ducttape12

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by ducttape12 7y ago
Chatting can be difficult for men. As a man, we tend to not make points about chatting about our feelings or life. But, when our goal is video games / bowling / watching a football game / whatever else with downtime, well, th
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Why not agree to play once or twice a week? For example, every Monday night, you two jump on for a few hours and play and catch up? Also, what do you mean you got nothing done? You bonded with your brother. That seems pretty valuable to me!
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I heard a great quote once: Local news exists to scare the elderly.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
If I'm in the market for a product, if a company makes a decent product chances are I'll find out about it by reading reviews, etc. I don't need ads for that. Ads exist to make me spend money that I wouldn't otherwise sp
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by ducttape12 7y ago
At least on mobile, Brave is reporting blocking 32 ads and trackers.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
This guy must feel horrible. "What if I had just left the wasp nest and went to lunch instead?" "What if I had called 911 earlier?" "What if I had used bug spray instead?"
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I write first for readability and performance second. Not to say that performance isn't important (and of course I pay attention to O notation), but throwing a little more memory and CPU power at a web page is far cheaper and easier th
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Always accessing array.Length is defensively coding. In the event your array is mutated, always accessing array.Length ensures you won't run into an Index Out of Bounds exception. Even better is to just avoid accessing the array's
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Looks like Dong Nguyen's company has been making some games since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DotGears
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I remember hearing about this case in college. My professor's point was don't trust software alone. Always include hardware safe guards when it comes to safety.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
> They now use emergency tanks that carry 40 minutes of air rather than five. Glad to see the change, but why even carry a tank with 5 minutes of reserve? Might as well just plan on holding your breath in that case.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Now you tell me! What are you going to tell me next, that yellowcake isn't made from flour?
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by ducttape12 7y ago
It's always bothered me how software teams view internal and external users differently. We'll spend lavishly on designing an amazing experience for customers... But internal users are stuck clicking through 500 VB6 forms to get a
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I think any therapist who specializes in anxiety would be a good fit. Some studies show CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) to be as effective as medicine. www.psychologytoday.com has a search for finding local therapists. I'd start the
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by ducttape12 7y ago
One of the big problems was UWP's cross-platform approach was too narrow. The problem isn't writing across all Microsoft platforms, the problem is writing across all platforms, such as iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, etc. Platforms li
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again - replacing Balmer with Nadella was one of the best things they've done. People go on and on about Facebook and Google, but I've been really impressed with Microsoft. They'r
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Brave isn't a fork, they take the tagged build of Chromium and apply their own patches. I'm guessing this will make its way into Brave, but their built in ad and privacy blockers should continue to function.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Some may write him off as a crazy person, but he sounds like a broken man who just gave up. Life fell apart and no where to call home...
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Considering SSRIs are prescribed for IBS (the gut has a lot of serotonin in it) and anxiety disorders (the brain also uses serotonin), I could see this being related.
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NPM Considered Harmless(keithott.com)
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I haven't much looked into 5G. Considering that 95% of the time I'm on WiFi anyway, I really don't get this push for faster and faster mobile speeds. (especially if there's potential to damage wildlife and us with it)
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I've always just given my current salary when I'm asked about compensation. Yes, it somewhat anchors me, but it ensures that the recruiters / company I'm talking to and I aren't wasting our time and it doesn't
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Curiosity got me - why don't you have internet at home?
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Something like this really could have an impact on reducing garbage. Combine this with more and more people switching to grocery delivery and it could actually work!
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by ducttape12 7y ago
XP has been out of support for 5 years. I get it, IT is hard and expensive, but you've had 5 years (and multiple years leading up to it) to find a solution. At this point it's your fault, not Microsoft's or your software vend
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I've struggled with this idea - almost everything (outside Apple specific development) is ported to Windows. My work is in .NET and various Javascript frameworks. Never had a problem with Windows. Plus I feel if I really needed a Linux
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by ducttape12 7y ago
Remember back when everyone's computers were infected with this crap because everyone installed p2p crap like Kazaa? Do non-tech savvy people still have a reason to install software? Don't most people just need a web browser?
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I was messing around with an old version of Encarta recently, and it got me to thinking how cool it would be to have a modern encyclopedia run locally again. This lead me to Kiwix... And the 79 GB archive of English Wikipedia. Kiwix is a gr
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I'm an avid gamer on PC and console (both retro and modern), but not mobile. Mobile games aren't games, they're thiny veiled clones of addicting progress bars designed to annoy you into buying in app purchases.
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by ducttape12 7y ago
I'm not sure where I'd recommend anyone (child or adult) start learning how to program. After BASIC disappeared, I always thought Javascript was a good starting place, but even that ecosystem has gotten crazy complex.

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