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by drblast 8y ago
I've done the blind test between Coke and Pepsi with a third unnamed diet soda thrown in as a red herring. I can identify each just by the smell. It's not even close. I literally can't comprehend how blind people must be to t
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by drblast 8y ago
Second "The Devil's Candy," even if you're not interested in Bonfire of the Vanities at all. I haven't read the book or seen the movie (yet) but The Devil's Candy was an incredible look into how badly things ca
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by drblast 8y ago
What's most fascinating to me is that the 50-64 age group spends vastly more time overall viewing nearly every medium except streaming TV and video games. My own experience with my parents bears this out; the TV is always on and they&#
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by drblast 8y ago
Obviously they need larger football stadiums to bring in that TV money.
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by drblast 8y ago
It's not the movies, but more the TV shows, toys, endless marketing, and crap like this: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/16/disney-princess... It seems to me that if a hyper-sexualized&#x2
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by drblast 8y ago
I know the feeling. As a very young boy I saw an anime adaptation of The Little Mermaid that was a faithful adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's version and thought it was incredibly moving. A few years later the Disney version came
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by drblast 8y ago
The most stable video conference software I've used was Microsoft NetMeeting circa 2001. It was simple and it just worked, and on very slow networks too. I don't know what happened since that that's the high water mark. http
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by drblast 8y ago
I'm almost 40 and I've been snowboarding and skateboarding off and on for most of my life. Recently it's been all snowboarding which I love and will never stop doing. A few years ago I started skateboarding again to keep in s
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by drblast 8y ago
Any career longer than about five years that has a focus on a single technology or language with no attempt to branch out or learn new things. Especially for those without a comp sci degree. For example, if your resume says you're a &q
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by drblast 8y ago
As an American I wasn't aware that Ford made any cars other than the Mustang. If it's true they do, I probably lump them into a category with the other invisible cars like the Toyota Camry.
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by drblast 8y ago
Often when you're living month-to-month without savings it's feasible to buy a new car but not a used one. The loan terms on new cars are usually more favorable and you don't have to worry as much about something expensive on
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by drblast 8y ago
"Sorry, we don't do that here."
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by drblast 8y ago
The original statement is ridiculous but the decline in magical thinking does lead people to stop going to church which has no obvious replacement. Atheists and agnostics don't get together every week to talk about God not existing. Th
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by drblast 9y ago
Reading the transcripts there seems to be a lot of grandstanding. While it makes for a nice drama, if these people were serious about protecting privacy (haha), we'd be talking about meaningful privacy laws instead. This reads like a g
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by drblast 9y ago
I can. Once I sat on a sewing pin that someone had dropped on the floor that went through my diaper. Very painful and it's one of my earliest memories.
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by drblast 9y ago
Imagine that tomorrow a company started selling a game console that does VR perfectly. No lag, fully immersive, it just blows everything else out of the water. And it's cheaper than a PlayStation, although sadly few people buy the thin
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by drblast 9y ago
When I was a kid I'd play with toys (Tinker Toys, erector sets, Construx, etc.) for hours in a squatting position. My parents thought it was really strange that I could do that for so long. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable doi
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by drblast 9y ago
That seems ambiguous to me. Is the mother Ayn Rand or not? The presence of the Oxford comma, or lack thereof doesn't seem to affect the ambiguity.
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by drblast 9y ago
I must be getting old. Kids, many years ago, even before jQuery, software would come with documentation that you could read and it would tell you how to use it effectively. I know, crazy right? But to this day some of that old software, of
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by drblast 9y ago
My ideal: Ten number buttons, 0-9, but each also corresponds to a useful time. 0 10 sec 1 15 sec 2 20 sec 3 30 sec 4 45 sec 5 1 min ... Etc Pressing any of those would auto start immediately with the corresponding time.
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by drblast 9y ago
The title here is misleading, I think the article is right. I didn't get into tech because it was interesting, at least not initially. I got into computers because the movie War Games was cool as hell and I wanted to be like Matthew Br
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by drblast 9y ago
You shouldn't virtue signal anymore anyway. Have you heard about nosignal.js? It does everything virtue signaling did but is way easier.
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by drblast 9y ago
This article reads like the cars my friends and I would "design" when we were in third grade. Oh yeah? Mine is gonna have 800 horsepower and will be amphibious and have wings like the batmobile!
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by drblast 9y ago
MatLab is a disaster for this. Great software, but a horrible, horrible coding environment. I came from a CS background and did a EE masters. Working in Matlab made me want to cry because of the problems you're describing; I think they
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by drblast 9y ago
I wish there were one of you for every article topic on here. Fascinating stuff and great explanations, thanks!
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by drblast 9y ago
That has to be why C# is ranked below Java. I don't understand a world in which people would prefer Java, the language, over C#, the language, all else being equal. Working with C# likely means working in an MS-centric environment whic
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by drblast 9y ago
I love that in all of his movies Jackie's always getting the crap beat out of him in fights, and there are always extremely clever elements and elements of humor. The tall guy taking off his tie as he's watching his buddy get beat
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by drblast 9y ago
Paradox? How is this even the least bit surprising to anyone? Does anyone seriously advocate getting a high GPA in the US anymore so that you can out-earn your peers? Does anyone seriously think that the leaders of companies are the studiou
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by drblast 9y ago
Definitely. Static typing lets you turn the compiler into a hard-working friend that helps you refactor large projects without going insane. There are no diminishing returns. Defining types is easy and enhances code readability.
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by drblast 9y ago
Antifa and Nazis are both extreme fringe groups and not representative of a majority of society. It would behoove everyone to think about that when reading about them; both extremes receive an amount of attention disproportionate to their a

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