flukus

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1. 3061.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   I had to give technical support (get word to work) for a friend recently who was working on a final group project which was a complex 100 page document and it was an absolute nightmare. Emails everywhere as version control, things being cop
2. 3062.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   I think there's some network access in there too. When I was tethering to my phone on public transport (where the connection drops out periodically) I've had the windows menu freeze for a minute (or whatever the timeout is). I mov
3. 3063.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   > Can an executive chef be replaced with enough data? I'm inclined to believe so. I want what tastes good to me, not what tastes good to most people. You can't solve personal subjective problems with data.
4. 3064.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   Here you go: filtered water, soy protein isolate, maltodextrin, high oleic sunflower oil, isomaltulose, canola oil, rice starch, oat fiber, isomaltooligosaccharide, soy lecithin, potassium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium phosphate, n
5. 3065.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   Not to minimize lines of code at all cost, repetitive but clear code is better than clever code with many abstractions. Design user interfaces around workflows not database tables. Unix. Sed, grep, awk, bash and more. Learn them all well.
6. 3066.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   It will only get software updates for another year and security updates for 2 more years, it's 1/3 of the way through it's effective lifespan. The supported lifetimes are far too short when you buy in release day, let alone a
7. 3067.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   > You just need to buy a decent product! And there's the issue, the 3.5mm works with something I can buy for a couple of dollars in the supermarket and it just works. A good bluetooth headset costs an order of magnitude or two more
8. 3068.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   In places that kept them trolleys/street cars slowly morphed into light rail, some is separated from the road but much of it is still shared. The distinction isn't so cut and dry.
9. 3069.▲
   by flukus 9y ago

   I think the line is drawn at how quickly you can transfer from localhost. It seems like devs tend to ignore network latency entirely because it's something outside of our control. It seems to be getting worse too, things like the windo
10. 3070.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    Is this a new dark pattern we're going to see, "Allow us to push notifications or else"?
11. 3071.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    Negative income tax is just a more complicated form of the same thing. Part of the UBI appeal is easy administration.
12. 3072.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    > Often with most of the values set to null. Your math is at odds with your own requirements, null values don't need a row.
13. 3073.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    The products page of the linked article: https://puri.sm/products/ . That Librem 11 looks tempting...
14. 3074.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    Until governments start deciding that these are mandatory safety features.
15. 3075.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    By your logic Visual Source Safe was production ready.
16. 3076.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    > EAVT is great as an intermediate format but it is absolutely useless to query for since most of the time you are trying to find a set of attributes for a given entity i.e. full table scan. This is what indexes are for. An index on the
17. 3077.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    You need more than just a list of companies using it, you can create a similar list for just about any technology, good or bad. Sony is a worldwide company with 127,000 employees, they alone probably use just about every database system aro
18. 3078.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    >If the problem was that there are so many eligible people, but nobody wants to volunteer, then you might be on to something. They way I read it this is the problem: > Once you take into account whether or not the remaining 9.7 millio
19. 3079.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    Lately I've been going the other way, from a complex vim setup to using the terminal and tools like inotify, tmux, and bash, so far I've found this a much better solution. Keeping my vim configuration and plugins synced between en
20. 3080.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    It's hilarious really. A home robber isn't going to download your salary history prior to robbing your house, chances are a lot of the money has gone into big heavy things that they aren't after anyway. Thieve's are oppo
21. 3081.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    Secession doesn't have to mean war. They declare independence, every one else says "that's ok let's negotiate terms", no war required. The whole civil war was avoidable.
22. 3082.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    I just realized a simple shell script would make a passable imitation of JMeter, without the horrible UI and xml.
23. 3083.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    An advertising company with 60,000 employees whose interests overlap with this forum ;) Most of the wealth in silicon valley comes from productizing eyeballs. In related news, this just triggered someone into downvoting my entire post histo
24. 3084.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    > trigger a civil war/revolution You act like that's a bad thing. A good chunk of the US would be modern social democratic countries if the south seceded. A good chunk of their fear of government likely extend from the last tim
25. 3085.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    You sure your friends weren't joking? This sounds like a "ask for tartan paint" style joke that get's played on interns/apprentices.
26. 3086.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    > Persia, where Islam was very dominant Was that true at the time? They were certainly ruled by a caliphate, but other religions survive in Persia till this day so I wouldn't be surprised if the process took centuries. There also ap
27. 3087.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    The phrase was used in the last episode of The Orville, I think we should accept that into cannon and ignore everything JJ Abrams has done. Aside from that, Star Trek has Latinum bars and Credits as the plot dictates.
28. 3088.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    Both suffer from way to much binary bloat, for small performance hit we can shave off a whole 4Kb. Is anyone going to take a stab at an enterprise edition?
29. 3089.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    And the naive "readable" version is half the speed of python. Makes you wonder how typical that would be in real code?
30. 3090.▲
    by flukus 9y ago

    With the exception of Roussilon and a few other bits of southern France that were once part of Catalonia/Aragon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain#/media/File:5... ). Before that some of the