mr_custard

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by mr_custard 7y ago
A long time ago, before Analogue Terrestrial TV (OTA) was replaced by Digital broadcasts in the UK, I was visiting a friend in Amsterdam. I was surprised to discover that she was watching BBC television. The signal was strong enough to be r
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by mr_custard 7y ago
This! They can have the table back quicker too, if we can avoid the asking for the bill dance, then waiting for the waiter to come back and take payment or whatever. More efficient for the establishment and introverts win too.
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by mr_custard 7y ago
I have lived in countries where there is no tipping and it works just fine. Better yet, there's no stress around general tip etiquette or simply "did I tip enough". I find it frustrating to read time and time again "but
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by mr_custard 7y ago
Agreed. Furthermore, Google Maps is full of fake reviews with only the option to "Flag as inappropriate" and no option to properly report a fake review with supporting evidence - which I would do, if the option was there!
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by mr_custard 7y ago
The threat of jail sentences won't always work: The problem is when the calls are made from another country where the law doesn't apply, or else the law is very hard to prosecute across borders.
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by mr_custard 7y ago
Thank you! I didn't know this AMP redirect extension existed. Installing immediately!
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by mr_custard 7y ago
Also this: https://wolfstreet.com/2019/03/25/how-can-a-company-with-1-8...
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Woah there! disingenuous? Using the example of life-saving CPR as a "similar" example seems to be extremely disingenuous of you, and I suspect you know why. * CPR - almost universally considered a good & essential thing for al
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by mr_custard 8y ago
That's potentially fine and easy enough to solve. Simply make "I want to see targeted ads" an opt-in choice, then. I suspect the take-up would be a fairly small percentage of the population, but if it would satisfy your needs
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Thanks for explaining the rationale, as well as future hopes and plans for documentation.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
I'd like to highlight an issue with the docstrings as they stand. It has been stated by Rich himself on Jira that he doesn't like or want usage examples in docstrings. However, it would seem that many other people would love to se
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by mr_custard 8y ago
My impression is that Clojure has reached maturity and most people that are using it are just quietly getting on with their lives and building useful things with it. From my perspective, it has never been better than it is now and there are
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by mr_custard 8y ago
> it's quite beautiful, though steeped in Java-isms Trying to understand what you mean here. I write a lot of ClojureScript as well as Clojure and I'm not seeing Java influences in there at all. Could you expand upon your comme
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Can confirm that this book helps. I read "A guide to the good life" and practised stoicism at a time when my anxiety and stress levels were high. Very useful comment and it's great to be reminded of the book here.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
You are a true Sage, sir!
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by mr_custard 8y ago
1. You may find it beneficial to talk to a third party that isn't a friend, member of family or colleague. Somebody that can be truly objective, has the skills to get to the bottom of your thinking patterns and most probably somebody t
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by mr_custard 8y ago
This is really interesting and I'd be excited to use it if the memory usage is even half that of the official Slack client. Bookmarked.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Perhaps it's down to hardware differences then, assuming that you've got a newish machine. This is a fairly old MacBook Pro which will be replaced soon. Hard to say what the cause is, but I don't have any issues with other no
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by mr_custard 8y ago
> Do you have issues with their current app? I've got Slack open right now, I'm a member of 2 teams and it's using 1.5 GB of memory across all of its processes. I'm wondering if you think that's an acceptable mem
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Also adding: Slack Helper eventually goes into a death spiral and uses almost all of the CPU under macOS. I have to force quit it every other day or so. Slack seems to have been doing that for roughly 2 years. Slightly mitigating data point
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by mr_custard 8y ago
At least use the NoScript plugin and opt-in to only the JS you need.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Yes. The CLR (Common Language Runtime) is like the JVM and support multiple languages, hence the name. C# compiles to Common Intermediate Language (CIL) which is then assembled into a form of bytecode.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
This is true - the modern devices with real-time DSP _are_ amazing. I strongly suspect that the eye-watering prices are still massively overblown, though.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
This. The prices are unbelievable! And $3000 is for the "cheap" ones! I was about to post the same thing and then found your post. I will add, that getting access to the frequency curve adjustment software for each device is diffi
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by mr_custard 8y ago
I switched because Firefox has Multi-Account Containers, which was extremely compelling. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
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by mr_custard 8y ago
> I just see it as the cost of working I sincerely mean this without any snark or sarcasm: You've given me something to think about. Thanks! Goes to look for pants...
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by mr_custard 8y ago
You may well be right. That's a good point about not having to engage heavily with it. Most other people in this thread seem to be indicating that this is how it is (wearing pants is required), and that I'm a no-pants outlier. If
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by mr_custard 8y ago
Bless you, sir! Anecdotal sample of one: my last 5 positions came from real life networking (meetups, local dev communities & reputation) rather than via a LinkedIn account, which as you've no doubt surmised, I no longer have.
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by mr_custard 8y ago
> I've decided to keep my profile because it'll raise a red flag to potential employers when they see I'm not in it Really? Do you think people base such impressions upon solid logic, or is it simply some sort of employer
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by mr_custard 8y ago
I've had Flash disabled for 1.5 years already and it's really not been a problem. This is a good move by Mozilla.

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