Scarblac

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by Scarblac 4y ago
We did it once with a group of coworkers in the same open office room, it was great. Then I moved to another team in another room and thought I could continue the game as before... Immediately backstabbed by everybody . Bastards.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Yeah, of course, I know. But thinking of good ideas is hard and working on the "how" somehow feels productive, so sometimes I fall into the trap.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam... Apparently "Pendleton Hill" is either "Hill Hill Town Hill" or "Hill Hill Hill Hill" depending on what the root of the -ton
964.
by Scarblac 4y ago
And Australian football, and Rugby football, and Association football that got shortened to "soccer". In England, originally. There are probably more.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Those loitering ammo things from Iran that Russia uses reportedly cost around 35k each, and they have that range. Very easy to shoot down, but an air defense missile costs a lot more than the drone does. And it's China, they are the wo
966.
by Scarblac 4y ago
To be fair my attempts at making a blog rarely make it to a list of ideas, they get stuck at picking a static site technology and theme.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Not forever, eg very old versions of Python cannot install dependencies from PyPI anymore because SSL is stricter nowadays.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
You can't start a _limited liability_ company (a GmbH) to just try something out. Other company types are much easier.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
> In the US a marriage is not a contract. We are not Ferengi. A marriage is a license from the state. That is so strange to me. In many European contracts, by default (unless you modify it with further contracts), marriage makes you co-o
970.
by Scarblac 4y ago
What about people without eyeballs?
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Also people living in countries where the US dollar is actually used will gain much more of a benefit.
972.
by Scarblac 4y ago
Don't we have this with the World Wide Web, since its beginning?
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It's mostly the intended "bonfire of regulation", scrapping thousands of laws protecting consumers etc. Some in government intend the UK to have no tariffs whatsoever. And want to solve everything with austerity.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
A way to deal with really perplexing bugs is to just carefully explain the code to an actual rubber duck. "This code is obviously correct, right duck? Look here, this line first does x, then y happens and here... Wait a minute, that do
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Urban Dance Squad.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
That's one thing, the other is the almost complete absence of a standard library.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
And they're allowed because contributing to a campaign is considered speech, I think? The US has the right to free bribing.
978.
by Scarblac 4y ago
Try to eat fewer meals with meat first. Find recipes, try them a few days of the week. That already helps.
979.
by Scarblac 4y ago
I think the causes are often outside the job - young kids, marriage.
980.
by Scarblac 4y ago
He's talking about doing something about it in his job , instead of complaining about it on HN.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
And tomatoes!
982.
by Scarblac 4y ago
Sounds like the problem isn't so much with the assignment, but with the idea that assignments only have value if they are graded.
983.
by Scarblac 4y ago
But is Kubernetes imaginable?
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by Scarblac 4y ago
I recognize what you're saying and I miss that part of office life a bit too. But not having the commute, and thus having over two hours per day that I can spend on more sleep, more time with my family and more time to work, that&#x2
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Article is about a new suburb that was planned in 2006, so nothing to do with those old days. The Netherlands was really car centric in the 50s and 60s, activism in the 70s turned it around and since then it's gradually becoming more b
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Outside Assen, people use cars. And bikes for recreation. The discussion is about travel within the town though (the people live in the same suburb where the school is as well, or close to it).
987.
by Scarblac 4y ago
You can build new ones. Why always all this fatalism from US people when improvements are discussed? Richest country on Earth, nothing can be done about problems.
988.
by Scarblac 4y ago
They haven't. For instance, China hasn't even recognized Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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by Scarblac 4y ago
Speaking as a NW European: talking to random people and asking them random questions is like the perfect way to stand out as a foreigner, probably American :-) Eat in silence and leave others to their own, that's the key to the local c
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by Scarblac 4y ago
It's going to depend on whether the team agrees that the person is terrible though. In recent years our management let go of two people because of "bad performance". In one case that was probably a fair assessment. The other

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