Shish2k

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by Shish2k 7y ago
> No, He is talking about the laptop not getting enough power while plugged in. That’s what I’m talking about too > If there was any added weight it would be with the charger, not the laptop so… Whether it’s charger or laptop, that’s
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> Isn't this bad design? It’s a trade-off - they COULD build a laptop which can run everything at 100% 24/7 indefinitely, but it’d be heavier and more expensive, with zero benefits to their target audience of "people who o
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Just this Sunday I used an M5-sized drill bit from one manufacturer, in a drill from a second manufacturer, and the hole that I drilled was EXACTLY the right size for my M5-sized bolts from a third manufacturer. After recently spending thre
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by Shish2k 7y ago
(Full disclosure: FB Engineer, not in HR) - last I checked the standard thing for engineers was to be hired for a very generic role (eg “software engineer”); being interviewed by people with the same role. No aiming for (or trying to avoid)
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> yeah FAANGs suck at looking at you as a person […] almost no interviewer ever looks at your resume I feel like I’m missing your point here... you are correct - when I’m doing a coding interview, I don’t care if you’re black or white, m
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I actually spent the past 3 days attempting to migrate my DIY “docker instances managed by systemd” setup to k8s, and found getting started to be a huge pain in the ass, eventually giving up when none of the CNIs seemed to work (my 3 physic
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Sure, running untrusted code will never be 100% safe. But visiting a random website is 99% safe where running random .exe’s is 1% safe. Neither is perfect, but in practice, one is good enough for most situations and the other isn’t.
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> we don't require Readability. I assume from capitalisation and context that Readability is some very specific and very strict set of rules? I’m curious what would be there that would be so offputting...
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> A major, hugely successful product, that is in the market for 32 years, and has seen many implementations, both on client as well as on server side, must be "mature". No?! No. HTTP/HTML are mature ; IRC is just old :P
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> Anything you can do manually can be scripted with python Moreso - the tool tip for each button / text box lists the python code needed to call that function / edit that value - so it’s not just “anything that can be done manu
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Unless you use a loyalty card at the same time ;)
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> not gonna get burned by the cloud! Surely if the problem is "the cloud disappeared", that's more a case of sunburn? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> Garbage disposal work [...] doesn't cause long-term damage Fun fact: it's actually the 6th most deadly job in America Raw data source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150208215521/https://www
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by Shish2k 7y ago
"Forced" is a weirdly charged word - like "garbage disposal workers forced to sign statement acknowledging that their work will involve handling garbage". What's the alternative here? Yeah, it's awful, dirty wo
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Realms Of Despair ( http://www.smaug.org/ ) is still running - last major update 2002, last update at all 2010 :P `nc realmsofdespair.com 4000` A CLI interface with no readline support; an MMO where you need to manually save
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by Shish2k 7y ago
FWIW there's a Stand Alone Complex movie, which is basically just the central plot of the series, with the side-stories edited out. I love the side-stories, but the movie is definitely easier to watch :)
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Some mutually-exclusive points here, but I'm not expecting 100% accuracy anyway :P * The top 100 entertainment, tech, and consumable brands are all subsidiaries of Disney, Alphabet, or Nestle respectively * Owning things becomes a nich
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> But, nobody is forcing them Very few people are "forced" to do any job - unless you count things like "needing to pay rent and buy food", in which case we're all being forced. Either way, I'd say they dese
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by Shish2k 7y ago
The current title is a quadrouple-negative: Supreme Court Won't (Negative) Hear Case (Which implies a desire to reverse the status quo) on Ban (Negative) Against (Negative) Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces I'd try and get that t
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by Shish2k 7y ago
> Reading a bit of mainframe history would do some good it seems. I wonder if anyone has a list of awesome mainframe features so that we know what modern computing is going to "invent" next? :P (See also: hot-swappable parts, v
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I am the primary account holder; though I'm living in Ireland if that makes any difference due to regional restrictions...?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Paying per episode or not? I've got Amazon Prime (aka free shipping) with amazon.co.uk, but I still need to pay for individual episodes of the expanse from Amazon's video site
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I work there and I would feel bad if I could repro that issue, but it seems like a totally normal link for me, having checked chrome, firefox, and safari :S On mobile, clicking that link opens up the mobile app (which sends the browser with
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by Shish2k 7y ago
How I wish the problem were only breaking the "web" - these days, blocking tracking scripts on my router ends up breaking my desktop applications ... (Example of the day, Parsec; example from yesterday, NVidia's driver-upd
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by Shish2k 7y ago
>> it feels like a reasonable argument that humanity is like a paperclip-optimizing AI > I was thinking of it like a mating display. What is "life", if not a paperclip-optimising AI applied to our own DNA?
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Is "Why don't you just use sshd?" actually objectively more useful than "Would there be any tradeoffs using sshd here?"
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by Shish2k 7y ago
You're arguing "you don't have a [legal/moral] right" (which is true) They're arguing "it's a victimless crime" (which is also true) These are related things, but they aren't contradictory
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by Shish2k 7y ago
I give it 2-3 more years of people saying "this is impossible" before Lennart does it and makes everyone mad
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by Shish2k 7y ago
As someone who spent the past week working on database abstractions, I'm pretty sure this is impossible - you can find Basic SQL books, and you can find Advanced Postgres / Advanced MySQL / Advanced Oracle :P The basic book w
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by Shish2k 7y ago
Amen to that. I wonder how good the signal-noise ratio would be on a lint rule to specify "error messages may not be static strings, you need at least one variable" :P (Maybe not for strictly resource constrained systems - but for

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