ewindal

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by ewindal 6y ago
Discord will forever be behind Slack in usability as long as it doesn’t have threads. Nothing quite like having three different conversations going on at once in the same channel.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Backups were extant, but inaccessible, and non-functional due to causing a kernel panic when applied. [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolu...
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by ewindal 6y ago
> It is impossible to even get into Clubhouse Is it? Don't you just need an acquaintance on the inside? I got invited by someone I worked with once upon a time shortly after installing the app just to see what all the fuzz was about
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by ewindal 6y ago
Because this law is literally just about letting Murdoch cling to power. It’s such an obviosly corrupt law.
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by ewindal 6y ago
They are obviously talking about feature parity between the platforms android and iOS that their _mobile app_ targets. You cannot be this dense.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Still doesn’t explain why you think removing LoC in a mobile application removes features from a web application.
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by ewindal 6y ago
And we've failed doing that with software for longer, yet we still keep building software.
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by ewindal 6y ago
> It's a huge upgrade from the past when there was absolutely no mobile optimization. It’s not. They went in trying to make a mobile first experience, and somehow made it worse than a desktop first experience browsed on mobile. Base
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by ewindal 6y ago
Isn’t doping in cycling mostly blood doping, ie. replacing «old» blood with blood collected prior to a competition? I doubt that has any real effect on your body beyond the immediate effect of the new blood binding oxygen better than the o
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by ewindal 6y ago
Probably for the better. People who have already gotten a competitive offer must be determined to leave.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Conditionals are so simple it’s basically the first thing anyone learns. Anyone can understand the first approach. The latter requires knowledge that is specific to lower level languages,concepts that are certainly not taught universally. T
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by ewindal 6y ago
Corona doesn’t kill you by overdose, hanging or self-inflicted gunshots.
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by ewindal 6y ago
I fucking hate it. The redesign is actively harmful to the quality of subreddits. It makes the subscribers the ones who dictate the content, not the community members. The vast majority of subs don’t participate in any meaningful way, they
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by ewindal 6y ago
Youtube streaming is in many ways bigger than twitch. It has way more concurrent viewers, and the top channels are usually bigger. But there’s no discoverability. You can’t really move there or start there to build an audience.
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by ewindal 6y ago
That’s literally only because Amazon worked with them to introduce the needed features so they could launch Luna. Controller support was shoddy before iOS14, for example, so the web app approach wasn’t viable for xCloud or Stadia.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Which is completely irrelevant in many cases. Depression can be caused by serotonin deficiencies, and once you’ve got depressed (pun intended) values, it’s difficult to return to baseline without medical support.
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by ewindal 6y ago
I was replying to a comment whose parent said anything sent would end up as soup. The joke might’ve been bad, but it certainly is on the reader for not seeing that obvious connection.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Clearly beign silly isn’t appreciated.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Forget equipment. The only thing that survives that mode of transportation is soup.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Definitely. I started deopping breakfast. At first it was hell. But you get used to it. Noe I’m down to one meal a day. It’s very convenient, and my energy levels aren’t affected by food intake.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Iirc ot’s easy to find online and pretty short. The ending is pretty haunting, so I recommend everyone read it if it sounds interesting.
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by ewindal 6y ago
There’s nothing stopping there from being several great filters.
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by ewindal 6y ago
> I prefer this formulation: what's moral is what minimizes overall human suffering, now and in the foreseeable future. Which makes some people arrive at antinatalism. Suffering is too subjective to be a useful metric.
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by ewindal 6y ago
It is, though. Luck (genetics) determines your baseline and roof. No amount og grooming and training will change your potential.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Assuming you take ~4 seconds from wanting to compile til you have your answer, that’s 60 minutes a day for a thousand compiles. An hour. Doesn’t seem very efficient to me.
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by ewindal 6y ago
Commit messages cover the entirety of the change, and only exist in the context of the commit it is attached to. A comment is without exception outdated by the next commit, unless it is rewritten for that commit.
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by ewindal 6y ago
There’s nothing worse than being forced to use a language you didn’t explicitly request. Well, maybe some things are worse.
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by ewindal 7y ago
None of those things are intrinsic to leadership, but they certainly inform characteristics that are useful to being seen as a leader.
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by ewindal 7y ago
If you ever want to rise in the ranks as an engineer, design and business are practically required.
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by ewindal 7y ago
I don’t see how this is a problem. I see that the combinatorial explosion exists, but that isn’t an actual problem. The entire point of microservices is independent deploys, meaning you literally only have two permutations per deploy, new a

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