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by moshmosh 5y ago
Yeah, they're hot-keys for various things in a lot of games. If you've spent much time playing PC FPS games of the old-school type where your dude can carry a whole arsenal at once, for example, then you've had to get very
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by moshmosh 5y ago
This poster gets it. I use macOS because there's about 1/10 the likelihood that I'll have to burn half a day fixing its fuck-ups as there is with Windows and Linux. And I did plenty of that for years before ever seriously
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I, too, dislike rolling updates for my workstation OS. I don't like using anything OS- or package-manager-provided on my dev workstation for per-project development dependencies, since usually it's much less painful (sooner or l
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Yeah, the educational commitment is definitely much higher. I just mean they don't expect you to have put hundreds of evenings, Saturdays, and Summer afternoons into wholly-self-motivated learning about the field by the time you'r
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Huh. I haven't used an ergo keyboard in many years, and never used one much, but just checked and sure enough, I type the 6 with my left hand, every time. It's either an innate it's-easier-for-some-reason thing, or else it&#x
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Can confirm that my kids often come home having learned some trick, craft, joke, or rhyme from the other kids, that I also learned from other kids in school. One supposes adults may have a role in keeping these alive, but the larger effec
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I think the idea is that making charges & arrests public keeps the system transparent, and makes it harder for the government to disappear people or otherwise do crazy despotic stuff. In practice I'm not convinced it was net-benefi
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Right, agreed on that not being the only factor, but I do think it's suspiciously-sufficient-looking to explain why CS was becoming a boys' club even as women were reaching parity with men in terms of proportion-of-the-sexes in me
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Not only that, but even if one had someone else to watch the kids during that time, one couldn't go work from a coffee shop or whatever like one normally might, for a change of scenery or to avoid at-home distractions.
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by moshmosh 5y ago
They won't split those until employers start favoring SE degrees over CS degrees for actual SE jobs. I don't expect them to do that as long as CS is regarded as more difficult and CS degree-holders remain in plentiful supply, as t
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by moshmosh 5y ago
To dip my toe into somewhat-dangerous waters, I suspect that if there's a major and highly effective filter other than simple interest (as some data re: more- and less-restrictive societies suggests) keeping women out of CS, it&#x2
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Oh, music majors in particular are a really good comparison. Though at least music instruction is available in most US school systems over a span of several years, as an ordinary during-school-hours class. Then again if that's the o
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I was just thinking about this more, and CS programs kinda remind me more of college sports programs than traditional college majors: if you haven't spent years playing the sport before going to college, you're probably gonna ha
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by moshmosh 5y ago
It struck me in college that CS departments are getting away with assuming a lot of background familiarity with computers from their incoming freshmen, picked up on those freshmen's own time, in a way that I don't think any othe
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by moshmosh 5y ago
One solution people have come up with for the perceived unfairness of male pronouns doing double-duty as neuter pronouns in English is to sometimes use female ones instead. The down side of this is that it leaves us with three possible ne
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Large institutions aren't solving their security problems by hiring a small clutch of FreeBSD elves. They're hiring consultants to confirm that they've met the requirements of some checklist, which requirements may include &q
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Sure, HSR is gonna have it worse than a minute, I was thinking of, say, subways and light commuter rail, with the 1 minute lower bound. Some of those don't spend more than about a minute not at full speed for some stations, including d
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by moshmosh 5y ago
> You can go to Europe and have excellent custom made shoes for about 200 USD. Good lord, where? I'm aware of one place in... I want to say Romania? That can get you down to around $350 for custom shoes, which is about the same cost
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by moshmosh 5y ago
They're explaining that cost-per-stop is much lower for a train than an airplane. A stop might cost an airplane an hour or more added to the duration of the full multi-stop route (slowing down, losing altitude, landing, taxiing, boar
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Don't get me started on the people who listed among their complaints about The Last Jedi that "Rey's parents are nobodies and that's lame and I don't like it". Setting aside whether or not that being true would
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by moshmosh 5y ago
Nolan's typical output is films that are a little smart, but seem to believe themselves to be very smart, while delivering a few really cool scenes, moments, or visuals, but not much else. Interstellar's firmly in that category.
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by moshmosh 5y ago
On a budget, I'd favor getting a blazer or three and one or two pairs of good shoes/boots over buying a suit, if a person's really starting from nearly-scratch in the nice clothes department. They're (decent blazers) eas
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by moshmosh 5y ago
1) A suit at or under $120 will probably be mostly or entirely synthetic. Even used, you may have trouble finding something in good shape that's wool at that price. You're gonna lose a lot of time trawling through estate and garag
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by moshmosh 5y ago
About the only times I've seen backend work get any kind of positive reaction in a meeting or presentation, like UI does constantly , is when a bad DB query has been fixed so it drops from 20s to 20ms, or something like that.
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I'd never made the connection between the gradual shuttering of coal plants and freight rail, but wow, that is a big deal. A quick search finds that coal is about 30% of rail tonnage in the US. A bunch more (not looking it up, but if
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by moshmosh 5y ago
All I can think of is pronouncing "marry" and "Mary" as "mar" (as: to damage) rather than as "men" (as "merry men", where the "me" parts are pronounced the same) but if I try to do
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by moshmosh 5y ago
There's a built-in HTML tag for this that traditionally uses the dotted underline. Looks like it doesn't do that on all browsers, though, these days, but it's a CSS tweak to add it. Behavior also seems worse than it used to o
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I've always understood the F in any of these to translate to "fine" when in ahem polite company. Same number of characters. [EDIT] LOL wow that justification is wrong, forgot about the 'ing'. Still, that's th
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by moshmosh 5y ago
I ran minimalist Void Linux on a crappy dual-core Celeron Chromebox with 2GB (yes, two) of memory as a workstation for a few weeks last year. It was impractical longer term, but really, as long as I didn't open more than a couple Surf
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by moshmosh 5y ago
It's a very large markup on the small-user retail cost of the basic thing they're providing (web-accessible, access-controlled file storage—see, for example, BackBlaze B2) but that's utterly typical of services that can get

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