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by menacingly 3y ago
Probably the same kind of oversight that just allowed me to compile hundreds of books in a catalog each as "book.pdf" It was on exactly the second download where I realized how restrictive my choice of namespace was
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by menacingly 3y ago
the anger _at_ religion has itself become a religion
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by menacingly 3y ago
It's shocking how many people in our line of work aren't comfortable admitting they don't know something, so you're already on your way to a better-than-average understanding if you keep reading
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by menacingly 3y ago
It's OK how other people spend their time
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by menacingly 3y ago
I am apparently in the minority in that I am able to contain two separate thoughts about Elon Musk “Elon is not some futuristic space god” and “Elon has achieved some cool stuff” are perfectly compatible concepts I’m not sure what it is abo
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by menacingly 3y ago
Similar feelings. I'm old(?) enough to have wrangled with NT4 in a professional setting, I remember the Halloween documents, the malicious treatment of Java, I even lead the charge on samba deployments. I don't even own any window
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by menacingly 3y ago
What's so pitiful is they aren't asking because they want a vibrant, diverse browsing ecosystem. They're asking because they're on the outside looking in to a platform-defining position of market dominance. This roughly
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by menacingly 3y ago
My natural reaction to the various Edge tactics is embarrassment that I've been something of an evangelist for MS seemingly making some smart moves
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by menacingly 3y ago
It's like when you're cornered and asked for specific reasons you want out of a bad relationship. It's so they can tell you why your reasons aren't correct. "You are failing to comply with my repeated insistence tha
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by menacingly 3y ago
Generally a big fan of jetbrains, but can't shake that the name sounds like the crime of murdering a writer
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by menacingly 3y ago
I dig the consistency of your "bizarrely hostile pro-google" vibe
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by menacingly 3y ago
I love the profoundly flawed "you should have searched" logic. Nearly everyone who got there did so because a google search failed. The first step in this process _is_ a search. You're being whined at for not knowing the very
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by menacingly 3y ago
I'm trying to think of a worse outcome for a QA site than the anxiety a lot of people need to overcome to post to SO. I'd like numbers on what % of questions are scolded for having been asked
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by menacingly 3y ago
Same frustration. I just ended up writing a set of shorthand macros in my compose.yml labels, then have a little script that blows them up into whatever their associated long-winded traefik labels are in the compose.override.yml. Most of th
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by menacingly 3y ago
I've been thinking a lot lately about how much of tech, and life more broadly, is ruined by the pursuit of scale. Taking on problems you don't (and will never) have because some vanishingly small minority has experienced them is n
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by menacingly 3y ago
This is not in any way the case
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by menacingly 3y ago
The efforts to "go legit" from Plex are entertaining. They're cutting out the piracy like they're going to find something else under there. "these pirates, who constitute a percentage of our business that rounds to
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by menacingly 3y ago
This is a subset of a related problem: the word "scale", in nearly every context, is a euphemism for "make stuff shitty by making the problems of 10% of users problems for 100% of users" It applies to everything. God-awf
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by menacingly 3y ago
SO isn't a canonical source, they're another content farm using nofollow links to the content they appropriate to maintain their search edge. Its entire purpose is to inject itself as a search middleman. Even worse, I find myself
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by menacingly 3y ago
jetbrains products. I think they've improved their situation, but it's still a little quirky
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by menacingly 3y ago
rclone kind of drives me nuts not using standard ssh_config
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by menacingly 3y ago
the majority of the overhead of civilization for the last few thousand years or so is scalable mechanisms to arrive at shared definitions for words like "evil", "wrong", "abuse" it's a really hard problem,
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by menacingly 3y ago
Strongly agree. A great example of this hyperengineering is React Router. What should be boring utility code wants to be the opinionated lead singer of your app and introduce breaking changes every few years while the rest of the web has be
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by menacingly 3y ago
I also love smugly insulting people who are having a hard time with a poorly-considered take
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by menacingly 3y ago
yeah, very "weekend edition"
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by menacingly 3y ago
I think the increasingly-impossible long slog is actually a mathematical certainty. It’s actually a mistake of the goal, in nearly every field, because it’s intrinsically contradictory. “I want to be at the top, but I don’t want to make the
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by menacingly 3y ago
My preference would be using this tendency the other way. Make it so good they can't resist it, even if they accidentally eat their vegetables along the way.
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by menacingly 3y ago
This is really nice, but I think the perennial curse of technology people is producing "<app>, but with <esoteric principle>" People want a thing, not an ideal, and they'll sell their soul to get the thing. At thi
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by menacingly 3y ago
We're on the same page with the best approach, I just don't consider corrupting an unpredictable subset of my database much of an improvement. It's not closer to correct, it's just still incorrect.
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by menacingly 3y ago
In most of my scenarios, I'd actually rather cause a catastrophic global change than a silent subtle corruption of a handful of rows

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