Xirdus

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by Xirdus 3mo ago
> How would you feel if your house burned down because your neighbor did something stupid? Probably the same way I'd feel if it burned down because my neighbor did some other stupid thing, like drive into it with a truck or try stea
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
This kinda sounds like some middle ground between forced modernization of Eastern European countries (this isn't our tech but we could make it ourselves if we wanted to but we don't want to because it would be inferior) and the ca
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
If code is predictable then it should be extracted into reusable functions/classes/modules and reused in accordance to DRY principle. I'm not a fan of this AI future where coding standards drop to the floor because humans won
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by Xirdus 3mo ago
There are cities in the US that have 2.5x the population density that Zurich does. Rural Texas might have this excuse, but New York City absolutely does not.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> If you have 1000 applications for every job, and you know that a bunch of these applications are "a bad fit", to put it mildly, you have to filter. And you cannot realistically give every resume a good, human look. At 10 seco
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
"Being online during the short time" heavily favors bots. In a way, AI screening tools saved us from the future of everybody buying resume-spamming-as-a-service because it became as important to use these as getting a college degr
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Sometimes, the relevant timezone is whatever the local timezone was when and where the timestamp was recorded. Which is information that's lost on UTC conversion. Sure, you can reconstruct it if you stored the "where" part so
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
If people were perfectly rational robots, this could work. Also, sales jobs wouldn't exist and politicians would be held accountable for their promises. In real world, sales tactics work. People can be influenced to pay more than they
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
But which tzdata? Do you have the timezone or do you not have the timezone? If you have the timezone then why is your timestamp in UTC and not in the timezone that you have to store alongside the UTC timestamp?
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
"UTC or otherwise" is important. Are you storing otherwise, or are you storing UTC? There are times where storing otherwise will lead to data loss in case the law changes whereas storing UTC would work (when you care about a liter
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Correct according to what? An employee who punched in at 9AM wouldn't show up as having punched in at 9AM anymore. Not unless you also store the exact timezone the UTC timestamps have been created with - but that's basically local
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
UTC for past events doesn't always work either. For example, historical employee punch-in times. UTC timestamps should only ever be used for points in time in the most literal sense, and nothing else.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
The appointment is for 12/1/26 2PM of whatever timezone the office is in at the time of the appointment. Between the time of booking and the time of the appointment, the government changed what timezone there will be at the time o
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
They wouldn't, because they wouldn't know how much to bid. People pay more on eBay because they see how much more they need to pay. The whole point of a Vickery auction is to eliminate this feedback. A tiny fraction of megawhales
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
If the price is not totally ludicrous then the scalpers outbid pretty much everyone else. If you know MSRP, then normal people bid MSRP whereas scalpers take a million dollar loan and bid all 10,000 units at double MSRP, then sell at triple
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
"Customers must meet the following criteria to be able to sign up: You must have a Steam account in good standing. You must have made a purchase on Steam prior to April 27th 2026. Limit one signup per household. We will
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
In practice, multi-party systems rotate their brands in and out with much higher frequency than two-party systems.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I think people overwhelmingly voting in line with their group is the effect, not the cause. People start off by being in a group, and their group teaches them what's good and what's bad, as well as how different policies will affe
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
One of the downsides of arguing over internet is that whenever you provide an argument that precisely counters the point person A has made, there comes person B who makes a completely different point than person A, but still treats my reply
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
More money absolutely does make it easier to have social life. It absolutely does make it easier to cure curable diseases as well as live the life to the fullest when you have incurable diseases. And increasing your wealth is strongly corre
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I know a lot of left win Europeans who promote planned economy without realising it. So there's that. I think a better way to look at it is people demanding the government to intervene whenever intervention is beneficial to them person
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I see. I took "early/mid 90s" literally and thought you mean like 1991 through 1995, inclusive.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I guess that's why the blog name stays on screen and covers the text when I scroll down, with fully transparent background so it doesn't
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I mean like enough time to check the pulse with the community and walk back the initial confrontational response. I don't have a problem with when they fixed it. I don't have a problem with when they paid out. I wouldn't have
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Somewhat? The variance is off the charts. Without even going to the extremes of casual nudism vs burka, there are cultures where wearing hair down is seen as sexual, and there are cultures were twerking is child appropriate.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I tried to find these rules yesterday (for another comment chain) but couldn't. As far as I could tell, nothing stops the carrier from silently dropping a likely scam call without receiver's knowledge or consent. Do you know which
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
That's not how I remember these events when they were playing out. I distincly remember social media posts warning about the dangers of modifying game files, plus refusal to acknowledge the issue. Note there were 2 full weeks between t
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
There's a good chance it was Excel's workaround for some other GPU's buggy behavior.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Reminds me of the "community patch" to GTA Online from a few years ago. The game was plagued by 10+ minute loading times. The situation remained for years and only got worse with time. Some hacker figured out that the game spent 8
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
There already are laws that would prevent the exact thing you're talking about. A requirement to provide name and address would change absolutely nothing. And if legal protections are not enough for you then what are we even talking ab

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