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by nitrogen 5y ago
The business owners feel that the meager street side parking is integral to their business They're probably right. Have you ever tried to drop off a package at a UPS store that has no parking anywhere near it? Local businesses pay t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Utah's UTOPIA fiber network was already established, but blocked from growth for over a decade by incumbent lobbying. Conveniently the Wikipedia page has no mention of the Comcast and Qwest/CenturyLink meddling in Utah state and
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by nitrogen 5y ago
But wouldn't you agree that those qualities are very difficult to achieve and thus expensive? I don't think I would agree with that. With software, durability is the default. I can write a program once, and run it on the same
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Note also that that could be a euphemism (or simply a cause of) suicide. As suicide was considered a sin (and also often considered scandalous by the surviving family) it was rarely mentioned on death certificates. Interestingly in modern
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I wish consumers would understand this better. Developers aren't consumers, they are producers. And producers understand that durability and longevity are more important than enabling the rent-for-life, own nothing, subservient econ
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Why do developers need to be tricked? 1. Variations in preferences. Given that every brain is structured a bit differently, and that every person has different backgrounds and experiences, it's reasonable to conclude that different
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by nitrogen 5y ago
RSpec was the first testing system that "felt right" to me. I had previously hand-rolled things in C and shell scripts for my C projects, and used a bit of JUnit, but for whatever reason the ease of just typing "rspec"
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The --follow, -M, and -C options have usually helped me out of most blame dead ends, but sometimes I do still have to look up each blamed commit manually to keep following history.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm worried someone will remove it in future not realising that it was the backbone of some monitor It's for this reason that defining a separate method for monitors might be a good idea. Then it's clear this isn't ju
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I haven't read it in years, but last time I did Phoronix was doing this implicitly by running every new kernel against the Phoronix Test Suite.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There was recently a subscription dishwasher featured here. It turned out to be easy for the author to hack theirs, but it will get harder over time, just like ink cartridges.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Kiosks/dashboards where the display is what matters, not the navigation.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The car also most likely has a built-in compass.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That worked. Amazing that it can be so flakey.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Twitter says "This is not available to you." Was this deleted, or does Twitter just not let the public see anything at all anymore?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not to discount your experience, but I think high school counselors and university advisors just aren't very good in general, or are at least very hit or miss. They will tell all kinds of students not to bother trying for an elite sch
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by nitrogen 5y ago
How does one turn this off?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Equally depressing is the thought of giving up all the ground gained and lessons learned every time a new fad takes the stage. Watching the same mistakes made over and over, only moreso... That's depressing.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The arguments against are not based on any logical or rational footing How convenient it must be to believe oneself to be in exclusive possession of logic and reason. This is not the way to charitably interpret an argument. The biggest r
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by nitrogen 5y ago
For a new generation of 10000 every day. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by nitrogen 5y ago
But you missed out on the thrills of getting a triple-boot XP/7/Linux system working, with both XP and 7 calling their own drive "C"!
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by nitrogen 5y ago
For me, I'd rather get a bug report about a failure during compilation, than something more obscure and harder to find at runtime.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Is inspecting stacks used for logging backtraces during instrumentation?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
editorials - especially on the right I know you don't intend to do so, but assuming that someone's conclusions about an issue must have come from talking points, and were not arrived at independently, dehumanizes them and makes
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The dad in Christmas Vacation was a food chemist developing a non-nutritive varnish to make cereal stay crunchy longer, but the way that line is delivered makes it clear it's mocking the job.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Most of these people are on the anti-vax, all natural, anti-gmo, wifi and microwaves cause cancer spectrum Lumping all of the opposition into a single category and assuming they are all the same is both dehumanizing and counterproductive.
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by nitrogen 6y ago
Probably also doesn't force documentation. Samba was able to get documentation for SMB/CIFS this way.
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by nitrogen 6y ago
I think at least some of this comes from the new environmental movement, which tends to be much more anti-human than pro-fixes. It's just another way of pulling up the ladder after climbing it, the same as people like to accuse homeo
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by nitrogen 6y ago
Anyone who does many miles of running in a week, or works a manual labor job, just might.
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by nitrogen 6y ago
I wish Firefox provided two intents (does Android still call it that?), one for normal browsing and one for private browsing. Then any app that opens a link doesn't automatically get your active cookies from your main browser if you d

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