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by chao- 10y ago
No. I have a high tolerance for trawling through documentation and reading the code of open source libraries in pursuit application logic and the fiddly bits of related services. I have low tolerance for the same work in pursuit of infrastr
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by chao- 10y ago
Hot water, good dentistry, and high coverage in unit tests.
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by chao- 10y ago
I have never heard an Asian referred to as "colored" in a derogatory manner. However, I know several Asian Americans (both East Asian and South Asian) who frequently use the phrase "person of color" with respect to thems
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by chao- 10y ago
>Now the hip drinks are craft beers and fine wines, and a former factory worker forced to work menial part time jobs is looked down upon for drinking what he can afford, Bud lite and coke. Two related articles that may inform your disc
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by chao- 10y ago
Possibly related to a bunch of stock phrases/tokens that aren't allowed? As referenced in recent "ISIS Beer Fund" articles? https://www.inverse.com/article/13700-i-wrote-isis-beer-fund...
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by chao- 10y ago
I'm a little picky in my desktop distro, and the two metics I judge by are these: 1. How quickly after a fresh install I can get the desktop into a state where I like it. This is mostly just adding things that aren't included, rem
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by chao- 11y ago
It isn't the most important aspect of this article, and I know that tech journalism by persons outside the field is prone to this sort of thing, but a little bit of me dies inside when I read or hear the phrase "The Rails Interpre
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by chao- 11y ago
I am similar to reacweb. I dual-booted from 2008 through about 2011, then switched to using Linux as my only bootable OS and Windows in a VM occasionally. I've noticed since about 2013 that I booted into the VM less and less often. The
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by chao- 11y ago
Widespread deployment of this will make a number of people's lives less fun. In response, pro-fun countermeasures will be created to solve their new problem. Or, to quote a comment on a technology discussion site about this project:
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by chao- 11y ago
Simple answer: Yes. Longer answer: I install any such extension with full knowledge of their potential to cause breakage, and consequently my first reaction to a broken page is to issue a reload with the extension disabled. The web being
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by chao- 11y ago
What does Linux Mint do, especially given its modest popularity? I don't know about code but their website lists "Based on Debian and Ubuntu" as a "reason for succuss".
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by chao- 11y ago
I have the "old X1 Carbon with a low res screen", except that the article is a little inaccurate: it doesn't have to have a low res screen. You can select a 2560x1440 screen. Even better, it's a non-reflective (matte) s
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by chao- 11y ago
I purchase from them even when I don't have to, just because of their stance on fighting patents.
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by chao- 11y ago
I haven't written C++ with any significance in a few years, and done little with Rust at all. So while I don't feel qualified to speak to the comparison at the core of the blog post, I did find the first example to be disingenuous
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by chao- 11y ago
Already used this to find some fun tools, one of which I'll start using later today. Thanks! As others have said, it would be useful to have some "max age" requirement.
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by chao- 11y ago
I agree with your premise, and can decorate it with some details, but also can't claim inside knowledge to the BigCo research environments you describe. One datapoint might be the recent movements of the SURGE Accelerator down in Houst
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by chao- 11y ago
Given the former omnipresence of flying cars in science fiction movies, I would say yes.
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by chao- 11y ago
I don't think zeveb was saying the browser was insecure, just the "Firefox account" system which may be used to synchronize/store passwords and other IID.
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by chao- 11y ago
The lack of zoning in Houston has its upsides and downsides, but it has comparatively little to do with the sprawl. The sprawl is mostly a result of the manner by which Houston chose to grow: by annexing neighboring municipalities that were
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by chao- 11y ago
That's an interesting comparison. What would it mean, from a mechanical or chemical perspective, for an engine (or the whole car?) to be both very fast and very clean, but not efficient? Does not the inefficiency also lead to a lesseni
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by chao- 11y ago
Flexbox and Sass-first is a nice surprise, but the switch to rems steals my attention. I know that backwards-compatibility goals kept them on px, but that has long been my one complaint with Bootstrap (as a regular user, not as that guy who
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by chao- 11y ago
For me the biggest issue is the lack of discrete buttons for the touchpad. I felt betrayed when Lenovo finally went the way of the "clickpad", which is the only name I have heard for the style of touchpad where the whole pad'
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by chao- 11y ago
Who are the security services employed by? I certainly wouldn't call them private industry! Did you mean to say it's not elected government officials? Just curious, because I definitely consider a country's intelligence app
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by chao- 11y ago
Have you seen the vehicle culture in "flyover country"? You will absolutely see people put off repairs and upkeep to their house while they make sure they get a new car every 5 years (or stagger new cars with their spouse, 10 year
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by chao- 11y ago
Do you also feel the intense sense of extremely partisan, political divide in the US is desirable? Because that is what results from holing up in ideologically segregated communities where everyone agrees about nine-tenths of everything, an
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by chao- 11y ago
Good discussion of this sort of thing in a series of recorded Hangouts between Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and DHH: http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/ The takeaway is that the usefulness of tests is the fe
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by chao- 11y ago
The thing is, as referenced in the article I linked, there is a blurred line in functionality between what the GPU can do, via what the driver exposes, and what the GPU can do, if only they would write something for you to help massage it a
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by chao- 11y ago
There was an article back in March wherein a Stack Overflow (or Quora?) user comment about the hilariously porous boundary between game engines, drivers and actual hardware on GPUs. I'll see if I can find it because as much as I love a
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by chao- 11y ago
I love it. I was just doing some Fermi estimates for a friend on the data for a project he has in the pipeline. I was curious whether or not it would be cost efficient for his project's budget to go with NVMe SSDs or have to stick with
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by chao- 11y ago
No, it's not considered "incredibly walkable". But more realistically, until the last few years, even people who lived in the truly walkable parts of Houston didn't care or often take advantage of it. For the two dozen o

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