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by flukus 6y ago
> Visual Studio feels now way worse than it used to. You get more conscious about the time you're wasting. Visual Studio is the perfect example to me. I begged dad to upgrade the computer to 64/128MB of RAM to get VC++6 to run.
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by flukus 6y ago
Email mailing lists/discussion groups. Decentralized and already familiar to everyone from the HN crowd to grandma.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Came here to say that. UX should, by and large, be staffed with deep experience in User Psychology Maybe if you're trying to convince people to part with money. Most applications just need UX designers that understand the users wo
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by flukus 6y ago
Yep, when I last had a memory leak (kayo in case anyone here works on it) it would refuse to process input. Couldn't close the offending tab with the mouse, couldn't switch to a terminal. All I could do was reach for the hard rese
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by flukus 6y ago
Don't know why this is downvoted, on prem is the only sure fire way to ensure something like this doesn't happen. Even that can sometimes be iffy with licensing services.
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by flukus 6y ago
The problem is DRY almost always improves readability, at least with well named functions. It reduces comprehensibility, so much of the logic is abstracted away that the bigger picture can't be seen from the inside or outside of the ab
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by flukus 6y ago
> Which makes me think... why did I just sit through that long "configure" script run, and why did the developer bother messing with autotools, if this project isn't even going to bother targeting anything but Linux with t
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by flukus 6y ago
Here's a video of someone going through the maths and their various assumptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqi0FabHHs TLDR: It's preposterous in just about every way, from the number of shades needed to the
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by flukus 6y ago
It's not an honest question, it's sealioning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning ). Notice how despite demonstrating a lack of basic knowledge on the subject the followed up your post with more specific
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by flukus 6y ago
Now Trump is the deep state.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Keep good notes. Be better prepared to jump back into a different task by knowing exactly where you left off, problem state, and what the next step is. To expand on this (and point 3), there's some non-obvious (to many) types of n
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by flukus 6y ago
Your first link says not to unless you're sick, implying that they thought they were useful for people with the virus. The second link literally says that having supplies for healthcare workers was the main impetus for saying this. Thi
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by flukus 6y ago
Is it possible to create clearly defined criteria when there are such large error bars and so many unknowns? Throw in varying climates, urbanization levels and other factors and I don't think it's reasonable to pick an arbitrary p
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by flukus 6y ago
> I can’t shake the suspicion that people who complain about lack of community, in actuality just have a lack of social skills. Along with social skills I think it's the lack of other hobbies or interests. I have friends from local
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by flukus 6y ago
Melbourne CBD is an exception because of the huge amount of residents on temporary visas and students, both of which are locked out of the country at the moment. The rest of the inner city is back to normal, some parts like Chapel Street an
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by flukus 6y ago
Generally I'd agree, but it's pretty common knowledge that US homicide and gun homicide rates are already very high by world standards. So it's a spike on an already high rate.
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by flukus 6y ago
Where I am it spans the full political spectrum, I'd say the main determining factor isn't politics but wealth. People that own nice houses in suburbs close to the city are against development whether they're socialists or co
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by flukus 6y ago
I suggest you like at our case curves ( https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_VIC.html ) where these strict rules were in place and enforced. Then look at our relative freedom, lives saved and economic prosperity in the months si
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by flukus 6y ago
It's a shame modern Trek has pretty much abandoned these plots. Trek at it's best is a series of sci-fi novellas, like black mirror with a recurring cast, not the action adventure it's become. Even Picard which was great only
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by flukus 6y ago
There are some remarkably low tech ways to grow citrus in cold climates: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-culti...
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by flukus 6y ago
> none of the user interface people changed anything. Like a stopped clock ubuntu got this one right. As for aspect ratios, just pick a universal one please, I don't care which I just don't want to listen to my uncle complain a
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by flukus 6y ago
> There is no zeroth second, zeroth minute, hour, day, month, year, or century. No there isn't, but we still use 0 to denote the first minute of an hour, just as we use 0 to denote the first element of an array.
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by flukus 6y ago
The best approach I've heard is to "standardize" on doing it with IO descriptors, so we'd have stdin, stdout, stderr, stdjsin, stdjsout. Individual programs could check which file descriptors are open and read/write
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by flukus 6y ago
That state next door locked down a large portion of their largest city over Christmas. Their contact tracing is/was certainly better, but lets not pretend they haven't hit limits to it's effectiveness as well.
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by flukus 6y ago
NSW had effective contact tracing from the beginning and Vic's was lacking. This let them keep going at 5-30ish cases a day without things getting out of control and hope it eventually fizzles out, as it has multiple times. It's s
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by flukus 6y ago
seasonality - We were getting on top of things at the coldest time of year. Victorians already had antibodies - absolutely no evidence of this and plenty of evidence to the contrary, if we had antibodies the second wave wouldn't have h
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by flukus 6y ago
I suspect the police weren't shooting because they realized how overwhelmed they were. I've seen a couple of videos where they had drawn their guns and prepared to fire but they were simply surrounded.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Your idea is honorable, but do governments have the know-how to do it? Yes. Governments hosting their own servers is still the norm if anything, the same is true in plenty of large companies. It's not exactly black magic, especial
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by flukus 6y ago
> An interesting contrast will be New Zealand. Since they have community elimination they didn't seek emergency use authorisation, why not wait and study what happens to the millions of people from other developed countries who need
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by flukus 6y ago
Don't jinx it, I don't like the guy but I'm looking forward to an Australian prime minister lasting a full term in office. 2007-2016 aus politics was a blood sport, make politics boring again.

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