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by barrucadu 4y ago
> The government could legislate any number of product changes, they don't do that, because that's not their role. Why isn't it? Is there a certain "size" an issue needs to be before it becomes government-approp
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by barrucadu 4y ago
How is it out of touch? Dealing with the cheaters who are duplicating items is one thing, but what about the victims who have bought items they thought to be perfectly legitimate? And before you say "delete the items and refund them&
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by barrucadu 4y ago
What's the use-case for workers outside of CDN edge compute? I understand why I'd want to do edge compute: it lets me shift work (in some cases at least) from my backend to the CDN, so my backend gets less traffic and users (possi
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by barrucadu 4y ago
> That isn't a question I have ever needed to ask, nor do I expect to, but if I do, it would be answerable with a single query over a single-entry transaction list. How would you pick out just the transactions that were to your ISP?
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by barrucadu 4y ago
The internet must seem a very hostile place if you so easily misinterpret confusion as offense.
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by barrucadu 4y ago
Er, what? This article seems to be starting from a weird premise. Even the very first sentence, "It is a rare person who can do nothing- purely and without guilt- especially in our current culture of busywork." I can't rela
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by barrucadu 4y ago
Why would lockdowns encourage crime?
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by barrucadu 4y ago
I mean, yes? That seems obvious? EU law applies to companies which operate in the EU.
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by barrucadu 5y ago
If a user didn't care enough about the project to even remember that they starred it, why is that star being lost a problem? It was already the case that nobody was getting any value out of it.
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by barrucadu 5y ago
How big is "clearly big"? Whenever someone makes the same mistake with a slightly-less-big repository should the warning thresholds be revised to also show up for those?
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by barrucadu 5y ago
What should the threshold be? 53,000 stars? 50,000 stars? 25,000? 100? No matter what number you pick, there will be someone with fewer stars who considers their stars important enough to merit a warning. Unless you set the threshold
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by barrucadu 5y ago
My goal is a simple one: to just enjoy the life I have. I don't care about leaving behind a legacy, bettering the world, or becoming mind-bogglingly rich. But I do care that I never wake up in the morning and think "why am I doi
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by barrucadu 5y ago
I do have friends who I visit, yes. We generally get together for a long weekend, Thursday / Friday to Monday / Tuesday a few times a year. We all just take those days off work, because we're meeting up to hang out together
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by barrucadu 5y ago
> I get to go visit friends in other provinces for a few weeks without having to take time off from work. That sounds kind of miserable to me. Why would I want to work while visiting friends?
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by barrucadu 5y ago
While @channel is generally rude (unless it's something really urgent, and even then that's better solved by having one person specifically be interruptible for urgent questions), it's even better to just not check Slack afte
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Why can't someone be a well-rounded individual with hobbies and a life outside of programming, and also have time for pet projects?
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by barrucadu 5y ago
> These are both bad outcomes Why?
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Why would existing ATMs become a thing of the past? The economy isn't going to switch from cash to crypto in a few years time.
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Sometimes it seems like everyone and their dog has impostor syndrome.
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by barrucadu 5y ago
> I really don't think it's crazy to think a person could spend $200/mo+ on recurring subscriptions. That does seem pretty crazy to me.
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Who could have foreseen this? Oh, wait...
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by barrucadu 5y ago
For envelope budgeting, I just make subaccounts of my bank accounts for specific purposes.
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Come on, the alternative to taxpayers subsidising artists isn't that artists face a choice between death or revolt. It's that artists get a different source of income (which may require stopping being an artist).
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Really? Where in Britain would that be ambiguous? I've grown up here and I've never heard someone say "half X" to mean "half an hour to X".
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by barrucadu 5y ago
For those criticising ProtonMail, what else could they have done? When the law for the country the company is based in says they must do a thing, they can't just say "no". It's unfortunate that it happened, but the fact
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by barrucadu 5y ago
Isn't that a normal thing? Where isn't this done? If you bump into someone you know do you just greet them and then leave?
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by barrucadu 5y ago
> (and the dark pattern where if you switch to chronological it automatically switches back after time) I see people complain about this a lot, but I've not experienced this. Is it a mobile thing? On my computer I got put into the
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by barrucadu 5y ago
British English speaker: import foo "im-PORT foo" "foo is an IM-port" "this code im-PORTs foo"
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by barrucadu 5y ago
> Maybe it would be nice to write articles in markdown and have a custom static website generator that takes these and publishes them. This is what I do. I have three static websites, each has a small (few hundred lines of code) Python
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by barrucadu 6y ago
Wayland is "basically the default now"? Since when?

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