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by bamfly 3y ago
> There was one point where the reporter was interviewing a guy from the ATA (American Trucking Associations) where the ATA person says that one lost life is too many. You see the same crap inside companies. All-hands rah-rah meetings or
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by bamfly 3y ago
> The last thing that bugs me is peoples claims the new mods (if chosen by reddit employees) wont be as high quality as the previous ones. Regardless of how high-quality the replacements might be under ideal conditions, I think it would
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by bamfly 3y ago
I'm quite sure he means a post-hole digger. I can practically smell the odor of digging in rocky soil with those, coming off the page, almost feel the cracked dust-sweat-caked knuckles of setting posts on a hot, dry day. [EDIT] As fo
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by bamfly 3y ago
For sure. They threw in the towel around '08 or '09. The prior years of yo-yoing between front page results containing ~60% webspam and 0% webspam settled into a permanent 60%, and they evidently just heavily downranked and/o
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by bamfly 3y ago
Eh, I don't think you have to take a silly, fun 633 Squadron remake with cool practical FX as nationalist propaganda. It may as well have been a Star Wars movie.
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by bamfly 3y ago
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, and they were
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Plus one of the more normal characters investigating the phenomenon just happens to be a vampire who--surprisingly enough--is neither formulaic nor boring. The writing-guide-esque "OK, now write down ten wild elements or character
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, it was mostly just a slow-burn misery-fest. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I'd put it in the "good, but also horrible" category, exactly. Like, I don't think there's actually much to it other tha
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Question 2.0-2.(n): To what degree does grammar 'matter'? Is conformance to some prescriptive view of grammar essential to 'good' writing? To be fair—his writing's a lot more challenging than most. Even most
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by bamfly 3y ago
Damn. I must have exceptionally dark taste in media, because I've definitely got a few "well, that was good, but I kinda wish I hadn't read/watched it" things in my history, and The Road wasn't even close to
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by bamfly 3y ago
If you're having to poke around in running code to find out WTF some symbol even is and where it comes from, and that's not a very uncommon thing to have to do, that's unacceptable IMO. > that seems to be a pre-requisi
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by bamfly 3y ago
I wonder how many of the people coordinating the blackout sent the "challenge accepted" meme to one another, on reading this quote. It was sure the first thing that popped into my head, on reading it.
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by bamfly 3y ago
I still struggle to believe it, but it does shed some light on previously-mysterious phenomena. IIRC the high-school-graduate equivalent adult literacy rate from similar studies—as in, possessing reading skills that we hope a high school
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by bamfly 3y ago
> LLMs, in my opinion, are on average better at writing copy than humans. A disturbingly high proportion of US adults (at least in the US—I don't know how this looks in other countries) barely count as literate. Perhaps half[1]. Mos
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by bamfly 3y ago
> - rails is mostly needed for prototyping and crud apps > - this work is typically done by juniors > - rails devs are at this point largely seniors, not juniors > - rails devs pay the bills with other tech or by maintaining leg
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by bamfly 3y ago
> It’s either an attempt to put the scariest-looking skull(s) on the label One of the people behind Liquid Death water was on NPR some weeks back, and basically their entire deal, as told by him, was just taking canned water and applying
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by bamfly 3y ago
All their beers taste like one beer with some kind of flavor packets added to them to get the different varieties. I don't know if that's what they do—surely it's not?—but damn is it ever what it tastes like. I've neve
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Straight up doesn't allow it. Right—so making the most-commonly-desired behavior (await-like behavior) default would have been a pretty big win, then, and not harmed that quality at all. Meanwhile it's only with the addition
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by bamfly 3y ago
They're not great for making software. That doesn't mean they're not a decent-to-great tool for a whole bunch of productive or creative activities, often in ways that a "real computer" cannot be reasonably used as
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I think the disconnect is in the type of creation, the higher-end production quality you want, rarer iOS devices are. And the corollary is, if you only care about the highest-end of creation, they essentially become invisible. For prod
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by bamfly 3y ago
What's "the industry"? The relatively new industry in moderating Internet communication? I've certainly only seen the term "CSAM" coming from cops and prosecutors very recently, and they're rarely shy abou
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by bamfly 3y ago
Like, you drag a window over your browser, and the viewport values change? I'd not have expected that, and I don't think I've ever noticed that behavior. How does it account for all of those sorts of things (browser-provided
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've not investigated it to prove my hypothesis, but I've long suspected that CSS doesn't get enough of the blame for the modern Web being so bloated and resource-hungry. But then, I still remember when it was considered disr
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by bamfly 3y ago
Does the viewport reflect reality on desktop when e.g. http login controls cover part of the page, or another window is covering part of it?
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by bamfly 3y ago
C and C++ projects of any notably complexity & size often suffer from those exact same kind of "library or build tool or compiler updated—now the project won't build" problems. Absent some pretty heroic & unusual leve
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by bamfly 3y ago
All I can figure is difference in perspective is because such a large part of the potential of i-devices (or phones and tablets more broadly) for creation involves using them as a tool to get something done in the real world, and/or fo
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by bamfly 3y ago
Async in interface by default was a mistake and led to a ton of pain. Actually-async-under-the-hood is fine. See: how much JS is rightly and justifiably littered with "await" on seemingly almost every line, now that that&#x27
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's the only term I'd ever seen for it, in any context, until the last couple years. And I'm not a 4channer. Pretty sure it's just another euphemism-treadmill thing. (not that I mind in this case, I think the new term
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by bamfly 3y ago
All that other stuff's easy to cache. Authorization's cacheable, too, kinda, with some trade-offs, but they may not have bothered if it'd never been a problem before. Or this particular check my have been bypassing that cac
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by bamfly 3y ago
I could see walking around the room thinking and doing clicky-stuff and looking at things, then sitting in front of a keyboard to type. Basically, what I do when I'm on a call and have wireless headphones on.

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