heavensteeth

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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   >former child prodigy I understand the idea behind that phrasing but I'm not sure I agree with it. Are you no longer a child prodigy once you turn 18? I don't think I'd ever say "former intelligent child".. Would
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   This site is extremely snappy. Good work.
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   The logo presentation booklet's cover - with just the letters N E X T in white scattered across a black page - is simply beautiful to me. I can't put into words what about it appeals to me. I can only imagine the effort put into t
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   Can you really extrapolate those two experiences across every other country in the world?
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   And atheists will speak similarly of the rapture before it happens. Repent!
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   I actually haven't seen it recently, so they may have removed it, but I'm still annoyed by whoever decided to have those "people also searched for" etc. boxes appear a few seconds after the page loads, leading to me acci
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   Then you need to build GCC without GCC.
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   by heavensteeth 2y ago

   > If you get paid minimum wage, what your employer is saying is, "I would pay you less if I was legally allowed to do so." Doesn't this apply to all pay rates? It's not like high-paying jobs are high-paying for the lo
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    Some people don't have the liberty of throwing out food because the clock struck 00:00. Similarly, some people don't want to.
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    I thought that too, but whole page loads are slow too; I assume it's just because I live nowhere near Brazil.
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    I cannot express the pleasure I felt seeing prices in my local currency automatically, without the Shopify "Zoinks! Looks like you're on our American store, would you like to change to our Polish store?" modal I've come
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    I tried messing with Caddy a little while ago and this was my experience. I'm sure being able to configure it in a million different languages conveniences someone , but [un]official docs documenting things in a format I don't us
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    Good stuff! From the title I thought this would be about sysadmin woes, but this is interesting too :) Another little addendum: you can trivially create bootable custom NixOS installer images with whatever configuration you want pre-applied
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    > I’m broadly against the use of Postgres extensions because they make upgrades harder and projects less portable [1], I can't find that footnote anywhere
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    Drugs are in fact banned for the public good (ostensibly). And why aren't gambling advertisements "part of a free society"? I'm all for being skeptical of the government and its (ab)use of power, but I must admit I strug
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    So they can charge you for it.
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    > Well, although SPDX counts 665 licences, there really just 3 main kinds: > 1. licences with no restrictions (like MIT) > 2. licences that require you credit the original author ("attribution" licences, including the Apa
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    by heavensteeth 2y ago

    The earth will recover. We may not, but earth will.