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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I've been a heavy user of Pocket, and I obviously think it's great. In the end it's not much more than a reading list, but what really makes it useful is its integration with the Kobo e-readers. I can happen upon an interesti
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
'Nerf' is a term used for when game developers update a game and reduce the effectiveness of something. 'My sword attack ability was nerfed in the latest patch'. In this context I suppose the API capabilities was reduced
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I'd argue that it's both. Not that the lobbyists need to do much more than slight nudging with a sprinkle of fear mongering. Regarding the comparison with other power production methods, you are most certainly right about fossil f
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Ever since Chernobyl nuclear power has been voter kryptonite. Trying to explain how all these fancy terms changes the equations won't do anything for those who recoil just by mentioning the term. Nuclear had its run and we blew it. Lit
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I agree completely with that added nuance. Cloud infra is definitely overused and is sometimes seen as the only option these days, even for the simplest of projects. Having your own metal is often times much more convenient and cheaper. Plu
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
That claim was a direct snippet from your original comment. So unless you meant that you laugh at people who are talking specifically about your personal server, I'd say you are being selectively literal.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
You think that's how statistics works? Obviously it's possible to keep your own server running with 0 downtime. But you are exposed to a much higher risk of severe downtimes longer than the cloud provider would likely be. Be it ha
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
In the Scandinavian countries "mongo" is used as both a slur and a general insult. However, since it manages the feat of being both ableist and racist at the same time, its popularity has waned quite a bit over the years.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
MongoDB is much less trash nowadays than it used to be. If by "serverless" you mean Atlas, you could do worse. Atlas is supposedly quite expensive though.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Just out of curiosity, is there any interop that you'd personally benefit from? I'm unfamiliar with schema.org's more ephemeral schemas and how commonly they are used.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Having an explicit delimiter allows for whitespace in either amount or unit. I suppose that's the reason. Can't seem to come up with an example for that on the fly though.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Isn't the idea to arrive at a salary that is fair to all parties? If you are good at negotiating, then perhaps you can be a voice for your workplace as a whole, instead of leaving the less gifted negotiators lacking. Even if you comple
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
As I'm interested in the subject, I immediately think about the possibility of point cloud tech in a game development context. As far as I know, the big hurdle has always been dynamism like animation/deformation. Does this approac
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
So when the LEGO™®© folk are arguing that "LEGO is always an adjective", they might mean that using it as an adjective noun is the correct thing to do, rather than claiming that "LEGO" by itself is an adjective? I suppos
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Is "SQL" in "SQL server" also a noun? Not trying to argue one way or the other, I honestly don't know (non-native english speaker).
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
> "proof X is possible" Isn't that exactly what the parent comment said?
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
It's not about simplification, it's just the way language works and evolves. Like how "track" originally referred to the literal engraved track on a phonograph record, yet you claim that that's obviously the correct
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I don't think they're referring to the nationality of the people involved, but rather the nationality of the institutions.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Words can expand from their original meanings, you know. Look at any music player or just everyday speech, you'll see "song" being used to refer to a discrete unit of music in the same way you could use "track" or &
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
That was the first comment from that user in this thread, just so you know.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I think the (sometimes justified) fear is that an older programmer may have stopped learning X years prior, and gotten stuck in old practices. It's probably really easy to fall into a groove and say "it worked back then, and it st
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
> By arbitrary I mean why are chemically addictive substances like tobacco and caffeine legal? If you are truly asking, then I'd say that it's because those substances were normalized and became a large part of culture before t
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
It's fairly common to inject ground up tablets afaik. It's not that strange when considering the very variable quality of other commonly injected drugs. I never heard of injecting something like tea though, but it's not super
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Sounds plausible. Didn't know about that Disney cartoon, but it seems like it's aged like a bottle of fine milk.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Very interesting piece of history right there. Just out of curiosity, what is your thought on the feather logo used by Apache? Is that something that needs to go as well?
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Okay. It's absolutely true that neither of us knows. But considering, as you say, that the affected minority probably won't ever step forward with a unified opinion, what is the appropriate course of action? Should we stay away fr
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Using a single relatively obscure native american word out of context seems like a very fringe case of cultural appropriation. It's not going to reinforce any preconceived notions and it doesn't seem to be riding on some prestige.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
To me, the naming seems fine. It's a nice sounding word, and as far as I'm aware it's not a slur. You could claim that the context is sketchy (having a Hiawatha serving you sounds bad) but I think that's pushing it. The
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
The thing you are describing is not the opposite of writer's block. It's something orthogonal to it, at least in my experience. I'm also quite capable of stringing together endless seemingly coherent texts about anything when
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Color me surprised then! I'm still not sure I'd call it viable in general. But I've moved from "convinced" to "uncertain". I'm at the tail of that S-curve for sure, so maybe I'm just get-off-my-l

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