Shog9

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by Shog9 9mo ago
I was writing like a robot before robots could write, dammit!
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by Shog9 9mo ago
This sounds plausible - I grew up in the Midwestern US, and thus "vaguely passive-aggressive" is pretty much my native language. The hardest part of the job for me was remembering to communicate in an overtly aggressive manner w
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by Shog9 9mo ago
Nail guns are great. For nails that fit into them and spaces they fit into. But if you can't hit a nail with a hammer, you're limited to the sort of tasks that can be accomplished with the nail guns and gun-nails you have with you
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by Shog9 9mo ago
There was definitely a bit of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy [0] at work. I worked there during a lot of the drama you allude to, and... It sucked, for everyone. But also... For most of SO's history, the vast majority of visi
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by Shog9 11mo ago
It's a solution. There are better solutions, and far worse solutions (anyone who has worked to get a deposit back on a college rental has probably developed a few of their own), and most of them are all still fine because drywall isn
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by Shog9 11mo ago
Android works great - lets you select the # and then gives you a context menu with the option to call (or copy, or search). ...unless someone made the phone # a tel: protocol link, in which case it has the selection behavior of any other li
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by Shog9 11mo ago
FWIW, you can generally figure out what's allowed fairly quickly by checking the content model for a given element[1]. Some browsers might be more or less restrictive, but for normal usage this'll be more than enough to avoid unex
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by Shog9 11mo ago
It does not. What it does do is submit the form, so if you trigger some fast change to the page or async behavior from the click event, you may never see it because the submission happens and the page reloads (or a different page loads if
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by Shog9 1y ago
Your control for this test should be (and maybe was, you don't say) running the furnace circulation fan without running the burner. CO2 levels are unlikely to be uniform throughout a building, and thus mixing will change (raise, lower)
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by Shog9 1y ago
Better variable frequency drives for both fans and compressor is a big part of it (see other comments about being less prone to short-cycling). This isn't exactly new or unique to heat pumps (and some older heat pumps lack both), but
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by Shog9 1y ago
Oh sure. 20 years ago I used VMs and that was also a duct tape solution. I'd have hoped for a proper solution by now, but a lighter hack works too
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by Shog9 1y ago
Reproducibility? No. Not having to regularly rebuild the whole dev environment because I need to work on one particular Python app once a quarter and its build chain reliably breaks other stuff? Priceless.
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by Shog9 1y ago
Digg rather famously did have both followers and "influencers", though not in quite the same sense that those creatures are known today. Arguably its failure to limit the impact of both are what led to the forms we see today. Ther
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by Shog9 1y ago
IOW, a few sharks eat a tremendous number of minnows. Something I try to remember whenever the urge to "hustle" comes back: taking payoff I got from years of startup work, subtracting taxes and spread across those years... Still p
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by Shog9 1y ago
Text selection is such a great example precisely because it is incredibly useful to have in many unexpected situations (and a great many more that should be expected), but UI designers as a rule do not think about these situations! It is
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by Shog9 1y ago
TBF, Turbo Vision was also a better toolkit than most of what was available for '90s GUI systems. Or a lot of '00 GUI systems. ...hell, native apps are still more likely to be crap than not. Good UIs are hard and programmers are l
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by Shog9 1y ago
My observation, after using LG TVs at countless hotels (occasionally internet-connected), AirBnBs (usually internet connected) and at home (never internet-connected) is that even in quite old TVs the UI is blazing fast until you connect it
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by Shog9 1y ago
No. We don't have a cure for autism. We don't have a prevention for autism. We don't have a clear cause for autism beyond recognizing that genetics play a role. We don't even have a clear picture of the scope; one reas
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by Shog9 1y ago
Funny you mention fraud... I worked for a company for quite a while that was absolutely dedicated to WFH for engineering - but swore up and down that sales just couldn't work without "bullpen" office setups. Come to find ou
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by Shog9 1y ago
Which is why companies that tell you what you'll pay up-front (Amazon, eBay) have made life hard for "traditional" sellers. Your sheep are tired of being fleeced.
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by Shog9 1y ago
Which is possibly the bigger deal. Every time I shop at a specialty provider I end up frustrated by their lack of clarity around shipping costs - many will actually force you to go through the entire order process before giving you a shippi
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by Shog9 1y ago
Even before "online" was an option, folks were fleeing high prices in high rent districts for cheaper goods on the outskirts. Heck, I remember folks banding together to get in on bulk buys decades ago, when that was neither conven
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by Shog9 2y ago
Bigger, fewer, more chill cells, fairly robust trenchcoat. (IIRC, these packs are 16 100ah LiFePO4 cells in a steel case w/ built-in fuse, breaker, and BMS that monitors individual cell health and pack temperature, w/ automatic cu
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by Shog9 2y ago
If you want strictness, use a linter or a pretty-printer that follows your preferred style. Adopting an opinionated parser means you can't lint or pretty-print input from those with different opinions (I do not like underscores for e
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by Shog9 2y ago
There are plenty of businesses that can and do compete with online, or do both (using their distributed inventory to reduce the time it takes to ship online orders). But saddling a retail company with tons of debt makes much, much harder; p
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by Shog9 2y ago
It's been a while since I've used it, but IIRC this is actually my favorite feature: it encourages the use of stylesheets vs ad-hoc formatting. As annoying as it is in the moment, when it comes time to integrate multiple documents
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by Shog9 2y ago
The battery life is probably not an issue in practice; the author estimates 5 hours per charge - assuming a very conservative 2000-cycle life for the pack, that's 10,000 hours of work, which is quite respectable. Yes, a private owner m
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by Shog9 2y ago
As Evan points out in TFA, this has happened before. I'll add that it has happened more than a few times. Past response was to shut down inappropriate behavior in the now (folks rambling on about the person in comments under some progr
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by Shog9 2y ago
Sadly, ridiculously expensive for fairly limited cargo utility, no doubt due to their ATV heritage ($30k will get you what is essentially a posh ATV that is simultaneously an extremely janky vehicle by kei truck standards.)
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by Shog9 2y ago
BMWs aren't that common anywhere in the US - if they were, they'd stop being a status symbol. That said, they're also not uncommon - a quick look at registration data suggests ~8% of cars "on the road" are BMWs,

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