heleninboodler

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by heleninboodler 3y ago
The idea that we're all in the dark about the real relative sizes of the countries is silly. It's not like we look at a globe and get shocked by the sizes of the countries.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
It was the "#". I didn't realize that about the behavior in the middle of a token, and apparently the syntax colorizer doesn't either.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Am I the only one completely confused by the examples that appear to put command line arguments after shell end-of-line comments? Is that not a typical shell? example: nix run .#cowsay -- flakes are neat Some explanation of what the
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> cloudfront which only allows US-East-1 ssl certs This seems like an odd limitation. Do you know the technical reason?
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Note: I think someone changed the hackernews pw
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I used to use Phoenix (mentioned elsewhere on this thread) to do a typeahead-style window finder. It would pop up a list of all windows and you could choose from them, but you could type to filter the list down. Very similar to rofi'
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Yeah, I used to be a faithful user and I quit because of this. Many Tricks makes good software, but it seems the APIs they use for some of the window information end up getting very slow under certain circumstances, starting on an OS relea
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I'm talking about the basic math, absent all other factors. Given a choice between an N% raise two years in a row or a 2N% raise on the first year, the latter is more money. You choose, base salary is 100k and target raise is 10% two
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Agree strongly with the "why is this an app?" stance. The front page makes it unclear that there's a web interface at all because your options are big buttons for ios and for "desktop/android". No, I definite
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I don't doubt that analyzing the distinction is interesting , but it seems pointless to object to common usage by asking justifying sources to be cited.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I think you might just have to accept that when a lot of people use the term "lapsed mormon," they are using it as a synonym for "former mormon" and that challenging the terminology isn't really very productive.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Being even somewhat conversant in some of the more popular protocols is also like a superpower that the newbs don't really have, too. The ability to use telnet or nc to answer the question "aside from any other piece at any level
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Even so, getting double the salary increase last year and zero salary increase this year instead of a layoff isn't a bad deal.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I feel like tech is the implied context here. In tech, the number is a lot closer to 100% than 0%.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Are you sure this is typical and you're not just getting the shaft? It sounds way off to me. I've been out of MSFT for a while, but refreshes and cliff-fills are pretty standard for their competitors and I'd be very surpris
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
From personal experience, adding a mouthguard brings this entire look up to "dead sexy" status. /s
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
"Customer Records"
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
I believe GP is talking about how you refer to this column in another table, where "id" is not an option. In the "widgets" table, you need to refer to either "the id for the user" or "the id to use in the
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Or "Don't Waste Time Debating Things That Don't Matter And Have No Definitively Correct Answer"
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Yes, this is bikeshedding at its worst. Just pick one. Preferably one that doesn't involve "clever" code that changes the names of things behind your back based on the English language's weird pluralization edge cases.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
> Gmail really pioneered the "nah, screw you" approach to this. From my POV, Yahoo pioneered this way before Gmail. 10 years ago when I was managing outgoing mail infra for a company that probably sent 100k emails per day (mos
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
Minor correction: Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset, then tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary on mine, at least. Apple does enjoy moving these things around from time to time.
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
On my phone, I've somehow gotten into a situation where I can't type "butt" without it autocorrecting it to "Butt".
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by heleninboodler 3y ago
It's also surprisingly unaware of how poorly it's performing. I have recently noticed that when you ask it to send text a text message for you, it follows up with a suggestion that you turn on auto-send for siri-dictated messages
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by heleninboodler 4y ago
> Difference between Word Processor and text editor is in WYSIWYG mode of operation. At least for most of people. As someone who used DOS-based word processors like WordStar, and before that, a Brother word processor that looked like a t
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by heleninboodler 4y ago
I've heard the explanation that men just tend to prefer to think in more concrete terms. "What happened" is sometimes met with a detailed social analysis filled with motivations and states-of-mind about the story that unfold
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by heleninboodler 4y ago
Yeah, if a mechanic told me having the battery die in 3 days was normal, I'd stop going to that mechanic.
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by heleninboodler 4y ago
No, you don't need an electron microscope to overcome that type of inconvenience, because those pieces of data are not sensitive and no effort has been made to ensure you can't just read them out using the pins. This is why the p
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by heleninboodler 4y ago
I agree with this. I consider myself a person who is very interested in a quality music-listening experience in that I want it to sound good (I can't believe how many people listen to music out of their phone's speaker these da
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by heleninboodler 4y ago
Roon seems very expensive for a service where I provide the actual disk space for the music.

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