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by arkh 5y ago
> Javascript got popular because it was here first, so developers used it and became able to work with it. And you could easily copy and learn from scripts before minification became the norm. And you just have to refresh some page after
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by arkh 5y ago
> The lab leak proponents dialed up their rhetoric to 11 No. The media reporting on those proponents' theories dialed it to 11 to get clickbait titles for their articles.
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by arkh 5y ago
> What happened? HR happened. At first HR is viewed as an afterthought and it doubles as an easy way to get women in your tech company. But after some growth they usually get their hands on the power of hiring and firing people. It'
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by arkh 5y ago
> The parent is displaying typical American thinking The parent has lived in a country house than decades in multiple apartments. The joy of having neighbors next wall, ceiling or floor. The lack of air conditioning if you're in a c
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by arkh 5y ago
Apartments are not family homes.
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by arkh 5y ago
> Colleagues from programs where these moves happened earlier have pointed out what the results have been: kids wind up with stellar grade point averages and glowing recommendations, get into top colleges, and… drop out after about three
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by arkh 5y ago
> I wonder what it would take to break them. Having Android apps could help with people who use an Android device to watch videos on their TV. And if Google does not authorize these kinds of apps on the playstore I think it is more than
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by arkh 5y ago
I'm starting to think it is a feature, not a bug: peasants should stop being able to move anywhere so easily. The fact you can't easily charge a personal vehicle? Good. Bunch up in overcrowded cities, use public transportation onl
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by arkh 5y ago
How fast we forget about the lock-downs enacted during the current pandemic. Public transportation and dense urban centers: the best to spread virus and then "enjoy" your quarantine.
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by arkh 5y ago
Years ago, Canard PC Hardware (a French magazine) tested some low budget PSU: http://www.x86-secret.com/dossier-36-3000-Alimentation_Nonam... their conclusion was to not put those in any PC if you value your other component
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by arkh 5y ago
> If there existed a car with no entertainment system at all, and I just stuck a specially adjusted tablet in there, with industry standard connectors, everyone would be happy, and if anyone hacked my entertainment system they would not
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by arkh 5y ago
It looks almost perfect: a trackball placed under one of the thumbs would make it possible to not have to use any mouse. Maybe add some foot pedals too.
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by arkh 5y ago
Imagine humans who can't die from old age: how many would choose to do anything dangerous? Would you risk your life crossing a road? Working on a construction site?
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by arkh 5y ago
> Wondering if Topre or PFU is really better as people said. I have one I love, bought it like 10 years ago. When I tried to buy a second one this year I had the bad surprise to discover they're not available with French layout anym
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by arkh 5y ago
They want ammo on everyone so they can try and get them fired to replace them with friends and family.
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by arkh 6y ago
> I will not be sending any more patches due to the attitude that is not only unwelcome but also intimidating to newbies and non experts. Maybe not being nice is part of the immune system of open source.
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by arkh 6y ago
The worse is laptop mic + speakers. If you noticed the people speaking to you stop mid-sentence, it's because hearing themselves with some timelag tends to make them stop speaking. Thanks to some people, everyone can experience speech
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by arkh 6y ago
It reads like you think progressive taxation is not bracketed. Which is something often found with people from poor background. Let's say you have some system where your taxed 0% for income < $20k, 10% between $20k and $40k and 30%
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by arkh 6y ago
Because it is easier to adapt software to hardware than the opposite. You'd think there would be e-ink devices aimed at mangas nowadays. But the software was adapted to phone usage, that's how you get webtoons and artists playing
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by arkh 6y ago
> the reason why NFTs exist Money laundering.
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by arkh 6y ago
> How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government is very different from that of an authoritarian regime. The Snowden files tend to sh
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by arkh 6y ago
At school we had a 800Mb quota for each class (around 90 people). Usually the first year everyone discovered the space problem when trying to get everything done for your first project. When you cannot compile code or generate pdf because t
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by arkh 6y ago
Normalization of deviance. Little by little bad habits are formed and not stamped out because nothing bad happen. Until a space shuttle explodes. Then years of wrong process are found. That's why you have to empower new hires to questi
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by arkh 6y ago
> Don't marry, don't cohabit and even avoid dating women. Now you're an alt-right sexist person and anyone subscribing to your channel is one step away from shooting a school.
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by arkh 6y ago
> 50 year old uncle Also, 50 year old people tend to have ideas which are frowned upon in the Valley. Especially if they're not from the US. So when enough people start following them, they get removed.
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by arkh 6y ago
What about single men who want children? I think that's the scenario which will get a lot of pushback from usually progressive people.
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by arkh 6y ago
Because no one has to gain from low prices. Not the people getting the contracts, not the politicians and their committee getting back donations, not the neighborhood associations suing to get compensation. That's why they want the mon
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by arkh 6y ago
I'd like to add Discord to the pile: see someone has started to stream their screen, click on the icon. Now try to find how to get out, usually the first time you'll click on the only "disconnect" button you find which d
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by arkh 6y ago
> conclusion of "unit tests that check every method/line of code you write". I think a way to smell you're too far gone on this way is when you write tests only to get code coverage. With behavior tests, code coverage
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by arkh 6y ago
TDD does not mean "small unit tests at the method level in code". It means you code your test cases before you implement the functionalities. Those tests can (and IMO should) be behavior tests: then you can rip out all your code a

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