myth2018

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by myth2018 3y ago
> Esperanto is Modern and Scientific and Regular I don't know. There are irregularities indeed, but they are so few that it's easy to simply memorize them. > Really? Do you have any evidence for this? Unfortunately I have no
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by myth2018 3y ago
I like to think that Esperanto is easier , not necessarily easy. It definitely helps if you know e.g. a romance language, but it still is way more accessible than any other "regular" language (and, even for a romance language spe
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by myth2018 3y ago
I can relate. I thought it was due distractions, but I usually get more distracted at the phone than I do at the computer and, yet, I get worse results out of my readings at the latter. An e-paper based ebook reader didn't improve the
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The Self-Deception Destroying Maxims of Francois de La Rochefoucauld(artofmanliness.com)
3 points by myth2018 3y ago|0 comments
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by myth2018 3y ago
There's also Cobol on Wheelchair[0], although they didn't follow the good name abbreviation practice. [0] https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
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by myth2018 3y ago
A 96-sheet notebook + a Pentel needle-point pen. I've been feeling some strong headaches lately and the doctor's requested me to stay away from screens as much as possible. I've been using the notebook and this cheap yet nice
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by myth2018 3y ago
> aesthetics/artistic sense of UX designers is absoutely trumping usability in very many modern applications Indeed. And I get totally stupefied by how much freedom and authority they are given in relation to the other people suppos
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The Decline of Usability: Revisited(datagubbe.se)
229 points by myth2018 3y ago|189 comments
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by myth2018 3y ago
The spectrum is a limited resource. Rate limits restrict the amount of spectrum one occupies, leaving more of it for use by other operators. There are other restrictions like this. For instance, in my country, only clubs are allowed to tran
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by myth2018 3y ago
> This is how internet services should look like. Yes, definitely. I've called UX designers out a couple times on the aesthetical complexity of their designs: if you award GOV.UK's quality a prize [0], why don't you mimic
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by myth2018 3y ago
Kind of the same happened to me. When the company began to go south, they started to delay payments. And when they finally ran out of money, we've been let go but the last, quite substantial payments were not honored and they simply ig
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by myth2018 3y ago
> that's what should be illegal: to give discounts based on whether you disclose your PII or not That would definitely help, but I think it wouldn't be enough. Drugstores would promptly come up with some app-related trick, like
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by myth2018 3y ago
> that's what should be illegal: to give discounts based on whether you disclose your PII or not That would definitely help, but I think it wouldn't be enough. Drugstores would promptly come up with some app-related trick, like
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by myth2018 3y ago
Brazilian LGPD also mandates companies to provide channels for users to request their data to be deleted. Theoretically, one can ask their data to be deleted right after they received a discount. But I dont't know. I guess they would d
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by myth2018 3y ago
Not sure it'd be enough. In one Brazilian s State, it became mandatory for drugstores to get such consent. For some time, they presented a piece of paper and told people they needed that paper signed so that a juicy discount could be g
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by myth2018 3y ago
> For another, the ability to control how a checkbox animates when you check it is of course a valid reason to add another 50 packages and 3 layers of frameworks to their product To be fair, this sort of complexity usually results from &
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by myth2018 3y ago
I've worked on a team where that view was adopted, and really tried to cope. I don't miss that, at all. After reading a round of feedback, I frequently had to make a pause, 30 minutes minimum. I tried to control my will to respond
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by myth2018 3y ago
Interesting indeed. There was an Israeli pilot who managed to land an F-15 with a single wing [0]. That was considered impossible by then. I couldn't find a link, but I think that, more recently, they were trying to reproduce the feat
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by myth2018 3y ago
> wing cut off by passing UFO' type incidents Just a side note: the loss of a wing is one the "exceptions" that go deliberately "unhandled". Not even sensors and alerts are implemented -- after all, it's suc
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by myth2018 3y ago
> A bespoke wireless sensor monitoring and communications system, integrated into an old heating/cooling system Ofc I'm just speculating here, but based on the article's description I suspect this whole wireless integratio
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by myth2018 3y ago
> are good at different things Exactly. What are the available debugging tools, and what are their pros and cons? That's a much more fruitful question. Today I had to investigate a bug in a C program. With a conditional breakpoint i
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by myth2018 3y ago
They are similar, but I stick to :wq. I fear mixing up :x with :X. Would probably catch the mistake when being asked to type the encryption key, but anyway
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by myth2018 3y ago
Currently I'm writing mostly C and C++ and I find it very useful to write prototypes, either in the target language or in Python, to experiment with ways to modularize the code and how the modules will communicate. I only disagree with
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by myth2018 3y ago
I believe that such additional capacity will also be very well received by the ongoing hybrid airplane projects.
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by myth2018 3y ago
> Somehow for me using a calculator like that, rather than having to use screen space, or a phone …. Makes my workflow better. Indeed. I can't explain why, but I feel the same. I wonder about the possible reasons. The tactile respon
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by myth2018 3y ago
Indeed. It made me remember of one of my first programming projects: a teacher of mine had written a spaceship game for Netscape and I ported it to IE's UI model. There was no standardized DOM and, IIRC, forcing non-compatibility was o
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by myth2018 3y ago
Coincidentally, yesterday I finished reading Zawinski's interview in Coders At Work, from Peter Seibel. Highly recommended!
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by myth2018 3y ago
I still use an HP-12C financial calculator, although somewhat sporadically now. It used to be an extremely useful companion when I worked with loan processing systems some years ago.
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by myth2018 3y ago
> how can the conductor conduct when one of the ends is just hanging in the air? AC magic I suppose I struggled with these matters too. I wouldn't call it "AC magic", but "RF magic". Notice that you need a differ
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by myth2018 3y ago
> That's pretty much giving it (majority control) up for free, and the rest for very cheap. It appears that Bombardier took some other financial aspects in consideration before they made that decision. I have no further knowledge, a

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