Splognosticus

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by Splognosticus 6y ago
> It is Bob’s job to get you signed with the company as cheaply as possible... Strictly speaking, this is not necessarily the case (although it might be, but you probably won't make a career at such a company.) Bob's job is to
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
It hasn’t been all that sudden—rather it’s been snowballing. You had stuff like the Clinton Body Bags clear back in the 90’s, Fox was hammering on the outrage button, sites like Breitbart took that to eleven, Trump took advantage of that to
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
Here I think is the difference between a book and a live person: The show’s producers say the program is meant as an educational tool to fight body shaming and encourage body positivity. And so first reluctantly, later enthusiastically,
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
I've written quite a bit of Groovy code and IME that never changes. It's a very pragmatic and productive language, but whenever you run into some bug or weird edge case you'll rue the day James Strachan was born. :)
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
Which makes sense when you think about it for a moment. Being an expert Java developer doesn't make you good at--or necessarily even interested in becoming good at--legalese.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
This is something I really like about the recent direction of JVM languages. It takes a bit for useful things to make their way into Java itself, but by the time they do they're well-shaken and we can see how they got used in practice.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
It's dumbfounding how awful bank websites are at security. They started with the stupidest conceivable way to implement two-factor--a second clear-text password that is an answer to a very small number of secret questions. Then they li
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
This is an overly broad statement. Everywhere I've worked where I'm expected to be reachable by phone offered a stipend to pay for the service. And all of them were respectful of my personal time. An abusive employer is going to m
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
You can also get the actual arcade boards and cartridges relatively easily. LGR posted a video on his NeoGeo setup a little while back if anybody's interested in going that route. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eqi30E
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
If we really need help from the Mafia in order to fix income inequality then we truly are screwed. :P
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
Indeed this would be the fourth time they successfully switched architectures. They went from m68k, to PPC, to x86. Apple is in a pretty unique position in that they make both their hardware and software ecosystem. It gives them a lot of fl
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
> Beethoven: Sonata No 14 (aka Moonlight Sonata), 1st Movement Speaking of, anyone who's never heard the whole thing owes it to themselves to give it a listen. The 3rd movement is off the chain. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
His Megalovania cover is great too. https://youtu.be/1MJ2g7Eb0QE
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
If you like these you might also enjoy the Wintergatan Marble Machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
That's true of everybody who's passed econ-101, of course.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
There's a pretty substantial difference between immigration and conquest. The former in no way requires the latter.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
Literally nobody is arguing that there ought to be no immigration laws at all. But obviously we can treat the families of natural born citizens better without completely letting the whole system fall to anarchy.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
It's a shame really. I bet GP would never say something so cruel to OP's face, but somehow when it's just words on a screen folks lose all sense of empathy and civility.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
Personally I just use Shift-Shift for practically everything. Saves me learning someone else's keymap or dealing with platform-specific bindings, and there are quite a few useful commands that aren't bound to keys anyway.
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by Splognosticus 6y ago
Huh, never realized that was a thing. Do the shortcuts in the menu show the QWERTY key or the Dvorak one? I'm curious how you learn the shortcuts if it still shows the QWERTY keys.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Fair point, but considering OpenBSD's goal is to be absolutely secure and NetBSD's goal is to "just work" on basically anything you want to run it on reconciling that would be at least as much work as just forking and th
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Or option 4a, where like me you have it but for whatever reason it bluescreens with an unhelpfully generic error on first boot.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Why not just actually use comments? If it's worth explaining to new developers it'll likely be useful later when you've simply forgotten why something is the way it is.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I'd count the OpenBSD split as a net positive though. They're now different projects with different goals, both worthy in their own respects.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I wear shirts with breast pockets and the part with the light extends past the top of them.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I use Siri to set alarms and timers since that's far and away more convenient than opening the app and switching to the right tab and futzing with the time dial. If I've got my phone in my pocket and my hands full it's helpfu
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Ah yeah he's got a fair few of that kind of video--basically one from each major era of PCs all the way back to the original XT. His whole channel is great. He's so enthusiastic about all of this retro hardware and software. Even
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
It's not Windows 95, but a while back LGR did try installing MS-DOS 6.22[1] on a modern gaming PC. Things got weird basically immediately but it did more or less work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS9hiSwL1KY
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Another endorsement for Brother printers here. I actually just kind of default to their stuff at this point, because they invariably just do their job with no drama.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
That must be what I was thinking of, thanks!

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