mdoms

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by mdoms 5y ago
A lot of modern software makes me feel stressed, confused and aggravated. When I open Youtube Music I never know what I'm going to get - sometimes Your Favourites is at the top, sometimes Mixed for You, sometimes something else. When I
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by mdoms 5y ago
Why would I do that?
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by mdoms 5y ago
Every time I use Firefox I find some other stupid issue that just doesn't fly in 2021. Today it might be a top 50 website that doesn't work properly, yesterday maybe it's excessive cpu usage, day before maybe pinch to zoom do
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by mdoms 5y ago
I feel like your first and second paragraphs are directly at odds. It's not about "solving puzzles" and you decry cleverness and complexity, but you also think we should persist for joyous "a-ha" moments and brain-b
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by mdoms 5y ago
F# and Ocaml are good examples from my limited functional experience. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2177110/in-f-what-does-p...
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by mdoms 5y ago
If you're not interested in good faith engagement then I'd suggest not posting in the comments section. It's what we're here for.
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by mdoms 5y ago
No one is on Mastodon or Matrix.
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by mdoms 5y ago
I use Jekyll for a static site and I guess I just don't really understand why it needs further development. I haven't upgraded my version of Jekyll since I think 2017 because it does what it says on the tin. Sometimes it's ok
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by mdoms 5y ago
Your premise is that people are not suggestible? I think the past decade of social media has conclusively origen that wrong.
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by mdoms 5y ago
> The thing is no customer wants to use any company's half-assed bug-riddled purchase or subscription system. I have been paying for things online for decades now and never once have I used Apple's payment system. I assure you,
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Epic tests Apple with new request: let us relaunch Fortnite in Korea(theverge.com)
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by mdoms 5y ago
If he refused to remove his surveillance equipment, yes. Absolutely.
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by mdoms 5y ago
As you say we've been doing this for centuries. Why do we need NFTs? What specific problem(s) do they solve?
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by mdoms 5y ago
None of them have intrinsic value. The word "intrinsic" has meaning, and this ain't it.
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by mdoms 5y ago
If some Silicon Valley turd came anywhere near me wearing these things he would be asked - very politely, but only once - to take them off.
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by mdoms 5y ago
We have lost several staff - mostly younger ones - by going remote first. Although we kept our office locations, they have downsized dramatically and few people use them. They usually feel very empty. However trying to unbake that loaf woul
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by mdoms 5y ago
Netflix is churning out garbage I will never watch. I see no value in an increasingly large garbage pile.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Why the hand-wringing over show budgets? One of the greatest shows I have ever watched, People Just Do Nothing - a BBC production - must have had a budget one one thousandth of a Marvel show but I would re-watch it a hundred times before I
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by mdoms 5y ago
There are none.
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by mdoms 5y ago
When it comes to authoritarianism Australians are either extremely apathetic or they are generally in favour of more government intervention in private life. Try having a calm and balanced discussion with an Australian about bicycle helmet
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by mdoms 5y ago
I lived in Australia for 5 years and my sense is that, as harsh as it sounds, Australia needs to go through an extreme hardship to wake up as a nation. Australia has lived true to its moniker as the Lucky Country - at least two full generat
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by mdoms 5y ago
Difficult to understand how to extract artist information reliably. This is a flat data set so to do a proper ETL into a relational database you'll need to normalize as you go. But each piece of information about the artists is stored
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by mdoms 5y ago
This is about the least clever way you could possibly imagine to use the time of day in a trailer.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Is this an interesting or actionable insight? Or just arguing semantics for the sake of it?
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by mdoms 5y ago
Or a couple of servers running IIS with a handful of web apps, maybe a reverse proxy.
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by mdoms 5y ago
I loaded the front page of Mangadex and it made 114 web requests including 10 first-party XHR requests, 30(!!!!) Javascript resource requests and somehow 4 font requests, without me interacting with the page. Clicking one of the titles on t
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by mdoms 5y ago
What the hell are you talking about? China is currently undergoing an active genocide.
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by mdoms 5y ago
Let's say there can be - is China one?
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by mdoms 5y ago
Atlassian doesn't have a sales department (or at least this was the case for well over a decade, perhaps it could have changed now).
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by mdoms 5y ago
Podman, the open source alternative to the open source parts of Docker. To be clear.

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