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by ashark 9y ago
People overuse it a lot, hence the backlash. I think it seems "fancy" or businesslike to some people (it's the opposite) and others just don't think about their writing enough to notice the weak tone, needless misdirecti
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by ashark 9y ago
The Web was doomed the moment we let Javascript initiate connections and (less significantly) modify form content.
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by ashark 9y ago
Anyone make a Youtube proxy-thingy that youtube-dl's the file, then serves it through a light HMTL video interface?
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, this solves (sort of) the mystery of someone none of us knew being added to a large group text about a year ago.
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by ashark 9y ago
Seriously? The App Store ads? Great. I was getting really sick of searching for exactly the app I want then having the first result be an ad for something else. So user-hostile.
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by ashark 9y ago
Rails in particular is the worst about that. Bonus points if you're working on an older codebase that's been upgraded through a couple versions, but is still fairly out of date. I hate having to keep so much fiddly crap in my head
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by ashark 9y ago
Reactions to the last Apple event at my generally Apple-loving and Apple-hardware-heavy place of employment: Apple Watch 3 — Holy crap that's amazing, I may get rid of my phone for this and just buy a nice stand-alone camera! Oh, you s
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by ashark 9y ago
In the northland, at least, there are tons of new boring ol’ suburban houses going up. Construction slowed for a couple years after the crash, but came back fast and now they’re putting up new houses and plotting new neighborhoods as fast a
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by ashark 9y ago
I really want switchable, individually suspendable workspaces as an OS feature. A workspace for each development project, one for each writing/research task, one for time-wasting browsing, one for gaming, and so on.
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by ashark 9y ago
Over-communicating the obvious to avoid wasting time responding to poor readers (and nitpicking, point-scoring morons) is a bad writing habit many of us pick up, over years of posting in online forums where such wastes of time constitute th
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by ashark 9y ago
https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/ TL;DR a loss of writers and voice talent from resignations and deaths combined (probably) with the show simply running out of things to say (especially as its irreverent ton
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by ashark 9y ago
Given the graphical glitchiness and inconsistency of even 2d desktop environments in Linux the idea of experiencing that in 3d seems... irritating at best, nauseating at worst.
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, but the fix for that is not working nearly as many hours in the winter—which isn’t gonna happen.
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by ashark 9y ago
From about ages 12-21 or 22 I caught nothing . I consistently had a ~36hr period of very slight sniffles about once a year, and nothing else at all. Never bothered with flu shot, took no precautions, ate absolute garbage . Then I starte
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by ashark 9y ago
No? If walking-distance-to-culture comes with a side of dangerous, failing schools then of course it doesn't matter compared with avoiding that. Driving-distance-to-culture will have to do.
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by ashark 9y ago
Memoir '44 and other games under the same system (there's an Ancient Rome themed one, for instance) are fairly accessible and (depending on scenario) play quite a bit faster than most Risk games. They're (mainly) 2-player, th
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by ashark 9y ago
The culture of the city around here doesn't matter if you have kids, because the nearest decent schools are well out into suburbia. The city's for poor people, recent college grads there for "the culture" (dating scene),
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by ashark 9y ago
The City seems incredibly risky to rural folks, economically speaking. The housing prices seem absolutely insane , and earning enough money to cover it seems impossible. So maybe you land a job first, then move, and it turns out you can
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by ashark 9y ago
You should look up the costs of supporting rural living. They're heavily subsidized, at least in the US. Living in rural communities is cheaper to the individual right now, but significantly more expensive to society overall. If you
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by ashark 9y ago
Water, power, communication, unemployment and other poverty support, mail, law enforcement. Everything. Are you arguing rural living comes with cheaper services and less environmental harm, in the typical case? That'd be great, if true
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by ashark 9y ago
> Moving more people into cities is a bad approach we need to spread people around the country and raise up small towns instead leaving them. Why? City-dwelling is, broadly, much cheaper (in terms of infrastructure and services) and more
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by ashark 9y ago
Inexpensive, 100%-no-car-required, and decent schools is... a tough set of requirements to satisfy in the US. Hell, getting any two of those is an accomplishment.
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd probably pick a smallish (sub-250k population) city, I think. The kind that rural folks mean when they say they're going to The City to shop. Maybe a "university town". Beats exurbs or ultra-pricey real cities. The t
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by ashark 9y ago
Can confirm that from the perspective of a Midwesterner who grew up largely in smaller towns, one grows up feeling that moving to a major coastal city is nearly impossible. Even as a software developer I have to remind myself that no, reall
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by ashark 9y ago
Aren't there, like... 3rd-party chat or emoji apps or something now? I don't use any of that stuff, but if only some people on 6-series iPhones are experiencing a multi-second delay opening the iMessage editor, my first guess wo
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by ashark 9y ago
> How to fix it though? Don't think we can. We're more likely to fix one of our other big, fundamental problems—the two party system + gerrymandering, for which proportional representation or any of several other schemes would
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by ashark 9y ago
Our preference for (relatively) high levels of local control (and the resulting tiered cake of tax jurisdictions and regulatory domains) makes our system incredibly vulnerable to race-to-the-bottom behavior when confronted with powerful non
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by ashark 9y ago
It's no myth that kids in the poor schools around here are surrounded by peers who generate frequent school-wide lockdowns over (often realized) fears of significant violence, disregard authority and the importance of school to the poi
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by ashark 9y ago
> aaaaaand raise my kids to give them the best chance of doing the same. There's the tough part. Money buys houses in good school districts (or a spot in a private school) which buys fewer highly-disruptive peers, a much better wors
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by ashark 9y ago
> That kinda flies in the face of one of the main purposes of society I pointed out, though - protection of property. I'm not saying it's wrong, though. When you're protecting property that only exists because we all agree

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