dfalzone

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by dfalzone 6y ago
What's a "dark pattern" company? I've never heard that term before.
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Would it make sense to implement a peer-to-peer protocol for sharing git repositories, similar to torrenting, with the goal of overcoming these kinds of issues?
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Article mentions Altaic theory without mentioning that Altaic theory is utter horseshit. Still an interesting article though.
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by dfalzone 6y ago
I wonder if this is at all related to the common pairing of citrus fruits with psychedelic drugs. A lot of people recommend eating an orange or drinking orange juice when you take LSD, and a lot of people recommend using lemons to enhance p
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by dfalzone 6y ago
How come the Jargon File hasn't been updated since 2003?
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by dfalzone 6y ago
That sure sounds like GNU. Instead of building tiny tools that each do one things, just make one big tool that can do a bunch of things depending on which of a hundred flags you use. Not to shit on GNU; I use GNU/Linux on all my own co
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Funny, today one of my coworkers was talking about how she used IDL at one of her previous jobs, and later I happened to see this comment. Neat coincidence :)
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Source(s): Saw this in a salvia trip once Edit: Why the downvotes? This was clearly supposed to be a joke.
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Why?
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Don't forget posts about psychedelic drugs.
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Hashtag include open-angle-bracket ess tee dee eye oh dot aitch close-angle-bracket...
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by dfalzone 6y ago
I'm a professional developer and I use Nano as my main text editor, entirely by choice. I've never missed the cool features that other editors like Vim and Emacs have, even though I've used both in the past.
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by dfalzone 6y ago
Kilos? Jesus, what would that even look like? I can't imagine that that much LSD would exist in the world at the same time. Amazing
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by dfalzone 6y ago
> about 15 years ago, back when psychedelic use was still a relatively underground phenomenon and the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance was just beginning, 15 years ago? Huh, I thought it had only started a couple years ago.
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by dfalzone 6y ago
This is pretty minor but I like how in Rust you can use constructs like if-statements and match-statements as expressions. For example: let foo = if some_condition { "condition is true" } else { "condition i
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by dfalzone 6y ago
How would we write our own libraries?
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by dfalzone 6y ago
How will we write our own libraries, then?