, to be clear, and wish mine were better, but this is n
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Well... you can read it. I might be wrong, but so far I think it's been pretty easy to tell if text came from a human or a deep-learning system. Granted, that probably doesn't scale well.
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Not sure if GP is serious or joking. Russia's history has been half-jokingly summarised as "the search for a warm-water port." https://www.jstor.org/stable/44642451

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