aaronem

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by aaronem 12y ago
Depends on who's locking what, I suppose; I'm not sure about Stash, but I haven't seen the Dropbox client holding write locks.
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by aaronem 12y ago
So they should've named it Thunder?
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by aaronem 12y ago
A reasonable first cut might be making the local storage target configurable (if it isn't already), so that the user could point it to a file synced by Dropbox. It doesn't look like there's any daemon involved, so changes mad
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by aaronem 12y ago
That's probably the single thing about identity politics that crosses me the worst: there are actually legitimate points in there, but they're so deeply buried under assertions like "you can't say X around me because I&#
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by aaronem 12y ago
What a constructive and helpful addition to the debate.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I'm not, actually, but that rarely seems to make a difference to how much weight my opinion carries with people who don't share that opinion. If nothing else, the facts that I only tick one, maybe two, of the boxes you listed, and
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by aaronem 12y ago
Probably not in a restaurant, though. Dragging the subthread back on topic, while I don't doubt Ms. Roizen or anyone else who describes having encountered such abhorrent behavior, it amazes me every time I hear about it, and not so muc
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by aaronem 12y ago
Either that, or that membership in one of them includes some sort of special permission to use humor more broadly than is allowed to people who don't have any boxes to check.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> Are you a person of color? Are you a woman? Are you gay? Are you trans? Are you disabled? Does it matter?
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by aaronem 12y ago
Not flexible enough, perhaps. It's all in the context.
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by aaronem 12y ago
If someone beats you up and you incur a mere $10K in ER bills, it can't have been that much of a beating, but your point stands nonetheless.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Spreading out over millions of state taxpayers the cost of the necessary legal procedures to make whole the few dozen Washington State residents who invested and got burned, so that each person's individual contribution is epsilon whil
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by aaronem 12y ago
> You will notice a difference. None whatsoever, actually, with either music (1938 Karajan/Berliner Philharmonic recording of the overture to "The Magic Flute"), or the "Ultimate Headphone Test" files; any differ
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by aaronem 12y ago
I'd love to help, but the only personal experience I have is with Sennheisers, which even their detractors concede are the most neutral line on the market. Since neutrality is paramount among my requirements for headphones, that suits
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by aaronem 12y ago
> ...with hundreds of millions of users, what are our anecdotal experiences worth? To Mozilla, any user's experience means little enough at best. On the other hand, any user's "anecdotal" experience of how well Firefo
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by aaronem 12y ago
True, though I don't fall foul of that myself, because I don't have any credentials for anyone to be skeptical about. I do have a tendency to indulge in rhetoric, though, and I've been pleasantly surprised on many occasions b
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by aaronem 12y ago
I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my concerns, but honesty compels of me the admission that I'd appreciate it more if you could offer something more substantive than the browser equivalent of "Have you tried turning
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by aaronem 12y ago
I'm not looking for an idea of whether the foam mod would be worth every HD558 owner's time and effort, but only of whether it'd be worth mine. Nor am I, at least in terms of my music collection, "most people"; I ri
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by aaronem 12y ago
I read "Programming Sucks" last night. While that essay stands well on its own (and is utterly hilarious, in a painful sort of way), it is, as Stokes mentions, a bit one-sided, and this is precisely the counterpoint it needed.
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by aaronem 12y ago
If your upper limit's a little flexible, you might consider the Sennheiser HD558, which usually retails around $150; I've had mine for some months, and it is my considered opinion that they're the best headphone to be had und
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by aaronem 12y ago
I used a pair of HD 280 Pros for about a year before I got my 558s, and I have to say, isolation is the only area in which the former outdoes the latter; in particular, as far as comfort goes, the 280s made me feel like I was wearing a benc
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by aaronem 12y ago
Well, all right, then!
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by aaronem 12y ago
Most popular music produced in the last twenty or so years has been horribly mismastered, with effectively no dynamic range whatsoever; once they're done smashing the shit out of it, the result consists of nothing but silence and peaks
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by aaronem 12y ago
I'll note here that the Sennheiser 5x5 line has lately been replaced by the 5x8 line, which from all I've been able to gather is hardly different at all. I've got a pair of HD558s which I quite like; indeed, they're the
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by aaronem 12y ago
> https://www.google.com/search?q=ASMR+role+play+sub-community... Different strokes, I suppose.
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by aaronem 12y ago
It's funny you should say that, because outside cross-browser functionality testing, Firefox has been my default browser since back when it was still called Phoenix. The reason I complain about Firefox's memory leaks and general f
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by aaronem 12y ago
> This week, Mozilla published research showing that privacy is the single most important thing that users want from their web browsers. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd be happy just to have a version of Firefox that did
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by aaronem 12y ago
> ...only serves to make me look like a douche. Forgive me for telling you what you no doubt already know, but there's a reason for that. Actually, correcting people's inaccurate typing at all on Facebook makes you look like
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by aaronem 12y ago
To discover, in his very own incredibly pretentious words, the subject of this mini-rant, or in case you suffer from some lingering uncertainty that the contemptuous tone of same is merited, please hie thyself to http://marc-w.co
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by aaronem 12y ago
> I guess what we miss in programming is a standardized way to do things and if you did it that way your accountability ends there. Isn't that what Java is for? But seriously, I would rather have the opportunity to do it right, even

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