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by ashark 10y ago
Or instead of going through a bunch of effort in order to risk pissing off border agents with shenanigans, you can buy a dirt-cheap Android phone for travel. Bonus: then you don't have to worry about it being stolen, lost, or broken, e
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by ashark 10y ago
They looked back at what the Vectrex 3D Imager had done a decade earlier and thought, "the technology has advanced; this time it's different!" ?
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by ashark 10y ago
Any time I make the effort to learn more or brush up on CS fundamentals I end up forgetting most of it in short order because I so rarely use any of it at work. Ditto mathematics past roughly Algebra 1. Every now and then I try to brush up
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by ashark 10y ago
Real-sugar soda variants in the US (we do have them! And not just imported Mexican coke!) usually come in glass which makes it harder to do a useful side-by-side tasting. I do prefer them, but I'm not sure how much of that's the g
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by ashark 10y ago
5. Aftertaste reminiscent of something that would warrant a call to poison control
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by ashark 10y ago
In the late 90s/early 2000s I couldn't wait to hardwire the 'net into my brain. Now, after watching advertising companies and black-hats (state sponsored and otherwise) eat the Web and shit it back out as something horrifying
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by ashark 10y ago
Young kids need ~11-12 hrs of sleep a night. They have to get up at about 7:00AM (because WE have to get up then) so bedtime is fixed at 7ish. Bedtime routine takes 30-45 minutes. We don't want to have a separate dinner for the kids. P
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by ashark 10y ago
Anyone know if there's a connection with Mary Shelley? His early childhood, motivation, and preparation for travels (from the article and Wikipedia) reads similarly enough to that of the protagonist of the framing story in Frankenstein
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by ashark 10y ago
I've even seen (though my wife, who's a teacher) admin that doesn't understand how replicability works, and takes on some new discipline strategy or teaching approach for their school(s), spending a bunch of money on it and w
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by ashark 10y ago
Are you contending that changes in average income (in either direction, presumably) of the lower, say, four quintiles of society, have no real effect on quality of life? Or only when it's achieved via UBI? If the latter, why is that ca
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by ashark 10y ago
Related-ish-ly, I've had a notion bouncing around in my head that it should be possible to build a fairly complete social networking interface on top of email and ical (or similar), and some kind of contact-management standard, such th
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by ashark 10y ago
In the case of public k-12 schools, I've observed that there's an incredible amount of flailing when it comes to the curriculum, and every time they thrash about and change course a ton of money is spent on consultants (traini
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by ashark 10y ago
> Deadeye Dick is strange and hilarious, but probably better after reading a few of his books first. :) Probably true about Bluebeard , too. Both read almost as a review of the major themes and messages of Vonnegut's work, though
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by ashark 10y ago
The Big Two are Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five . They're the two you're mostly likely to end up talking with someone about, or to have familiarity assumed by an article or something. If we were to make it a Big Three
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by ashark 10y ago
Set it to "lead" and "a lot of experience" (I'd grade myself intermediate-to-senior and above-average experience IRL) and the top of that range is less than I make now, and I'm not big on self-promotion/
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by ashark 10y ago
I use gmail's Basic HTML interface all the time . AJAXy gmail and Inbox balloon to incredible levels of memory use pretty quickly, and are slower for most interactions than the full-page loads on Basic HTML, which means that someone
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by ashark 10y ago
Puns are the highest form of comedy, surely.
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by ashark 10y ago
Lots of apps (that get made, not that necessarily get used much) are basically CRUD web apps with a smattering of native features being used in a very vanilla way (maybe a little geolocation/gps, maybe you can snap a profile pic with t
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by ashark 10y ago
I've definitely included a library and then seen (otherlibrary).(library you included) as an option in autocomplete, fairly often. Happens a lot with utility-level things like okhttp.
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by ashark 10y ago
I've been thinking about doing something like this, since I'd have to fence my yard to have an ordinary garden if I don't want deer to eat all my plants. Are there any concerns about levels of non-growth-limiting (or color-af
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by ashark 10y ago
KC's not much better for a family if you want to actually live in the city. The schools there suck so you'll be paying for private school, housing of more than two bedrooms is rare and (by local standards and considering local w
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by ashark 10y ago
The legibility and simplicity are my favorite things about Go. I know that I can fearlessly dive into other people's source to figure out what's going on without running into 15 levels of indirection hell and a bunch of language f
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by ashark 10y ago
... and a device that lets them play a handful of games like tetris, but only 1 minute/hour. They'll get to work re-implementing their favorites (without the time limit) on the computer before long.
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by ashark 10y ago
Oh. Is that why the text on the Win10 lock screen on my 1080p monitor looks like it's rendering on a 640x480 display? I'd wondered why it seemed so damn ugly.
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by ashark 10y ago
Bearing in mind (this part's tough to come to terms with for anyone raised to value honesty) that zero of those things need to be true—they just need to be what will get you the job, and they need to be said convincingly-enough for t
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by ashark 10y ago
It definitely comes off as 1) "I don't know how to do my job, please explain it to me" or 2) "can you tell me why the salaried employment relationship exists?" I mean, I'd answer (while trying desperately to co
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by ashark 10y ago
That seems worse than just buying dongles, because nothing else I'll want to plug anything into is USB-c. The cables would still be bound to the MacBook for all use cases.
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by ashark 10y ago
How I feel about the latest Apple devices is that they're good despite the "innovation". Touchbar, removing headphone jack, and going all-usb-c (but not on the iphone?) all either sucks or fails to add value, but the spec b
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by ashark 10y ago
> 4. Dongles - This is another temporary problem until devices are all USB-C. What I've learned from all this discussion about usb-c is that some people replace all their peripherals and secondary devices on a much more aggressive
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by ashark 10y ago
Is there a good way to preserve and run flash content as we move into this brave new flash-free world, with good long-term prospects? At least the stuff that doesn't require a server component? Lots of cool stuff from the mid-period We

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