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by ncann 4y ago
> “Actually, you’re not happily married,” Sydney replied. “Your spouse and you don’t love each other. You just had a boring Valentine’s Day dinner together.” I'm willing to bet this will hit too close to home for some people, and it
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by ncann 4y ago
I agree. Too often people feel becoming manager is the easiest way to advance their career (which most of the time equates to making more money). In many cases becoming manager is the only way to advance their career in the current org.
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by ncann 4y ago
There's a big difference between "had his cat put down" and "surrendered it to a shelter". If it's indeed the later (I know nothing about the story) then there's nothing to talk about.
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by ncann 4y ago
> no one wants EndUpdate() calls to be skipped because of errors thrown and the like. but surely with enough effort and care this should be a non-issue? And maybe auto-rollback on error?
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by ncann 4y ago
That part stood out to me as particularly funny, like a comedy script.
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by ncann 4y ago
> There will be rich debates about the socioeconomic implications of Helvetica Light, and at some point, you will have to decide whether serifs are daring statements of modernity, or tools of hegemonic oppression that implicitly suppo
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by ncann 4y ago
Some feedbacks: * Typo "through it’s 24 pins" -> its * Tables should be consistent in sorting order (some are low specs to high specs, some are the other way around)
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by ncann 4y ago
Bearish = pessimistic (in finance, thinking stock will go down), the opposite of bullish = optimistic (thinking stock will go up)
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by ncann 4y ago
On top of my head - Depending on the location, weather can be very hot and humid - Traffic congestion, noise and air pollution in big cities - Low food safety, drug safety due to lax regulations - High corruption Apart from the weather, non
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by ncann 4y ago
Anyone knows why Audible's pay is that low? Is it because of the cost to them to produce the audio?
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by ncann 4y ago
Some comparisons with other apps: - Google Play Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOJ15ysPsRo - eReader Prestigio: https://youtu.be/YdNCElSHJbE?t=79
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by ncann 4y ago
Sorry, I can't resist the urge to repost this classic comment on a thread about new battery technology: Dear battery technology claimant, Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technolo
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by ncann 4y ago
I had a Dell laptop that's somewhat recent. It had Modern Standby/Connected Standby on by default, so I followed the instructions online to disable that and get back normal S3 sleep. Things went well until one day after a Windows
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by ncann 4y ago
There seem to be some errors in the console: - After page load: [Vue warn]: Error in render: "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'id')" - When hovering over a match: [Vue warn]: Failed to resolve dir
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by ncann 4y ago
Yeah that scenario only ever happens if you have an extremely large branch that hasn't been merged into the target branch for a long time (like a feature branch that takes months to develop), which btw isn't really something that
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by ncann 4y ago
The "modern slavery" comment made me chuckle. Seriously...
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by ncann 4y ago
But you can't install the store itself (e.g. fdroid) from Play Store at the moment
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by ncann 4y ago
I've wondered about this as well. I remembered there were tons of news last year or so when their re-entry was "uncontrolled" and could potentially fall on populated areas. The news outlets made an absolute story out of that
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by ncann 4y ago
One downside of fly is it doesn't have direct deploy from GitHub push. You can set it up through GitHub action, but it's a lot more work than direct GitHub integration.
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by ncann 4y ago
I tried out Render and I must say I was not impressed. Every deploy took 3-5 minutes even with a Hello world Node app. Maybe it was that slow because I was using the free tier? In comparison, fly's deploy was also slow the first time b
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by ncann 4y ago
I think I read somewhere before about how if a mushroom is white, then stay away from it. How true is this from your experience?
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by ncann 4y ago
Reminds me of the brilliant phrase "The Rust Evangelism Strikeforce"
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by ncann 4y ago
When you said "[electric scooters] especially in the north they are nearly the majority of vehicles on the road", it's definitely wrong. They are popular against certain demographic segments (e.g. students), but they're
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by ncann 4y ago
> Toyoda also believes there will be “tremendous shortages” of lithium and battery grade nickel in the next five to 10 years, leading to production and supply chain problems. This is the main reason why I believe the current all-electric
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by ncann 4y ago
It's literally how the Android calculator is, 0 button -> . button -> backspace button. No one ever complained about it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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by ncann 4y ago
That excuse doesn't hold for the calculator example, where the 0 button takes up 2 spaces for no good reason, and they could easily added a backspace button instead.
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by ncann 4y ago
For an app made by one of the largest software companies out there, Teams devs can't figure out how to format code snippet/log snippet in a readable way. The font is way too big and they waste half the app's width for things
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by ncann 4y ago
Class component is still fully working as of latest React and won't be going away (at least according to the React docs). The main issue is when you work on a codebase that's full of function components and hooks it's hard to
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by ncann 4y ago
If you don't want to use stuffs from a country you viewed as adversary in your infra, government, army etc. that's totally reasonable, but just man up and say that out loud. Having these vague accusations thrown around like "
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by ncann 4y ago
Serious question: I love FF because of many reasons, but "additional voice at the web standard group" is quite far down the list for me. The top reasons I'm using FF right now are the features, namely high customizability on

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