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by kemayo 4y ago
> Never understood why people are so concerned about him cutting jobs? He bought the company and took it private. It’s his right to restructure it and try to make it generate profit as he’d wish. Absent a few questions about whether the
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by kemayo 4y ago
Oh, yeah, there's definitely a scale to it. A twitter customer service employee is paid much less than a software engineer... though even the latter isn't going to have been at "will never need more money in their life"
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by kemayo 4y ago
I think the general take is that the higher you are up the money/power hierarchy the more strictly you should be judged for your choices, because acting in a self-enriching way becomes less and less necessary . An almost incomprehensi
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by kemayo 4y ago
I just assumed some sort of not-living-in-the-same-area situation.
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by kemayo 4y ago
To quote the parent post, "He was too tired to go through the process of getting it sorted out". I don't know if you've ever been really sick (or just been around someone who's really sick or suffering from chroni
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by kemayo 4y ago
> Lately some weird new copy and paste bar appears, no idea how I’m triggering it. iOS 13 added a whole set of gestures that all key off of three-fingered interactions with the screen. Just tapping with three fingers shows that bar, whic
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by kemayo 4y ago
Totally agreed that the cost isn't really storage, but I wanted to point out that you're underestimating a fair bit on the size. Conveniently, there's a wikipedia article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by kemayo 4y ago
I was using the terminology of the parent comment. :D
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by kemayo 4y ago
Matter of taste, then, I think. Or of how you're thinking about the language, maybe? It's not really that they're "defining a new variable" -- absent metatables, all variables always exist, and there's not a di
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by kemayo 4y ago
You'd need to define "all the users". I read this article as talking to people who're (professional?) programmers, who're evaluating Lua as a programming language that they might want to use and are comparing it to
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by kemayo 4y ago
Can't speak to whether some of this is just things that've become more convenient since you used the language, but some of these aren't the case. Ternary: you can use logical operators for it (`[condition] and [if-true] or [i
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by kemayo 4y ago
Amusingly, in a sense, your complaint about global variables is because of what you like about how generally simple Lua is plus how powerful its tables can be. i.e. The global scope is a table, and variables are keys on that table, so of
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by kemayo 4y ago
Twitter tries to show the original author's thread-tweets uninterrupted. However, sometimes the thread gets broken -- generally in very long threads -- and it starts showing replies from other users rather than the next tweet in the th
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by kemayo 4y ago
There isn't a backspace in the calculator, but the swipe is still (basically) a shortcut for something which does have a button. Pressing the C button clears the current input entirely, after all.
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by kemayo 4y ago
If you're like me, you may mostly recognize kākāpō from a video that has gone viral a few times of one attempting to mate with a documentary cameraman's head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY
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by kemayo 4y ago
My favorite part of that example is that, of course, you'd need five quarters to get to the next unit.
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by kemayo 4y ago
This one is pretty close to how I was taught it, for what it's worth: https://www.barnesfarminfants.co.uk/_site/data/files/images/...
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by kemayo 4y ago
Bear in mind that there's distinct meanings to "cursive" -- the dictionary meaning that just refers to a writing style with the letters all connected, and a common American usage that refers to some very specific stylized let
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by kemayo 4y ago
WMF is a company that's mostly engaged in maintaining a tech product, and much of its hiring needs are for people who'd otherwise be working in tech. If it's not in the tech sector then there's not any meaning to that ca
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by kemayo 4y ago
I'd say it's still a tricky comparison because the WMF is (reductively) a tech company, and tech sector salaries remain pretty high. For a lot of roles they need to fill, they're competing with other tech companies for those
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by kemayo 4y ago
To spoil Ender's Game a bit: the bugs were initially hostile, in a very "we genuinely don't understand non-hive species" way such that they were intensely horrified when they realized that all the people they killed were
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by kemayo 4y ago
I think the implied intent of the player character counts for a lot when it comes to colonialist vibes. "Oops, I didn't mean to be here, and my main goal is to leave" is a step away from any sort of colonial undertaking. As f
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by kemayo 4y ago
I'd say that, particularly in modern genre terms, "Metroidvania" refers to a game involving gathering abilities that unlock new areas, with either mandatory or optional-for-bonuses backtracking to previously blocked paths. (T
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by kemayo 4y ago
It semi-works. It launches, loads, says something about wingspan and double jump, then immediately teleports you to a location where you're stuck. It's all very jumbled: https://imgur.com/a/1PNTW7E
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by kemayo 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the game does somewhat try to dodge that by having the player crash-land on the planet. Everything they do is, theoretically, in service of building a rocket to get off-planet again. ...now, do players go wildly beyon
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by kemayo 4y ago
> Even down to the fact this event had a codename pre-planned in advance. "London Bridge has fallen".. just, why? This isn't James Bond. Theoretically, it's to avoid jumping the gun. It's embarrassing if someon
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by kemayo 4y ago
I had already replied over there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32791731 But to sum up: Apple doesn't distinguish in its warning between apps that are configured to maybe send texts to a server for classificatio
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by kemayo 4y ago
It's a boilerplate warning that applies to the maximum possible amount of data-collection that could be happening. The app says it doesn't collect anything, and its source on GitHub supports that claim... but a SMS app theoretical
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by kemayo 4y ago
This feels like a case where it'd be good if Apple had two different messages, one for SMS filters which have a ILMessageFilterExtensionNetworkURL configured (which should get the scary message you saw) and one for those that don'
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by kemayo 4y ago
Sort of. So, first of all, it'd only ever be shown texts ( not iMessage messages) from people who aren't in your contacts. But that probably includes things like 2fa codes, so that's not necessarily comforting. The app regis

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