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by manicdee 6y ago
Cancel culture is right-wing code for “facing the consequences of my actions.” No longer is being fired for being a Nazi facing the consequences of one’s actions, it’s the result of a targeted harassment campaign aka “cancel culture.” Bully
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by manicdee 6y ago
Why would job interviews be “impossible” when employment is not easily terminated?
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by manicdee 6y ago
Maybe it’s why so much business left the US for China and India.
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by manicdee 6y ago
I just use Tweetbot. The “authentic” Twitter is a mess. Also very few accounts I follow are verified so I don’t know what this “cake” thing is all about.
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by manicdee 6y ago
And yet most Perl programmers I know do not work in mailing houses so they have never needed to use “...”. I have worked with brilliant people who still have trouble figuring out the ternary operator, and people who should know better who c
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by manicdee 6y ago
Master/Slave is quite explicitly racist given the context of European colonisation of the “western world” (mostly fuelled by slave labour, and most of that cohort was forcibly extracted from Africa and non-European origins). Blacklists
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by manicdee 6y ago
Whereas I have seen too-smart people creating bugs by cramming things into one line because the brevity required means you end up with hard-to-visually-parse clusters of brackets, braces, and whatever other punctuation your chosen language
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by manicdee 6y ago
That argument is pretty old and stale. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/24/taxpayer-funde... https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/racism-in-chess-whi...
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by manicdee 6y ago
Without consulting Stack Overflow, describe the “...” operator in Perl. As for other one-liners, when the one line is actually five instructions squished together inside a ternary operator, you’re probably better off expanding it to an if s
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by manicdee 6y ago
Spambots just post pages full of plagiarised content peppered with links, a hangover from SEO days when the belief was that a Google paid attention to word count of pages linking to your content.
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by manicdee 6y ago
The list of things stopping me going to ARM-based macs: - OCR software for my scanner (admittedly becoming less and less relevant over time) - Fortinet VPN client which is intel-only - Steam library (still on Mojave because half my games
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by manicdee 6y ago
The main problem with Jira is inexperienced admins deciding they have to use all the bells and whistles all the time. Replace your IT team before you replace Jira. My Jira experience is that I couldn’t live without it.
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by manicdee 6y ago
What are the references used in this study? Have any of them been retracted? How many are from the Henry Ford Hospital itself? https://retractionwatch.com/2020/04/06/hydroxychlorine-covid...
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by manicdee 6y ago
I use the “home” button to scroll all the way to the top (on Mac Fn+left-arrow), and Reader Mode to eliminate the superfluous UI.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Or collapse it to a hamburger menu in the wide margin where it isn’t going to obscure any text.
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by manicdee 6y ago
The problem is that the energy market itself is not orderly and organised like you would like it to be. People want to put the kettle on when they want a cup of tea, not when you think it is appropriate for them to put the kettle on.
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by manicdee 6y ago
This is one reason why we use adblockers (malware distribution aside).
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by manicdee 6y ago
Technical innards of the Autobidder system in case you care to know more https://youtu.be/ggdYts4muu0 It’s basically a market forecasting system which allows the operator to place bids on various energy markets such as supp
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by manicdee 6y ago
You’ll need to enlighten me as to how the article raises the issue of starving the beast when the only attempt at suggesting Whitehouse pressure being involved was a suggestion of why the CDC would continue trying to develop its own COVID-1
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by manicdee 6y ago
Clearly it was the CDC at fault here, not a few hand picked bureaucrats, not the chain of command, not a president with a penchant for firing people who challenge his authority. What a poorly concocted article. The least the author could do
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by manicdee 6y ago
How do you do due diligence though? I worked one job as PC support for a white box manufacturer. They were dabbling in telephony, even to the point of hiring engineers to build custom boxes to handle PSTN to VOIP conversion, leasing fibre f
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by manicdee 6y ago
I have the 53 stylus but it isn’t supported anymore that I know of, is Kleppmann still using it as a pointy stick or is there some way to get the old functionality back?
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by manicdee 6y ago
How about people stop pulling the ladder up behind them when they reach management levels of “success”? My career has been long stints of at least a decade. Every company has failed. One failed because the main source of income was providin
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by manicdee 6y ago
Indiana also tried legislating 3 as the value for Pi. The bill giving various values for Pi from 3 to 3.2 to 4 made it to the senate for ratification before it was quashed. So I propose a trade: any time Australians want to mock politicians
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by manicdee 6y ago
The human input is providing the moisture trap (the concrete lid on the ground preventing water vaporising into the air), so of course plants will thrive there once the level of lime leeching out is low enough to be tolerable. But in the en
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by manicdee 6y ago
The argument is that there is no innocent reason to be looking at the clipboard. Either the user is going to paste the thing in your app ormit’s not yours to fiddle with in the first place. I copy passwords from a password vault. I don’t wa
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by manicdee 6y ago
Clearly there needs to be a way for the parcel tracking app to tell the OS, “I am looking for plain text strings that match this pattern.” Which iOS and macOS already have, they are called data detectors. When the message arrives notifying
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by manicdee 6y ago
Also more engines is smoother than fewer engines!
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by manicdee 6y ago
Most Teslas will still have more than 80% capacity after a decade. Chances are the battery is available because the car was written off in an accident, rather than because the batteries are dead.
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by manicdee 6y ago
For me, not having Visual Studio, Jetbrains, etc has made life easier overall. I have to design code with low intellectual overhead, since I no longer have fancy tools detangling spaghetti for me. So I use BBEdit and Oh My ZSH for just abou

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