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by blep_ 4y ago
Earlier this year, I had a recruiter invite me to interview there, and I made an attempt at convincing myself with reasoning like: - they're going to do their evil thing anyway, may as well show up and intentionally do it marginally wo
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Women on the platform report feeling pressure and an expectation of producing this kind of content, because so many other popular women on the platform do it. That's kind of ridiculous. You don't get to tell people they can&#
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by blep_ 4y ago
It's worse. Others include .cxx (fairly common) and .C (thankfully rare).
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by blep_ 4y ago
Ooh, being picky about grammar is fun! The absolute positioning of the adverb doesn't bother me, but I do read it as being bound to "say" rather than "lose" which is what I assume you meant.
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by blep_ 4y ago
> why does our tracking pixel return a purple image? Now I'm really curious, is there some exciting non-obvious reason for a tracking pixel to be purple? Was it #FF00FF or more like #6600DD?
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by blep_ 4y ago
("quiet", though in your defense I proceeded to make the same typo myself just now) I don't know if this is as big a change as you think it is. There is no huge world-changing technology that just got released. We already had
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by blep_ 4y ago
No, but it's close. USD's swings are a hell of a lot less wild, even in high-inflation years.
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by blep_ 4y ago
The numbers are irrelevant over time. Can you buy the same things for 1 ETH now as you could then?
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by blep_ 4y ago
This is how you get me to start stubbornly claiming I don't have a smartphone. If you have special requirements for the devices I use, it's your responsibility to provide separate devices from my personal ones.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I've heard variations on it many times, usually by the people who frame it entirely as "right to choose" (-> "if you're not capable of getting pregnant you have no right to input on this"). I get what they&#
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by blep_ 4y ago
> men who aren't having to deal with abortion are looking at this issue as "I don't need an abortion so it doesn't concern me". ... maybe we shouldn't have spent years telling them they weren't allowed
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Confirm that those people are working on the most essential thing in your company and are overloaded with responsibility. Don’t worry about burning them out. Worry about depriving them of the joy of working on the most important thing
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by blep_ 4y ago
Blogspam is a subset of SEO, for sure. This comment does nothing to convince me that it isn't the subset you're targeting, because that last sentence sounds a lot like you're describing blogspam. (parent comment was edited af
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by blep_ 4y ago
It was a link shortener for a while! I used to use it. It appears to have been archived in Japanese, but: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103092225/http://to/
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by blep_ 4y ago
That's what I'm saying. I have seen many instances of that warning dialog. I have not seen a single application actually crash because of it.
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by blep_ 4y ago
All of those things are implemented as dedicated hardware, though. There is no GPS process looping and reading individual bits out of the air to assemble them into GPS packets. People regularly do all of these things on tiny microcontroller
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by blep_ 4y ago
Most apps do not require Google Play Services. Many of them will show "X requires Google Play Services" warnings and then... continue working fine anyway. It's always the same wording, so I assume it's just a thing that
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by blep_ 4y ago
I used to do this. I finally had to switch off of it because the Syncthing Android experience is so bad (necessarily, because Android is bad). I had many instances of not noticing Android had killed the Syncthing backend again despite bei
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by blep_ 4y ago
Natural selection produces good enough results. It does not necessarily produce optimal results. If there is no evolutionary pressure either for or against biases, what you get is essentially random chance. That's the null hypothesis
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by blep_ 4y ago
I would like to hear more about why you think there is causation between those two things, rather than just correlation.
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by blep_ 4y ago
xorg.conf doesn't even exist anymore on most systems. The others have been improved quite a bit since "a long while" ago. That doesn't mean you have to try it again to update your opinions, if you have something else y
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by blep_ 4y ago
It is for things like checkboxes. If your design requires checkboxes to be special and different from everyone else's checkboxes, your design is wrong .
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by blep_ 4y ago
But "many people" and "no one serious", which is what you claimed, are also not the same.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I don't know, but this article definitely is not.
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by blep_ 4y ago
That's why I remove all the newlines from my code before committing.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I have one too (17Z90N), and it's pretty nice, as laptops go. ~10h battery life on Linux with minimal tweaking, decent keyboard and touchpad, huge screen (I've tried to use the tiny laptops that are popular these days, and they ju
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by blep_ 4y ago
(I'm not that person, but I have opinions on this. I'm also not deaf, but I am autistic, and the autistic community has a lot of parallels to this that I can't help but notice.) > because she can't sign as fluently as
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by blep_ 4y ago
Regardless of the rest of this conversation, we should at least ban the publishing of obvious bullshit with no attempt to establish causality as science. This is in that category. I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying t
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by blep_ 4y ago
I wish I could do this without breaking all the obnoxious sites that use fonts for icons. Someone should invent an HTML tag for putting images on a page.
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by blep_ 4y ago
No. Professors should write their tests in a way that actually tests understanding, which is much harder to fake than memorization.

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