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by handrous 5y ago
As much fondness as I have for the pure separation-of-concerns CSS Zen Garden style, I have to admit I've yet to actually see it leveraged on a real project. In 20 years of working on the Web. I'm not sure I've ever seen a si
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by handrous 5y ago
My guess, without looking at the data, would be that this is one of those things that's true if you don't count FICA (i.e. Social Security + Medicare) as a tax, but false if you do count those as taxes.
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by handrous 5y ago
Hm. Now I want a journaling/note-taking app that just listens on every chat service I use.
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh wow. Alduin looks nigh-illegible to me. Might be an effect of macOS's auto-color-temp adjusting. On a monitor that's set so it's like staring into the sun (how most other monitors feel, once you're used to that featur
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by handrous 5y ago
Extensive use of jump-cuts lets you edit single-camera monologues as if they were text. Much easier & cheaper than doing re-shoots, using multiple cameras, et c. I can personally attest that this style was extremely off-putting to us
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by handrous 5y ago
Every now and then I find a video tutorial for some computer thing very helpful—specifically, the kind where someone does something beginning to end with a screencast—simply because every single damn text tutorial was skipping one or mo
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by handrous 5y ago
> Frustrating how the best software engineers can't compete with a hardware company (Apple Inc). Allowing for a moment for a moment the premise that Google has the best software engineers, the company seems to be structured to ensur
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by handrous 5y ago
I developed on Android in ~'11 and it was a mess then. Again in ~'17 and it was... also a mess. There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with it that resists change. Plus in some cases Google simply doesn't seem to giv
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by handrous 5y ago
> We are all on the same team after all. I don't even know what that would look like. I'm not aware of any time in the US when it's been true, certainly.
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by handrous 5y ago
Ain't seen what dedicated Sovereign Citizens can come up with when they decide to go all mountain-of-paperwork on an agency, have you? Any amount of time spent on those is a waste of time, and they absolutely deserve contempt.
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by handrous 5y ago
In addition to what other people have mentioned, in my city, nearly all new builds are in decent to good school districts, while most houses over ~25 years old are in declining or already-bad school districts. If you deliberately set out to
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by handrous 5y ago
I do notice that even the nicer side of middle-class houses use worse finishing materials now. I've got relatives in ones built in the 80s and early 90s (and I lived in such myself, for many years). Solid wood doors, actual wood trim,
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by handrous 5y ago
Moisture is the bigger reason for that, I'd expect.
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by handrous 5y ago
If I try, and focus, and am in the right mood, I get some pretty good-sounding symphonies, just kind of happening . Never any other kind of music. Which is weird because I mostly listen to various forms of popular music.
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by handrous 5y ago
> That's what (I think) Winston Churchill said about democracy (might be true there). As E.M. Forster put it (from memory, so I'm sure less well-worded than the original): "So, two cheers for democracy—there's no occa
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by handrous 5y ago
Twitter never doesn't decide it needs your phone number after a short while. Nothing you did or didn't do made that happen. At most you sped it up a couple days.
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by handrous 5y ago
It's nicer when they're browsable. Might spot something you wouldn't have known to grep for.
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by handrous 5y ago
On smallish servers it can keep the logs human-browsable without filtering. Not necessary, but nice.
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by handrous 5y ago
fail2ban works for a lot more than just SSH.
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by handrous 5y ago
Don't need to make sure you're on a path to still have in-demand skills in 15 years, if you can retire by then.
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by handrous 5y ago
Almost every physical-store-chain company's website makes it way too hard to do the thing I nearly always want out of their interface, which is to search the inventory of the X nearest locations. They all want to push online orders o
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by handrous 5y ago
The real trouble with doing that, for families, is that rural & small-town schools are almost all bad, compared with suburban schools. Makes it an unrealistic (or, at least, pretty undesirable) option unless you're homeschooling, s
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd be happy with it being short enough that middle-aged creatives could build on material from their childhood, and old ones, from their middle-age. Say, 20 years. People should, at least, have full ownership of a good portion of thei
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by handrous 5y ago
I, for one, find data mapper simply baffling. I look at it and can't even comprehend why someone might want to do things that way. Granted, I'm not fond of ORMs in general, but I at least understand the appeal of the active re
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by handrous 5y ago
> > > The US is in the awkward period between upgrading existing systems and designing next generation weapons. > Like the F35? Pretty sure that failure has nothing to do with "bad timing" and everything to do with the
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by handrous 5y ago
This is because chasing immortality with expensive but questionable procedures has a thousands of years long history (it's a safe bet this stretches into pre-history) of being an obsession of the ultra-rich, so far without success, b
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by handrous 5y ago
> especially nuclear-armed ones. I took "nuclear sub" to mean "nuclear powered" (as opposed to e.g. diesel-electric, which are still fairly common), which I think represents a somewhat larger set of submarines, outs
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by handrous 5y ago
Hell, if we assume one-hit-kills and no duds/misses, a mid-war German U-Boat probably qualifies for the same achievement, as far as sheer amount of ordnance carried. Not that WWII subs were any good at hunting other subs, but still. It
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by handrous 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym These things just happen.
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by handrous 5y ago
> I did actually find a site that basically boiled down to "Ted Kazinski Was Right And Here Is Why". That's not a terribly uncommon sentiment. Usually people mean the manifesto, not the part where he bombed people.

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