alex_c

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Retrospective: Micronaut One [ZX Spectrum, 1987](lemmy.world)
3 points by alex_c 3y ago|1 comments
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by alex_c 3y ago
You can use Stripe Connect with standard accounts. The documentation (and asking support questions about Stripe Connect) is not very fun to navigate though.
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by alex_c 4y ago
I wouldn't say Facebook apps were forgotten as much as actively suppressed by Facebook after a certain point in time. In the early days of the platform app developers had a huge amount of freedom in terms of accessing users' socia
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by alex_c 4y ago
Somewhat related - I feel like we're in the middle of a general trend of boring, monochrome design. Car colors come to mind: https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car... Winter is coming -
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by alex_c 4y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that office jobs cannot be abusive and harmful to workers? Or that office workers cannot suffer long term damage to their health (physical and/or mental) due to their working conditions?
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by alex_c 4y ago
>I suspect there are benefits to having the monarchy as head of state Genuinely curious what those would be? I think it's far from the most urgent issue our country is facing right now, but most of my objections to the monarchy woul
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by alex_c 4y ago
Paper notebook(s). It's always open on my desk, next to my mousepad. I only have to move my hand a few inches from my mouse to pick up the pen and start writing. Everything goes in there, in chronological order. In the morning I wri
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by alex_c 4y ago
For what it's worth I have 150 hours played already on a pretty old system - i5-3570K, 16GB RAM, 1070Ti. I have no idea what framerate I'm getting but I don't remember being bothered by the game's performance even once.
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by alex_c 5y ago
I'm not the op and this is the first time I've seen someone else use the term, but I've used it too. Aspirationally - small and impossible to kill. While a unicorn's goal might be growth at all costs (with associated h
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by alex_c 5y ago
In school?
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by alex_c 5y ago
I don’t think so. We’ve had atrocities and violence throughout history. Usually in the context of war, but not always. Usually localized, but sometimes large scale. Sometimes condemned and opposed by the rest of society (whether it is a
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by alex_c 5y ago
So imagine a world where telepathy exists, and everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts. And there are no filters. With enough effort you learn to only "hear" thoughts in a certain range, but you can't filter out or
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by alex_c 5y ago
The Internet Hate Machine is both targeted and somewhat randomized. Statistics don't help when you are the target. How would you begin to gather statistics and estimate risk for something like this, for example? When the video from t
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by alex_c 5y ago
>The founders, employees, investors all get their liquidity on day one (and even with vesting schedules on tokens, VCs have been selling their interest in their un-vested stakes). There's no incentive to build a business. The only i
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by alex_c 5y ago
I scanned through it, and one thing that jumped out is the Google Trends graph for "Myocarditis". Is it really "curious" that more people are searching for that term, given all the media coverage? How many people even
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by alex_c 5y ago
Microsoft's "looming problem" seems to be the $130B+ in cash they're sitting on, and finding something to spend it on?
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by alex_c 5y ago
I will admit it took me an embarrassingly long time to learn this lesson and become disciplined enough to do it. But it really is better for everyone involved, clients don't like late or unpredictable invoices either!
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by alex_c 5y ago
Yeah, it's about setting and managing expectations. Small favours can help build relationships, discounts can help close a deal, and so on. Less relevant for larger clients, but may be necessary when working with smaller clients. Wri
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by alex_c 5y ago
Spot on. Only thing I would add is 11. Invoice frequently, on schedule, like clockwork. Drop anyone who doesn't pay on time. 12. If you are doing them any "favours" for any reason (discounts, work you might do but don't
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by alex_c 5y ago
>My other sensibilities include not putting two spaces at sentence end (among other things this shows that you’re most probably 40+) That's a silly generalization. I'm only 39.
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by alex_c 5y ago
The meaning is clear, and kudos to Twitter for defining it well. But if you think through the usual meanings of the word "artificial" and apply it to this situation, you end up with some amusing conclusions. Definition of artific
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by alex_c 5y ago
As opposed to using Twitter to "naturally" amplify information, just like our forefathers did out in the wild back when we were still in touch with nature and Twitter didn't contain any pesticides or plastic :)
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by alex_c 5y ago
>It can't, it just answers with snippets extracted from websites it deems relevant, and often the answer is flat out wrong or irrelevant. I recently searched the name of a YouTuber I was watching, the top "People also ask"
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by alex_c 5y ago
I'm positive this is usually due to convention, not a conscious design decision. In other words: websites give 20/50/100 row pagination options because other websites give 20/50/100 row pagination options. There is
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This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished(inputmag.com)
7 points by alex_c 5y ago|1 comments
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by alex_c 5y ago
This change is very upsetting. Ever since becoming a parent, I've been baffled by a mystery. I noticed that - unlike most other popular content - children's videos on YouTube almost always have roughly a 2:1 like to dislike ratio
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by alex_c 5y ago
Enjoy? Not particularly, but isn't that just reality? There's always a bigger fish. In-game I had no illusions about personally competing or winning given that those games are purely pay-to-win, as I said I just enjoyed watching t
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by alex_c 5y ago
Well... I don't really know anymore. I'm with you on the ethics of gambling mechanics. But I'm less certain about the predatory part than I used to be. I spent some time a few years ago playing some of the multiplayer &quot
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by alex_c 5y ago
Do you mean in terms of protection, or side effects? In terms of long term protection, I don't think we really know yet. In terms of long term side effects - do we know of any past vaccines with notable side effects that only became kn
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by alex_c 5y ago
>Between October 2020 and the end of June 2021, Facebook and Instagram users had submitted around 524,000 cases to the Board. [...] Facebook also submitted 35 cases. >In total, the Board selected 21 cases to review and ultimately pro

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