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by gamacodre 6y ago
I worry that hardly anyone believes this anymore. Most of my acquaintance seem to think more highly of their favorite youtube "news" purveyor than any journalistic source. In their minds, journalism stopped being a practice some t
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by gamacodre 6y ago
Strongly agree. In the last three years I've rebuilt my macOS laptop from scratch twice (dead hard drive, and a dev tool run amok), and once swapped it for a different size because I really wanted the larger battery. My co-workers were
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by gamacodre 6y ago
And the CTO too, for caving to that argument.
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by gamacodre 6y ago
That's trickier - somewhere along the way I stopped buying books and just do tactical forays onto the net when I need a new bit of domain knowledge. Details like how and why pixels work are much easier to understand and retain if they&
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by gamacodre 6y ago
I was a 12 year old when I learned about them :) The idea of a pixel is that it's the smallest area of the screen that can be independently controlled, thus the designation "pixel" for "picture element". In most mod
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by gamacodre 6y ago
This. If you are loading some scripts that are actually required for your app or page to work right, why would you get them from someone else's infrastructure? Terminal laziness? Or is the assumption that XYZ corp has more incentive th
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by gamacodre 6y ago
That assumes that your goal is to get to "the top," though. And the world being a tough, competitive place was much less (directly) relevant, and to many fewer people, just 20 or 30 years ago when they could nestle into their own
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by gamacodre 6y ago
I pay $150/mo to be a patient of a local "concierge" doctor in Sacramento. This is a D.O. that previously had a regular insurance-based practice. Appointments are free, usually on time, and can run 20-30 minutes. Labs and pre
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by gamacodre 6y ago
Interesting. It usually takes us most of an hour to get through our reviews, and I don't feel like we have an unusually high number of deliverables (10-15 tickets on average maybe, representing 1 or 2 larger projects and a small batch
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by gamacodre 6y ago
Hopefully it's in FAST mode.
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by gamacodre 6y ago
I used to believe that as well. But it seems that even a "well argumented" idea can get very little traction unless the circumstances are right, i.e. your interlocutor doesn't care much about the topic. There was some study a
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by gamacodre 6y ago
You don't defeat bad ideas by promoting them either; you defeat them with shame, i.e. consequences for being willfully ignorant or acting like a jackass. But the internet rarely delivers meaningful feedback to the folks that craft this
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by gamacodre 6y ago
Who would pay for it? Or do the work, or collate it, or publish the results? Portions of the federal government are actively hostile to fact-based public health work. The rest of it seems to be either defunded or demotivated, as opportunity
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by gamacodre 12y ago
> That said, for both of those cases it would potentially be cheaper and equally effective to file defensive publications rather than patents. Do you mean a Statutory Invention Registration[1]? That seems almost as troublesome as puttin
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by gamacodre 12y ago
I've seen some milder forms of it. As a team lead about 20 years ago, one of my guys started going on about the virtues of the "cheesecake" in the game we were working on. In the middle of a meeting between him, myself and
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by gamacodre 12y ago
"If your only tool is a hammer, hit that guy over there with it"
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by gamacodre 12y ago
Hmmm, I suppose that could have been plainer. I disagree with your assertion that - as a general rule - the existence of a lawsuit necessarily signals ethical concerns relating to the defendant. As for "it", if "it" was
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by gamacodre 12y ago
I disagree. Lawsuits could also be rightfully characterized as signalling mechanisms for predatory (but still ethical) commercial opportunities, social ills and/or exploitation of same, poorly constructed laws or regulations, reasonab
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by gamacodre 13y ago
If you like this idea and are stuck in Windows, this does the same thing: @set @jScript=1;/* @for /f "tokens=1,2" %%w in ('mode con:') do @if "%%w" == "Columns:" set cols=%%x @
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by gamacodre 13y ago
I'd agree that that "untouchable" idea is perhaps too easy to reach for, but I really do think it's germane to this particular problem. You seem to be well-informed on the subject, perhaps you could comment on this: It
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by gamacodre 13y ago
> we just love putting people in prison. I think this is happening because of a general perception that too many people are "getting away" with breaking the law. It doesn't seem to matter that we're criminalizing eve
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by gamacodre 13y ago
We "solved" (worked around? hacked?) this by creating a set of FunctionU macros and in some cases stubs that wrap all of the Windows entry points we use with incoming and outgoing converters. It's ugly under the hood and a b
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by gamacodre 13y ago
The limiting principles seem to be encoded in the law[1] that provides the basis for most of the government's arguments - FWIW, passed by both houses of Congress and explicitly granting this discretion to the executive branch. Most of
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by gamacodre 13y ago
I already have this problem; both my bank and my credit union introduced 2FA but only with SMS. Once enabled, any attempt to log in using a not-yet-authorized browser or app is stalled until I get that text message. Presumably a call to c
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by gamacodre 13y ago
You seem awfully sure about this. Being a US citizen myself I would certainly hope you're correct, but given the excesses that the government has already hidden or excused with "but... terrorists!!! fear!!!" I think there i