clarry

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by clarry 6y ago
What's the important stuff? Where do I check my understanding?
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by clarry 6y ago
Yeah I mostly share those feelings. Having a degree most certainly wouldn't hurt, but as you say, it's not worth quitting over. And I certainly don't have the energy to get a degree while employed full time (I know some peo
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by clarry 6y ago
I would abandon the whole "cram for N years and get a degree, then never again" scheme. Imo education should be a lifelong thing: available at any time, part time or full time, on-demand; for example, new requirements come up at a
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by clarry 6y ago
Yeah it depends on a lot of things. Maybe university isn't where your interests are, but you kinda need a degree and a job? I see lots of students whose life revolves around making it through courses and collecting ECTS points instea
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by clarry 6y ago
> In many cases, does University just function as a waiting room in which young people can mature? And the opposite is true. If I were 18 now, I'd probably go to university. Back in the day, I had my reasons not to go, and when th
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by clarry 6y ago
That can happen (look out for dew on windows), but usually the heating season leads to the air being too dry. That's uncomfortable and can e.g. damage wooden instruments.
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by clarry 6y ago
I think it's true that there's too much in the way of faddy tools and products, frameworks, libraries, ecosystems.. and at the same time people are perhaps not investing enough into theory/fundamentals. Where programming lang
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by clarry 6y ago
> I'd argue that ease of use and readability are perfectly quantifiable Do we have any objective metrics? The only thing I can think of is all the (inconclusive) studies about error density. Unfortunately error density is a very f
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by clarry 6y ago
Idk why people would downvote, but I don't agree that OpenBSD ships with little. In fact, I find it to be full of useful tools; it's very much a "batteries included, complete operating system" (as opposed to many small&
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by clarry 6y ago
Can you link a reliable source?
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by clarry 6y ago
> Consent should be freely given otherwise it's invalid. I tried to figure out what this actually means but it's very hazy. A naggy news website isn't performing a contract. Are they provisioning a service (assuming you
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by clarry 6y ago
> Buttons break. So does software :(
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by clarry 6y ago
> I think remote work greatly increases the circle of people you're competing with. I don't recommend trying to be remote only unless you're world class - because the world is technically your competition. Another perspect
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by clarry 6y ago
> b) Software quality does not scale linearly with manpower. I believe there's a tipping point after which software quality doesn't scale at all; in fact, it only starts getting worse. People confuse quantity (roughly: number
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by clarry 6y ago
Here's one live example: https://www.tujavortaro.net/
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by clarry 6y ago
Completely different. Look up privacy or anonymity on beaker's site? Crickets. It's a browser, apparently with all the dangerous bloat (javascript...) with a bolted-on p2p network that apparently does nothing for privacy or cen
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by clarry 6y ago
I did a bit of spelunking around about this issue recently and found theories but no evidence to support having more or less padding. The only conclusive result I remember from a study was that barefoot runners experienced more injuries..
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by clarry 6y ago
It looks alright but to me the simple-web ideal is rather like.. no design. Like, you don't design an essay, or a comment, you just write one. And so was the web. Initially you did not do "web design", you wrote hyperlinke
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by clarry 6y ago
- To have a language you like, even if nobody else in the world cares for it
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by clarry 6y ago
> The first part is true to I do not know how many languages, the second part is subjective And it's fine that way. There are lots of languages out there, and very few of them have any objective problem-solving features to justify
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by clarry 6y ago
> How did it happen It just did. Halfway through my usual route, I started to notice a light ache around the knee. Initially I didn't think much of it, I figured it's just a little stronger than normal muscle soreness, nothin
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by clarry 6y ago
> most convenient book store would be just like genesis library Great! So let's start there. That's already 100% better than what the current bookstores are doing (a few small publishers aside). That alone would solve my an
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by clarry 6y ago
Books are different, therefore you can't offer people an easy, simple, convenient ebook store that doesn't screw you over with excess prices and proprietary windows-only software and DRM? Yeah, with that kind of attitude it'
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by clarry 6y ago
Similar story. I made good progress with running, until I wrecked my knee such that getting from bedroom to bathroom was difficult and painful and could only be done with support from walls. I couldn't leave home at all for a few day
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by clarry 6y ago
Take a look at digital distribution stores for games that give people a fuss-free experience. Access a well organized catalog & help pages, discussion forums, wikis, etc. Keep track of your library, always get latest version, download
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by clarry 6y ago
I came to say the exact same thing.. using and endorsing slack makes them a part of the problem.
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by clarry 6y ago
> Yes, pirating media is often easier than buying media that compensates the author and distributor. Didn't we all know that? We all know that it doesn't have to be that way. > DRM and other protection instruments are widesp
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by clarry 6y ago
> Folks like the OP won't support writers. > Thanks OP. Is that the most appropriate thing you can say to someone who bought a book and (somewhat expectedly) got screwed by DRM? Maybe there's a reason they won't supp
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by clarry 6y ago
In the distant past, we used client side includes. They were known as framesets.
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by clarry 6y ago
> I worry that many developers (maybe even you, dear reader) are settling for suboptimal, restrictive static-site generators that place limits on the interactivity and flexibility of your website. I wonder what sort of interactivity you

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