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by majewsky 5y ago
The trope you are looking for is called "Seinfeld is Unfunny": https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
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This is about Edge with its own engine, not Edgium.
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You're making it sound as though a 24-hour format is a wild new idea when it's actually in common use across 100+ countries. Timestamps go from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 without breaks in continuity. The clock still has 12 hours with t
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm propagating the ISO date format with Guerilla tactics. Whenever I come across meeting minutes or documentation pages using a different date format, I silently reformat into ISO date format and then it just catches on. The "nor
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by majewsky 5y ago
Looking at the /r/selfhosted crowd comes with some serious survivorship bias though. It's not considering the (potentially large) group of people who would like to self-host, but don't even make it to /r/selfho
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by majewsky 5y ago
I think "shame" is a needlessly inciteful description. The main issue is that, in a company with multiple employees, your behavior is not happening in isolation. When one person is working 80 hours a week, it is very common for m
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by majewsky 5y ago
You seem to imply that "contributing to open source projects" must mean coding, but there's lots of tasks that you can do that are not coding. * Answering a question about PostgreSQL configuration files on Stack Overflow cont
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by majewsky 5y ago
I had an instance of this where I built up a rather contrived data structure over time and ended up putting what is basically a blog post into the repo to explain the history of that data structure: https://github.com/majews
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I see you have not had RSI yet.
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Computer Modern fonts are very much designed for printing. On a screen, the really narrow parts of each letter are usually close to unbearable.
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You can type-cast from interface{} into any other interface, so something like this might work: https://go.dev/play/p/bhrXr8-V7Gc
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I also predict it will be practically useless since those five libraries that you absolutely depend on will all be rewritten to take advantage of generics, and then you're left with the lose-lose situation of "maintain a fork of t
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by majewsky 5y ago
My first job out of college was maintaining and refactoring a 10+ year old Perl CGI application. After a bit of adjusting, I found it quite rewarding to refactor overgrown messes into nice and readable OOP patterns, and more significantly,
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm guessing GP was thinking of non-US residents when making their claim (although I'm very skeptical of the implication that non-US-based citydwellers make up the majority of HN).
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Yes, but it defaults to on, which is rather annoying when you auto-wipe cookies frequently to hinder tracking.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I think you mean `document.querySelectorAll`. `document.querySelector` is aliased to $, at least in my Firefox. Also, as a caveat, this only works when `window.$` and `window.$$` have not been defined by the site's JS code.
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by majewsky 5y ago
You're falling into the very common trap of assuming that "energy" is some kind of substance (like movies/series tend to depict it as for practical reasons), when really it is a mathematical property of a physical object
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When you say: > it's as solved as it can really be as far as human understanding is concerned You handwave away several interesting parts of the problem without providing real justification for why that would be necessary or accepta
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by majewsky 5y ago
> There's nothing more inclusive than a piece of paper that you can hold How is a 100-dollar bill going to help you purchase goods on the internet? This is particularly significant for low-income rural communities where, if all you
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When all Kia cars have, say, a defective headlight, it's news. When your mom's Kia's headlights go out, it's not news.
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by majewsky 5y ago
You can say the same thing without insulting every involved person.
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Nintendo's hardware division is undoubtedly having a positive impact on the industry at large. I would argue that the Steam Deck would not exist without the Switch. There have been other mobile consoles in the same form factor (most ob
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As far as art projects go, this could be pretty interesting. How do you handle moderation?
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Why is that in China's interest though? As a casual observer, all I can see right now is Russia messing up China's Belt and Road strategy, in which Ukraine is one of several transit countries towards Europe.
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Several of my personal friends are wondering if Putin has a cancer diagnosis or such that the world does not know about, and now he's scrambling to secure his legacy. I'm trying to imagine if he would be the person to go "the
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By the way, are there any projects underway to produce a library of the most common basic template functions? I'm very much looking forward to unifying some of my most copy-pasted functions when 1.18 is out, but I would like to unify o
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by majewsky 5y ago
At work, I've been running Postgres instances in Kubernetes for years now. The setup makes a lot of sense for me within my work context. In the context of your one-man-show side projects, for the love of god , don't use Kubernete
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I was speaking specifically of the Russian people.
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> if you don't also adjust your clothing That's the thing though. If you live in an area where heating is required in the winter, you definitely have the necessary clothing to get through a period of 18 °C in your home.
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> I just said there's a basis for it, not that it's true. You should have said all of that right away, because now it just sounds like backpedaling.

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