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by TOGoS 5y ago
> But something about the name of this award rubbed me the wrong way I totally get this. Sure, it may be a compliment in many ways, but the fact that other people decided to give you a "weirdest brain award" also gives the sen
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Jama knows what's important.
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My understanding (based on other comments in the thread - I'm no Docker internals expert) is that it's about the size of Docker image files, which contain a tarball (or similar) of files that each layer adds or modifies on top of
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They could, but by declaring that they are responsible they would, by definition, no longer be anonymous. (ha ha?)
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I'm no big company, but I've been using btrfs on my Raspberry Pi file server and its disk has been sitting there spinning for something like 8 years with no issues yet. I keep hearing that "btrfs isn't production-ready&
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Calling code on the left, function-being-called (or rather, its stack frame) on the right. Unless it's asynchronous message-passing stuff in which case the parts are in disconnected spaces. At my previous job there was a lot of code t
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Because happiness is not something you can 'have', it's something that happens. If you pursue happiness as a goal in itself, you may find that whatever you thought would give you happiness is not enough. On the other hand,
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Even in the most charitable sense, it's still a worse-than-useless comment. Q: I am having trouble with X; do you have any tips? A: You are bad at X (but rephrased to make it sound like a character judgement).
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For anyone scrolling by and getting sucker punched by halpert here, I'd like you to know that not being surrounded by people whose problems can be solved with software startups doesn't mean you 'lack empathy'.
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Aw neat; I didn't know about that feature of DuckDuckGo. I used to have similar keywords configured in my browser ("gg", "wiki", etc), but as the years go on I've become less and less willing to invest that ti
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> In my observation You win award for understatement[1] of 2021. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
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Well, maybe that was a bad choice of word on my part. I don't think of the majority of humanity as being judgemental assholes. Most of the people that I actually interact with are nice and understanding, because everybody's got
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Yeah, there seems to be a bit of overlap between ADHD symptoms and being anywhere other than the extreme neurotypical end of the autism spectrum. As an ADHD person, one thing that has helped me a lot is listening to ADDitude Mag podcasts[1]
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Similar. I think because I've always been "kind of weird", and eternally baffled at so-called "normal" people expecting everybody to be like them. Like, we're allowed to be different, right? In practice you&
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> I know this is an extreme view Doesn't mean it's wrong!
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Indeed, Amazon very clearly used their weight to unfairly influence the vote. But unionizing that warehouse would be an uphill battle in any case due to the high turnover rate (150% per year according to first google result). Why bother w
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Gigascale software projects with thousands of engineers and a hundred layers of abstraction (half of which nobody understands and they only work simultaneously 2 days out of the year) got everyone burnt out. Messing around in bespoke, home
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> Hand-waving away making breaking changes to an API because "people don't care" about handling the error conditions Generally, adding more specific exception types, so long as they are subclasses of exception types alr
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Don't know why sibling is dead; perfectly good points about discoverability of podcasts. To which I reply: I have had success discovering podcasts when they had transcriptions on the page. Google for some words, hit upon page, say &q
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Sure, why not. Rarely updated, but I write about gridbeam and software at http://www.nuke24.net/plog/ . If you like reading about people's dreams, on the other hand, http://www.nuke24.net/dlog&#x2F
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> What scares me is that there doesn't even seem to be a constituency for bold action on climate. I used to at least be comforted by the political left carrying the torch, but the most recent iteration of the party has a "clima
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> collective action isn't something we can rely on > Governments need to tax CO2 emissions on the business side Getting the government to do anything that impacts the profits of powerful companies will itself require heroic amoun
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The usual way to address this is to have wars. Destroy lots of stuff and now you can make big loans for the rebuilding. This is why the economy boomed for a while after WWII.
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1) Possibly, but getting an organization going where all those different tasks are taken care of often requires substantial up-front costs, i.e. "barriers to entry", which a person or organization who already has a lot of resource
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Maybe because many of the nice things we would like to have are not profitable, and the insistence that profit is all that matters[1] is the reason we can't have nice things. [1] to be clear: I'm referring to the insistence by tho
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What's wrong with it what's left out. Handouts from whom to whom? The term usually implies "from the rich to the poor", meaning that the rich have the power to give or to withhold as they please. But it doesn't a
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Agree, though I give the article author credit for, while thinking Mence overstated his case, not extrapolating his perception of overstatement into "therefore vegans are dumb and I'm going to go get a factory farmed burger right
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That's the premise of one of my favorite sci-fi stories, The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C Clarke. The stuff about what-do-people-do-when-the-apocalypse-is-coming-but-kind-of-a-ways-off was cool too. (in case anyone scrolling by
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These days I'm at a 'regular job' that is far less interesting, but pays a lot better, which I was especially glad about when the furnace needed replacing. So it goes, sometimes. I mostly blame the US healthcare^W extortion
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I wanted, but never got around to, creating a mod that accepts some kind of data outside the game (lines of text, JSON objects, packets from the TUN driver, whatever), wraps them up as Factorio objects, and plops them onto a belt, and anoth

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