heleninboodler

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by heleninboodler 3y ago
... or if the unsubscribe link requires you to type in your email address.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Well, I've always thought it would be fairly easy to strip, but I've now been doing it for 25 years and it's obvious the spammers aren't going to go to even that small effort. I once heard the CEO of wordpress say that
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Same, except I am expecting calls from unknown numbers more or less constantly these days. I do remember a time in my life where I could get away with an attitude of "people I care about have other ways to contact me, so this is a non
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I find it quite rare for systems to reject the + these days. One notable exception is my credit union, whose Web 1.0 system turned it into a space. The most annoying thing about this practice is if you're telling it to a human, they
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Yeah, when you have small children, your obligation to pick up the phone when they aren't with you is increased. I also find that whenever you're shopping for big-ticket items that involve salespeople and soliciting multiple bids
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you... how does the crappy screen affect your experience when you're ssh'ing into it?
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> Although I can never remember which bloody Friday is Bandcamp Friday so I think I’ve managed to do like one of them. Bookmark this silly site: https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Indeed I know all of this. But in terms of "what this code does," the information that a method is passed a block that calls another method is not particularly interesting. The major problem I have with this sort of DSL is it en
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
This is kind of an absurd statement, given how prevalent custom DSLs are in Ruby (and in this example). No amount of familiarity with the Ruby language can tell me what this means: event :ignite do transition stalled: sam
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
:D and if you scale this to the point where the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is affected, you can also use some of the abundant energy to boil the ocean to replace that water vapor. :) Same net effect (water is taken from the o
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> You tell engineers that only you understand the customer, then tell the customer only you understand the engineers. I have people skills, god damn it!
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> I wish they would stop trying to force us into shared working spaces. They can make me work from home, a close office, a far office... I don't care. Yes. I'm pretty open to the benefits of working in an office. I had a WFH
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> Even the shitty new "Max" interface is better than Netflix I have to disagree. I don't love the Netflix interface, but Max is truly terrible. It is egregiously slow and it's difficult to locate the things that I w
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> “People who use drugs are not morally corrupt.” Using drugs in itself isn't what makes them morally corrupt. Using drugs to the point you can't take care of yourself and need others to do it is. This manifests itself in
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
This is an odd, almost reverse nitpick. The word "shutter" is general-purpose. It's literally a thing that shuts the opening. There's one inside an SLR camera, as you point out. There's often one on a webcam.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
It only worked because it had to, given phones just had keypads back then. As soon as qwerty-with-your-thumbs was available, everyone abandoned T9 and never looked back.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought the wave logo was very clever and clicked away, but the demonstration of a handful of building different (and really well done) subjects with the same simple technique blew my mind.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
The reason we use qwerty on a smartphone is extremely straightforward: people tend to know where to look for the keys already, so it's easy to adopt to even though it's not "efficient". We know it better than we know th
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
And risk rendering all these single-person food storage techniques useless?!
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> You just get the rail that mounts at the front of the bed, take the front wheel off ... ... which makes the bike ~14 inches shorter, meaning you can do that in any truck with a 5.5 foot bed. The discussion is whether you can put the
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Those pre-orders are based on fictional pricing and fictional delivery date. I don't doubt that they'll sell all 180k cybertrucks they expect to make in the next 18 months (novelty factor goes a long way with people who have gobs
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Not that I recall, but it did have a lot of what I'd consider "above-and-beyond" extras, like a $400 console safe and powered moon roof (oh and lol, it was red!). Plus the $52k included all the seattle local charges like ins
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> The Cybertruck may be on its way to become the most extravagant "Not Woke" badge you can wear This is rather unfortunate, in my opinion, since I'm pretty solidly left and I still kinda want one. I actually set aside cas
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
In 2019 , the target starting price was ~$40k. Given inflation and other factors that have wildly increased prices, as well as it more and more sounding like a "halo" vehicle, as well as the supply being a tiny fraction of deman
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
One interesting thing is that you can also easily spend $50k on a luxury-spec Maverick. I drove one a couple weeks ago that was $52k out the door, fully 100% over base price. I'm sure the profit margin on those packages is pretty imp
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Yes, I have actually confirmed that they exist, but in my area (seattle) there are exactly 0 of them available at dealers and special orders take forever. The 5.5 foot bed is apparently what sells. I'm jealous. That thing must be a
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Indeed. The Ford Maverick base model is $23k (edited: was $21k which was the base price in 2022). Despite being "not really a truck" in many ways, it actually demonstrates a lot more utility per dollar than most pavement princes
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> sure, you can have the semantics debate if you want Helpful rule: Don't start a semantics debate and then complain that people are having a semantics debate with you.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Your expectations about bed size might be off. You also can't load a bike lengthwise in a 4-door F-150 or a 4-door Ram 1500, both of which have 5.5 foot beds. I personally think it's kind of silly for a truck, but that's wh
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
You're expecting a group of startup employees holding illiquid stock to come up with the cash necessary to buy the finders out on a company that could otherwise sell for (apparently) $273 million?

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