oddlyaromatic

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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> it attracts the type of people that focus on gaming those rules Can you tell me how you know this or what makes you think it is true? It sounds like a readily available stereotype.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> it's almost impossible to find anyting that's truly finished, not simply abandoned. This goes far beyond programming. "completeness" is nice but is highly subjective. For work that can be infinitely revised, refacto
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I thought that's exactly what insurance was for though. I thought force majeure was something that applies to cancellation of contracts - e.g. I work for a performer and if he can't make it to a show because there are no fights du
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Maybe I'm way off but would Scratch or Node Red be the right kind of examples?
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>I find them annoying because it reminds me that the content is simultaneously trying to appeal to both skimmers and focused readers but has no idea which kind I am at the moment I’m reading it (I might be either). This is a good general
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I guess I do that sometimes, though I scroll too quick for pull quotes to matter. Usually I'm going for the comments anyway.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I agree with you. I've always assumed these things were used to catch somebody's eye as they flipped through the pages of a newspaper or magazine, as highlights to draw the reader into the content. I haven't been able to figu
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I'm open to learning why you think this. I was trying to accurately reflect the message I believe underlies the sentence that I quoted. If you think the statement "people believe they're going to be fine with diabetes, as lon
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
This is life. We should do our best to be right even though we are probably not. It's that or throw our hands up and quit trying.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
It implies you know what doctors do about as well as you know what comp sci people do, by virtue of comparing the two. The comp sci part is at risk of taking your anecdotal experience as too representative of the whole. The doctor part is (
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
This generalization is pretty large and may itself be an example of arrogance. But I think maybe it's just the brevity of your comment that gives this impression.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
The difficulty is that curating involves editorial decision making and some threshold for what you consider to be a fact. There's very little someone won't find fault with. But maybe if the sites editorial standards are also publi
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>launch a modern web app It took me a long time to realize that "launching the app" is not really what these tools are for. You can create perfectly fine awesome web apps with just HTML/CSS/ES5. But as it gets more co
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Mine didn't. I did an MA and got an up close view of the life of many academics and recognized it was not for me. But the general impression I got was there are two good reasons to do a phd: 1. For pleasure/curiosity/enjoymen
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I really like this. I get overwhelmed by the options and want to be prudent yet have freedom to screw up.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>Even in the press, a guy is more often smart, funny, successful and a girl is beautiful, elegant, and so on. Not always, but more often than not. You present this as though it supports your point, that you "cannot cheat biology wit
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Lots of people do this to connect loosely related sentences because to them the "..." reads like a little pause. I guess it feels more comfortable, less formal, and let's them get the words out without worrying about structur
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Yes! It's confusing seeing as it is the top comment but clearly everybody gets it and appreciated the joke. It's perhaps just too chillingly accurate ;).
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
This seems to be code golf, which would answer most of these questions I think. Maybe I'm missing some sarcasm in your comment, it's early!
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Interesting. I would have thought always that yes, if I'm moving an image around, its metadata goes with it unless I've specifically taken steps to strip it. I guess we've all had different introductions to this stuff.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>b) none of those have a metasyntanctic function that specifically speaks to how the words should be interpreted Separately, I think they do have that meaning in most contexts. "actually died laughing" "really fell apart d
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
>And being insensitive to the needs of those different from us is a core part of being human. But there are better and worse ways to be human, and better and worse ways to make metaphors. This is a really good point, and I agree. There a
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Could mean: - literally blue (painted blue or colored some other way) - literally blue (skin blueish from lack of oxygen) - he was really cold or something (exaggerated metaphor) Or probably other stuff. Like most things, you need more cont
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
"Literally" being used in both senses goes back a long, long way, though. My take is that when used in the straightforward meaning, it is usually pretty clear, and when used with the contradictory meaning, it is also pretty clear.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Weight gain is kind of part of the disability if you have a mobility problem, or, you know, actual paralysis. This is a ridiculous transfer of responsibility from those who design and maintain the environment, to those who experience disabi
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Sure. It's like driving to to the gym to run on a treadmill. But I'm not sure that other people doing something for themselves for their own reasons needs to be corrected because you or I would find it suboptimal for ourselves. If
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
> it would probably help the woman in this article if she lost some weight You know how awful this sounds, right? I'm not sure you meant it the way it sounds. Please clarify. Do you mean that by reducing the physical weight of her b
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I guess it comes down to what the user prioritizes, but I think it's good to have the option of running something on the desktop if I feel like it.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
I'd love to know how it goes, I haven't actually tried it yet. Not sure how one would go about "releasing" the exported file.
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by oddlyaromatic 9y ago
Does Nativefier help you? https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier

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