davesmith1983

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by davesmith1983 7y ago
TBH I would settle for working on a sane codebase. Almost every codebase I have worked on except for my own are a complete mess. Basic things aren't done right e.g. Reproducible builds, source control, code review etc.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Yes, they are quite banal people, mostly. Another subjective ad-hominem attack on people you don't really know much about. > That means little - the worst political movements of the last century were full of very banal people,
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Lets pretend a few things, because I don't think you understand what I am getting at. I have application called "Music Box", I am release version 2.0.0 and it is QA'd before release against Pear OS 7.0. If Pear OS 8.0 is
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
I understand this. Think more along the lines of "If a tree falls down in a forest, does it make any sound if there is nobody there to hear it?". If there is a defect on Linux, but nobody is running it on Linux, is there really a
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Multiplatform code when tested tends to show more bugs than single platform code. Why would it make the code more robust for users on other platforms if they aren't experiencing those bugs? Is exposing these bugs worth the extra d
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
A1200 boards are over 25 years old. A lot of the boards are damaged because of capacitors leaking, just being old. Many of us that still use the Amigas like using "proper hardware". I like the idea of taking a 25 year old computer
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
You are talking about hypernormalisation. TBH only recently have people been able to do this due to how media works.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
The main things holding me to Windows is SQL Server and some other bits and pieces around that where there is simply no cross platform equivalent that will work with it.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> I have to ask, for anyone that cares this much, why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux? For me no it isn't. I am a nomadic VB/C# .NET developer and while most things now run cross
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
This is interesting. I was using the ShutUp10 tool (I am not affiliated). https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 That lists what it considers "Safe" things to turn off and I generally keep to that. I would h
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> Yeah, and no UKIP supporter would likely be able to describe any of it, except the bits on discriminating foreigners and closing borders. Because, frankly, that's pretty much the only thing they care about. Farage's latest ou
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> No, you were not -- you were (and still are) trying to pass your biases (Farage "patriotic" and unfairly portraited while being "uncontroversial") as objective, by attacking straw men in how public debate arrives at
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Nigel Farage himself puts a lot of his success down to Facebook and Youtube and not the UK papers. Some of his speeches/rants (depends how you view it) against the EU in the Parliament went viral in the late 2000s.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Unfortunately I should have guessed I would have someone miss the entire point I was trying to make (How the media constantly mis-represent things to the point that the public doesn't trust even if they accurately present the truth) be
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Most people accept that politicians lie. Saying that a politician lies is like saying "The Pope is Catholic" or "Water is wet". What people care about is whether the politicians will instigate policies that are beneficia
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Well a lot of this is due to how this has been presented to by the media beforehand. e.g. There is a scare story at least once a week that is plastered over newspapers/news sites such as " Having a bacon sandwich could lead to bum
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Uber (when it first came out) you could just take a photo of your card and then tap in the security code yourself. It seemed to work decently well back in 2014.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Sorry assumptions about how an individual thinks based on their race, gender or sexuality is clearly a nonsense. You cannot point at any individual and know their thoughts. The best you can do is say "This demographic in this place
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
I am running CentOS 7 and that is still using 5.4. I am only running a forum, IRC and some other things and I don't really want to bother with third party packages.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
A lot of people call themselves journalists are actually activists though.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
You are working under the fallacy that diversity of opinion will be correlated somehow to arbitrary characteristics such as Race, Gender and Sexuality. This is patently not true.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
4chan has got a lot of stuff done. Consider the HWNDU saga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q Obviously this is trolling, but it damn impressive they found it. They've done quite a lot of other stuff includin
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
That doesn't fit in with what we have seen. Many sites start socially engineering when they think they are big enough to dominate. I am not an expert on dating apps (especially ones for homosexuals), however the language quoted about &
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> And a post back you were saying it was normal for cycling to feel like boxing training. (It is - for upright cycling). I know I said I wouldn't reply but that is a totally disingenuous interpretation of what I said and there is no
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
This sort of of article seems to come up every so often. The vast majority of programs are boring programs that are replications of business processes that were on paper in the past. The vast majority of code I have written is "if the
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Many websites now want to play at social engineering the populace. They forget what their users want, try socially engineering those users which a great number of them reject and users move elsewhere when something better turns up.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
Define "Trusted". What does "Trusted" mean? Originally the blue-check mark system was to say "This person that had the handle <X> is really <X>". Now it is more of a status symbol e.g. there are cer
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
That is open to abuse in other ways. For example on Youtube there are frequently flagging campaigns from one group by constantly reporting a channel.
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
This is another silly argument, the UCI doesn't regulate bicycles sold in the shops. I can (in theory because the bike will cost as much as a good second hand car) go to the boutique bike shop and get a bicycle with all sorts of fancy
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by davesmith1983 7y ago
> It's not about being used to it - I'd been cycling for years. There will always be muscle soreness from using your legs, but an upright brings a totally unnecessary set of aches and pains in other places - wrists, taint, shou

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