cup-of-tea

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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
What is that acronym he keeps saying? MBCC?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> this allows for anyone to track the content viewing history of IPs Is that worse than only Google being able to do it?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I think you're probably right, yeah. The typical internet commenter will be very quick to tell you you're wrong, but they'll make every effort to tell you why.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
It was a desire to have trade secrets kept from other departments in the same organisation. My superiors realised that a lot of our worth was just the things we knew and that if I just wrote it down it would make us kind of pointless. They
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
There's also a thing called negligence for which you can quite rightly be dismissed and sued for.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
It is implicit in things like this that it's a generalisation suitable for discussing the case in point and not actually trying to describe the full spectrum of human behaviour. You should (and clearly do) know this. Generalisations ar
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I'm a disagreeable giver. I've just left a job which didn't appreciate this. Funny thing is, everyone on my level said all the time how much they appreciate my openness with knowledge and desire to teach my skills. I found th
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Because it is still evidence for what I claimed and the best I could find. I couldn't find anything showing for or against what I claimed. I think that's because it would be really hard to get good data.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
There's a big difference between one and "few". There's also a very long tail of partner counts and if you're talking about people who have had dozens of partners those are outliers. The median is somewhere around
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Well, they are still both talking about marriage dissolution. While dissolution surely implies an unhappy marriage, the reverse implication is most certainly not true. Many marriages stay official for reasons other than "love and happi
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Evidence? Sure, I know many couples. The bit about differences between couples who have only slept with each other is my own theory based on my observations. But it seems this has been studied more rigorously, for example: https:/&#x2
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
All true and don't forget the sex with other people that everyone secretly wants at all times. Women are ready to "trade up" for another man, men just want to mate with other women. Couples who have only slept with each other
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Had you never lived together before marriage and maybe hadn't been together very long beforehand? Or did getting married actually change something? Or maybe the marriage was a bandage for an already failing relationship?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The idea is that clueless execs force mastering engineers to heavily compress the recordings to make them "loud". This shows the execs that if they do that, the streaming services will undo any extra "loudness" leaving t
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Excessive dynamic range compression wasn't done at that time and many records were well mastered. Other good examples are Pink Floyd and even Led Zeppelin records. Not generally considered audiophile quality, but they just sound great.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The one that actually was quite weird was a block that happened fora fork. I can't remember the details unfortunately but the block had in it the number of the BIP. That was weird because it wasn't just a block with that number bu
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
IRC is what introduced me to client-server architecture. Like many back then and still today I had this vague idea of "server" meaning some kind of powerful computer with no monitor. I used to love IRC but I was only in dialup Int
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Learning about positional number systems was definitely a challenge but one of the best "mind opening" experiences of my life. I thoroughly recommend reading chapter 4 of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming for the hist
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I think that was actually a joke. He surreptitiously only mentioned the prime factors of ten (2 and 5) and then listed all the factors of twelve (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12). Ten, of course, has four factors: 1, 2, 5, 10 and twelve only has two pri
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> But it's not a solution for beginners or less-technical people. I don't see a problem. You don't give beginners enough credit. We were beginners once and we managed it just fine. If anything beginners today are cleverer
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I miss the days when software was judged by what it did and how fast it did it and names were funny and clever.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Back when I used IRC for work I always ran irssi on a server in screen and ssh'd in. I had a window that picked up any highlight that happened and, of course, logged everything. I liked this solution. After a while people would underst
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Force yourself to use emacs for a week and it will change your life ;)
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Yeah, I guess that is also my experience and it correlates with what I do. I think that tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment is correct, but in practice I use spaces and have done for most of my career (apart from go).
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Yep. It's not a github problem, it is a problem with the code mixing tabs and spaces for indentation. It never ceases to amaze me just how many programmers don't understand tabs. I guess it's because they look like spaces
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> the fact that if tabs are allowed in source code, people will mix them with spaces, resulting in code that looks bad unless you have the exact same tab width preferences as the author. Every bit of go code shows you are wrong. If a co
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> It depends on the person. If you're not dependent upon it and you can immediately give it up without ill effects, then it's not much of a problem. But that's the problem. How do you know? I seriously doubt anyone here wo
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> That would be recognized instantly as a problem. Really? I didn't get drunk every day. I just drank a beer every day. I really don't think anybody would consider that a problem.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I consider myself very lucky that I'm not an alcoholic. I used to drink quite a lot. Every day at one point. That is enough for some people to become alcoholic. Consider that if I was using cocaine I would be expected to have been full
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Is this really the best format to post this in?

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