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by justin66 2y ago
The parent comment was created by dog people attempting to move the Overton window.
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by justin66 2y ago
> Maybe you've been unlucky but LINQ didn't really seem all that interesting to me using it. Getting good use out of a tool you do not find interesting would mean a person was… unlucky?
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by justin66 2y ago
3M make some colorful Aura masks, for Brazil. I wish they were more universally available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSs4KMEuWkk
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by justin66 2y ago
> It's also an open source project that could have _easily_ incorporated compatibility code for this specific use case anyways. As I pointed out in a separate comment: Richard Hipp committed to creating and maintaining a flag in SQ
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by justin66 2y ago
> Windows is still bad at this, too, incredibly. I couldn't agree more. And yet, Linux manages to be worse, since the "at least I can just hibernate" backup plan doesn't even work properly.
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by justin66 2y ago
Versioning was never really an issue. It's worth pointing out that Richard Hipp committed to creating and maintaining a flag in SQLite that would force SQLite to use whatever subset of SQL the WebSQL people settled on for their API. Th
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by justin66 2y ago
Power management.
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Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge v4.0 (Swebok) – Final [pdf](ieeecs-media.computer.org)
4 points by justin66 2y ago|0 comments
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by justin66 2y ago
> "a small luxury mid-range sedan doesn't work for police". Like, of course it doesn't? "Mid-range sedan" is literally the description of pretty much everything every urban or suburban police department boug
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by justin66 2y ago
> I am not sure why the Free Tibet movement died out in America and Europe The US could have conditioned most favored nation trade status for China on improving its behavior in Tibet, could have kept them out of the WTO, etc. That would
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by justin66 2y ago
Nice. I think that's the most energized I've seen Richard Hipp on a topic.
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by justin66 2y ago
Super heavy probably makes certain aspects (unrelated to the tower catching the booster) of landing much easier, by virtue of its greater mass. Timing with the Falcon 9 was always essential, because the minimum thrust (with one motor, throt
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by justin66 2y ago
The point of my comment was that it would really hurt, coming to these seemingly obvious conclusions after your friends or coworkers had already bailed. I just assume the severance offer is no longer in effect.
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by justin66 2y ago
The atmosphere does its bit to slow down the booster as well. It’d be interesting to see a plot of the power output over time on reentry but I’ve always assumed the motors aren’t doing a lot of work other than keeping the booster stable, un
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by justin66 2y ago
Imagine being an Automattic employee who turned down the severance offer, realizing only now that you're on the train to crazytown.
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by justin66 2y ago
If the author knew a little more about India he might have questioned whether Vinay’s political discussions in India are easy and open when Vinay converses with Sikhs and Muslims, or to what extent Vijay can do that at all.
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by justin66 2y ago
> Thousands of people actually pay to go and listen to this self-aggrandising nonsense. It's very odd. I’m pretty sure they’re free. They are nevertheless odd.
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by justin66 2y ago
It’s completely different. Jwz’s is funny.
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Samsung quits updating Galaxy Z Fold 2 that came out in 2020 for $2k(arstechnica.com)
4 points by justin66 2y ago|2 comments
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by justin66 2y ago
The FCC is quoted in the article as indicating Starlink would require rural customers to purchase a $600 dish to start service. That's fine, but what the heck do they need $900M for if they're not subsidizing that equipment cost?
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by justin66 2y ago
> "The best book I've ever read was Atlas Shrugged in 8th grade. Changed my life." The obvious followup question is how did it change your life? Under this gambit of yours I wonder how you'd respond? I'm not in
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by justin66 2y ago
Like so many things that become objects of policy argument in the United States, the term describing it became overloaded to the point where it was rendered less useful. You don't hear the term so much now. The term reached peak use ar
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by justin66 2y ago
> normalize African-American (for the lack of a better name) grammar and spelling The name is “Ebonics.” It’s had its own name since the seventies, although the push to “normalize” it peaked in the nineties. > Wonder if this includes
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by justin66 2y ago
Heh. As somebody who had his car towed a couple of times because of street sweeping, I might have appreciated such a warning. What a racket.
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by justin66 2y ago
I'm reacting to a Stack Overflow comment that begins "We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day." I don't know what you're doing.
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by justin66 2y ago
> please get the perspective.. There are certainly different points of view here. I'd immediately take the easter egg out because I just assume if I hear about a bug once, I'm going to hear about it again. The selfish reason to
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by justin66 2y ago
Right. In which case it would no longer be a similar storm.
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by justin66 2y ago
> Helene's effects makes me wonder how a similar storm will act in 10, 25, and 50 years time. ...similarly?
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by justin66 2y ago
This joke only three people are ever going to see is fucking up somebody's automated tests but I'm going to leave it in anyway seems like it would have been a poor approach to take.
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by justin66 2y ago
"Generously," perhaps, but "selflessly" is a poor way to characterize any of his behavior.

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