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by mercer 5y ago
Thanks
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by mercer 5y ago
I did not hit her, I did nooooot
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by mercer 5y ago
Ha, much appreciate adding psychonaughts to my lexicon
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by mercer 5y ago
Haha first proper laugh of the day
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by mercer 5y ago
So? It sucks, but it's preferable over a two-party system.
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by mercer 5y ago
My apologies for being a bit harsh. I know you're just doing your job.
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by mercer 5y ago
don't 'iterate' for 'appeal'. just have a passionate dev write shit and we'll eat it up!
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by mercer 5y ago
That explains a lot EDIT: to elaborate, I agree with other commenters that seem concerned with Gitlab's direction. It's hard to put my finger on what exactly bothers me, but to take a stab at it: Gitlab always seemed to pitch itse
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by mercer 5y ago
Much as I tend to be in favor of language evolving, I react almost viscerally to 'compute' as a noun. It is a major irk.
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by mercer 5y ago
> I regret titling the post with the words "good" and "bad". The title struck me as exactly what I would expect from you (based on various articles/comments and your podcast), and fwiw, I personally really apprec
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Just How Rigged Is the “Rigged Game”?(taibbi.substack.com)
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by mercer 5y ago
> The reason OO is a powerful organizational too is because it mirrors how many people naturally think about the real world. I've never found myself thinking that my pan fries an egg. I fry an egg and use the pan and the stove to
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by mercer 5y ago
Haha, I've found that to be good training to always read the docs first.
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by mercer 5y ago
But just the once, though, huh?
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I've more than once had one of the core developers of Elixir or Phoenix answer a question almost right after asking it in the Slack or IRC channel. I often felt a bit embarrassed to take up their time considering how 'basic'
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by mercer 5y ago
I remember both him and McAfee staring at me from software boxes back in the day, and both products being considered scammy even back then.
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by mercer 5y ago
The problem is that lots of scammers, gurus, faith healers, etc. tend to believe their own bullshit. While I do believe that acknowledging this is worthwhile, in practice it doesn't matter to those that were scammed, hoodwinked, brainw
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by mercer 5y ago
I'd say the 'salience' of this topic is not even primarily the idea of YC funding what is clearly a scam, but rather the particulars of WHY this one got funding. It's not that YC 'throws shit at the wall', but
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by mercer 5y ago
And yet here they are investing in something that is so obviously a scam that possibly even my grandmother would notice. It reminds me of the "but you fuck ONE goat" story: one misstep like this surely can and should have more imp
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by mercer 5y ago
I imagine either Freenode will still end up doing fine, or he'll just conclude that us nerds don't understand the concept of ownership and threw him under the bus after all his donations and hard work, and then he'll move on
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by mercer 5y ago
My impression is that rasengan (Andrew Lee) does really seem to care about IRC, and he does see himself as the 'good guy', but his thoughts on how to make it all work clash with the somewhat more anarchic volunteer-based way Freen
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by mercer 5y ago
While fail2ban might still be a good practice, I've found that simply using a non-standard SSH port is just as effective at keeping the logspam down.
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by mercer 5y ago
It's like checking out the freezer and realizing you bought ice cream a while back.
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by mercer 5y ago
I love how FFmpeg is way down on his homepage. Meanwhile, even non-programmers in my world know and use it.
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by mercer 5y ago
I imagine it's when a market closes and they often give away food or sell it for cheap. I used to do it all the time and it was amazing how much free food I'd get!
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by mercer 5y ago
for me it works okay-ish. I still have to occasionally grab my laptop to keep its fans from taking it airborne, it still crashes occasionally, requiring nuking .elixir_ls (and holding onto the laptop again), and while it hasn't happene
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by mercer 5y ago
what do you mean with 'says enough'?
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by mercer 5y ago
the first choice matters insofar that you can choose to stick with it, so while the coin toss in isolation is 50/50, for the game as a whole you need to consider the option of sticking with that initial 1 in 3 chance along side the 1 i
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by mercer 5y ago
The explanation that best helped me 'intuitively' understand things is to rephrase the game as being two separate games: choosing one of three doors, and after that having the option to go for a coin toss instead. Obviously you&#x
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by mercer 5y ago
My point was that 'work', doing things that are not leisure (although that distinction can be vague) is not limited to what we generally mean when we say 'job' (paid labor). The role of a mother comes to mind, or retiree

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