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by Shog9 3y ago
TBF, this can also be true in C++, C#, probably most languages that can interoperate with other systems not written 100% in the same language + same runtime. After a while, you just get used to not trusting anything at the boundary - type
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by Shog9 3y ago
Yep. If you drive around through any of these towns, upon leaving in any direction you'll encounter a mobile home park down the road just a ways, tucked into a valley or next to a railroad, somewhere the views aren't as valuable a
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by Shog9 3y ago
This. It didn't start with the pandemic or WFH - in the two decades I spent in Colorado, I heard similar stories from just about everyone I met who lived (or more often, used to live ) in the various ski towns. I loved living in Color
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by Shog9 3y ago
The other advantages of buying a recipe book: - you can take notes in the margins - you can find your favorite recipes quickly because the pages are all stained and wrinkled - you can reward the author for all the time they spent testing an
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by Shog9 3y ago
I'd argue not just outsourcing, but ensuring that nobody gets to benefit from past labor or collective effort. By constantly varying prices and tailoring prices to the time, location and even the individual, efforts to shop around to f
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by Shog9 3y ago
For the benefit of others who don't want to click an opaque video link: > Ryan Tubridy grills Ryanair mogul, Michael O' Leary, on the multiple rumours, observations and comments surrounding the low fare airline and he certainly
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by Shog9 3y ago
You may be misunderstanding the concern expressed on that page. A button communicates action when activated; a link communicates navigation (not necessarily "load new page", perhaps just "show new information on current scree
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by Shog9 3y ago
Could be, but mostly isn't. This thread and others like it are always full of folks lamenting that some other markup language isn't as popular or well-supported or both, even though said language has more features, a better spec,
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by Shog9 4y ago
It's trivial to imagine, if you've ever worked on a car, had a "car guy" neighbor, lived near a service shop, etc. Many cars are neither quiet nor do they confine their emissions to property boundaries.
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by Shog9 5y ago
IIRC, the danger with storing lithium batteries at a low SoC is that they do have some small amount of self-discharge and can eventually drop to levels that cause severe degradation - and potentially catastrophic failure when next charged.
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by Shog9 6y ago
There is no "fix", IMHO - just as in physical societies, maintaining infrastructure takes a lot of boring work that never ends as long as people still use it. That said... There were and are a lot of things that could make it less
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by Shog9 6y ago
The core of the problem there is that for Gregg, "this site might be helpful" is an understatement; he knows there is a good chance that it will be helpful, that there is direct relevance... ...and then there are the legions of fo
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by Shog9 6y ago
Yeah, this doesn't surprise me. The login system at SO is unnecessarily complex - by which I mean that the complexity of the interface does not match the complexity of the underlying system, because while both have been redesigned seve
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by Shog9 6y ago
Gonna clarify here, because that description is a bit misleading: this wasn't a route that allowed viewing sent emails, it was a route that allowed viewing what would be sent if a password reset was requested. The story behind that r
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by Shog9 6y ago
One possible hitch: if you lose ALL your coolant, you might have a hard time monitoring your engine temperature, as the usual temp gauge monitors coolant temp. Might still be fine, but... By the time you know it ain't, could easily be
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by Shog9 6y ago
The choice is an illusion. Both strategies require understanding the requirements implicit in the current system. The first just assumes many of them are low-priority; this is frequently a dodgy assumption. So, regardless of which path you
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by Shog9 6y ago
The example you picked - NYC - has by far the highest population density in the country. This was one of the major factors cited by the article here; it would seem to lend credence to the "why".
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by Shog9 6y ago
This is where the "dying metaphor" thing comes into play: AOL was a walled garden in the sense that I outlined - like so many other early online services (and BBSs), it had walls to protect its members. That was the original sense
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by Shog9 6y ago
This is yet another one of those situations where the use of a dying metaphor[0] hurts communication; you wall up a garden to protect what is inside from the harsh conditions outside: wind, cold, vermin... The implication is that the people
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by Shog9 6y ago
Good cautionary note, thanks. Yes, please, anyone looking to go this route should do their research first - I'm not kidding about the tiny doses required, they sell very dilute solutions for use in very large animals; a little dog pote
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by Shog9 6y ago
A couple relevant bits of info about MathOverflow: - The site is operated by Stack Overflow/Exchange, but is owned by MathOverflow, Inc a non-profit corporation[0]. As such, it retains the right to exist independently of the Stack Ov
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by Shog9 6y ago
Dog heartworm pills are a MASSIVE rip-off. The active ingredient - ivermectin - can be purchased without prescription at any farm supply shop in sufficient quantity to last several dogs' lifetimes with plenty to spare. The maintenance
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by Shog9 6y ago
Unfortunately, the exchange rate for converting slivers of dev time into hardware is... Unfavorable. And up until two days ago[0], Stack Overflow was running on fumes - shedding staff, perks, equipment to keep the ship afloat. I know of fol
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by Shog9 6y ago
I'm sure there are better options. OTOH... I was at SO for about 9 years, and the system described existed for all of it - predating GraphQL, predating even ElasticSearch. There's stuff built on top of it that was never envisioned
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by Shog9 6y ago
> unless, of course it's a bug that ... is similarly rare... I'll give an example: a bug in the revision ordering logic that could be triggered by two edits being submitted almost simultaneously where one of the editors had mad
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by Shog9 6y ago
Curious what use-cases you're envisioning here. Having worked with the system described in the past, it's quite flexible: data can be easily pulled out into more specialized systems for aggregation or trend analysis, while the raw
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by Shog9 7y ago
Maybe, but... Twitter actually has a mobile website. You can argue - and I would agree - that "request desktop site" should give you what you asked for, but there's still a difference between "here is the mobile web UI
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by Shog9 7y ago
Prolly this: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/370/ruining-it-for-the-rest...
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by Shog9 7y ago
There has been a bit of research on this[1]: > I qualitatively analyzed the top 50 clones in that list and was able to identify the source (or at least a source) of the snippets in most of the cases. [1]: https://meta.stackove
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by Shog9 8y ago
You could even skip the "sorry I can't comment" bit; just as well to introduce with, "this is what I had to do to make [other answer] work". Answers are kinda the whole point after all; no shame in writing them...

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