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by autarch 1y ago
I can think of two instances in the last 10 years where I've stayed at a hotel and had my room become disgustingly full of pot smell from someone else in the hotel. So yes, people smoke in hotels. That said, I haven't smelled _cig
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by autarch 1y ago
Removing a body part is also an effective way to get a pass code or pattern. If someone is willing to do you great harm to unlock your phone, I don't think it matters much what locking method you use.
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by autarch 1y ago
I do understand the difference, thanks. I think the degree to which it's a scam depends on the employer. Some say they have unlimited vacation and then the work culture discourages using it. Fortunately, that's not the case where
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by autarch 1y ago
An electric bass that's tuned an octave lower exists - https://www.lignum-art.com/product-page/4-string-sub-octave-...
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by autarch 1y ago
To clarify, unlimited vacation is the company policy for all US employees. I'm just saying you don't need to work at a startup to get 6 weeks PTO.
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by autarch 1y ago
I'm working at a mid-size company, c. 5,500 employees. We have unlimited vacation (for US employees). I have taken about 6 weeks every year with no issues. I made sure to check that this was okay before accepting the offer, because unl
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by autarch 1y ago
Isn't "Scott Alexander" his first and middle name? Did he actually use his last name on his blog before the NYT published that piece?
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by autarch 1y ago
> And big multiplayer OSS platforms like GitHub didn't exist until 2008. SourceForge launched in 1999. I think GitHub is better in many ways, but the basic building blocks of hosted repo, issue tracking, and discussions (via email l
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by autarch 1y ago
I think endurance sports (and many other sports, like rock climbing, which I enjoy), are a mix of type 1 and type 2 fun ( https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale ). There may be some suffering while you do it, but
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by autarch 1y ago
I do agree that some relatively small amount of suffering is a good learning experience, especially for kids. Mostly, they learn that what they _think_ is huge suffering (delayed gratification, having to share, being polite to people) is in
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by autarch 1y ago
I think you may have misheard the lyrics. It's "donzer lee lights". Obviously, "donzerly" is not a word, but all lee lights are donzer.
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by autarch 2y ago
Absolutely. I had the same problem through most of school until college.
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by autarch 2y ago
Well, clearly you are a smarter and funnier person than I am. And now you've shown it to everyone on HN. That must feel amazing! This must be one of the best days of your life.
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by autarch 2y ago
I think it was funny for being unexpected in the work context, not because "no pants" was some brilliant bit of humor.
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by autarch 2y ago
Sadly, yes.
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by autarch 2y ago
At my very first real job, back in 1997-98, I worked in tech support for an insurance company. We used Lotus Notes for email (initially just internally, with no Internet email). I had programmer access to Notes because I built some forms fo
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by autarch 2y ago
I think that wins, since presumably it was smaller than a one-byte change. I guess the smallest would be a single-bit file mode change, maybe?
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by autarch 2y ago
Yes, but so is the PR shown in the article. You're not going to get a diff that's less than one line unless you are using something besides the typical diff and patch tools.
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by autarch 2y ago
> This has resulted in a contender for the world's smallest open source patch: Hah, got you beat: https://github.com/eki3z/mise.el/pull/12/files It's one ASCII character, so a one-byte patch
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by autarch 2y ago
I have similar issues, though maybe not as extreme. Daily Metamucil send to be the fix.
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by autarch 2y ago
Well, I agree, but it's clear that Guinness did not when they registered Ben Lee's Flight of the Bumblebee.
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by autarch 2y ago
That is what mise from the same author is for. It lets you define per-project sets of tools with specific versions (including languages). I find it quite useful and I'm planning to get my team at work to adopt it once I get some round
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by autarch 2y ago
I wrote a tool in this space as well, precious ( https://github.com/houseabsolute/precious ). It's odd to me that these tools are often talked about with such a focus on Git hooks. Yes, that is definitely one use ca
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by autarch 2y ago
Well, I played it _super_ fast. It took 0s.
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by autarch 2y ago
Yeah, I think this is in large part due to TwoSetViolin, a classical music YouTuber duo who did a hilarious roast of this performance, as well as the whole concept of "fastest performance". See https://www.youtube.com&#
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by autarch 2y ago
I have Ben Lee beat. I've done the fastest violin performance of John Cage's 4:33, and I didn't even need a violin. I'll be calling up Guinness next Monday to have it confirmed.
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by autarch 2y ago
Guinness is a joke. They don't really have standards for lots of their records. For example, Guinness called Ben Lee's the "fastest violinist" for his "performance" of Flight of the Bumblebee. I put "perfo
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by autarch 2y ago
Asterisk just published an interview with the folks behind Community Notes at X (Twitter) - https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-making-of-community-no... I don't use Twitter so I hadn't seen it in acti
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by autarch 2y ago
The Reddit comment is interesting, and I think the advice that starts in the reply is sound. But this person's list of lottery winner failures is a small list of people versus a very large group of winners. Surely it's not hard to
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by autarch 2y ago
It also seems to need a fairly new gtk4. At least the version in Ubuntu 22.04 is too old.

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