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by flukus 7y ago
Make your editor worry about long lines. In vim: set wrap set sbr=\ In Visual Studio: Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Lnaguages. Select word wrap and Show Visual Glyphs.
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by flukus 7y ago
> The 'weekly shop' is not really a thing that inner-city dwellers tend to do that often Something I wish the holier than though types thought of when they banned plastic bags here. No I can't just keep my reusable bags in
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by flukus 7y ago
Plain text wouldn't allow for annotations, TOC, references, etc. These get ignored more often than not but they're still requirements and some do use them properly. Something like latex would be better, but apparently it's to
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by flukus 7y ago
Sand boxing is a power user thing, non power users don't understand it, don't even look at permissions let alone understand them, they just learn to click yes to everything to make stuff happen. It's a solution created by pow
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by flukus 7y ago
That's the world some have built. There are other approaches to this such as the apple store and linux repositories, they contain trusted software with various degrees of vetting and it's extremely rare to have to install somethin
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by flukus 7y ago
And as a potential customer it's important to remember that you're the one paying that $6.7 billion.
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by flukus 7y ago
> I guess you've never experienced a 40-45c day. You sound like one of the regular tourist types we get who dismiss how seriously we take summer conditions Funnily enough I was thinking that about you, because on 40+ days we've
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by flukus 7y ago
Done in plenty of times, Queensland and Victoria, unless you're pasty white and have never stepped outside you aren't going to get burnt in 5 minutes, let alone seriously. I've done it with my normal cycling attire of a wife
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by flukus 7y ago
> "You're taking away parking space!" "All these bike lanes are slowing traffic" The part that always makes me laugh is when they inevitably call cyclists entitled. It's always "I demand massive amounts
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by flukus 7y ago
> But guys, a little real talk: these kinds of screenshots do nothing to make us look more professional. Professional advertising has always featured attractive women in screen shots or using products. They ipad page has attractive women
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by flukus 7y ago
NGC was the common abbreviation is for the Neo Geo Color (despite what wikipedia says): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_Pocket_Color
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by flukus 7y ago
If you're number 1 choice is knocked out you're vote goes to you're number 2 choice, if they're knocked out it goes to number 3... It's not about understanding the intricacies of how the count works but understandin
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by flukus 7y ago
> Was this election spoiled? By Nader or by Gore? You can argue the semantics of what "spoiler" means, but to me it's clear that IRV doesn't handle this situation well. In that scenario more people preferred Bush to N
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by flukus 7y ago
> Call it "Instant Round Robin" - if one candidate would beat every other candidate head-to-head, then that candidate should win. And 90% of peoples eyes just glazed over, all to fix some almost entirely theoretical flaws with
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by flukus 7y ago
> they need to have functionality that is actually time saving. Robot vacuums didn't achieve this for me, I'd have to spend more time removing "clutter" from the floor than I would vacuuming and half the time it'
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by flukus 7y ago
I open anything seemingly relevant in a new tab, run uBlock so they can't track me on the destination page and more often than not forget to close the search tab. So they'd be getting more bad information than good to work with. E
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by flukus 7y ago
DDG doesn't have the weight of history that is ruining google. When you google something and can't tell if it's wrong until you click through it reinforces the weighting of that wrong result. It will keep referring you to tha
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by flukus 7y ago
> * WeWork market share = 90%. I think that's where the error lies. WeWork has no lock-in, there's no good reason to choose them over a competitor and it doesn't take much capital to start a local competitor (and there are
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by flukus 7y ago
Considering their current vetting is quite lacking, shouldn't they be looking to hire someone experienced? You don't hire a junior engineer to build you're new enterprise system.
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by flukus 7y ago
> especially in a small company run by 20-something whose only social life is their colleagues So you'd discriminate against introverts because the team are awful at socializing? Apart from how sad that sounds and how awful it is fo
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by flukus 7y ago
> "Let's face it: for white people, a lot of black people are very hard to get along with ..." I thought this was a silly comparison at first, but if you ask why is racial/sexual/other discrimination wrong (and n
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by flukus 7y ago
His criticism of Stallmans leadership is almost entirely based on Stallmans blog posts that are independent of the GNU project. Seems fair that his leadership should be questioned in the same way doesn't it?
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by flukus 7y ago
A lot of hotels will also spread their stock over a lot of sites to limit overbooking and micro management. They'll put 5 rooms on booking.com, 5 on expedia, and 5 spread around a dozen other places. There's no confirmation step l
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by flukus 7y ago
> Climate change is being used at an almost religious level to justify pretty much anything climate activists deem necessary — regardless of any unintended (or subversively intended) consequences. Such as? Apart from some investment in r
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by flukus 7y ago
> So. All that "bloat" came around for a reason and it was to try to make the company sustainable as a business. Until someone comes along with a simple basic service that just works, exactly like how imgur replaced imageshack.
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by flukus 7y ago
C++ is mostly in a different but overlapping use case these days, used for system software or where performance is critical. Go is still a niche language most developers haven't heard of and with no readily available for hire talent po
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by flukus 7y ago
Does this (and the one linked to: https://direnv.net/docs/development.html ) do anything that a simple bash entry can't: function lenv { if [ -f '.env' ]; then source .env fi } funct
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by flukus 7y ago
I'm not sure if MS is to blame there, in my very brief experience it was compatible enough, it was the lack of unix tools and gnu extensions that made it difficult to work with. You'd probably get the same issue trying to be posix
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by flukus 7y ago
Technically correct, but that doesn't tell the whole story as there still seems to be more people that want independence than don't want it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement#... . T
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by flukus 7y ago
As long as you've got a basic unix like environment what's hard about being cross platform? Last time I tried it was very simple, at least with higher level languages and using gnu make specific features. For build tools I think &

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