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by handrous 5y ago
> The clinic then fucked up billing, overcharged us, and it took another few months for all of this to get sorted out. > The first part of this story isn't too different from the Canadian system, the second is a pile of unnecessa
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by handrous 5y ago
Agreed. Little GUI utilities that I'm likely to only use for a few minutes every now and then can be Electron. Doesn't bother me a bit. If it's something I run frequently for short spans (a calculator, a search-to-launch tool
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd been waiting for OpenMW to fix shadows before trying it, and IIRC late last year or early this year they fixed them, so I tried it. I played the whole main quest, finished several major side-quest story trees, finished Tribunal, an
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by handrous 5y ago
TypeScript's the first thing that's made JS tolerable, if I have to touch or use anyone else's JS code. It's pure misery, otherwise. Writing solo and using no libraries, plain JS is... OK. Anything else, TS is the only t
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by handrous 5y ago
I've done tough physical labor, and repetitive physical labor. They may wear out the body (or may invigorate it, depending on the load), but the mind is fresh even after 8+ hours, in my experience. And it feels good . After six hour
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by handrous 5y ago
This is sometimes true. On a project long-term, will you keep velocity up by writing quality code? Yes. In certain, narrow areas (very "mathy" code, perhaps, that doesn't interact much with he world) might you go faster by
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by handrous 5y ago
Take away their state-imposed advantage of incorporation , how about.
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by handrous 5y ago
I accept this as a compromise to my preferred solution of "make collecting & hoarding any personal data you don't strictly need to operate very, very illegal, and make using the data you do collect for anything but directly
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by handrous 5y ago
I've tried AppImage, Flatpack, and Snap, and AppImage is the only one that approaches tolerable.
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by handrous 5y ago
I take it you've not spent much time talking with people in bullshit jobs? Most would be thrilled to be paid to watch/teach their kids, or work on an artistic side-hustle or hobby. Work is just the stupid, pointless bullshit som
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by handrous 5y ago
It's not a denial of the existence of subjective experience. It's a denial that it "means anything" or has any influence on events.
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by handrous 5y ago
"Our senior clown has come up with an arse-based solution, to meet our garbage-tier requirements" Yeah, that seems about right.
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by handrous 5y ago
Not true at all, but the sweet tea they serve you will probably be mediocre at best, that's true. A few places will serve you unsweet tea (all they have, as a cost-savings measure) with sugar packets, as if that's the same thing,
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by handrous 5y ago
No, no, no. More LSD. Less Internet.
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by handrous 5y ago
> It's the "perceived" part that I am suspicious of (and I assume the GP too). Poll citizens and ask how much voter fraud they think happened in the last election, in their state, before a voter ID law is passed. Wait for
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by handrous 5y ago
Turns out a bunch of other systems rely on this bug to fetch information, and no-one's entirely sure where they are, who's responsible for them, or what they do. Also the page is auto-generated though some arcane CMS such that i
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by handrous 5y ago
At least y'all have beaches and something resembling real mountains. :-/
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by handrous 5y ago
> This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not. Clearly, people answered those polls incorrectly. It should definitely not be allowed.
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by handrous 5y ago
It's like a written form of Uptalk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
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by handrous 5y ago
They weren't supposed to be used as any kind of important, general ID number. It took various governments and institutions a long time to wake up to the reality that, because we really, really need such an ID and the government has d
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by handrous 5y ago
I know a lot of people who regard it as a hybrid southern/midwestern state. Plenty of confederate flags to be found in Missouri, certainly, and the MU/KU rivalry is, on our side at least, heavy on "bleeding Kansas" rhe
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by handrous 5y ago
It is my understanding that Parson is not the kind of fellow to give a shit what a state bureaucrat tells him, if it's not what he wants to hear, assuming he'd listen to them in the first place.
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by handrous 5y ago
I am reliably informed by people with some insight into Missouri government that Parson is exceptionally terrible. Incompetent or malicious, depending on the day. I gather the previous (also Republican) governor, Greitens, who may or may
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by handrous 5y ago
Voicemail transcription is the only reason the "ignore it and if it matters they'll leave a voicemail" strategy works for me. I never, ever checked voicemails back when I had to actually listen to them. Now I can skim ten of
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by handrous 5y ago
"ls /" ?
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by handrous 5y ago
Water's basically incompressible, if some Michael Crichton book I read like 25 years ago is to be believed. My guess would be one or more of: the above; greater heat capacity; or, something to do with surface area vs. volume meaning th
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by handrous 5y ago
> Heck, there have recently been articles about STEM students that do not know how to work with a basic file directory. File directories, and the filesystem generally, confuse the hell out of the vast majority of computer users. We ner
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by handrous 5y ago
> How many people are happily buying those really cheap phones, though? I've known a few, who bought a couple per year(!) because the hardware kept failing This is my parents. Between the two of them I bet they average 3 new phones
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by handrous 5y ago
Every major tech vendor seems certain AR glasses are going to be the "next Smartphone", if you will, in terms of UI and market trends. Nothing else could explain their continued emphasis on AR tools & demos for platforms tha
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by handrous 5y ago
Were they taking sales from Apple, to any major extent? Or just shifting around the Android market? If the latter, I can't imagine Apple'd care. Samsung's been doing the same thing (being the Apple of Android) for quite a whi

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