ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
Your comment feels very aggressive and uninterested in actual debate. My primary benefit is not spending the time telling the computer things it should already know. Dev time is the most limited resource, I prefer not to spend it restating
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by ergothus 7y ago
I was talking with a coworker from India at lunch about 7 years ago. He talked about the extreme urban/rural divide in his country - to the point that movies were made for different audiences - and asked about it here in the US. I sa
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by ergothus 7y ago
> following these updates? Follow up from someone likewise uninformed: do they have an escape clause that means they can avoid paying out (act of God, etc) meaning that no one is actually directly accountable?
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Dynamic languages let you think a problem you haven't thought of at design time will somehow solve itself magically at runtime, using components designed weeks before, with knowledge of that time. I think that's a misleading
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The fact is that drive, motivation and effort count for more, more often than anything else given a baseline level of skill, intelligence and aptitude. I don't know if you've failed to follow the point here or are deliberatel
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Nothing is without risk This is the whole point of the discussion here: For many people the risk is dramatically higher or lower than other people. Capitalism suffers if we don't let everyone actually participate in roles other
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by ergothus 7y ago
Community college is a great deal. But $12-15k for a bachelor's degree, not to mention any hit to income because your work availability is limited when attending school and doing assignments, is not something every person can wave of
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by ergothus 7y ago
Sure. Doesn't change the _hope_. There are lots of good things in this world that happen for reasons other than legal requirements. And it doesn't have to be charity either - MS could recognize a good chance to spend an insignif
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by ergothus 7y ago
That's the point though. The above post said leap seconds cause more harm than good - a correction done once a century would fit well enough within the purpose you've defined here. If UTC is out of sync with the sun by less than
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by ergothus 7y ago
And the leap seconds meaningfully alter that?
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The different time definitions exist to support different use cases. UTC isn't flawed, in fact the adjustments that keep it aligned to solar time are very helpful for its defined use cases. The user above listed several explicit c
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Climate change is bad, because it could reduce the number of human lives. No, climate change us bad because it can increase SUFFERING. To say that reduction of human lives is bad is to say we should be reproducing as much as possible.
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by ergothus 7y ago
> I'm fairly certain that building compatible equipment is totally legally protected in the US Once software is involved, this isn't true. And software is rapidly involved in every device. Sure, you could go back 100 years and
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by ergothus 7y ago
I agree that what we are seeing is not really a monopoly. The issue is better defined as "industry realities prevent effective use of voting with their wallets". > There's a simple solution for farmers that don't wan
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by ergothus 7y ago
It looks ridiculous, but this could be of real use to me. Three things in an open office distract me: conversations, glare, and motion in my peripheral vision. My inability to ignore things other people seem to be able to ignore really di
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by ergothus 7y ago
Not in Virginia State govt service. It impacted PTO, but not base pay.
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by ergothus 7y ago
I worked in a state govt office in Virginia some years ago and the local paper did a FOIA request for everyone's salaries in the state...and published an online database of the upper 50%. http://data.richmond.com/salar
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by ergothus 7y ago
> What's really interesting is that beekeepers often neglect what we do know about how bees evolved to live so that we can keep them in ways that make our lives easier. This is often detrimental. Do you have examples that don't
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Vegans own smug and 'ethical checkmate' inanity ...the loud, obnoxious ones you know about, perhaps. Most vegans and vegetarians in my experience (hopefully including myself) don't try to preach, lecture, or abuse...but
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by ergothus 7y ago
Swarming bees are unusual creatures. I've seen a tree that had three large (~8in/20cm) balls of bees hanging off of branches. My grandfather (a beekeeper) said the queen had likely stopped at each spot to consider it for a hive (
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Could you give an example? To the degree I understand it, sure: We have master branch A I create a feature branch B Both get updates. Someone will do a rebase of B to the most-recent A and push that. (In my previous workplaces they
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The smart lock requires you to have a charged, working smartphone ....One of the claimants is 93 and lacks the manual dexterity to do that. Forget manual dexterity, I'm 42 and I can't reliably assume my cellphone is charged,
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by ergothus 7y ago
This is probably where I foul up. My last few workplaces were either not git, or relied on git pull w/o rebase. My current workplace has rebase as part of their flow, and I find that, like, 60% of my PRs require force push, which both
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by ergothus 7y ago
Agreed. There's one line about a drafted standard, along with a note that no other browser vendor has expressed interest. I do not want to return to the days of incompatible browsers (to the degree it was) even if they now publish a d
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by ergothus 7y ago
That's "a reward". I'm talking about whether at the end of a gaming session you feel good and would like to play again (rewarding) or if you feel unfulfilled and want to play more try and get that fulfillment. Rewardin
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Rewarding play is addictive play - the rewards are why its addictive true, but addictive gameplay isn't necessarily rewarding. That's the critical difference I was trying to emphasize.
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by ergothus 7y ago
The alternative is hoping enough people "learn" AND reduce their personal short-term convenience to make it financially rewarding for enough development companies to provide worthwhile alternatives AND for that to be obvious enoug
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by ergothus 7y ago
> microtransactions in casual games are winning in the financial sense, despite the complaints of "hardcore" gamers. I'm not a "hardcore" gamer - I'm incredibly casual. I hate microtransactions because the
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by ergothus 7y ago
We're literally talking about how this teen decided who is trustworthy. As pointed out in the article, googling around to confirm GAVE HIM "confirmation". Recognizing that their views fell apart under inspection despite the
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by ergothus 7y ago
Not my takeaway at all...if the teen in the article didnt have an unusually high amount of critical thinking, meeting in person would have not have changed much.

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