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by asark 7y ago
Seems like a good candidate for something to throw the way of the Internet Archive.
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by asark 7y ago
I'm starting to get "this will stop working soon" messages on a lot of my Mac games. I assume because of the 32bit deprecation. Expecting to lose 50-75% of my library soonish, maybe more. Of the ~60% of my total library that
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by asark 7y ago
Faster loading? HN pages are so fast I sometimes wonder if my click missed the "refresh" button. This one has time to display two loading states, and the HN main page loads long before this thing's first loading state's
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by asark 7y ago
OK, I follow. In context it didn't read that way to me, but maybe as a headline, sure. I actually thought that the section it came from was a fascinating example of heated but respectful discussion, illuminating of the relationship bet
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by asark 7y ago
Same (age) demo as you. Among my friends and expanded co-worker circle, folks with kids split ~50/50 "would prefer urban"/"would prefer suburban or country". 100% are suburban. Deciding factors? Proximity to fa
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by asark 7y ago
This is explicitly a reason some people in the suburbs don't want public transit to expand out to them. Some'll tell you. No public transit effectively puts a floor on how bad things can get, crime-wise, school-wise and, therefore
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by asark 7y ago
There was "a misogynistic judgement of the female participant"? I missed it, but my misogymeter may be mis-aligned. [EDIT] no seriously where was it?
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by asark 7y ago
Similarly, I've observed that opponents who are too bad can really annoy players of both gambling and parlour-style card games. Their ideal opponent plays "correctly", but poorly.
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by asark 7y ago
That was an excellent read. Thank you for posting it.
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by asark 7y ago
The couple times I've achieved "good enough to consistently piss people off" abilities in FPS games, it's mostly been through knowing levels very well, to include patterns of movement. Probably there's another level
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by asark 7y ago
It is when stakeholders throw curveballs. "We want you to do this." "Sweet, easy enough, I'll just use X, Y and Z, no problem." "Oh but sorry you have to use A, B, and C instead. Oh and it'll need to conne
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by asark 7y ago
> The issue is that in literally every non-toy product I've every been involved in the product owners will always turn CRUD app #237 or Ho-Hum SaaS #17 into something significantly more custom and much more complex. YES! The cost of
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by asark 7y ago
I've solved this by not panicking about software someone else owns. Worked out OK so far. They can fix their processes and expectations (I'll help!) to get more value out of me, or choose not to. Not my problem. Environment gets t
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by asark 7y ago
Ah, makes sense. 30 minutes is a very slowly walked city mile for me (25min at a casual, unhurried pace, shaving a couple minutes off that for a 22-23min time with a bit more bounce in the step but still not jogging or even speed-walking)
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by asark 7y ago
Inches/feet/yards are pretty decent measurements. Better than metric, in some ways. It's miles where everything goes to hell. Fahrenheit's not really worth clinging to but does seem to be a closer match than celsius to s
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by asark 7y ago
I look up answers on StackOverflow. I ask questions on IRC or (sometimes, these days) Slack. I don't think I've ever seen a co-worker's question get answered on SO—seems to be kind of a crap shoot. So are my methods but at le
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by asark 7y ago
30 minutes for a half-mile? Is that the round-trip time or something?
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by asark 7y ago
> For one, it contradicts the dogma that more trade is strictly beneficial. Ricardo's original idea was applicable with a narrow set of assumptions/conditions and didn't have much to say about who'd end up with the gr
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by asark 7y ago
> I spoke with a room full of about 80 new developers at a code academy recently and asked how many of them used it. There weren't more than 2 or 3 hands. I've been a developer for 10+ years and won't use it. I tried it on
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by asark 7y ago
Food portions and being (or acting) unable to finish all but the daintiest serving sizes definitely has a class component to it, at least in the US. I think this behavior's shifted "down" a notch or so, alongside fitness-as-a
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by asark 7y ago
Perhaps notably, Graeber blames the infiltration by finance folks of management tiers of non-finance companies, the the influence of the finance sector generally, for a good part of the 20th century expansion of his titular "Bullshit J
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by asark 7y ago
They need to fix a few things (mostly on the Macbook Pro) and drop their prices somewhat, which isn't a crazy thing to hope for since they did it pretty often not that long ago, sometimes even while announcing an upgrade. I still think
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by asark 7y ago
There were basically three things that made Macbooks very appealing to developers before: 1) Very good hardware at a not-huge markup when compared apples-to-apples (haha) with Wintel hardware. 2) Unixy OS with outstanding Just Works but it&
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by asark 7y ago
Pretty much every Linux desktop GUI's been on top of the X Window System—which has been synonymous with the Xorg implementation thereof for, oh, 15ish years now—until very recently. Red Hat's behind a totally different replacement
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by asark 7y ago
Their tech is 2019 appropriate if you don't have an Apple laptop, is the thing. And they even provide some USB-C stuff for Apple devices, but only from Apple, I assume because the demand is nearly nonexistent. Just like if it were
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by asark 7y ago
I think they really needed a transition design for 3-4 years that included USB-C but still had the "legacy" ports—in quotes because when they announced the C-only model I hadn't even seen a USB-C port or cable in real life
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by asark 7y ago
I'm not sure how much he actually did versus just being the spokesperson, but my recollection is that they pushed him to the front around the release of iOS7, the announcement for which was when all Apple's "bold" moves,
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by asark 7y ago
Explosives are really dangerous to carry around. Go looking through the fates of ships lost in WWI and II (last time there was a fair amount of ship combat going on) and there's an awful lot of "several rounds hit but everything w
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by asark 7y ago
My knowledge of Sikh religion is pretty limited, but as I understand it, they join most other major religions in seeing the world and ordinary, secular life as full of temptation and moral danger... but unlike most major religions, they di
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by asark 7y ago
Further, pirated works have a long history of not getting shut off or otherwise made inaccessible, unlike "legitimate" DRM'd copies. :-/ [EDIT] what I'm getting at is that DRM doesn't just fail to stop piracy,

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