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by bartread 4y ago
> Because there are no use cases for blockchains. I think this is it or, at least, to moderate slightly, there are few valid use cases for blockchain. The top comment, from Theo Jackson, captures it really well: "Please don’t. If t
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by bartread 4y ago
> Enjoy it while it lasts, this burst of old school volunteer-run internet. It won’t survive this eternal September. It never does. As the architect of the Matrix said: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest ass
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by bartread 4y ago
Yes! See, this is what we need more of!
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by bartread 4y ago
Now we're talking!
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by bartread 4y ago
1) Yes, people use tweets to report bugs all the time. The problem with nitpicking is that anyone can pick your nits back, which leads me to... 2) Yes, they will, but that won't necessarily repro the bug without knowing which type of d
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by bartread 4y ago
They're not trolling. I typed it into the search bar. Safari didn't crash. Is the person who wrote the tweet trolling? Probably not either. But what type of iOS device do they have? Which version of iOS are they running? Which lan
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by bartread 4y ago
> At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth. Many people predicted this would be a permanent acceleration that would continue even after the pandemic ended. I did too
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by bartread 4y ago
I love MilkyTracker for its minimalist Amiga tracker-esque experience, but have been frustrated by its instability on macOS. You really do have to save your work very frequently in order to avoid losing it so I've found myself gravitat
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by bartread 4y ago
I think this is meant to be humour. Awkward and not particularly successful humour - distasteful humour - but humour nonetheless.
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by bartread 4y ago
> Some developers are just lazy I'm really lazy: if I were on the receiving end of emails with error messages that included instructions about how to fix said error I'd automate Freshdesk (or whatever ticketing system I was u
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by bartread 4y ago
Would definitely have made sense back in the day. Nowadays most cordless drills, even cheap models, have that exact torque limiter mechanism built in so you can dial in the torque you need with a simple twisting collar - use it all the time
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by bartread 4y ago
It's not you: it's got worse. My work phone was recently upgraded to an iPhone 12 and it's way worse for typing than the 6S it replaced. Lots of typos, and if you hold the phone slightly wrong you end up with it not respondin
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by bartread 4y ago
> the problem getting worse Where's your data? As a sort of petrolhead-lite with a penchant for 80s and 90s Japanese performance cars what I'm mostly aware of nowadays is how few substantially modified (badly or otherwise) cars
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by bartread 4y ago
This is the problem with BBC Breaking News: headlines can change. "Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims" was the actual headline when I submitted, but it's now been amended to "Alex Jones told to pay $965m damag
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Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families(bbc.co.uk)
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by bartread 4y ago
To be honest I have pretty mixed feelings about this. The Lightning port is extremely robust, and I already have quite a few Lightning cables from several generations of iPhone, so to some extent this seems like it's just going to gene
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by bartread 4y ago
5907 hours spent playing RDR2? Assuming he spent 12 hours a day playing that's 492 days spent doing nothing but playing RDR2 (the 246 days quoted in the article assumes he didn't sleep, eat, go to the loo, shower, etc.). He's
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by bartread 4y ago
Allow me to correct: "Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used" that only those of you in the US, or possibly North America, will be able to use in any practical sense, which is I'd guess at most about 60
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by bartread 4y ago
I'll add more: - Fries CPU and GPU on video calls, making it difficult to use other applications or demo when screensharing - Interacts unfavourably with at least some WiFi drivers leading to unidirectional and bidirectional losses of
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by bartread 4y ago
Concur: I spent perhaps 10 days in the city in 1995 split into two blocks at end of June and beginning of September. Definitely foggy on multiple days, especially over towards Golden Gate Park and the bridge.
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by bartread 4y ago
I seem to remember that the Xerox Alto defaulted to a white or light grey background as well, and of course the same for early Macs. For me, in the 80s and 90s, lighter colour backgrounds - even on essentially monochrome displays - were gen
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by bartread 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed response, and glad it worked out for you - that's awesome. Tap Tap passed me by just because I didn't have a decent smartphone back then but looks like loads of fun (and I love Justice). Sounds like good
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by bartread 4y ago
> Here's what sloppydisk.com looked like in its heyday, for those interested: http://web.archive.org/web/20070921170305/http://www.sloppyd ... Blimey: the download page for Descender still works.
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by bartread 4y ago
Ah, marvellous - thank you!
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by bartread 4y ago
Please tell me you have these shared with the world via a website somewhere? It would be great to have access to your archive of user-created levels.
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by bartread 4y ago
Gah! Breaking basic navigation functionality, along with the clipboard, on page search functionality (i.e., basic application and OS level stuff), keyboard navigation, and common keyboard shortcuts and mouse/touch gestures, are amongst
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by bartread 4y ago
My other beef with no foreign keys is that it makes a database a lot harder to understand. There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database. This is inc
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by bartread 4y ago
> Another classic is the “joins are slow” argument Along with the "indexes slow down INSERTs and UPDATEs" argument that you touch on. I mean, it is literally true that indexes make writes slightly slower, and an excessive quant
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by bartread 4y ago
For sure, the phone numbers issue definitely won't have helped, but the whole Elon/Twitter situation is definitely up there. Plus, as I say, it's been sort of trendy to bash them for a while: they're either not doing eno
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by bartread 4y ago
> How is this a story? Cynically, because it's twitter, and it's trendy amongst a certain subset of the population to bash social media in general and twitter in particular. And I think your point is fair. (FWIW, I think social

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