magnusmundus

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by magnusmundus 8mo ago
Another meaning the word "effable" acquired in the last couple decades is a spelled out form of "f-able", as in fuckable. OP must've been unaware of the word's prior existence.
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by magnusmundus 1y ago
Really? I’m surprised. The original is quoted relatively often on reddit (I suspect by people unaware of the origin — as I was until I read your comment). Consider it proof that HN has indeed not become reddit, I guess :)
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by magnusmundus 1y ago
Mobbing is probably older than resignation as a concept.
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by magnusmundus 2y ago
That's funny. I'm curious now, do you live in a microstate, or an island? Or was it a case of an overly eager delivery platform?
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by magnusmundus 2y ago
Literally every check-in form I've been through had some required checkboxes to declare that you've packed your luggage yourself, have complete awareness of what's in there, and claim responsibility for such items. There are
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by magnusmundus 2y ago
It was possible to do the same with some PC games! I have fond memories of listening to the soundtracks of Driver, and Knights and Merchants, on my little stereo.
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
If my experience reverse engineering PHP written in Dutch is anything to go by, it means the function and variable names, comments, database columns, logs... would all be in Dutch -- or potentially worse, in Dutch but using English words. W
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
I also had some fun thinking on a tiger moth jam, and how that may have batted a sonar.
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
Re: junior colleagues, do you not instead arrive at "why does the static analyzer complain", or worse, an avoidance of proper types that you then have to point out in review?
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
There are still other reasons to print stuff, and still preferably at home often enough. Hobbies (sheet music, game material), German bureaucracy, workflow preferences. However these companies made it completely impractical to own an inkjet
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
D&D is an example of a tabletop RPG, yes. > no one around me would want to sacrifice themselves It's not so much a sacrifice as it is simply a different game. Some people enjoy coming up with stories more than exploring other pe
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
> This works all the time and serves all possible cases. Unless you want the check to be always against the initial length of your iterable, rather than its modified state, you'd have to repeat the `n = len(iterable)` inside the loo
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
I think the reaction is at least partially based on the loss of precisely that certainty: there is a sense of comfort in that no matter how unacceptable someone’s actions or ideas are to us, they will die, regardless of who they are — eve
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
> Look to how the industry reacted yo GDPR. Anecdotal observation from big-ish corps in EU: everyone started trying to look very mindful about what data they ask for in the first place, what gets stored where, what is shared with whom. I
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
Twitter, Google and Instagram run on subscriptions to online infrastructure, not purchased digital goods. Microsoft apparently won't delete your account for inactivity if there are any purchases tied to the account: https://
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
Both sides of what?
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
I think you severely overestimate German speakership in Turkey.
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
That comparison comes with the form factor though -- it's a headset. It's not something you can wear and mostly forget about. It needs a purpose to make me want to wear it, otherwise it's just an iPad without the nice tactile
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
Ah, the evergreen "Berlin was so cool before everyone else arrived" drivel. Told in context of a party organized by a company capitalizing on said cool, based on a party where you arrive "slightly before midnight (...) with p
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by magnusmundus 3y ago
Misplaced incentives. Hardly anyone is recognized, let alone rewarded, for the good impact of something they did years ago (like implement customer friendly policies); yet, they’re immediately penalized for what looks bad on a spreadsheet (
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by magnusmundus 4y ago
> for the “fetch”-aware audience, the title reads, “Raft Is *Irrelevant* [...]” No, they're claiming that "fetch" is interchangeable with "irrelevant" according to the movie.
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
Really? I just put that exact line in a file I'm working on, and black didn't change anything. Maybe you mean in case it exceeds the line length limit, rather than that specific example. In any case, you can wrap those in parenthe
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
In the years after the disaster of 1999 [1], we used to do exactly that in Turkey in the 2000s, couple times a year. I'm not sure when/why they stopped. On a not-too-closely-related note, the last time I heard of one was in 2013,
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
This comment is very interesting to me, thank you for sharing. I can relate to a lot of what you said, and I feel the phrasing "normal imagination lacking detail" is perfect. And, (why I decided to respond ->) > For me the b
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
Do you really prefer digging through years of commit messages to find why a particular line exists? It's a very impractical place for those. And good luck finding the origin of that line if there was an extensive refactor in between. A
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
I mean, that's almost exactly how Slack's DND mode works. The thing is, it's too open to abuse by that one prick who stays on DND for months at a time, or (for less vitriol) maybe you just forget to turn it on/off, then
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
> chromebooks Huh, that's a name I haven't heard in a while. WSL, on the other hand...
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
I'm not sure about the "free" aspect, but I've seen it used to mean "attending classes without being enrolled in a course" in other places, that is, in the offline university context.
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
We're used to growth in orders of magnitude in the tech industry, but keep in mind that in the end, this is an automobile company, whose business has side benefits in battery tech. Automotive is a stagnating (and at times shrinking) in
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by magnusmundus 5y ago
I see where you're coming from, but consider the cost of the replacement process itself: it can be chaotic jumping from one set of crap organizational skills to another. Point being, it's not so much that the person is very valuab

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