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by beaker52 4y ago
It’s when we spend decades, generations even, trying to reanimate bodies without success but then finally we see signs of life. The first (and curiously, only) body tries to communicate with us and is rehabilitated for a decade before we fi
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by beaker52 4y ago
Don’t spend your time in this world bringing people down to prevent them from climbing higher than you. Lift them up. You’ll know you’ve got it right when they reach back down and give you a hand up. Your character is yours alone to write.
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by beaker52 4y ago
As an observer, the schadenfreude around crypto is unreal. If you want to see crypto fail, and jump on opportunities to spread FUD, to eventually prove your position and briefly smugly walk around saying "I told you so", then that
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by beaker52 4y ago
Just search for any song and append “ karaoke” and you’ll find a plethora of renditions ready to sing. Some are better than others so YMMV.
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by beaker52 4y ago
This is what my wife and I do, it’s pretty flawless. YouTube + Mic & mixer to a separate speaker. It’s the only way, and YouTube has the best karaoke. Routing the mic through your AV setup _will_ result in a delay which’ll make for a ho
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by beaker52 4y ago
Instead of just providing good services, we create new services to enable the original services to exist with the deficiencies they have, now you’ve got n services that enable 0.5 of the services you originally wanted. Sounds like a familia
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by beaker52 4y ago
Immediately conjured images of humans crafting more and more elaborate offerings to a man who lives in the sky, and felt oddly, familiar.
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by beaker52 4y ago
“I find this all quite terrifying”, said the human witnessing the construction of a universe not dissimilar to his own.
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by beaker52 4y ago
This is exactly what I hate about companies. They’re not human and often the “computer says no”. It boils my blood like no other. Want to talk to someone? Try our help section. Clicked the right links to find a contact form? We’ll reply in
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by beaker52 4y ago
Couldn’t you see life itself as one huge bullshit project that we’re here doing without a concrete idea of where it’s going, what it’s for or whether anyone has a use for it? It’s work: for us to do, created by higher ups. It’s turtles all
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by beaker52 4y ago
If you go to altavista.com they have a search box that searches the whole internet - can you believe it? The joys of the modern internet in 2022!
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by beaker52 4y ago
Bob Ross enters the chat
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by beaker52 4y ago
One thing (among all the other great suggestions) you can do is to make sure you’ve got a budget in place, so you understand what your projected finances look like. I use YouNeedABudget (YNAB: https://www.youneedabudget.com/
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by beaker52 4y ago
I used to do this on Total Drivin’ on PS1. There were all sorts of ledges and off-track locations you could get yourself onto if you drove off track in the right way, sometimes even wall driving. Many, many hours.
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by beaker52 4y ago
I’m really surprised the author hates on Raindrop so much because my experience has been nothing but good. If anyone is building one of these bookmark apps, one of the killer features for me is the ability to highlight and annotate a copy (
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by beaker52 4y ago
Oh, yeah! I did the Sub7 thing too. And Back Orifice. Good times. I was the scriptyist little script kiddie ever. I largely had no idea what I was doing, but whatever it was, I wanted to do it.
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by beaker52 4y ago
Does the software itself have value? Isn’t it what people do with the software that really has value? The software sat on a floppy disk has pretty low value. I’d then argue that software has as much value as notes do. It’s about what you do
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by beaker52 4y ago
It’s funny because I’m just onboarding into the Apple eco-system. I’m happily leveraging all their services. I’m escaping Google after 15+ years. I swear it’s just a game of keeping yourself busy switching from this to that.
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by beaker52 4y ago
VB5 and 6 - AOL phishing and mIRC scripting. Wrote a few practical demos like p2p chat, then got fed up of the distribution challenges inherent in windows runtimes (back in the day) so got into web development via PHP. Now I almost exclusiv
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by beaker52 4y ago
Seconded. Seeing some articles written by people signalling that they don’t like Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, by announcing that they’re migrating to Mastodon makes me wonder why they don’t just step down from their digital stage altogethe
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by beaker52 4y ago
We’re incredibly similar. We’re the same age, started coding and working at the same ages, and both acknowledge ADHD in our lives I didn’t want to go to university, partly because my parents couldn’t help me and partly because I sucked at l
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by beaker52 4y ago
A link for those interested: https://practicaltypography.com/triplicate.html
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by beaker52 4y ago
I personally think they should be invited so they can learn and participate. If you want to reserve decision making responsibility for the seniors, that’s fine. Regardless of whether juniors attend “senior” meetings or not, seniors should b
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by beaker52 4y ago
It’s okay if you don’t get it, but it seems to me that you’re just getting in your own way over it. It’s not imperative, but when I personally sense that I’m obstructing myself around a topic, I take some time to reset myself and give thing
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by beaker52 4y ago
Contractors shouldn’t live paycheck to paycheck. Contractors should be earning more to cover their in-between periods. If you’re not being paid very well, it sounds like the company has got a great deal - they pay you less money and you hav
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by beaker52 4y ago
I like to imagine that if I were in that state that my wife would see to it that I get an sizeable administration of intravenous DMT. If I can’t wake in this dimension, let me dream another.
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by beaker52 4y ago
I hope you get fired, for your own good, my friend.
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by beaker52 4y ago
There are several comments about iOS, desktop or hardware environments that may require different release cycles. All of which are completely valid. I see that I had assumed we were talking about web apps. This assumption narrowed my perspe
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by beaker52 4y ago
They had me until they said deploy weekly. Deployments shouldn't be an event. Deployments should happen constantly. Get your stuff into production immediately. All the other practices up to that point support that.
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by beaker52 4y ago
It's not Done until the flag is removed.

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