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by ashark 9y ago
I think a good goal would be shooting for a number of work hours that leave enough time to have another non-work thing you do even more of without having to sacrifice family and friends and every single other minor hobby or activity.
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by ashark 9y ago
Whichever version of Ubuntu introduced pulseaudio crashed any time Flash was used on a website, often in ads. May have been that. I mean, Pulseaudio crashed xwindow (or just stopped working) all the time in that version, but Flash was the e
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by ashark 9y ago
I switched to Chrome in ~2011 or 2012 after being a Firefox user and evangelist since... was the first one Phoenix or Firebird? Anyway, that one. Reasons: - Firefox got bogged down with just a few tabs open, and caused beachballs (OSX&#
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by ashark 9y ago
Is "directly" editing over SFTP not a thing anymore? Desktop editors could (can?) do that.
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by ashark 9y ago
We've got a gen-3 Surface in the office for when we need to do Windows stuff and I'd say: definitely try before you buy. Given how much positive stuff I'd heard about it, almost every part of the reality was... surprising.
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah. "I'm hoping you will give me more money for less work/irritation than other options I have, and/or will let me gain experience to land a job somewhere else that asks even less of me while paying me even more money&
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by ashark 9y ago
It still kinda rings true. Looking at CRT TVs the other day at a thrift shop, the picture wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered. Light static/snow was a much better degradation mode than with digital OTA TV, and if I were a heavy c
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by ashark 9y ago
Of my ~500 Steam games, IIRC something like 300 have macOS builds, and about 200 for Linux. My experience is that most small studio or "indie" games will run on all three platforms, about half of really big games have Mac releases
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by ashark 9y ago
If Cialdini's Influence is to be believed, everyone says they don't treat people wearing (or driving) nice stuff better, but subjecting this to scientific scrutiny reveals that they overwhelmingly and significantly do . If th
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by ashark 9y ago
Kids aren't the only ones. Most of us in the wealthy West now have so many entertainment options that we ignore even many of the ones we've already paid for, or are continuing to pay for. Half the time I forget I have Prime Video
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by ashark 9y ago
What exactly do you think a market is?
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by ashark 9y ago
> I actually want a device like this that does not connect to the internet. You won't get a decent one until we outlaw spying on people in exchange for a service. Then plenty will pop up. There's just no point in trying to comp
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by ashark 9y ago
I think it's better for the Internet to remain open, especially with the tendency of this sort of "choice" to become more a dictate that works out against the customer's favor, especially when a small number of players
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by ashark 9y ago
Schools (at least around here) do not hold kids back anymore. No matter what. Some of them get behind in one or more subjects (math, say) as early as 1st or 2nd grade and all their later teachers are stuck trying to give them the remedial
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by ashark 9y ago
Entire subcultures, now examined in detail by various Internet personalities, are built around how hard it was to find good media in the "old days", and how easy it was to end up with crap as your only novel option. See: The Ang
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by ashark 9y ago
In general there's an increasing problem of a glut of excellent entertainment. Movies are in a bit of a slump, but there are still several good films a year. TV's probably the best it's ever been—it's nuts how good i
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by ashark 9y ago
Can confirm. Three births, hospital/insurance both effed up the billing on all three . If we hadn't been vigilant and wasted hours, and hours, and hours, on the phone and in one case gotten our state rep and the state insurance
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by ashark 9y ago
One of the more surprising things for me, watching major medical events from a distance and relatively close-up in my family, has been that hospital billing departments are at least as inconsiderate, incompetent , out-to-get-you, and gen
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by ashark 9y ago
On four napkins, apparently. And you can't see them because this is a kickstarter for a product that appears to be just those four napkins (not, say, a promo freebee for a larger on-a-napkin explanations project)
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by ashark 9y ago
Sure. A lack of grace when navigating class differences (=differences in behavior and preferences) could also be seen as a class marker, among other things. Feels rather "middle" under Fussell's rankings of class, but then
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by ashark 9y ago
Designers and product owners won't allow it. See also: tons of custom styling and behaviors on mobile platforms that break user expectations and double or triple development time, just so the designer has something to do other than arr
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by ashark 9y ago
I think that when this happens in design it's more about looking normal so as to project credibility (so that people will take you seriously/give you money). The important part is not that actual browers/people-spending-mon
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by ashark 9y ago
> I cut them because they stopped growing after or during highschool. When I talk about politics or society I don't want to feel constrained. I don't want to have to explain things like the catch up effect. I don't want co
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by ashark 9y ago
It just makes me sleepy and unable to think straight at ~14-16hrs without food. Maybe it gets better after that but I don't really have a lot of days I can afford to be useless for the whole afternoon—I've gone 30+ hrs and it does
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by ashark 9y ago
> - A post-racial/genre approach, where the differences are made as irrelevant as any physical trait, so the change comes naturally but it's a long process (what I've mostly seen in France) I grew up (in the US) thinking t
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by ashark 9y ago
> they should be familiar enough with the concept of long term wear and tear to draw their own conclusions about what's appropriate. From ages ~15-22, I averaged less than 6 hours of sleep a night, ate north of 4000 calories of jun
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by ashark 9y ago
Because obviously "function(this, arg1, arg2)" is better than "method(arg0, arg1, [this])"
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by ashark 9y ago
> Wait a minute, you want me to rent furniture? > We get it. This is kind of new, right? We’re excited about that. But it's... not remotely new, right? [EDIT] seriously, "tiny houses" = mobile homes for well-off millenn
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by ashark 9y ago
His taste is so incredibly vulgar that all I can figure is it's actually marketing designed to appeal to proles, both in his role as an entertainer and to fleece nouveau riche proles with direct sales of products and real estate.
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by ashark 9y ago
I think Fussell'd peg banning swearing to act higher class or more professional as a deeply middle class thing to do. Part of their trying-too-hard while missing-the-point tendencies. Avoiding out of fear of punishment would be more mi

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