RHSeeger

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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> But it's not really convenient, especially on a trackpad From my experience, there's nothing convenient about a trackpad; pretty much ever. About the only thing they do better than a normal mouse is scrolling left/right,
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
To add some things... When you have scrolling set to more than one line at a time, the item movement skips down multiple spots at a time. For example, when I click pick and scroll down once, it jumps down two spots (One moves to between Thr
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
Nearly every right is limited in some way "for the good of society". You can't take pictures of the entire contents of a book and publish it. You can't run into an airport and yell that you've got a bomb. We, as a s
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
But "what you saw" isn't necessarily representative of the state of things, either. Arlington, VA is (was?) one of the nicer places in VA; generally expensive, etc. When I drove through there, the van in front of me at a ligh
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
All we _ever_ have is an idea of the correct solution. There's no point at which we can ever say "this is the correct solution", at least not for any moderately sized software problem. That being said, we can say - Given the
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> I truly believe that everyone that says that typing is a chore once they've got the shape of a solution get frustrated by the amount of bad assumptions they've made. To a lot of people (clearly not yourself included), the mos
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> I don't much care about the code itself anymore. I use writing the code as a way to investigate the options and find new ones. By the time I'm sure of the correct way to implement something, half the code is written [1]. At t
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
It is possible to have art and artist be separate things; to acknowledge that that reason a thing was created and/or who it was created by can be looked at separately from the thing itself. This commercial was fun to watch. The Budweis
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> If you agree on that, now imagine that you added another project to the fixtures. Has the testing power of the tests changed just because fixtures have been changed? No, _but_ (and this is a big _but_) you're not testing the contr
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
I want to start by saying that I agree with what you're trying to accomplish here. And I agree with some of the ways you go about it. I'm trying to find the right words to covey what I mean here, but... the best I can come with is
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
Example 1 bothers me. It says > This test has just made it impossible to introduce another active project without breaking it, even if the scope was not actually broken. Add a new variant of an active project for an unrelated test and no
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> It's just not possible (and maybe not economical viable) to build enough software to make everything not suck. Honestly, it's been my experience that there's no motivation to do this, either. Many of the people that buy
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
This feels a lot like "Yeah, but we'll do it anyways until a court makes us stop; because the profit is more than the fine"
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
I feel like we're talking past each other. I'm telling the bank "I want you to give $5 of my money to Bob". I'm not asking them to pass a message to Bob. The entire message is the instructions for the bank to give t
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
Can you speak to this part? > Honestly, I don't understand what argument is that you're not sending a message TO the bank, and they need to be able to read it in order to act on it, and they need to decrypt it to read it. The b
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
Doesn't the anonymous-ness of crypto/zcash make it impossible for the bank to handle fraud (reversing of charges and such)? My understanding is that banks, at least in the US, need to have fairly extensive knowledge relating to al
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
Can you expand on this a bit. It was my understanding that you're telling the bank to pay the vendor (from your money/credit). In that case, the bank certainly needs to know about the transaction... so it can make the payment. Are
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
I would argue it depends on context. E2EE means it's encrypted until the "target" receives it. For a messaging protocol, it's the intended recipient of the message. For what the person you're replying is discussing,
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
The Narcissist's Prayer > That didn’t happen. > And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. > And if it was, that’s not a big deal. > And if it is, that’s not my fault. > And if it was, I didn’t mean it. > And if I did, you de
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> Finally, I really deeply wish to impress upon you the critical importance of due process. It genuinely is All or None. I the number of people who just do not get this staggering.
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
> I don’t really get why people seem convinced that the government is removing protections for all citizens under a smokescreen of illegal immigration handling, as opposed to taking limited and temporary measures to deal with an unusual
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by RHSeeger 10mo ago
To be fair, I only remember because that was the 2nd computer I owned.
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
> the IBM PC XT days (before the 80286) Fun fact - the IBM PC XT also came in a 286 model (the XT 286).
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
> Job training didn’t get shoehorned, a cheap filtering mechanism for people worth betting on to be a good hire got shoehorned While it may not be optimal, there is plenty of training/learning that happens in colleges.
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
I've never done anything like road/construction work. But I've done restaurant work, being on my feet for 8+ hours per day... and mentally, it just doesn't compare to software development. - After a long day of physical
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
Admittedly, there's the responses in this thread with people saying "I'm in <some country that isn't the US> and the market here is bad, too".
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
> never as taxing (mental and physical) as the physical labor I did before I was a programmer I find it... very strange that you think software development is less mentally taxing than physical labor.
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
Mental exhaustion is a thing, too.
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
> Literally the worst job you can find as a programmer today (if you lower you standards and particularly, stay away from cryptocurrency jobs) is 10x better than the non-programmer jobs you can find. This is a ridiculous statement. I kno
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by RHSeeger 11mo ago
Yeah, but "we've been discovering new things for all of history, so there's likely more to discover" seems to a pretty fair assumption.

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