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by cottager2 5y ago
The goal of writing software is rarely to produce a piece of well-engineered software. More commonly, the goal is to produce a product in a given time frame using the team of engineers available, which may be of variable quality. If you’re
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by cottager2 5y ago
Blood Meridian changed my opinion on gun control. The plot makes you realize how absolutely helpless you were out west without a gun. While the wild times out west ended some number of years ago, it’s unsurprising that the trauma of the tim
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by cottager2 5y ago
You do it via let’s encrypt… let’s encrypt only issues chase.com certificates to hosts it verifies are behind chase.com domains. That’s why they’re trusted as a CA.
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by cottager2 5y ago
It says 1/5. Just out of curiosity, what did that mean to you? Anyone who has used Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, etc. (i.e. most people) should understand this UI.
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by cottager2 5y ago
I don’t think it’s deliberate. The U.S. media is much more inwardly focused now. How often have you heard the name Breonna Taylor? We no longer have global hegemony. We can’t change Russia. We can maybe change some domestic police forces.
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by cottager2 5y ago
Why is social media not ephemeral by default? I feel like you should be able to share a photo of you and your wife on your wedding day without a reporter digging it up years later.
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by cottager2 5y ago
I’m surprised by the outrage to the teaching style, specifically people taking issue with the expectation that students take questions to office hours. Perhaps many who have studied math have forgotten, but “so and so is left as an exercise
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by cottager2 5y ago
Why don’t they want to collect accurate user ratings? Also, they know whether or not you finish something, how many episodes you binge, etc. There are many rating-independent signals.
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by cottager2 5y ago
I didn’t express an opinion on the motivation for the API, I just mentioned why uBlock doesn’t work as well.
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by cottager2 5y ago
I use Firefox. Honestly, some sites are broken, like my brokerage account and Zillow. Having uBlock work at blocking 100% of known-bad requests is worth it to me. Chrome only blocks something like 60% due to the asynchronous nature of the e
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by cottager2 5y ago
While the agreement seems a little weird, the contract was more or less straight forward? If the music label didn’t spend the $50k promoting the music, then that’s one thing to complain about, but otherwise it seems like the terms of the ag
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by cottager2 5y ago
Maybe your definition of competence is wrong? A lot of people can build systems with some number of 9s of availability, but how many people can build a 50B company?
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by cottager2 5y ago
Is that known? I don’t think it’s been conclusively decided whether or not the virus spreads via aerosolized droplets or if it’s truly airborne.
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by cottager2 5y ago
I have friends that have played on Lichess for years and never reached above 1400. How you study is much more important than how much you study. Analyzing different modes of study, as done in this blog post, is quite useful.
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by cottager2 5y ago
In certain circumstances, maybe. But most people also want to smile, laugh, and to be entertained by the conversation. Evoking those responses requires charisma.
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by cottager2 5y ago
Wood is carbon neutral, not carbon negative. Trees take carbon out of the air and produce wood. When they die and decompose or burn, the carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Oil in the ground was produced during a time that wood was
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by cottager2 5y ago
This is a weird argument because it’s not like CO2 is being produced from thin air (heh). Most of the CO2 we produce comes from fossil fuels stored deep inside the earth or inside literal mountain ranges. We can put it back there. Mountain
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by cottager2 5y ago
Surely you must admit that even an extremely memory efficient implementation of a set of tabs has a physical limit on how many can be open if they’re all loaded into memory.
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by cottager2 5y ago
Economists definitely claim to know how things work. I vividly remember reading neo-liberal gospel (the economic theory, not political leaning) in the NYT opinion section written by Paul Krugman 10 years ago. Allowing completely free trade
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by cottager2 5y ago
Is it true they’re only using 1 or 3 cranes? Why? To force investment from the infrastructure bill?
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by cottager2 5y ago
How is this deployed in a way that changes the network architecture on the fly?
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by cottager2 5y ago
Because almost no one gets rabies and the vaccine is effective if it’s administered after exposure.
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by cottager2 5y ago
Having just bought a cottage, here are some things that have changed recently. 1. P2P wireless means you can cheaply get a 50/10 internet connection in remote areas. This is plenty for most users. Also starlink is apparently pretty goo