ergothus

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by ergothus 7y ago
I've taken some technical texts I've written in the past and run them through the xkcd simplifier - it identifies words that are not in the 1000 most common English words (? something like that). https://xkcd.com/s
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by ergothus 7y ago
This question really involves around what civilization is, and how durable one thinks it is. Depending on viewpoint, there have been countless collapses of civilizations, and it is quite reasonable to consider ours at risk. What do you vie
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by ergothus 7y ago
> But, frankly, if its legal, I am much less comfortable with Github's users subverting the US legal system by backdooring their moral code into products these legal entities rely on I don't follow this logic. If it's leg
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Flanery was careful not to give Kashi hints with her body language, so Kashi’s imitation abilities seemed credible. I dont wish to question someone's expertise in their field, but as a reader this is a dramatic jump without explan
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by ergothus 7y ago
I normally hate boilerplate apps. CRA is an exception. It doesnt pre create any content of significance. ( basically a hello world page, although it has a demo image file to rip out) It does create a build process, but not content. This
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by ergothus 7y ago
Seattle, so likely very similar to SV. When I was in Richmond VA I saw a similar problem (weighted towards "senior"), though obviously smaller numbers across the board. That was 8ish years ago though, so things may well have cha
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Maybe there really isn't a shortage of tech talent That depends on what level of experience you are looking at. In particular, based on my experiences, your premise is the reverse of what is happening: > to increase the supply
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by ergothus 7y ago
Random anecdote: I moved to VA back in the 99-00 period. The then-new governor had made improving DMV part of his resume projects, and spent a boatload of money on improving several aspects - more hiring, tech upgrades, and some process up
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by ergothus 7y ago
> This is why Disney+ and Fortnite logins were hijacked in the first place Citation? I'm in total agreement with the problem of unexpiring tokens, but last I heard the suspected culprit in Disney+ was credential re-use. If there&#
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by ergothus 7y ago
> it removes the need to create products that last a long time. I think the difference here is intent and effort. If you're trying for "cheap" (as the manufacturer), you won't care how well it works and don't try
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful. Really? I find them interrupting, manipulative, and vapid, as a general rule. If my magazine was "boring without them&quot
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by ergothus 7y ago
Right? I DO have interest in a higher level of detail - how was this uncovered, etc - but the whole article was painful to parse. I also had to keep remembering that "Jeff" and "David" were the same person.
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by ergothus 7y ago
Something I've noticed in recent superhero movies is the idea that: * For all the talk about "heart", superheroes are extraordinary by some aspect the rest of us can't expect to get * Yet supervillains are often just nor
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by ergothus 7y ago
While you make a solid point about likely behavior, I'm sure there are those that said Microsoft will never cooperate with Linux. "Never" is a bold word, and it's worth highlighting things like a hard-to-replace/rep
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by ergothus 7y ago
The results are more oriented to the bulk appeal, with the result that the long tail gets little attention. If I want what is high in the rankings, it is easy to get with minimal effort. If I want something niche, any specific queries are
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by ergothus 7y ago
> But, how does one know if the coach is abusive or “that’s just how sports is, it’s hard and no replacement for hard work”? Two comments - First, althetes are already tough and demanding to themselves. The kinds of tough coaches that n
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by ergothus 7y ago
I was once told a quote (original unknown, so any butchering is mine) something " when I was a young programmer, I relied on print statements to debug. When I learned more, I used a debugger, and when I learned even more, I used print
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by ergothus 7y ago
> A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success. To a point, yes. After that it is EVE online and lacks general appeal. I was watching a video tonight of s
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by ergothus 7y ago
I used to buy boxes of random cards on Ebay. For 5-20 bucks you get a huge variety. (~1000 cards) , mostly commons but plenty of uncommons too. Hardly ALL cards, but plenty to give good games. My friends and I would randomly deal them out
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by ergothus 7y ago
TL;DR: Someone put out a product called "Tournament of Rapists". This followed on the heels of a good year+ of debate about the role companies in the RPG market should play when dealing with people like Zak Smith (see also contro
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by ergothus 7y ago
Care to elaborate? What you've said resonates, but I lack non-sql relational understanding with which to really evaluate.
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by ergothus 7y ago
Abstracting out of planes to software on general - this is what happens when your testing surface dramatically expands. You can have a product that has been working just fine, generally, but when you start adding tests for new situations,
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by ergothus 7y ago
I know there is a small but growing tabletop rpg community on there. After drivethrurpg (the current de facto leader in rpg distribution - think of them like Steam, but for PDFs) had a kerfuffle about whether they should/should not ta
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by ergothus 7y ago
Foremost, I'm not comfortable with abandoning the meaning of HTTP methods. Changing everything to POST means pushing all sorts of caching decisions to the start-and-end points and bypassing decades of work done on improving GET cachin
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by ergothus 7y ago
Some people need a push to dive in, because they'll never feel ready. That's whom the article uses as examples. OTHER people though, they know that, from where they are at now, they'll be past the "challenged" stag
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by ergothus 7y ago
I worked with GraphQL a bit over a year and half ago on a project. I was the front end consumer, working with backend microservices via graphQL. I wasn't sold on the GraphQL hype then, and I'm still not, but this article seems to
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by ergothus 7y ago
The fallacy of your argument is that you equate "requires effort" with "the level of results scales with level of effort" If I have nothing, I have a couple of days to live - I need water, food, shelter. I cannot afford
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by ergothus 7y ago
> But either way, this failure isn't going to be easy for him. He's going to feel several emotions and not all of them will be pleasant. Honest question: do you think it will be harder for him than for the rest of us that have
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by ergothus 7y ago
> I think he's saying the specs changed, so writing the tests for the previous version of the specs was a waste of time. ...and instead they'd prefer to write code that was a waste of time? If the issue is that time is being wa
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by ergothus 7y ago
Right? Story time: My wife went back to college in her early thirties. During one class, the grad student was trying to get the class to really question their moral certitude. "Would your loved one cheat on you a million dollars?&qu

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