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by cmiller1 6y ago
It's also a cherry picked example, networking code, of a problem that can be expressed equally as nicely with OO or functions. Now refactor a gui or a game without OO and you'll find the OO version easier to understand or cleaner
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by cmiller1 6y ago
Yup, there are people working in all sorts of industries that have their own biases and it gets reflected in their work. It goes the other way too, there are plenty of professionals (female engineers, male primary education teachers, etc.)
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Heh, low effort joke but I read it the same way at first, the headline is definitely worded in a confusing way.
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> and wait for my fridge to be stocked with the right food This also relates to another human brain screwup I was talking to a friend about recently. They wanted to learn to do something but were waiting to take a class when there were
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by cmiller1 6y ago
Here's a tip from people I know that do streaming from their computer: get the microphone off your desk. Find something else to put it on or buy an arm it can attach to. The fact that your device or mic are sitting on your desk where
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by cmiller1 6y ago
Your fantasy UI actually sounds very much like what Jef Raskin envisioned in his book The Humane Interface
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It's a $1300 entry level device with $1000 worth of maxing ram and SSD space.
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by cmiller1 6y ago
Several other commenters seem to have missed a detail from the article: in every single one of these tests the software is running natively on both the Dell and Intel Mac and entirely in emulation on the M1. That said, we already have had p
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by cmiller1 6y ago
> For many, one annual ritual will provide a welcome distraction: watching a depressed child get berated and mocked relentlessly Some won't even need Charlie Brown for that ritual!
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> The only programs I'd be reasonable sure wouldn't screw it up are Acrobat itself Oh no, I've seen acrobat screw with it too
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by cmiller1 6y ago
Similarly I'm seeing several comments in this thread saying other companies offer better headphones for cheaper. We simply don't know how these perform yet.
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I've used many of the same technologies he's talking about and have experienced almost none of these issues... maybe I just got lucky but it seems we have the bigger problem that these systems are so complex that they've almo
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And they didn't even start with the lawsuit, they just broke the terms of service explicitly and then surprise pikachu faced when Apple slapped them down.
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by cmiller1 7y ago
Fun fact: the sodium lauryl sulfate in toothpaste dulls the sweetness receptors on your tongue. The taste of orange juice after brushing your teeth is what it would ALWAYS taste like to cats.
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by cmiller1 8y ago
Are you Guybrush Threepwood?
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>I did for the first time see an Apple branded car with a photo sphere on the roof recently and kinda got excited that they are gonna try and bring competition into maps / street view that Google has dominated for the last decade. A
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by cmiller1 8y ago
>One person said their cows ate $250 worth. That's what you get in the luxury grass as a service business!
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by cmiller1 8y ago
The line between personality traits and mental disorder is usually drawn at "does this have a significant negative impact on the person's functioning?"
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by cmiller1 8y ago
Wouldn't that be harmful to small businesses though?
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by cmiller1 8y ago
I use Discord for communicating with some friends and coworkers and specifically set it up so it's only aware of one very old text adventure and will only tell people if I'm playing that.
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by cmiller1 8y ago
If the OTA updates are compromised or some other remote vulnerability is found I'd consider that a major flaw. However, some of the Tesla "hacks" I've seen show up in the past involve plugging a laptop into the inside o
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by cmiller1 8y ago
Must be like when we as english speakers try to learn languages with gendered nouns and have to consciously try to remember if a chair or table is male or female.
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by cmiller1 8y ago
Now this is the kind of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish I like. I wish more companies bought technologies just to open source them.
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by cmiller1 8y ago
Pfffft, only 280mm? Time to upgrade: https://www.lytron.com/Cooling-Systems/Standard/Recirculatin...
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by cmiller1 8y ago
You also bring up a good argument in favor of supporting the social sciences. Often times the arguments against providing a minimum standard of living boil down to "but if we give people things they won't have any incentive to wo
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by cmiller1 8y ago
Misread that as "star tropics" and got excited.
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It's pretty nicely put together and commented, still trying to work through exactly how the interleave steps work though.
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Still would go there occasionally for clothes. Brick and mortar has been mostly replaced for me except for groceries (I'm aware there are services but I'm in a pretty rural area right now) and clothing where I still appreciate th
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This is a hard problem though, there are so many variables. For example, maybe the one that is more eco-friendly to produce is less durable and in the example of flooring which one is more green could depend on how many people a day you ha
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Alternative solution: when technologies like resonant inductive coupling improve enough for efficient medium to long range wireless transfer of power we could just build cars with small batteries or capacitors that are almost always trickle

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