mypetocean

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by mypetocean 3y ago
Thank you!
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by mypetocean 3y ago
I'm struggling to find any information about this, either from Siedersleben or others, at least in English. Can you find any sources you can point me to? Or, can you explain further? I'm not clear, for example, what you mean by &q
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Maybe I'm odd, but even having more experience with AWS, and even with the UI on AWS being superior, Azure's jargon and organization seems easier to learn than AWS.
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Maybe in this case "ELI5" stands for "Explain it like I have 5 yrs experience in software development but gave up in year two"?
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by mypetocean 3y ago
If civic government contractors are anything like military contractors, then many of them haven't even heard of a version control system like Git or SVN – instead, naming file versions manually, like old Word DOC names (utils_b4_final2
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Yeah, I use DDG by default now, and only use Google for hard searches – and even then, I'm continually surprised by the frequency of terrible search results on Google these days.
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by mypetocean 3y ago
I've been around to compare them all (and used to spend countless hours doing search engine research on Fravia's "web search lores" website). Google represented a huge step up in search result quality generally. But in r
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Not saying this is what happened necessarily, but sometimes as a startup, you find yourself in a position where you must either sell to someone/anyone or the business must shut down (and you're left with the debt and with long-loy
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by mypetocean 3y ago
On the other hand, Micro supports the Ctrl-based text nav/manip hotkeys (such as Ctrl-arrow, Ctrl-Backspace, CTRL-Home/End, also optionally combined with Shift for selection). More of a DOS-origin set of hotkeys than GNU. So more
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Tables first came to be used for displaying tabular (spreadsheet-like) data – which was what it was designed for. And for that purpose, it's still the best option.
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by mypetocean 3y ago
I've become a big fan of using something like a `main()` function to act as the one conventional place where pure functions are piped together at the top of a module. You get this very nice linear execution birds' eye view which t
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by mypetocean 3y ago
I think there is some level of hardwiring limiting the palatability of sweetness, at least in some people. Anecdotally, even as a kid, I found Skittles to be unpleasantly sweet. To this day, I avoid most sweet soda drinks and seldom drink e
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by mypetocean 3y ago
I've used LaTeX in ebook production, but on this occasion, I needed a process which could be handed off to a much less technical person.
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by mypetocean 3y ago
I didn't test on Linux, since we only permitted BYO Linux machines exceptionally. And the PDF feature support landscape may have changed in the last year, since it was Q1 of last year (2022), I believe, when I last checked the in-brows
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Microsoft Word can do it, but you must _save_ the document as a PDF. I know this because I've done it dozens of times, as recently as a year ago. Notably, you _can't_ use PDF printers to accomplish this. PDF printers reduce the do
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Users seldom or never printed it. I was told that we needed it (a computer requirements document) in PDF for legal reasons. I pushed back and legal confirmed that they did, in fact, need it to be in PDF format. I suspect it had something to
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by mypetocean 3y ago
Even if you did get it working, there is a very good chance that only Adobe Reader/Acrobat would support it. This severely limits valid use-cases because users have become acclimatized to relying on in-browser viewers embedded in a web
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by mypetocean 4y ago
Oh, I guess Markdown doesn't work. Huh. Well, shoot.
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by mypetocean 4y ago
The funny thing is that it's _not_ more parentheses, roughly, than one would expect to find in any Algol/C-inspired language, like C# or JavaScript. The opening paren is simply relocated to the other side of the function name or k
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by mypetocean 4y ago
The fish are _red herrings_ – even the dolphin.
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by mypetocean 4y ago
For me it was this: > Normal purposeful speech makes different opinions closer, while speech under the feedback of the like button makes similar opinions even closer and different opinions further apart. But there is another aspect to th
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by mypetocean 4y ago
Anyone up for starting a programming language with me to farm data about programmers?
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by mypetocean 4y ago
I still make it a point to disable AutoPlay and AutoRun on every PC I possess. No, operating system, thou shalt not be permitted to seek and run executable code automatically on every connected storage media. I thankest thou most assuredly.
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by mypetocean 4y ago
Do you mind clarifying what you're referring to?
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by mypetocean 4y ago
This might be a function of how passively many people read, though – particularly as compared with the highly interactive posture of speech. There are reading strategies which we can employ to engage the brain quite effectively. Plus, writi
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by mypetocean 4y ago
Do you have any favorite talks of his you can recommend?
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by mypetocean 4y ago
Another thing to consider is that in many PII laws, data which can be combined with other data to reconstruct a complete instance of PII will itself count as PII. So if a full hostname or IP counts as PII, then a _partial_ hostname or IP al
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by mypetocean 7y ago
Like "Spangular" — and then got Adam Sandler to endorse it.