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by dustractor 4y ago
A coffee-shop where I applied for a job. A freaking coffee shop? Really?
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by dustractor 5y ago
I've never even seen the movie The Last Temptation of Christ but the soundtrack is always the first thing I think of whenever this topic comes up... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqnnuEVGcRQy6dzmNbXJpU5mf...
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by dustractor 5y ago
Now we need laws restricting a specific job-posting tactic where a few employers spam their same jobs over and over, multiple times daily, so you have to scroll past or filter out redundant listings. DoorDash is a prime example. Truck-dri
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by dustractor 5y ago
Not entirely on topic here but the first thing I thought of: Years after his music program called Impulse Tracker had had it's heyday, some music magazine did a roundup of various resampling algorithms and Jeffrey Lim's resamplin
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by dustractor 5y ago
Over the last 3 decades I've had the experience of working on and off in the restaurant industry so I've been able to observe what happens to my body and which type of health issues seemed to always disappear when I'm not wor
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by dustractor 5y ago
Phones used to have tactile buttons you could dial without even looking. They also worked in extreme cold. Touchscreen? Below a certain temperature, the 'buttons' cease to exist.
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by dustractor 5y ago
About ten years ago, I lived in an area where power outages were a common occurrence, sometimes lasting up to a week. Naturally, during those times, I found it necessary to own some sort of flashlight or headlamp, along with whatever batte
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by dustractor 5y ago
Separate cartridges or disks for the OS, the various programs, the user files. When we switched over to internal storage and started putting everything together, the end user lost something. Children (people) need freedom to experiment bu
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by dustractor 5y ago
Range requests. Hmm. That would lead to some interesting semantics.
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by dustractor 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/Ikx12dL.jpg
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by dustractor 5y ago
“She didn’t know how basic stacks worked,” Sure, most programmers have at least heard of a stack, and some could tell you the name of an operation one might do to a stack, and quite a few could at least tell you the name of an algorithm t
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by dustractor 5y ago
7:03 amazing.
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by dustractor 5y ago
My favorite insight lately comes from looking at the letter ell. Hebrew lamedh. Familiar to programmers, a 'lambda' function is a nameless function. Looking at a translation of the lords prayer, wondering where the word 'ha
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by dustractor 5y ago
Its all these jobs that want you to already own a car when you apply so they don't have to pay you enough to a) live somewhere b) eat food c) keep your phone on d) keep your lights on e) keep your internet connection f) much less g) bu
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by dustractor 5y ago
Between 2010-2016, I lived in a rural area where we had one option: Satellite internet from HughesNet. Prior to that, the only option was dialup, and since it was such a remote area, the telephone had grandfathered a few numbers from out o
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by dustractor 6y ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-... There are apparently some DNA sequencer machines that only interface with older macs. The linked article is just as an 'exhibit A'...
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by dustractor 6y ago
Private sector company would have to operate under the benevolent-dictator-for-life model in order to produce something with an underpinning philosophy on par with Blender's. That uncomfortable constraint alone makes it unlikely. State
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by dustractor 6y ago
My only experience with tcl is through tkinter but out of all the GUIs I've ever written code in, it's the one I prefer. Strange way to learn a language, that. The only complete documentation is on the tcl side of things, so you
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by dustractor 6y ago
also, citations would be outgoing references and that is different from being linked TO. The in/out ratio was abused by SEO spammers and so as a result, google came to value sites with more inbound links. Every single word on UD has
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by dustractor 6y ago
That would make it less afterdarky though. I know that isn't a word but screensavery isn't either.
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by dustractor 7y ago
Had to redo my online shopping cart three times because of components going out of stock before I finished making my selection... sigh I knew I should have bought it last night but I slept on it and now that lambda a++ psu will have to wai