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by dwb 8y ago
Don't read to remember everything (that's virtually impossible for most people), mostly skim to build an index of concepts and possibilities in your mind – and leave the details to the reference materials. Don't even bother t
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by dwb 8y ago
Really? I've not seen these. Am I just being unobservant?
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by dwb 8y ago
There is no issue, it's absurd on its face. To start to consider or discuss it is to legitimise someone who is very clearly trying to get one over on you.
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by dwb 8y ago
This is a very obvious troll against trans rights and should be completely disregarded. I'm absolutely amazed at the credulousness of the media on this, in even choosing to spend time on reporting it as news. It belongs in a denounceme
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by dwb 8y ago
Usually I'd be very sympathetic to this argument, but this person admits further down they drink far too little in general. I'm not perfect by a long shot, but I'd like to think I've got the fundamentals down.
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by dwb 8y ago
"Water tastes like nothing. Why would I drink nothing? What’s the point?" The point is that water is fundamental to our survival. I just can't understand how someone who is presumably fairly intelligent could say something li
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by dwb 8y ago
I realise you don't have to; it is usual for conversational answers to not be legally mandated. What a weird thing to say. Also quite weird is having "feelings" about mixing ethics and business. Businesses have effects on peo
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by dwb 8y ago
How do you justify this ethically?
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by dwb 8y ago
Upgrading early(ish) and often, the very obvious preventative measure against terrible and failure-prone rewrite or upgrade projects, is one of the first things that falls by the wayside in the mostly short-termist logic that seems to domin
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by dwb 8y ago
I'm also a dev and I prefer the lockdown. There's plenty of other computing equipment that is not locked down, and the restrictions only really apply to a tiny amount of use-cases. For instance, I would have had no trouble learnin
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by dwb 8y ago
Third-party apps already have to ask permission to notify you in iOS, pretty sure they always have. Sure you have to turn them off for Messages and Mail, but I don’t think most people would be happy with a default where you’re not notified
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by dwb 9y ago
It's a (low quality, but still) use of irony. Come on, people.
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by dwb 9y ago
There's plenty of art that I don't like , but appreciate it for what it is trying to do. That's absolutely fine. I'm saying this isn't even worthy of that sort of appreciation.
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by dwb 9y ago
Okay, in my opinion it's a waste of resources because if it is at all, it is very bad art. (It took no discernment or taste to do; it's an empty, ostentatious gesture. Precious little discernment or taste in the predictable Adams
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by dwb 9y ago
I'm not a massive fiction person (though I was as a kid), but "The Lathe of Heaven" is one of my very favourite works, in any medium or genre. Near-on perfect. RIP.
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by dwb 9y ago
Right-wing and conservative politics are inherently hateful, violent, and abusive? Is that the point you meant to make?
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by dwb 9y ago
I'm very sympathetic to that line of argument, I'm no fan of capitalism, but choosing the default settings for something like Slack (whether you are selling it in order to make a profit or not) appears to me to be a tradeoff betwe
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by dwb 9y ago
I'm very distractible, and I get on fine with Slack. I genuinely feel work is easier with it, you just have to aggressively filter the attention-grabbing. My strategy is: notifications for mentions and ultra-important channels only, mu
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by dwb 9y ago
I star messages I need to come back to, and have a repeating reminder to go through them every morning. Works great.
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by dwb 9y ago
I'll happily debate the merits of breaking compatibility in general, but it's boring and completely academic for Python 3 which is getting on for a decade old and has very wide community support. Same thing every Python thread. It
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by dwb 9y ago
That's a very melodramatic comment for someone who clearly hasn't been keeping track of the 3.x changelogs – which pretty much all contain at least one compelling update to the language. Modern Python is v3. Legacy support drop-of
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by dwb 9y ago
How have people come to the conclusion that displaying a low-information version of the image to be loaded as a placeholder results in a quicker perceived load? To me all these effects just look rubbish and distracting, with no benefit at a
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by dwb 9y ago
It'll still need someone to turn it into a product if "normies" are going to get into it. Literally any amount of DIY or even DIY-adjacent work is too much.
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by dwb 9y ago
I'm a native (British) English speaker who has used "flatten" to mean re-format.
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by dwb 9y ago
This large-body-text trend is getting ridiculous. I had to zoom out to 67% to make it comfortable to read.
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by dwb 9y ago
Apple Maps is good enough for me ninety-five times out of a hundred (in the UK), and it's a lot faster than Google Maps. Between that and Galileo on iOS (OSM data), I'm pretty covered though I do keep Google Maps lying around just
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by dwb 9y ago
{' '} Not the prettiest, but doesn't come up often in my experience.
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by dwb 9y ago
Yes, by a long way.
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by dwb 9y ago
You can declare visibility in Ruby: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Classe... It can usually (always?) be gotten around though.
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by dwb 10y ago
https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ iStat Menus includes a battery menu item replacement that will show you the estimated remaining time.

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