giantDinosaur

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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
It doesn't if the x parameter in func is :number.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
So if someone leaked info about a killbot program, your protest wouldn't be that it's bad, but it's likely there's other work going on that'll hopefully make such killbots irrelevant, and why weren't those do
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Designing for the illiterate (or inebriated) is a nice goal, but designing for people to change their app into a language they cannot read, and then expecting it to all be easily usable, is not really a particularly great design goal. In th
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Right. Because you have numbers written in a common language, you can work out what your buttons did. Without that you wouldn't realise until you actually were hit with the conversion fee on one side or the other. If you changed the la
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
How do you understand something like 'withdraw, with conversion' or 'withdraw, let your bank handle the conversion', without language? Is there an obvious image or button shape that'd signify this without prior know
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
It seems a bit unfair to expect an app to work without being able to read the language. Was the translation bad or are you just saying that the buttons weren't obvious without a description you could read?
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I've enjoyed a lot of things that are bad (e.g. poorly constructed, or 'well' constructed but only in a way that traps one-dimensional aspects of human experience to the point of inducing addiction). Now I look upon such enjo
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The same reason you can reasonably call a lot of food that tastes good 'bad'.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The Power Broker has one great strength over the LBJ series: concision.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The fewer people that drive, the less you have to expend on massive road projects and the better the experience for anyone who actually needs to drive. The whole bicycle infrastructure of a city like Amsterdam probably costs less than any
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Just rest it on your knee or something. Abandon a bit of decorum for comfort.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Presumably because of type erasure during compilation. If you had access to a runtime representation of a TS type you could do something like that.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
A good introduction as to why blacklisting is often a poor approach to dealing with arbitrary input.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Cool, but how do I disable the head bobbing? (seriously.)
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
At the risk of this becoming a meme: do you do strength training? I used to get persistent burning sensations (RSI related) in my hands after a day of computer use which has completely vanished after I started lifting heavy. You get the ben
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The reason the secret ballot is even a thing is exactly because of people like you. Thank goodness you aren't in a role that involves hiring given such politicisation of the hiring process. I sincerely hope you never get such a posit
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Worry not, in IE terms, 'rapidly' means 'within this decade', so I will unfortunately be supporting the last, not really venerable, version of it for a while. But even just messing around with CSS in old versions is pain
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
I refuse to write anything that supports any IE version < 11 on principle. And I will relish the day I can kill support for IE11, which is hopefully rapidly approaching. I admit I do enjoy a stack which includes text files, though.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Of course people should 'move fast', unless of course they should actually move slowly, or move glacially, or move moderately quickly, or with utmost urgency... the trick is knowing what's actually right, isn't it? That&
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Being gay means that simply holding hands with one's partner puts one at direct risk of being attacked. This is certainly still true in places like the UK. Are you saying you're at as much of a risk of being attacked like that in
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
This is charitably a misconception, and very possibly an outright lie. Nothing indicates a 90 day cutoff to immunity. On the face of it, that should make anyone reading this sceptical.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
You'd be surprised with respect to tuberculosis. We use a vaccine developed 100 years ago, a vaccine which actually doesn't really work in adults (and immunity from the vaccine gets lost by adulthood), and antibiotic resistant str
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Everything is encoded in bits. What's like, the difference between anything?
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
This reminds me of using DynamoDB, which didn't (until recently) accept the empty string as a value, instead helpfully offering to change it to null. However, there was a clear difference between a field in our database that a user had
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
All websites require a source for their data (i.e. a database), but many websites don't really need to be directly connected to a SQL database for nearly every page request or similar and can just use really simple files in S3 or som
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Presumably if it was easy to tell killers by their looks, they'd find it considerably harder to get away with the 'serial' part.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
Just as often pointing out the 5% is then used as an excuse to not do something, even when the advice does apply. The number of times I've brought up how much a healthy lifestyle matters to have it dismissed because someone they knew&#
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The government incentives were clearly going to result in private-island driven dinosaur experiments. If the incentives had been to welcome such genetic experimentation in a controlled manner then regulators would have noticed the predato
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
The point isn't that the clinics are not morally culpable, but only that they are a natural response to government incentives over which the government has exclusive control.
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by giantDinosaur 6y ago
And look how annoying it is that we didn't have a year 0: 2001 was the start of the 21st century. How horrible is that!

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