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by cecilpl2 6y ago
I usually find that (within a broad range of capability) someone's actual knowledge on a given topic is inversely correlated with their self-rating on a 1-10 scale.
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by cecilpl2 6y ago
This is similar to what Incredibuild does. It distributes compile and compute jobs across a network, effectively sandboxing the remote process and forwarding all filesystem calls back to the initiating agent.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I'm in game dev, and logs are one of the most, if not the most useful debugging tools we have. It's not uncommon to see rare bugs that we can't reproduce yet have to fix, and the only thing we have to go on is a log and a v
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Here's another good example: what is the correct way to order multiple adjectives in English? If you are a native speaker, you probably don't have any idea, you just know that you say "an old big brown cardboard fridge box&qu
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
> Without the warrant, they have every right to shoot a strange person walking through their property without permission. What kind of hellish "right" is that? You should not have the right to shoot someone for merely walking o
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Just because it's impossible for you doesn't mean it's impossible for everyone. I never subvocalize, and can't remember ever having done so, except perhaps when I was very young. I devour fiction books in flow without it
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
72? 99999785960? 199?
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
That tweet was posted Nov 6, this blog post was posted today. FWIW I'm unable to reproduce both examples in the blog post - they work correctly for me in my Slack web interface.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
The second example worked correctly seamlessly for me as well. I can easily edit text inside a code block in the WYSIWYG editor. Maybe they just patched that too?
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
The S&P500 with dividends reinvested has averaged a real (post-inflation) return of 7% annually over the last 100 years or so.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
The S&P500 with dividends reinvested has averaged a real (post-inflation) return of 7% annually over the last 100 years or so. It's currently up 24% YTD.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Fun fact: Tiny Speck was actually Stewart Butterfield's second game company. His first game company also didn't do well, so they pivoted to release Flickr.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Shouldn't politicians generally spend time and attention on the problems that affect the most people?
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Well, it's one of the hardest things, along with cache invalidation.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I posted it. Thanks :)
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Wow, thank you!! :)
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Thanks :)
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
There are four groups of people: A - "Philadelphia is the capital, and others will agree." B - "Philadelphia is the capital, but most others won't know that". C - "Harrisburg is the capital, and others will agr
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I like to think of hunger as "the feeling of my body burning fat."
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
It looks similar to that, but no. This was a custom-built tool used internally in a company that is now out of business.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPGYeuU2Oc
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I used this technique once to very useful effect in an automated dependency-checking tool. Essentially given an idempotent data-transformation process, you can inject a dll into it and hook its filesystem calls, maintaining a list of all fi
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
> I'm trying to convince myself to try anyway What else are you going to do? You are where you are right now, and you can either put in the effort to make your life better or you can give up now. The time's going to pass anyway
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
> What is also true is that most people do not properly estimate the number of calories they consume each day. I don't have a reference handy, but I have read studies that show that when people self-report calorie consumption from m
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Sounds like someone at Verizon messed up their BGP system.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
> However, I wonder if projecting the unhelpful parts of yourself as a different being actually works as intended. I have used that technique to great success in many instances in my life. It's helped me to deal with relationship di
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
Speed reading seems have become a point of pride for many people. I think they see it as a proxy for intelligence rather than a learned ability that is very useful in some (not all) contexts.
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
I spend a fair amount of time walking users through new-to-them tools. These are all people who use computers for their 9-5. Some people are able to find a named option in seconds, and others struggle. I witness people moving the mouse down
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by cecilpl2 7y ago
> context-appropriate inflections, dramatizations, and intonations I do this too, and other people often comment on how well I read out loud. I often find myself buffering words into vocalization while I read ahead a line or so and prepa

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