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by blep_ 4y ago
The cycle, for me, is code -> compile -> run -> observe results -> think. Compiling is in the wrong position in that sequence to merge it with thinking.
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by blep_ 4y ago
If Apple made all the changes to an iPad that I would want for doing work, they'd have built a laptop anyway.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Eh, just remove all the laws and invalidate all the money every n years. I'm sure this will have no negative consequences.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Ah, another victim of the nonsense "rule" against infinitive splitting. It gets somewhat clearer if you rewrite both occurrences of "consciously to think" to "to consciously think". The other part is the "
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Software development is quite usually [not] "find a use case for the given functionality". If only :)
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by blep_ 4y ago
I occasionally receive mail addressed to my mother, who not only does not live with me, but has never even been to the state I currently live in. I assumed this was a chain of horribly mishandled mail forwarding requests the n times I'
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by blep_ 4y ago
I'm not that person, but... yes, unironically. Maybe different people value different things?
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by blep_ 4y ago
> terms that are considered brutally racist by everyone but the very far right Are you talking about "master"? There are plenty of people outside the very far right who agree that slavery is bad but think that particular rule d
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by blep_ 4y ago
Not that I know of!
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by blep_ 4y ago
Every time I've done this, I've done so knowingly and intentionally, into a repository that is not public and will never be public. That last part is what makes it okay. I can only assume the kind of person who puts their dotfiles
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by blep_ 4y ago
Only if you're doing centering by hardcoded pixel offsets. Stop doing that.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I expect not. Actual government agencies have trouble with that kind of thing (for taxation/fines/judgment enforcement); random hackers have no chance.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> If users hate this they can use Apple or Linux. This is the "if you don't like one particular thing your country does you should move to a different country" argument with a couple of the words changed. Lots of people us
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by blep_ 4y ago
It doesn't matter when it started; it matters when you started paying attention to it. Many people, of age > 0, discover every day that someone isn't a good guy.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Yep. This is not limited to any particular issue or ideology. It's not about accomplishing any of your policy goals anymore, it's about scoring grievance points. On the left, we accomplish this by tying everything into sexism and
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by blep_ 4y ago
I agree! This is similar to the argument that eventually convinced me, back when I was anti-abortion. But it was still a shaky belief, because "can you kill a person in this situation" is inherently a harder question than "ca
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by blep_ 4y ago
It's also hard to watch people I agree with repeatedly make the same nonsensical arguments for a position I hold, and then repeatedly get surprised when they don't work out. This isn't a privacy issue any more than the legali
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by blep_ 4y ago
... huh. I had not thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right. Not even a DNS thing. The entire concept of third party messaging platforms is because we can't just send data directly at another internet user unless they&#
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by blep_ 4y ago
If you don't feel like switching over this, I do this with dnsrobocert, with Namecheap's default DNS servers: https://github.com/adferrand/dnsrobocert
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by blep_ 4y ago
Why does it need to be?
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by blep_ 4y ago
I'm even more opposite than you on internet data usage. It is wonderful to never have to think about how much I'm using. It's just not a thing that ever crosses my mind. If I click on a link to a 10MB monstrosity of a page
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by blep_ 4y ago
This does seem very likely to vary by person. I'm very much saying this from the perspective of "for my own sake, I hope this doesn't become the standard", rather than "this will never happen because everyone's
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by blep_ 4y ago
Personally, I'd prefer to just pay tiny constant monthly fees for things, than to have the mental overhead of knowing there is a nonzero cost for every search I do. I am prone to microoptimizing things, and I would absolutely spend an
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by blep_ 4y ago
> hard-to-locate domain names I choose to read this as "I don't know how to use DNS, but I do have an extensive network of contacts who can look up DNS records for me".
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by blep_ 4y ago
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Terry Pratchett, is in fact, GNU Terry Pratchett, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Terry Pratchett.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Ehh. IMO there's still a place for them in extensions that it would make no sense to standardize - this is one example (I hope nobody attaches any behavior to this); a more common one is application-specific headers that aren't
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by blep_ 4y ago
The place I work uses AWS EC2 instances for everything. They get created and destroyed fairly frequently, and change public IP addresses as a result. I wish this wasn't the case, because this includes all the things I need to access th
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by blep_ 4y ago
Okay, so first of all, you know very well that "moral objections to decentralized governance" is not the problem people have with blockchain technology. But beside that, perhaps I didn't quite make the point of my comment cle
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by blep_ 4y ago
Not that person, but I feel the same way they do. You're still doing it. Depression has a cause, and effective treatment depends on what that cause is. If it is not one of the things that is made better by going outside, this will not
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by blep_ 4y ago
Lowercase L looks like capital i in some fonts. Clearly it's Iava, the Latin word for Java. Quidquid Iava quondam scribum, omni currum, sed delenda est.

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