johncoltrane

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by johncoltrane 1y ago
(Barely tangentially related) Each time I visit Japan I can't help but notice how low people tend to wear their (usually Coleman) backpacks. So much that I came to mentally call them "asspacks".
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
The problem is that the light emitted by the background "eats up" the light emitted by the foreground object because there is, simply, more of it. The background is larger than the foreground and the intensity is higher. Ironicall
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
Actively using Vim is what makes the subset of commands you need stick, which makes things like this generally pointless. Writing that program with Vim, assuming you actually did, did a much better job for you than the program will do for i
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
I know. It comes up a bit later than the .uk domains, though.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
Great write-up. Note that the UK is no longer part of the EU so even those .uk domains are a bit of a red flag.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
FWIW… Tech fads used to be pretty limited to tech circles. You would be bombarded for a few months by content about this or that on HN and elsewhere without ever hearing about it on the subway or at a dinner. Crypto kind of crossed the line
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
I want that world.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
This and Frances The Mute are some of the finest rock ever produced.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
Because the distinction is meaningless for most people.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
What are you trying to achieve by showing a one year chart of _something_ and a twelve years chart of _something else_ side-by-side?
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
"def" is too generic. "fn" is too cryptic. "function" is better than the two.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
In 2016-17, I was involved with a rather large mictoservice-heavy rewrite project tha didn't go particularly well. The main reason was that microservices were actually a good fit for the _planned_ organisational structure, but not for
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
FWIW, sub-5kb banners were probably the only Flash projects that didn't include GSAP before we collectively jumped ships to JavaScript and CSS for animation on the web. It was everywhere.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
I --still-- don't care about cookies so I use https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/i-still-dont-care-a... .
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
> The general consensus among web developers seems to be to just let a third party do it. Outside of personal projects, third-party auth providers must be audited (think GDPR or PIPL), budget must be allowed, contracts signed, etc. so we
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
Do fewer meetings. Hire a stenotypist.
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
You said it yourself: > bikeshed
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by johncoltrane 1y ago
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a standard place where people could share database designs and build up a collection of well designed, well tested database designs? That doesn't sound like GitHub at all.
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
> Convoluted and unreasonable workarounds for a growing police state. Well, those are _basic_ OPSEC for people whose life/safety/freedom would actually be threatened by a search ("good guys", "bad guys", it
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
Like before we surrendered ourselves to "gadgets": simply by not bringing anything that could be a liability. Random and targeted checks have always existed at borders. They would go through your stuff and move on to the next targ
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
https://github.com/scrod/nv/tags works, here.
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
Yes, at least as of Sonoma 14.6.1. The same binary has been following me from machine to machine and system upgrade to system upgrade since the last release, 14 years ago.
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
It is not. Just some rando surfing on the current anti-US wave. The OS itself doesn't even exist at this point.
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
Another great YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Will_Zhao
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
I came back with lots of vinyls from my first trip to Japan, back in 2001. At the time, I observed a mildly interesting phenomenon: items that would have fetched high prices in Europe were comparatively cheap in Japan and, of course, the ot
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
Ukraine is a sandbox that everyone is watching with a lot of interest, and the longer it goes, the more interesting it will get (see Syria, Gaza, Yemen, etc.).
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
Because they don't share _your_ values.
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
Morality is not absolute.
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
s/had/have
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by johncoltrane 2y ago
We are all heading straight into the wall. We'd rather take our time, thanks.

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