ben509

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by ben509 9y ago
> because almost all the good developers I know work in environments But they aren't True Good Developers... /s
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by ben509 9y ago
I think Off the Record encryption on IRC is done entirely by the clients, so the server can only store an encrypted blob. It also has forward secrecy. There's no reason you couldn't do the same with a slack client, of course, but
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by ben509 9y ago
As a society, we're having a very hard time adjusting to all kinds of social media.
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by ben509 9y ago
Work is stressful and communication can reach straight into your brain. People go through periods where they're not handling stress very well, and they will often express ideas that, divorced from the context of the stress and bad feel
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by ben509 9y ago
`I think I'm the only way that sees this decision was done for commercial reasons ($)...` Is it fair for me to expand "for commercial reasons" as: Github is a for-profit business, and their business model is to provide a serv
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by ben509 9y ago
Benford's law shows that leading digits of measured values are not evenly distributed, and tend to be smaller.
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by ben509 9y ago
It'll be a day, though, it's Wednesday and the CI only runs on Thursdays.
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by ben509 9y ago
There is some evidence that dark matter is self-interacting: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/04/new-evidence-that-da...
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by ben509 9y ago
I don't think you're going to get another Hawking. His story is hard to match because the guy basically shrugged off ALS and flourished for 50 years. The MC Hawking jokes are funny because they're true. But while I think the
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by ben509 9y ago
That's fair. I've talked to some people working in retail who mentioned that some people abused the policy mercilessly.
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by ben509 9y ago
I'm talking about the people who buy the clothes, wear them, and return them.
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by ben509 9y ago
From their policy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/help-topics/return-exchange-pol... "Like many retailers, we use a third party to help prevent losses by detecting improper returns, and, except where prohibited
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by ben509 9y ago
I'm more surprised to see that clothing retailers weren't listed. It's incredibly common for "customers" to buy clothes and return them the next day.
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by ben509 9y ago
"How else do you expect to get gender parity?" If women aren't interested in the job, you've already got gender parity. Women are moral agents and can make decisions too, you know. This is also why no one is complaining
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by ben509 9y ago
I assume "comparable" means "similar" in this sense. But there's nothing about lung cancer, which makes the impact on lung health not remotely similar to a pack a day cigarette habit.
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by ben509 9y ago
It was nice when they were doing queen in the title.
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by ben509 9y ago
I have 'command' on the mac mapped to meta, sometimes I try to delete a word or reflow a paragraph...
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by ben509 9y ago
Haha, I used vim for a few years before switching to emacs. My brain just does not work modally. Still miss the dot though.
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by ben509 9y ago
I've been using emacs for years, and I certainly did the whole "oh wow use emacs for everything" bit. Over time, I've pulled back and don't use many plugins outside of helm and flycheck. I can not for the life of me