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by cxr 3y ago
> My reaction when I first heard of the concept of a "wiki" where everyone is allowed to edit some post (curiously before I heard about Wikipedia): I thought such a system would immediately be ruined There are people who think
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by cxr 3y ago
What's your point? Because _my_ point is that if you think about Walmart and however bad you know (or heard) that it is, Amazon is worse than that .
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by cxr 3y ago
Working through a staffing agency or not and working "a traditional 9–5 job" or not are two totally separate subjects.
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by cxr 3y ago
Right. The key word in my comment was "ostensibly".
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by cxr 3y ago
The Walmart distribution center built around where I grew up was not known as a hub of shit jobs. It was a source of envy. Amazon warehouse worker pay, in contrast, lags behind Walmart by several dollars per hour and offset several years.
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by cxr 3y ago
The writer Rob K. Henderson has covered the hypocrisy of the upper and upper-middle classes in several of his pieces on what he calls "luxury beliefs". The case of Amazon def. fits into a similar theme. You can broach the topic w
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by cxr 3y ago
The DOM is not JavaScript. It doesn't make the original comment any less weird. (The reply with further detail that you referred to is even weirder.)
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by cxr 3y ago
This comment reeks of sophomoric-douchebag-leaping-at-the-chance-to-talk-down-to-someone-he-assumes-is-a-noob laced with confirmation cum survivorship/selection bias ("the thing I assumed was being shown is what was being shown&qu
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by cxr 3y ago
Weird comment. There's no substantial difference in behavior here (aside from the existing distinction between attributes and properties).
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by cxr 3y ago
> The only thing in that screencapture that happens outside of the space shooter game is relaunching the game after closing it. If you know that pressing the up arrow and enter to run the last command is a common thing, I don't thi
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by cxr 3y ago
This blog post commits the common sin of showing a screencapture of a terminal emulator session that moves at the speed of thought of the creator rather than presenting things in a reasonable way for the person actually consuming it (i.e. t
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by cxr 3y ago
Thank you for correcting me.
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by cxr 3y ago
Gardens suck. It's easily the worst part about the Web, New or Olde. Worse than UI dark patterns. Worse than user tracking. It's no contest. Stop "updating" content destructively. Nobody raids my bookshelf when an a
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by cxr 3y ago
Pinta is a fork of an older version of Paint.NET and (as far as I know) doesn't aim to be a clone.
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by cxr 3y ago
> It would be useful to have a good standardized / canonical json format for things like encoding, delimiter, schema and metadata We already have that. Dan Brickley and others put a lot of thoughtful effort into it < https:&#x2F
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by cxr 3y ago
> in a weird way, conversations about git are complicated because, unlike with so much other software, people don't just throw up their hands and get along the best they can Sorry, I don't think that's compatible with real
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by cxr 3y ago
This is a much better post than the one that preceded it. Still... The biggest problem with people's attempts to wrap their heads around Git, its awful UI notwithstanding, seems to be an insistence on thinking of it foremost in terms
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by cxr 3y ago
> Does HTML have the reproducibility that PDF promises? My feeling is that if I store a PDF, it'll look the same in a decade. Feelings and promises are each one thing. Reality is another. PDF doesn't even look "the same&
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by cxr 3y ago
> 8GB of RAM [...] late-90s-era experience Not even close.
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by cxr 3y ago
This isn't particular to Microsoft. The current profusion of reaching attempts to tack AI onto everything following the popularity of LLM-based products fits the familiar arc of any hyped next big thing in tech. I encourage people to
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by cxr 3y ago
In no sense is PDF.js related to Foxit except that they are both PDF readers.
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by cxr 3y ago
> the RESTful guy, Roy Fielding I think you're confused about who Fielding is and what REST is about. His writing isn't about building "true" RESTful APIs. It isn't really about APIs per se at all, RESTful or n
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by cxr 3y ago
Calling Android Java is certainly a stretch, but aside from Sun/Oracle folks, I don't ever see anyone do that. Android is Android, Java is Java, and Android is written in Java. If the language of the non-standard, deliberately ES
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by cxr 3y ago
It's not difficult to just ask the persons involved. You aren't going to get a uniform set of responses arguing for the affirmative; many people (a) aren't doing their best, and (b) are comfortable saying so.
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by cxr 3y ago
> There's no standard for CSV files Literally untrue. (And were it true, it still wouldn't be a reason why one should use this over CSV—not sure what's so hard to grasp about the conversational/contextual premise h
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by cxr 3y ago
> everyone is doing their best given the conditions they’re in Generous, but almost certainly untrue.
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by cxr 3y ago
Although matching up nested pairs of brackets requires something at least as powerful as a pushdown automaton (CFG matcher), discriminating between an arbitrary number of escaped backslashes followed by an unescaped 't' versus an
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by cxr 3y ago
The task here is to explain why one should use this over CSV. By your own admissions, there is no reason to prefer this over CSV.
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by cxr 3y ago
Why does your dev-local repo[1] README have a link that's described as being the Adobe PDF viewer extension for VS Code but actually link to an extension that uses pdf.js by a company called Mathematic[2]? 1. < https://git
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by cxr 3y ago
What?

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