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by l0b0 6y ago
There will probably be something like hundreds of flights in unpopulated areas, then overseas freight, then inland freight, then passengers.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Yeah, the only thing it proves is that when a scientist says "assume X" to another scientist the common understanding is that it means "in a situation where it is given that X is true, no matter how ridiculous that might be i
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by l0b0 6y ago
What is the difference between a bug report and a feature request? Is it simply that a bug report is something the system should already be doing, either because it's an advertised feature or it's something which is universally ex
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by l0b0 6y ago
That looks like a great creative app. I wonder how much work it would be to build realistic-looking replicas of modern cities using this - I guess it would need almost as many styles as there are buildings.
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by l0b0 6y ago
If the customer went all in on the broken first solution that would be the sunk cost fallacy, but that's not what GP said. Maybe it's not the broken window fallacy, but GP saying that terrible customer service from big consultanci
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by l0b0 6y ago
First we'd need a FOSS window/desktop manager replicating the Windows experience. It would gobble down the market share of existing FOSS WMs/DMs in an instant. Basically any decent Windows experience — 2000, XP, 7 or 10 —
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by l0b0 6y ago
Isn't that a broken window fallacy? Once the time and money has been wasted what are the actual odds the customer will just turn around and go "Let's try the same thing with someone else. It's bound to work someday!&quot
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by l0b0 6y ago
I'm sure Dijkstra could get away with saying that, but how would you phrase something equivalent to someone above you in the food chain without getting nuked from orbit in response? I can just see how the conversation would go: PHB: Yo
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by l0b0 6y ago
So far I've worked in one place which didn't use version control in 2007, one place which had reluctantly started using version control just before I started in 2010, several places where automated tests were considered pure waste
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by l0b0 6y ago
Looks like someone broke the URL and description. Is this being buried?
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by l0b0 6y ago
How could you distinguish between pointless or even damaging customs and advantageous ones? Spending vast resources looking for basically anything at all which gives the in-group a statistical advantage is not going to be cost-effective – r
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by l0b0 6y ago
That's a straw man. The vast majority of readers are going to make up their mind based on the visualization, not the raw data.
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by l0b0 6y ago
The godawful presentation doesn't bode well for the accuracy. I'm well aware that's a fallacy, but this is just so atrocious it's either deliberate sabotage or someone is trying too bloody hard to get some message throug
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by l0b0 6y ago
Member since 2012 (ah wut, I still have the activation email!), after migrating (easily) from a dying Delicious. Thank you so much for running this! As far as actually useful web services go (and holy crap is this useful!) it's by far
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by l0b0 6y ago
Getting rid of the litmus test and embracing the idea that the first thing you cut your teeth on might be alien to good developers are both amazing ideas. Working on a toy problem is a terrible way to figure out whether a person will actual
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by l0b0 6y ago
Nicely put! Most best practice articles end up reading like dogma because they only ever show clear-cut cases where the best practice applies. Augmenting the plain good/bad examples with good/bad depending on the situation examp
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by l0b0 6y ago
Yeah, designers would hack around the limitations until the hacks become official (against the original protocol inventors' intent, if necessary), because every company wants to control the experience of their content to an unreasonabl
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by l0b0 6y ago
Heads up for anyone using HTTPS Everywhere on openculture.com: you'll just get a "Forbidden" page.
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by l0b0 6y ago
Some of the FOSS greats really seem to be built to last. I totally expect to still be using Linux, Firefox, Postgres, VLC, and heaps more decades from now. So why are there so many day-to-day tasks which are still just painful using the mos
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by l0b0 6y ago
There's a very simple rule of thumb: must the user give some feedback before it makes any sense to use the rest of the site? If so, it's fine to use a modal. Otherwise, don't. Some examples: Payment page: not a modal. The use
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by l0b0 6y ago
Yes, it's cursed Nvidia. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that out! Edit: Yeah, not exactly idiot-proof. Without a simple list of commands it'll probably take a couple hours just to establish beyond a doubt that my hardware even
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by l0b0 6y ago
Is there an idiot-proof way to set up a Windows 10 VM with good performance these days? I play computer games. Because maybe 30% or so of the games I play work badly or terribly in Linux (anything from screen tear to crashing on startup)
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by l0b0 6y ago
Is there a Have I Been Pwned-like service for such reports? Scanning their own network for such services would be beyond most users.
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by l0b0 6y ago
As part of dealing with this I wrote a simple Firefox add-on to highlight insecure links ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/insecure-link... ). Basically it gives you a big red border around any H
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by l0b0 6y ago
Aside from the gamble that any fundamental research represents, consider the immense amount of training CERN generates every year, with several thousand physicists and engineers continuously involved. That sort of a mix generates more learn
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by l0b0 6y ago
In easy steps (Python/Git specific): 1. Use a tracked directory for Git hooks: `git config --local core.hooksPath 'git-hooks'`. 2. Create format.bash and lint.bash. 2.1. Run `black` and `isort` in format.bash. 2.2. Run `flake
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by l0b0 6y ago
Fair point. On the other hand, do these ever go beyond the basic checklists which provide the absolute minimum to certify the software? I doubt it.
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by l0b0 6y ago
95% less slogans and soundbites might've made this an interesting read.
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by l0b0 6y ago
When does it not? Seriously, has anyone here worked somewhere security actually was front and center but people were also able to build new things?
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by l0b0 6y ago
What, for when I report my friends to the police? Seriously though, the assumption that I would be one of my own contacts is weird.

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