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by albrewer 4y ago
I only do this for configurations that aren't meant to be used by non-programmers. I don't want to have to explain for the billionth time that something like the path "C:\New Folder" isn't going to work as-written i
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by albrewer 4y ago
If it was rotated 90 degrees and could be rotated to the inside of your wrist that could work pretty well.
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by albrewer 4y ago
Yeah, and Q-Tips weren't meant to go in your ear, but we do it anyway. Modern smart phones are built to run applications - they're built with a CPU, RAM, and storage, just like your desktop. The only thing special about them is th
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by albrewer 4y ago
> I managed to give up fags over four years ago after 30 odd years of smoking around 20+ a day. Off topic, but this sentence reminded me of an amusing Urban Dictionary entry[0] [0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph
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by albrewer 4y ago
I used some tech from the 200 B.C. yesterday when I used scissors to cut some cardboard. I really don't see why a technology's age has anything to do with how good or bad it is to use.
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by albrewer 4y ago
> you don‘t feel it when reading all of them back to back Having just finished reading the Wheel of Time books for the first time about a week ago, I disagree with this statement. To me, the difference was stark - after going through so
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by albrewer 4y ago
Probably not what you meant, but sometimes, before I fall asleep, I "see" bright flashes of light, as if there's a strobe light going off outside my window. Rarely, I also hear a loud "boom." Apparently it's a
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by albrewer 4y ago
I've really enjoyed playing Downwell[0], which tangentially covers a lot of these points. I've also enjoyed FTL[1] and Into the Breach[2] (both made by the same people) because of the time crunch aspect and irreversibility of your
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by albrewer 4y ago
This is one thing I struggle with when learning Rust. I want to have some examples of purely idiomatic Rust code solving some bog-standard problems, that way I can copy what that project's doing while I get comfortable enough with the
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by albrewer 4y ago
This is what I try and do with my kids. They're elementary school age - if you tell them "go clean your room", they will melt down because the problem is too big for them to understand how to fix it. Conceptually, they know t
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by albrewer 4y ago
> gotcha games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game
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by albrewer 4y ago
I had an Onkyo receiver that suddenly stopped working. I always attributed it to a nearby lightning strike frying it (and only it), but now your comment makes me wonder if it was just straight up defective.
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by albrewer 4y ago
I'd be willing to bet that the discrepancy is something that we generally consider invariant but in reality should be a ratio between two things that are very large, but get bigger or smaller at _slightly_ different rates depending on
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by albrewer 4y ago
The main thing is that Python is often in the top 10 choices for almost every problem on top of being insanely easy to learn and write; it also doesn't fragment its community - its standard library is so ridiculously large there are ve
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by albrewer 4y ago
This really only gets people with a certain accent though.
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by albrewer 4y ago
Ugh, I can't believe you'd repost something you've already said 70 trillion years ago
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by albrewer 4y ago
> Part of that, I hate to admit, is probably because I'm 60, and I got really sick of sitting in meetups, with a circle of avoidance around me. Man, this makes me sad. I come from a traditional engineering field; in meetup situation
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by albrewer 4y ago
"Distribution issue" is a scarcity of labor and capital equipment.
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by albrewer 4y ago
The best camera is the one you have with you. I have "terrible" pictures of all sorts of things but what's important are the memories attached to them.
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by albrewer 4y ago
I recently had to make an emergency visit to a hospital in a major city, with a really weird presentation. Within 45 minutes of arrival they had figured out what was immediately wrong and had me hooked up to an IV drip of stuff to fix it. A
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by albrewer 4y ago
In my experience the quality varies wildly, but every doctor has a base level of knowledge that is far deeper than a layperson. The quality of that knowledge is usually very high, and seems to be pretty well retained by most doctors I'
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by albrewer 4y ago
> you can spend your whole project burn at the wrong company building something that you could buy somewhere else, or which already exists at a competitor Oh look it's me. I'm sitting here building a worse version of TestComple
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by albrewer 4y ago
It can happen due to various reasons, but the way laser printers work is they electrostatically charge a toner drum, the toner particles "jump" to the right spot, and are then deposited on the paper that has an opposite electric c
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by albrewer 4y ago
> There is a WoW (windows on windows) subsystem Oh my god, I always wondered why the WOW6432NODE registry key was named that but was never bothered enough to look it up. Thank you for triggering the random insight.
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by albrewer 4y ago
Dubai is usually over 38 °C (100°F) for half the year, usually reaching 40°C (105°C) and once reached 49°C (121°F). Humans can't really cope with temperatures that high unless it's insanely dry out. I would argue Dubai can really
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by albrewer 4y ago
There was a Darknet Diaries episode recently[0] that focused on a guy who frequently did phone scams, and he said Verizon was the most expensive to hack because you had to basically pay a bribe to get into their systems. [0] https:/&
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by albrewer 5y ago
Yeah I guess I should have added in the caveat that I've never owned a phone in 15 years that has lasted more than 2 years due to some kind of mishap. Usually a broken screen or water damage. On a side note, My favorite phone I've
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by albrewer 5y ago
I've not really had issues with the Pixel. This is anecdata, but I've had the 2 and currently have the 4a. My wife has the 5. We've had zero issues with them (except for stuff we did ourselves, like cracking the screens) over
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by albrewer 5y ago
One of the problems I have with websites for official interaction with US government stuff is that, a lot of times, it's some random .com website or a 3rd party with no direct integration with the government entity they're interfa
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by albrewer 5y ago
Hm, now that you mention it, I always thought of the external link symbol as being a box with an arrow coming from inside it and protruding out of the upper right hand corner, but I don't see that symbol anywhere in Unicode, and I&#x27

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