StavrosK

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by StavrosK 5y ago
This article has nothing to do with DIY. It's a simple thing: If you enjoy a hobby, do it for the enjoyment, and not because it saves you money. If you don't enjoy a hobby, don't do it.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> One of the tricks I was told, in public speaking, was to have an eye-catching shirt. Why though?
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Yeah, overusing this is awkward. The main point is not to assign blame, agreed.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Realms of Despair represent!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I was replying to moosebear847, though I didn't notice you had said "vindictive", so I guess that's what they meant too, thanks!
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> You are the exception, you know that right? Sure, but I don't agree that touch typing is "the" technique and that it's impossible that someone else has come up with a better one independently. Touch typing is a good
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Best: We do not speak of mistakes in the active voice ("Stavros made a mistake and added a bug"). We use the passive voice, or the collective "we" ("a bug was mistakenly committed to the code"). Assigning blame
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I agree with you, I've always thought of it like learning to ride a bike without training wheels. It's not "riding a bike without training wheels", it's "riding a bike". If you need to look at the keyboard
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I don't use the home keys , I just know where the keys are. I type with my first three fingers and use the pinky for Shift and Ctrl. I can do 120 wpm and am very accurate at it. When I don't touch-type. I learned touch-typing ye
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I could easily do 120 wpm at 98% accuracy before I switched to touch typing years ago. Now I'm at 80wpm at 95%.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
By "vindication" do you mean "revenge"? Because vindication is absolutely not questionable. Revenge may be questionable, but I find that not teaching bad people a lesson isn't much better.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
There is one, called, err, coil. Coil.com
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by StavrosK 5y ago
You're missing quotation marks around that quote.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Nah, the standard playbook is to keep firing a bunch of employees who run the resource until service degrades, then complain about how badly mismanaged the resource is and extol how perfect it would be to have it be managed by a private com
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Is this post missing the point, or am I? I thought that the point of requiring attestation is to prove that someone actually did go out and buy a legitimate Yubikey (or whatnot) and ban that key if they're spamming. With those two cons
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I definitely can't, I haven't seen a country where it doesn't work the same way as in the UK. I suspect the author gets confused by the tiered tax rates the same way everyone is, where they think that if you make 45,001 GBP
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Exactly, it wanted to show how committed the author is to not acting on changing the future, even though she knew exactly what was going to happen.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
The thing is Slack's UX is geared against that. We can treat it as async, but the moment someone sends a second message about the same topic to the room, you're done, the conversation starts diverging. It's also dog-slow, I h
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by StavrosK 5y ago
The entire cryptocurrency market would collapse and cryptocurrency would become usable again.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Why print money when a private company can just create its own? Just imagine what's going to happen when there's a bank run on Tether.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
So many thanks to you for creating Zulip, I love it to bits.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
My current company uses Slack and I groan every time I have to use it. I miss Zulip greatly.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I think you mean "UI", as in "visuals", because the UX is the best, bar none.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
SPOILERS The single most crucial part of it was the way her daughter died. In the story, she dies in a (very preventable) climbing accident, to make the point that her mother knew about it and could have just told her not to go (or go a bit
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Chernobyl is a fantastic show. They portray the disaster as having more far-reaching consequences than it did, which is a bit annoying, but it's extremely well-made and great to watch.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Hmm, I have an adblocker so I can't say I've seen that pattern much, but you can easily change the display for it with a few lines of CSS.
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by StavrosK 5y ago
I wrote something that might help: https://github.com/skorokithakis/expounder/
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by StavrosK 5y ago
> Good for Italy -- they have no chance of creating a Google, so their best path to tech dollars is a regular cadence of these $100m fines (but not so often that Big Tech exits the Italian market). Are you saying that it's not that
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Yes, exactly. I always want them really quick, because I'm in the middle of a hacky build I'll always make one of. Same for ~all my maker friends, it sucks to leave a build right in the height of motivation to wait for PCBs, so mo
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by StavrosK 5y ago
Probably the same as changing any behavior: First try to notice when you're doing the thing you don't want to be doing, then try to abort when you find yourself doing it. The time between "start" and "abort" wi

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