inopinatus

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1621.
by inopinatus 6y ago
That's rather the point. MacStadium is only on two continents.
1622.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Counterpoint: no-one needs to feel any embarrassment. The advancement of human understanding is not a boxing match. The author acknowledges as much in the preamble, "my mood lifted during the meeting due to the general excitement and
1623.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Same advice as when using Tailwind CSS, or anything of this sort: refactor your application-specific front-end parts at the point of generation, into purposefully named units. For Rails, that means shifting your boilerplate into helpers, pa
1624.
by inopinatus 6y ago
This is what I mean by "hobbyist mindset": driving straight past the huge neon sign flashing TCO , assuming that some idiot (that's me) has failed arithmetic 101 (totally possible, my undergraduate mathematics ruined me for
1625.
by inopinatus 6y ago
I will spend more time trying (with no great chance of succcess) to obtain authorisation to establish an additional commercial relationship, and corporate billing/card approval, and the time burned on this instantly exceeds any amount
1626.
by inopinatus 6y ago
In a very substantial number of enterprises; the cost of procuring, validating, installing, powering, cooling, fire-rating, commissioning, maintaining, writing up, handing over, revising, reporting, auditing, approving, and very occasionall
1627.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Yes. The details don't particularly matter, but broadly, it's periodic QA of a couple of apps & tools vs Safari, vs OSX, and vs homebrew. Not CI/CD. OSX seems more prone to bitroot regressions than Windows or Linux, I s
1628.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Those numbers actually make the AWS instances a shoo-in for my current development purposes. The cost of housing and managing a unit of hardware is nonzero. Actuals vary wildly by location, purposes, and sector; but if everyone can get thei
1629.
by inopinatus 6y ago
> You can use languages like Ruby ... in a way that matches this [Alan Kay] definition [of OOP], but they're not typically used this way Oh, but it is. Writing in a message-passing style is how I was taught Ruby, with specific refe
1630.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Alas, I'm generally unwilling to concede retrospective attempts to move goalposts. I don't consider this exchange to be a dialogue. Regarding the scope of audience and participation, I see remarks from six participants. I'm
1631.
by inopinatus 6y ago
> when you see a beautiful sunset I don't salute a beautiful sunset, and I don't require my children to pledge allegiance to the sun; nor would I be so crass, flippant, or despotic as to suggest - as you already did with citize
1632.
by inopinatus 6y ago
> nations are the quintessential form of human political organization That is false, hubristic, tautological, and lacking in either foresight or historical perspective. Nations in their current mode of the nation-state have barely exist
1633.
by inopinatus 6y ago
> Having positive feelings towards one's country is a pretty normal, pretty emotionally healthy thing. Their absence indicates some internal or external conflict or trauma. That is pub psychology at its most patronising, its most fl
1634.
by inopinatus 6y ago
I merely leave that as a tripwire for anyone willing to reveal their hidden inner fascist.
1635.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Ah yes, that worthless old argument. No, wait, two worthless arguments: one, that we cannot be grateful without being patriotic; two, that the alternative is Nazis and Commies. Both are, of course, without a shred of evidence, common sense,
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by inopinatus 6y ago
Ugh. That “renounce your citizenship then” jibe speaks volumes about the revulsion felt by authoritarians for nonconformists. It is bigotry 101, and repeating it labels you personally. Fortunately, I’m perfectly capable of discharging my ci
1637.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Dulce et decorum est , eh? That old Lie.
1638.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Joe McCarthy says Hi. Did you forget about the horrifying legacy of both literal and figurative witch trials? How about the US only very recently abandoning the idea that one person could own another? The idea that patriotism is a nec
1639.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Dynamically allocated using portmap(8).
1640.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Where I live, dubstep has mostly supplanted garage.
1641.
by inopinatus 6y ago
If they meant undifferentiated, then it’s homogeneous .
1642.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Of course he would deny it, to provide misdirection for those that are not devout.
1643.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Adams was simply working in base 13.
1644.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Hey, some of us old-timers fondly remember the natural warmth, presence, and low syscall latency of operating systems booted from vinyl.
1645.
by inopinatus 6y ago
It's dangerous to assume that definition by keyword is syntactic sugar, because there are crucial lexical differences that will bite the novice metaprogrammer on the backside. For example, writing class Foo; end differs from
1646.
by inopinatus 6y ago
The language mostly refers to them as "singleton classes", because logically speaking there is exactly one of them for every object. Every Ruby object is an instance of its singleton class. Even when it appears to be an instance
1647.
by inopinatus 6y ago
when I need a Dark Theme I switch my screen reader to the voice of Werner Herzog.
1648.
by inopinatus 6y ago
As with all compositional programming, refactor your classes at the point of generation. So you most certainly do have a “large button” concept in your code, as a function/helper/method/partial/template/component. O
1649.
by inopinatus 6y ago
Frankly it sounds like you would have nothing but complaints about any CSS framework.
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by inopinatus 6y ago
Conflating an organisation with an adjective is a fascinating category error and not one I'd previously considered working into my offerings of puns and satire. No doubt Tom Lehrer was already aware of the possibilities. Thanks f

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