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by brimble 5y ago
You see another funny effect like this in voting. A rough list of voting one can do, in order of likelihood of it affecting anything in the real world, most-to-least: 1. Voting in local party elections/primaries/et c. 2. Voting in
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by brimble 5y ago
It probably didn't come across in my post (I see on re-reading it) but I wasn't trying to shit on people who haven't had that kind of experience. I think VM/container performance in modern software ecosystems (and especi
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by brimble 5y ago
It's a question of how different the actual real world would be if one were to "stop caring that someone is wrong on the internet" versus the alternative world in which one cared very much about this. I would suggest that mos
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by brimble 5y ago
Sealioning is not at all the same thing as a Gish Gallop. A Gish Gallop is throwing out very weak arguments or evidence (so, bullshit) faster than a sincerely-engaging opponent can address them. Sealioning is a much more deniable tactic, re
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by brimble 5y ago
What's the likelihood of your spending a lifetime engaging with wrong people online having enough payoff to be worth it, even if it does have real consequences?
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by brimble 5y ago
Wow. I haven't kept up with pro-vaccine media (I got mine, seemed like a good idea, just haven't paid attention to the messaging very much aside from health official guidelines and such) but damn that's bad. No wonder BSABi
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by brimble 5y ago
Similar in stoicism. It's not that with training physical pain no longer hurts, or that it's reasonable to expect people to curb every little nigh-involuntary in-the-moment emotional reaction to every situation, but that a great
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by brimble 5y ago
I've never had the experience that learning a language is harder than learning the culture and (usually bad) tools around it. Stuff like "oh no, I know the official docs say that, but no one does it that way" or "this to
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by brimble 5y ago
> I would argue that Go has been successful largely because everything that’s happening is “out in the open”, where the average developer can see it. It’s a very different philosophy, one that I think the quote-creator aligns with better
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by brimble 5y ago
It's funny that PG's "Blub Paradox"[1] is very close to your post, but harsher and stronger , but rarely draws much push-back when it comes up here, while your post is drawing flames like crazy. I think PG's po
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by brimble 5y ago
I've only just gotten used to the slide-it-in-the-slot kind. Whatever that's called. The thing that's replacing the magnetic stripes, more or less. I always forget about contactless. I think all my cards can do it? Not knowin
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by brimble 5y ago
> Who would doubt it is possible to host this on one box? People who've never stood up a "bare-metal" server in their life. Who weren't around to see the kind of traffic one shitty late-90s commodity-parts server with
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by brimble 5y ago
Occasional page load failure while logged in? Pretty common. Complete or nearly complete failure for logged-in users? Happens sometimes. Completely down such that not even a logged-out user can read it? I'm not sure I've ever seen
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by brimble 5y ago
It also fails gracefully. Logged-in users may find the site unusable while it still loads for logged-out readers just fine (from cache).
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah FTL's problem is that once you fall behind in the game's economy, if you will, there's only very limited ability to take it easy and try to catch up, but it lets you avoid a lot of combat so it's possible to limp
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by brimble 5y ago
I'll stop doing `brew install spectacle` and look for something else when it stops working :-) M1 Mac, but I'm still on Big Sur. Maybe Monterey breaks it. Guess I'll find out soonish. I'm reluctant to change a piece of s
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by brimble 5y ago
None, probably, but these days it's de rigeur to spend half a (web or mobile) project's budget making sure even the select boxes are "on brand" and "delightful" or whatever. Often at the expense of usability.
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, I'm still on Spectacle, which is basically the same thing. It's all I need as far as tiling-alike stuff goes and is the very first thing I install after Homebrew, on a new Mac. In fact, Homebrew, Spectacle, and using the Set
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by brimble 5y ago
Similar to work-to-rule labor action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule Which also involves gumming up the works with very strict adherence to instructions, rules, and guidelines.
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by brimble 5y ago
Wait—when you're using Signal, it resorts to using your whole-phone contact list when, say, you want send a direct message? That would be... not great UX, with my personal use of my phone contact list (mostly for people I barely ever m
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by brimble 5y ago
Same way Garmin does it, I'd expect: specs and restrictions that would make your average web or iOS/Android developer cry and declare it's impossible to develop useful software for.
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by brimble 5y ago
That, people with multiple laundry rooms (somewhat-large McMansions with two or more floors may have these) who buy one to see if they like it, then buy another (same or a different one), people with enough money to buy washing machines for
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by brimble 5y ago
That's more a quality of the "rogue lite" subgenre, no? Which I do personally prefer to the traditional kind. Though "fail but keep going" can go very wrong, in the case of something like FTL, where you can easily h
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by brimble 5y ago
If a user who hasn't bought a washing machine recently is 0.1% likely to be interested in a washing machine ad, and one who has is 0.2% likely to be interested, then they may be making the right call, even if for most people that s
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by brimble 5y ago
At some point I gave up trying to organize my Gmail when I realized that 99% of my use of it is just opening it to get a sign-in code or check on a package or whatever. I send an email to an actual human with it maybe once a year. I don&#
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah that's why I threw in "maybe sooner". $25m is a bit arbitrary but is also somewhere around the point at which I'd have to start trying to waste money before I'd risk touching principal. That's "ne
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by brimble 5y ago
If all the folks who think Apple is all flash & marketing with no substance would get together and make products that are actually competitive with Apple's on substance , that'd be awesome and they might well get my business.
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by brimble 5y ago
It was both factors. Both user-stuff and developer-stuff were far more pleasant on i-devices. And because of testing needs, I got to use a huge range of devices from both ecosystems. I don't develop in my spare time on my i-devices,
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by brimble 5y ago
I sometimes wonder how much the fact that I'd stop trying to make more money at like $25m savings—and maybe sooner—is a factor in my not having that much money in the first place. Like I'm not saying that's all or even most
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, I just disagree with "iPhones are making people unable to use computers well" concerns, whatever the definition of "computer literate". My experience has been that outside of enthusiast or professional tech circles

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