latortuga

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by latortuga 3y ago
My 7th grade science teacher (hi Mrs. Ericson!) had us make tetratetraflexagons in 1998 and I thought, literally until today, that she had made up that word. She also has us make science-themed dodecahedrons so I guess I should have been cl
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by latortuga 3y ago
Did we read the same article? That's literally the authors point. Arguing that it is defensible because it is legal is wrong.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Arguably the Steam Deck is a video game console with that open model. It gets fuzzy though because an open video game console looks like a general purpose computer.
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by latortuga 3y ago
In theory this is a funny idea but I think it would be a huge waste of time. Ruby syntax has changed and added so much since since 1.8 that you'd be stuck fixing thousands of syntax errors.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Are cans or canned food any better? It's all lined with plastic.
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by latortuga 3y ago
I don't disagree with you but I think the right response to this kind of reflection is to set the same limits for yourself, not to let the kids have "far, far more time." I struggle with this myself.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Mentioned in the same sentence as Idiocracy and Office Space, GP is referring to the show.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Questionable take. The best road "citizens" are trams, trains, and subways. They all obey traffic laws and are reliable. Self-driving cars don't exist in any meaningful way. The most realistic route to walkable neighborhoods
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by latortuga 3y ago
Certainly a family garden is a better use of land, time, and resources than a lawn.
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by latortuga 3y ago
I don't think the location of servers is relevant to GDPR. It's about storing and processing data of citizens of any EU member country.
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by latortuga 3y ago
For the love of god, why does there need to be yet another lane? It will emphatically not solve the problem. Driving teslas through a tunnel is not flexible, it's a recipe for induced demand and gridlock. Build a subway! High volumes o
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by latortuga 3y ago
Interesting that your tagline is "spend less time writing, more time reviewing code" in the video. Developers already don't like reading the code, we even have a ubiquitous acronym for it. Writing is the fun part. In my exper
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by latortuga 3y ago
First thought, it may be against the law to record someone without their consent, even if you scrub it later.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Counterpoint. A few weeks ago I called support because one of my pixel bud pro buds was buzzing constantly, even after factory reset. The rep asked me to do a few basic things and then offered me a full replacement without any hassle, on th
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by latortuga 3y ago
I don't think this is inconsistent at all. Bots don't look at or click on ads. Bots don't engage or create community. Bots don't buy awards. Bot querying is a drop in the ocean compared to real people.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Same. Regardless of how they've bumpy the pay increase and related comms have been, it's their platform. Nobody uses third party apps to access Pinterest, tiktok, Facebook, ig, or any other major internet property and I don't
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by latortuga 3y ago
I don't get it. I scrolled through your marketing site and I just don't get what I'd use this for. It seems to be targeted at developers because there's literally code above the fold on page load but there's no expl
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by latortuga 3y ago
My god the comments are roasting this guy, lighten up people. Like nobody has ever shipped a bug to production before? Thanks for sharing the retro OP.
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by latortuga 3y ago
I'll bite, which law enshrines "corporations must deliver maximum return on investment" or whatever roughly equivalent idea?
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by latortuga 3y ago
Not an expert at all but I would expect there to be shared fossil record on coasts that used to be joined up until they are no longer joined. So probably based on that data we can make good estimates of time periods and joined up coastlines
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by latortuga 3y ago
I get what you're saying but you have to follow that logically to the end. 10x or more of what? What does 50 bytes cost over the wire and what is 10x that? Is this really the thing we are worrying about? Is the best argument that HATEO
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by latortuga 3y ago
Is it though? You'd easily save that 1500 by buying a smaller car.
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by latortuga 3y ago
This comment took me straight back to Discrete Math in college, learning about inductive reasoning.
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by latortuga 3y ago
Raising my hand as another dev that hacked on a desktop app using XULRunner back in 2008-2010. Docs were kinda bad but we made it work. The startup was acquired so I guess it worked well enough!
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by latortuga 3y ago
It's gotta be sleep, right?
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by latortuga 4y ago
This PG essay was the first thing this post made me think of. That closing line has stuck with me.
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by latortuga 4y ago
Interview a bunch of single men who are sad that they can't find women who like them. It's not the woman's fault they're unlikeable. It's not the woman's fault they aren't getting laid. Like seriously, thi
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by latortuga 4y ago
Disclaimer I have no crypto or finance expertise. "We're suspending withdrawals" reads to me as "we don't have money to cover withdrawals" which implies they don't have enough liquidity or are insolvent.
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by latortuga 4y ago
This happened to me but I filed a ticket and they were able to restore it. I guess maybe it was within the 30 day window?
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by latortuga 4y ago
I remember when this article came out originally because I was surprised to see a random charger I owned as the winner. I still have this HP touchpad charger and a decade later it still works great.

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