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by brigandish 6mo ago
I knew a sub-editor. According to them, they were not to use a spellchecker because it would lead to them being sloppy when checking for mistakes. I think about that every time I see a typo, and about that study showing that journalists are
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by brigandish 6mo ago
The dilemma was nurturing by a hormonally-adapted male v. a “stereotypical” male, not nurturing v. non-nurturing.
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by brigandish 6mo ago
> "It's an urgent societal priority that we shore up dads' opportunity to build those connections," says Saxbe. I note that changing the presumption in family law that the mother is the better care giver, thus making
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by brigandish 6mo ago
What is freedom of speech a freedom from?
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by brigandish 6mo ago
How did he see into the future to know which work he'd be doing on the next sprint, and how did he also finish the current sprint's work with a bullseye thus allowing the next sprint's to begin and match it?
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by brigandish 6mo ago
Because experience is valuable.
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by brigandish 6mo ago
That's very charitable of you.
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by brigandish 6mo ago
Ask it to agree with you on some subject that does not align with the politics of San Francisco IT engineers. Not only will it refuse, it will not look like your average social media disagreement. I enjoy using Claude, but sometimes I feel
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by brigandish 6mo ago
> Do you buy music on iTunes? That's like asking HN if they buy Christmas CDs at Tesco. This is a very self-selecting group of people. I know people who buy off of iTunes, who don't use Spotify, who've never heard of Bandc
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by brigandish 7mo ago
As you should. Also, the constant complaint from devs on these very boards is that quality and security are relegated behind new features that are often described as useless but pushed by management. Are you in management?
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by brigandish 7mo ago
They succeeded in poisoning the whole supply chain and making everyone distrust package management to a degree never seen before, and people who aren't reviewing their dependencies are already getting hit. You seem to suggest that we a
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by brigandish 7mo ago
An alternative: - copy the dependencies' tests into your own tests - copy the code in to your codebase as a library using the same review process you would for code from your own team - treat updates to the library in the same way yo
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by brigandish 7mo ago
Does not, in the seeming absence of other snappy examples and the overwhelming evidence of many, many slow React apps, the exception prove the rule?
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by brigandish 7mo ago
I see you have a response from the person accused of acting in bad faith, and whether you agree or not (which you have done), it is reasonable, as was your disagreement. It was not bad faith, whatever that is, and it was not a straw man.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
> You know this, and that's why it's bad faith. Try to remain calm and not make personal remarks.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
If you want to factor in health then private health insurance would be the way to do it.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
Yes, it seems like the next logical move would be for the US to blockade the strait. Ironic.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
What is "bad faith" here? I'd love to see an explanation.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
Not in the past. When that change flipped from music sales to merchandise and tours, I couldn’t be sure but I’d reckon the early 2000s.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
Setting would provide the context for action or characterisation to occur in a meaningful way, or provoke it, so it is necessary part of both (if done for either of those purposes). Given that, the charitable interpretation would be to only
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by brigandish 7mo ago
It doesn't sound like utopia to me, hence the quotation marks. Eminently achievable, but not actually good. Only those engaged in utopian thinking - with a heavy slice of ignorance of basic economics and history - would think it is uto
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by brigandish 7mo ago
This is not true, the Kings Fund publishes a report that the Guardian fauns over whenever it comes out because it shows how "cost effective" the NHS is, yet if you read it you find that actual health outcomes are generally worse t
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by brigandish 7mo ago
Is it more selfish and narrow minded to wish for a "utopia" that is economically unsound and happens to be your personal preference, or to wish for productive workers' salaries to increase - something with an actual track r
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by brigandish 7mo ago
For a distributed VCS, what would be the need for such things? Even if it were a really big project, how many writes could be going on that this becomes a bottleneck? I don't see it but maybe you have a situation in mind.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
I use ProxyCommand to run spipe tunnels for SSH.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
> Many times we got stiffed. I understand that you could not keep the child till you were paid (kidnapping and ransom shouldn't be a business plan!), but you could refuse them future service until they paid.
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by brigandish 7mo ago
It doesn't change randomly. There are zero apps where Apple+C becomes Ctrl+C, for example. Same keys across the whole OS for cut, copy, paste; select, find; undo/redo; fullscreen, zoom; print… the list goes on.
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by brigandish 8mo ago
AI will improve people’s understanding of the Oxford comma.
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by brigandish 8mo ago
> But Europeans are diverse mutts as well. Speak for yourself, because > If their great-great-grandfather was Scottish, they then assume everyone before him was 100% super duper Scottish That is, indeed, the correct assumption to make
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by brigandish 8mo ago
Ethnicity and nationality are not the same, though they have until very recently overlapped to an enormous extent. Someone might well be of anglo-saxon ethnicity and be American. Being British myself, I find it fun to tease the yanks about

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