njharman

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by njharman 5y ago
You should feel empowered to say no. Just don’t be a dick about it. By, for instance, only saying “no”.
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by njharman 5y ago
Tons of human things have been scaled. Agriculture, retail, manufacturing, soildering, …
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by njharman 5y ago
Requirements are a subset of the Hardest thing, which is communication.
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by njharman 5y ago
Huh? Seems super clear to me that "assertTrue" is asserting Truthyness and not equality. It's right there in the method name! And if you don't know "True" means Truthyness in Python, they you don't know th
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by njharman 5y ago
> Adding third-party libraries is a huge step to take for a project Really? I've can't think of a "real" project that did not include 3rd party libs. Reinventing wheels or struggling with poorer implementations (unit
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by njharman 5y ago
I would guess "expression oriented" would mean a lang with no statements, more like lisp.
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by njharman 5y ago
In 30yrs of dev the truest statement in standards I can make is that they change, all the time. The 2nd truest is I and coworkers have wasted far to much energy on arguing and maintaing STDs. Blacks value isn't autoformatter, it'
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by njharman 5y ago
https://www.roadprobrands.com/blog-posts/what-happened-to-ca...
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by njharman 5y ago
Why not just ban "armed conflict"?
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by njharman 5y ago
hobbit, balrog, ent. Not because trademarks, none are. But because courts have ruled if you use enough elements, esp characters you somehow are infringing copyright. Or rather, it is easier to cave and change your product than endure the ri
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by njharman 5y ago
> do this? What is "this" for you? For me it is a cheap intro/evaluation tool for the very expensive Eurorack hobby. To meet that goal it must be skeuomorphic. I can mess around with VCV + maybe a cheap (relatively) midi
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by njharman 5y ago
> "The Germans couldn’t operate below the regimental level without written orders." That is so ridiculously wrong. I'm thinking it must be journalist's mistake/misquote/out of context (e.g. referring to spec
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by njharman 5y ago
Yeah, it's been amazing to watch. I was one of the original funders back in 2002 to open source it. My career took another path and I never did more than mess around with Blender. But that, I think $100 (not small amount for me at the
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by njharman 5y ago
profit optimized is the inevitable result of any system that has profit motivation banning advertising would help for awhile, but other profit streams would be optimised and expand to fill void, such as data collection/mining
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by njharman 5y ago
> source code management system (SCM), it’s main business3 is not to help you list your files! This seems utterly bizarre statement. What does author imagine SCM dies? Stuff, but listing the files that are the source it is managing is up
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by njharman 5y ago
"Entry to the workforce" is not a goal. It is a failure of society to force people to labor for ~half their waking hours just to exist.
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by njharman 5y ago
> When thinking about the trucking industry, the first thing that comes to mind about its drivers is that they tend to be older No, the first thing that comes to mind is another shit job that has limited future and should be automated so
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by njharman 5y ago
That is an incredibly disjointly written article. Something is set up, then next sentence has nothing to do with it. Sentence structure, word choice, just weird. Seems like (bad) machine written.
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by njharman 5y ago
How many is too many (people to piss off)? Take your statement in another context. Say native dissidents pissing off local government / foreign natural resource exploitists. Or, americans of african ancestry attempting to be heard &#x2
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by njharman 5y ago
> Plenty of homogeneous states which don't work. Plenty? Name five, other than isolated microstate islands. I can think of very few modern homogeneous ethostates.
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by njharman 5y ago
> we chose cars We didn't choose, decision was foisted on us by tire, car and oil company lobbyists.
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by njharman 5y ago
The GIL has already been removed in at least Jython and PyPy. PyPy is 4x faster (on benchmarks), no xp with Jython.
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by njharman 5y ago
That is the kind of problem solution that ends up with you now having 2 problems. New problem(s); having tabs and spaces, having to think when to use them, having to train/document everyone in usage, having to debate that usage, havin
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by njharman 5y ago
Tis why scientists and historians when presented with a single "fact" throw up their arms and exclaim "Well that proves it!" No point in looking for collaborating or conflicting evidence. Or, to reexamine when new techno
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by njharman 5y ago
Y'd think if you had access to 1400 "paper", the effort of making your own gall ink for your forgery. It ain't hard. Maybe the galls aren't common in Norway? Otoh the deception lasted 100yrs.
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by njharman 5y ago
I was disappointed the Wikipedia article didn't have any counter views or criticism. Article on concepts typically do.
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by njharman 5y ago
This so much. If you tie your identity, your idviduality, your importance to your melanin amount or ethnicity you are racist. You are dividing up humans into "us and them". You are using it to set yourself apart, to make yourself
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by njharman 5y ago
I, nor you, have an obligation to honor or respect anyone's beliefs. We have the limited rights to dismiss, criticize, adopt, etc any belief/creed/etc. The limits are prohibiting or restricting others, including original inv
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by njharman 5y ago
Two things; Majority of comments seem to assume narcissist is also incompetent or unskilled. If this study is accurate and you want advantage in career then you could do worse than adopting the narcissist behaviors linked to advancement by
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by njharman 5y ago
I can't tell if this is a spoof or joke? This entire section reads like a joke post > 0verview Unlike other versioning schemes like Semantic Versioning and Calendar Versioning, ZeroVer (AKA 0ver) is simple: Your software's majo

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