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by asark 7y ago
Around here you sacrifice school quality, hard , for almost anything other than a typical big yard, large house, boring suburb house. The intersection between older neighborhoods or any trendy newer ones built more "urban" style
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by asark 7y ago
And walls. "Open concept" might look great in photos and provide good "wow" factor, and it's definitely cheaper to build, but it's also a great way to make a lot of square footage feel small when you live i
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by asark 7y ago
It's largely the comfort and familiarity. Yeah you could walk away, but there's so much risk. So back to your stationary bike to make little pellet things for some reason, eating food out of a vending machine, while watching rea
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, you're right, and since vanilla javascript does have runtime type validation that's a reason not to use Typescript. /s The documentation, tests, breaking run attempts when developing, and flipping back and forth betwe
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by asark 7y ago
There are exceptions, but an awful lot of "I read so fast and just love reading and read like three books a week" stories end up at "oh, you mean YA and fantasy and slim, low-calorie business and self-help books. OK I guess.&
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by asark 7y ago
> When I started working two days a week a colleague of mine said he was jealous and wished he could do the same. While he agreed that objectively there was absolutely no reason he couldn't actually do the same. Spoiler warning for
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by asark 7y ago
Books that set out to be comedy don't really work for me. HHGTTG is probably the best I've read but even that was just... tolerable. Biggest laughs I've had came from "normal" fiction, sprinkled in here and there. D
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by asark 7y ago
I don't like subjecting a bunch of people to horrible images on an industrial scale, no. And I don't think "it's making us money and we can't think of a better way" is an excuse to keep it up. [EDIT] and given
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by asark 7y ago
* You can use it in a web browser. * File sharing's pretty dang good. * Client supports tons of bells & whistles like inline file preview. And emoji and anigifs and all that stuff which, love them or hate them, most people love. *
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by asark 7y ago
We don't have to have huge, centralized communication sites where anyone can sign up and post stuff and the operator's shielded from liability for what's posted so long as they subject a bunch of humans to it in order to filt
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by asark 7y ago
Don't have to subject anyone to it. Don't have Facebook.
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by asark 7y ago
Just pricing in an externality. If that's a disgusting and shocking way to deal with this, then it doesn't follow to me that paying a little money to folks to do it makes it anywhere near OK. So yeah, it was tongue in cheek, with
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by asark 7y ago
Seen on here the other day (can't remember the poster to credit them): "Douche Mark". A play on Deutsche Mark, for those who are either not European or not old enough to remember that currency, as seemed to be the case with s
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by asark 7y ago
Have you looked at old newspapers? Clickbait headlines are the opposite of what they did. They're designed so you can get a pretty damn good idea of what's going on by skimming the headlines and maybe first couple lines of each st
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by asark 7y ago
Make the users do a little every so often. Like Slashdot's "hey, go moderate some posts" thing but forced to before they can use the platform anymore. That'd be fun. Of course the real answer is that this sort of site
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by asark 7y ago
Samesies. Worked with a bunch of folks who liked bringing functional patterns into JS when that started to get trendy, and I got it, but I never got it. Like, why. Never felt like it was making my life easier. When I've felt the be
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by asark 7y ago
It's surprisingly easy to accidentally be designing a game and not realize it. And designing games is hard. And one can closely approximate the percentage of the population that's put so much as one thought toward how to do so—the
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by asark 7y ago
Each site doesn't need to be all sites if you're not trying to capture an audience for moat-building and data collection. A lot of stuff that's not popular now, like federation or identity services not tied to advertisers (
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by asark 7y ago
Nah, I just remember what it used to be like. Most of the stuff that's valuable's not that expensive to run. Some of it's fairly decentralizable. The part that makes it difficult and expensive is centralization and control. F
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by asark 7y ago
An alienation epidemic. Everyone wants a job that's at least one of: personally meaningful, or clearly helpful to others. Also it should pay the bills well enough to gain you housing somewhere with decent schools. Good friggin' lu
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by asark 7y ago
Lots of ad-supported sites and services could/would be replaced by something free and volunteer-driven—and in some cases probably a little worse, in others, a little better, than their existing commercial counterparts—if ads just went
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by asark 7y ago
My experience as a PHP (among other things) developer was that "senior" roles pay half what comparable roles with pretty much any other Web language do. So I'm not a PHP developer anymore, and haven't been for years. Nei
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by asark 7y ago
Not exactly an education game, but Shadow President is why I know my world political geography much better than most. Various games taught me more about the rough timeline of (especially) ancient history than school ever did. Crusader Kings
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by asark 7y ago
Counterpoint: The the Lighthouse is one of the best novels I've read. Orlando 's also beautiful. Though I've not read A Room of One's Own . Perhaps it's terrible. (goes away for a moment) Read the first couple
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by asark 7y ago
Extend laws against creepy stalking to mass, blanket versions of same, even when a corporation does it, online or IRL.
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by asark 7y ago
But not just for adtech. Holding personal data needs to be so dangerous that most companies won't do it unless they absolutely must. That goes for credit card companies, "loyalty card" programs, magazines selling your conta
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by asark 7y ago
Snap also pollutes my disk list to the point that, without further effort on my part, regular ol' "df -h" is basically unusable. And it seems to leave old versions of things like VLC hanging around, for some reason, judging f
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by asark 7y ago
Nah, not tough, totally normal. Newly-multi-childed parents deserve some Real Talk every now and then so they can get over trying to do (and feeling bad about failing miserably at) all the crap they now don't have time/energy&#x2F
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I recommend it, view's great.
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by asark 7y ago
With three kids (or even two!), any advice from someone with one comes off as at least as grating as advice from people with no kids did when I only had one. All the time-consuming "just hang out with them and talk to them like humans!

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