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by handrous 5y ago
I think we got here because everyone's mixed up describing a state with describing the process to describe a state . Or, configuration versus scripts that apply configuration. Most of the popularly config-as-code systems mix the t
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, even though I've joined that group, I still struggle to process it. "You mean... an extremely high percentage of successful people are 'druggies'?" It's so entirely contrary to the propaganda we receive
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by handrous 5y ago
Not only that—it used to perform really well. For years, a repeated (if, sadly, uncommon) experience for me has been: "Holy shit, this web site/app is fast!" Looks at URL bar, sees a '.php' at the end
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by handrous 5y ago
I think it's like that most everywhere (at the very least, in the US) not just the rural South. I can't remember who sent it, but there was a great tweet I read once that went something like: "The two biggest surprises of my
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by handrous 5y ago
> How can I practice detachment (buddhism inspired letting go) while simultaneously accomplishing goals? I'd say that: 1) There's a reason for all the insistence on monasticism in Buddhism and many other traditions. Practicing
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by handrous 5y ago
More generally, I only find desktop Linux tolerable when I start from very little and build up to what I want, rather than starting with a full DE—even the heavier "kitchen sink" XFCE variants are too heavy to start with. There wa
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by handrous 5y ago
My favorite job ever was helping run a camp site at a state park, a couple summers. Carry wood around, take fees at the gate and keep some light records, golf-cart around from time to time to bug people for payment, who were mostly pretty c
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by handrous 5y ago
Lots of service jobs don't feel meaningless most of the time (though they may come with other problems). Plenty of jobs that involve moving around real stuff in real life rarely feel meaningless (though, again, they may have other prob
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by handrous 5y ago
If we were doing things right and wanted to really benefit from having these giants around, we'd go 1950s-Japan on them and harness them to drive a broader prosperity-increasing economic engine, while still letting them thrive and grow
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by handrous 5y ago
37. Very glad I'll have a long career fixing broken "apps" when web devs no longer have a clue how TCP or HTTP works. Hell, many don't know about tons of HTML features, many of which are literally decades old at this p
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by handrous 5y ago
They're basically CPanel on steroids (=orchestrating a whole bunch of servers/services instead of a single server) with low-code features (workers) built in. You can go from nothing to having a demo for some small application in a
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by handrous 5y ago
1) Seconding used as an option from the other post. That's great. 2) Big Buckets of legos still exist and are pretty cheap, actually. 3) Kids may like the sets on the shelf but my kids have treated them like puzzles: they're re
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, cool, thanks for the corrections. Yeah, I'm not into online lego fandom enough to know the correct terms—I just played with them for probably low-thousands of hours as a kid. I do like how many bigger modern sets come with a "
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, that explains it. I rarely use iMessage for anything but quick texts to people who aren't in one of my other messaging apps, so I hadn't looked too closely at it until I checked it out to compare the iOS flow to the shit-show
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by handrous 5y ago
Does... the rule prohibit other methods of cancellation?
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by handrous 5y ago
Apple-mediated subscriptions are at least easy to list & cancel. I do wish they'd 1) allow explicit demo versions of apps—using IAP to have a de-facto demo that requires IAP to upgrade just isn't as good, IMO, because I want t
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by handrous 5y ago
IIRC they switched to some kind of biodegradable plastic a few years back. I'm pretty sure they're softer, but it might be in my head. What'd help way more with waste is if they would stop making like 75% of the part count
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by handrous 5y ago
And that's how you ensure everyone writes their password on a sticky note.
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by handrous 5y ago
Can confirm that this is a real concern In The Wild—even if it's not a good one—my (boomer, yes) uncle was just complaining to me a couple weeks ago that, "no-one's thought about how we're going to have enough electric
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by handrous 5y ago
They can be a defense against DOS vectors, too. Though if that's the only reason, you can usually make the limit high enough that almost no actual person will ever hit it.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Password rules and a requirement to change your password every X months are pure security mirage and just create frustration in people who often struggle to generate even one secure password in their entire lifetime. Every place I&#x27
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by handrous 5y ago
Replacing it with just that would be a bad idea, since (see upthread, where the code's posted) it also verifies that its argument is an integer, erroring if it's not. Some code out there might be relying on that functionality, a
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by handrous 5y ago
> Yarn blew NPM away on speed with more features and nicer developer workflow. I dunno if it's still true, but for years into people saying "LOL use yarn, it's a better replacement for NPM" it was still really easy
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, I edited in that Apple's is "barely better", and that's most of the "barely". I also found the "add" element, though similarly non-buttonish, a little easier to spot, in part because the area in
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by handrous 5y ago
I just, minutes ago, walked my dad through sending several existing photos in a text on his Android phone. He knew how to open the text app and find the person he wanted, so he'd gotten it that far. 1) Tap the camera + photos icon. It&
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by handrous 5y ago
"Hover to define" on all terms in formulae on Wikipedia would go a long way toward fixing that problem. Not completely, because they'd still all read like they were written by a math grad student who's trying to impres
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by handrous 5y ago
> I’ve flip flopped for years, (I was using freebsd more than 20 years ago, genuinely ran Solaris 10 with my own build of kde4 on a hp probook, etc) but last time I tried to use Linux for work I got defeated by a conference suite project
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by handrous 5y ago
Social-signaling games explain lots of weird fashion shit. See also: recent-model-year obviously-expensive trucks; expensive rims and other mostly-cosmetic car mods; "legible" clothing generally. Lots of it's about externaliz
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by handrous 5y ago
It's an alarming sign of political and social rot, IMO, that this has become so normal that barely-computer-literate people out in my flyover part of the US regularly launch healthcare-related GoFundMes, if their kids get seriously ill
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by handrous 5y ago
People don't switch between ten just-installed apps in under a minute. They do that all the time on the Web. There's more focus on what you're doing when you open an app for the first time, and installing the app in the first

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