mikrl

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by mikrl 3y ago
The title is ominous but we have had speed cameras for years and I can guarantee that if I do 15 over the limit I’ll still get passed by someone doing 25 more.
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by mikrl 3y ago
I don’t mind paying. In Toronto I’ll pay $20 no problem to park right in the middle of the core in a garage. But I have options to use cash or card at a meter or machine without getting my phone out. I can pay for an hour or 2 or all day. I
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by mikrl 3y ago
You’re splitting hairs, which I can also do: There’s a giant parking lot with 10,000 spaces and 2 are free. There is ‘no parking’ unless you want to drive around for 2 hours. For enough money you could probably get a permit from the cops an
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by mikrl 3y ago
That’s what I thought! But all of the five or so garages we tried cost $20-40 flat with no ticket machines or anything, and I wasn’t willing to download/fight with an app to walk around for an hour. Next trip will be more planned for s
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by mikrl 3y ago
Are the buses any good if the weather turns? I rode a Dutch bus once or twice and it was jam packed. Some old lady even kept trying to insinuate that younger ladies on the bus grab onto me for support! The Amsterdam metro was very comfortab
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by mikrl 3y ago
I visited metro Detroit for the first time on Saturday and the parking situation was abysmal but this is perhaps understandable in a large city. I thought my small city in Canada was bad! We couldn’t even park downtown since it appears you
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by mikrl 3y ago
I did a presentation on this for a discrete math course in undergrad. IIRC I did the N box case and took the limit to infinity and, unsurprisingly, got the result that you should always switch.
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by mikrl 3y ago
I will defer to my employment contract and stated hours of work. You do honour contracts… right? More people than you think don’t, especially if the other party is less powerful and the jackal thinks they can get away with it.
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by mikrl 3y ago
That sounds exactly like something an adversarial participant in the SWE market would say to make me burn out and drop out. Keep that forked tongue in your mouth!
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by mikrl 3y ago
You: >a good candidate doesn’t care about that LGBT stuff Me: >a good candidate cares about that LGBT stuff Call it a different worldview or whatever, but I don’t mind making my profile/timeline suboptimal for anti-LGBT people. O
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by mikrl 3y ago
>Donald Trump UGK - pocket full of stones (1992) >Ivana Trump Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci (2011)
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by mikrl 3y ago
I find it interesting to listen to pop music from the early days of the web and listen to the references which were new then, but still make sense now Mousse T vs Hot n Juicy - Horny ‘98 (sent a message through the internet, but it rejected
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by mikrl 3y ago
I wouldn’t read that much into it. Pravda is both the Russian word for ‘truth’ (правда) and was/is a publication advancing the interests of the USSR/Russian state establishment. The ‘economist’ implies a similar ‘truthfulness’ (it
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by mikrl 3y ago
…and the same trolls pulling tidbits to laugh at off site
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by mikrl 3y ago
I don’t believe in karma or in the words of Johnny Cash “god almighty is gonna cut em down” but the world does work in funny ways. Such behaviour is not sustainable and even if your network of nasties shields you from consequences, you’re m
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by mikrl 3y ago
I try to live virtuously in a way Russian oligarchs might laugh at. No yacht, but no enemies either. Never have to worry about novichok or a drone hitting me. It’s not bad at all.
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by mikrl 3y ago
The C code so impressive they had to remove it from K&R: if (*some_bullshit >= shit_tolerance){ fucks_given = 0; exit(IM_DONE); }
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by mikrl 3y ago
XOR/XAND life: perfectly balanced, with a harmonious parity.
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by mikrl 3y ago
I took a walk last night to look at the sunset, and felt a strong feeling of both awe and melancholy as I did so. Is it really so rare to be awed by natural beauty, or just humbled by where one is in life relative to oneself in the past, an
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by mikrl 3y ago
There are some geometry and rate problems such as multiplexing resources on a belt.
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by mikrl 3y ago
My LinkedIn feed included a few quantum computing leaders seething about him recently and it seems that no one who works in the industry/academia (building stuff) takes him seriously.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Weathervanes point in the direction of the prevailing wind. You could call them trendies, or in cybercultural terms: NPC, I SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING, etc
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by mikrl 3y ago
Since we love categorizing, here is a quick taxonomy for what you are describing: Dogmatists: unthinking, inflexible Weathervanes: unthinking, flexible Skeptics: thinking, inflexible Pragmatists: thinking, flexible The names are adhoc and s
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by mikrl 3y ago
It would take a true maestro to make a damn good martini but even the basic AF store bought pina colada mix tastes good. Getting into tiki cocktails, I’ve never had a bad one because it is literally impossible to mess up fruit juices and la
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by mikrl 3y ago
It’s not that middle managers act like warriors. It’s that there are a small amount of men in the modern world who need a warrior ethos and the ‘tempering fires of warfare’ and other such cringe imagery employed by those pushing hypermascul
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by mikrl 3y ago
Evolutionary pressure. Society is one abstraction, reproduction is another, and they don’t always mesh nicely. Maybe the perfect society for reproduction is one of polyamorous warlord harems or something (this is a hypothetical) Men optimiz
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by mikrl 3y ago
>I for one am tired of the therapy meme Not like I’ll ever access it (too masc, heh) but I definitely see therapy as a much more positive way to address your emotions than self destructive or violent behaviour. Sports and stuff helps too
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by mikrl 3y ago
I won’t dismiss the part about evolutionary pressure favouring those hypermasculine traits, but toxic masculinity is more about critiquing aspects of masculinity that are improper or inappropriate in a societal setting. I saw a meme that su
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by mikrl 3y ago
I was so intimidated by the WCAG guidelines, but after a while I realized that A encodes “don’t make your app a steaming pile” and AA encodes “don’t make your app a steaming pile, plus 4-5 extra accessibility related tweaks”
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by mikrl 3y ago
Not necessarily, but always have a divestment plan laid out if you’re worried.

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