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by basscomm 2y ago
> Michigan might be cool in summer, what about winters? Michigan is also cool in the winter
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by basscomm 2y ago
> I can only assume that you’re misremembering when you last tried this, because what you’re describing simply doesn’t happen any more. You assume incorrectly. The earliest date in my rss file is August 2019, which is the test entry I m
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by basscomm 2y ago
The link is from 2009, but nothing has changed. I tried everything I could think of to style my RSS feed but nothing worked until I added a bunch of garbage at the top of the file to keep the browser from ignoring my instructions, and this
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by basscomm 2y ago
> Is XSLT still a thing? On the frontend, not really. I built a small blog with XML and XSLT a few years ago and I was able to get things to mostly work, but XML and XSLT support in browsers is bad. It's been stuck at 1.0 with missi
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by basscomm 2y ago
Making an XSLT stylesheet for an RSS feed is pretty easy, but I found out the hard way that you have to put about 512 characters of junk in your RSS file to do it. Otherwise browsers will just show unstyled XML no matter what else you do: S
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by basscomm 2y ago
>Even in spoken language mixing in foreign words often helps conveying nuances of what's being said. Some words don't exist in some languages or require longer phrasing or don't mean exactly that, etc. This sort of thing a
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by basscomm 3y ago
> Caps Lock has no right to be on a modern keyboard. Unless you're working on a legacy system and need to program COBOL
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by basscomm 3y ago
> even playing video games is when I listen to podcasts. This is where you lost me. The only way I could possibly play video games and listen to a podcast is if I'm playing a video game that I've played enough that I've re
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by basscomm 3y ago
I once received an email that was a scan of a printout of a screenshot of a pdf.
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by basscomm 3y ago
I was taught that a knight moves by going to the opposite corner of a 3x2 rectangle
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by basscomm 3y ago
I can think of three reasons that more people don't have personal websites: 1. For non technical users (and there are lots of them) learning enough HTML and figuring out how to put it somewhere accessible is too high of a bar to overco
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by basscomm 3y ago
My experience has been completely the opposite. Becoming the go-to person is a way to become a load-bearing employee that never gets promoted or otherwise has company mobility because the people who rely on the go-to person need that go-to
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by basscomm 3y ago
It's this kind of casual dismissal that makes the aphantasia so frustrating to talk about. The people who are able to visualize find it so fundamental and easy that they literally cannot conceive that someone else might be lacking this
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by basscomm 3y ago
> It won't. The only real workaround right now is to simultaneously launch SaaS alongside the FOSS project and monetize that heavily. It can work. Paying for software is already a normal part of doing business, make this work to you
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by basscomm 3y ago
> “Energy”, “mental batteries” - these are entirely made up concepts. Close. They're abstractions that I used to describe my experiences. I used them because I'm not trained in psychology and the analogies are close enough. &gt
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by basscomm 3y ago
> I think extroversion and introversion are just orthogonal skill sets. The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.” No. Introversion and extroversion aren't skills, they're things that you are. You might as well s
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by basscomm 3y ago
> The language has stagnated in many areas. Meat is flesh. The soft part of a fruit or a plant that you eat is also called flesh. The soft part of a nut that you eat from inside the shell that you is called nutmeat. In English we'v
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by basscomm 3y ago
Sure. Do you have a better one? I'm open to suggestions
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by basscomm 3y ago
> The latter is actually pretty good - been using it for a couple of months You must be using a different New Outlook than me. I've been conscripted into trying it before the mass rollout to the rest of my company. It's so slow
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by basscomm 3y ago
Maybe it's different for you, but, for nearly everyone I've ever known, most weekends are not true days off. Weekends are where I work on things in my personal life (yard work, home maintenance, etc) that I can't get done any
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by basscomm 3y ago
It's kind of like email in the sense that I can email someone @gmail.com from @hotmail.com. As long as I have an email account on some server somewhere on the Internet I can email anyone else that also has an account on some server som
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by basscomm 3y ago
> However, IRC has so many essential missing features it never caught on IRC never caught on? IRC was extremely popular throughout the 90's and into the 2000's
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by basscomm 3y ago
I solved that problem by doing a bulk buy of 20 pairs of socks that were all the same color and same style from one manufacturer.
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by basscomm 3y ago
> I feel the real problem with Mastodon is that there's no way to reclaim an identity if a server goes down. The idea of a fediverse is to be robust against instances collapsing, but it seems the only way to move server is to leave
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by basscomm 4y ago
> NPR needs to work on making sure that people understand the reality. I'm pretty sure that the only people who are ignorant of NPR's funding are people who don't listen to it and aren't interested in finding out. If
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by basscomm 4y ago
> People with good printed penmanship are not rare. Disagree. My anecdata suggests that out in The Real World(tm) legible penmanship is exceptionally rare and finding good penmanship is one step below finding Bigfoot.
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by basscomm 4y ago
Is it acceptable to drive the market rate to below a living wage?
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by basscomm 4y ago
It turns out that sometimes people buy things or do things for reasons other than trying to figure out a way to squeeze money out of it.
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by basscomm 4y ago
A few times a year I get a flyer in the mail advertising open positions at my nearest Amazon warehouse, which is 120 miles away. I assume that it's because they've already burned through most of their local workforce and have to k
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by basscomm 4y ago
> Not all artists are like that, and IME the more successful and experienced ones are the least likely to think that way, but the attitude is quite common with beginners who haven't accomplished much yet. Lots of beginners in every

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