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by oorza 2y ago
I worked at a McD's franchise 20 years ago that had hired a "retired" ice cream machine guy to work for the franchise full time. With only a half dozen stores, he would still almost always be too busy to make it to our store
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by oorza 2y ago
The same man who wrote Stranger In A Strange Land, arguably the best sci-fi novel ever written and an ode to free love and universal acceptance, also wrote The Fifth Column, where a bunch of white people create a fake religion so they can w
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by oorza 2y ago
LFS to a computer scientist should be like soap to a chemist. Something you can do as a fun, educational experiment, but not where you source a necessary tool for your life.
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by oorza 2y ago
> I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer. I am actually flabbergasted there's another human being on Earth that has this exact
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by oorza 2y ago
If 2% of the battery is 2% of 3000mAh (which is probably a generous over-estimate of the phone's capacity), that means the phone pulls ~60mA. You can buy a 60,000 mAh battery (or build one) for about $50, which would buy this device 10
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by oorza 2y ago
This happens to me. Started in my twenties and I was convinced I had a brain tumor. I'll be almost entirely asleep, then I get jerked by a weird electric buzz sound, like the buzz of a transformer, and it feels like my body from the
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by oorza 2y ago
Closer to a bowling ball that picked up a drop of beer from your hands.
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by oorza 2y ago
He said diversity of marketing, not diversity of product. Marketing is how you're selling, not what you're selling.
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by oorza 2y ago
There's that old saying that a benevolent dictatorship is the best and most effective form of government, right up until the dictator dies. All of the antitrust shit Apple does largely benefits its consumers _for the moment_. It'
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by oorza 2y ago
Would there be competition though? Take the mobile app stores: consumers are going to demand that prices are consistent across storefronts (or preferentially buy from the cheapest option), so that market will inevitably race to the bottom.
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by oorza 2y ago
That's the question I was trying to answer. I don't think we can quantify or qualify what higher consciousness actually is, but my hypothesis is the perception of time as non-linear is what leads to it, similar how the percepti
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by oorza 2y ago
There's more than a few pieces of circumstantial evidence that point to this level of higher consciousness being defined by a non-linear perception of time. Not least among those, the fact that people have been using powerful psychoac
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by oorza 2y ago
> The promise of privacy is one way in which they position themselves, but I would not bet the bank on that being true forever. There are a ton of us out here that consciously choose Apple because of their position on privacy. I have to
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by oorza 2y ago
But look at their faces, they're having a gas.
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by oorza 3y ago
I haven't thought much about this, but given the historic failure of alternative app stores to gain traction in Android, what makes you think this will change? Hardly anyone I know outside of tech circles (and some within them) are ev
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by oorza 3y ago
"In this economy" snark? In this economy?
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by oorza 3y ago
That only matters if we're the most special species in the universe. I'm not ready to make that leap of faith. On the other hand, there exists two spots in the universe that are so far separated from each other that they observer
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by oorza 3y ago
The ratio of light speed to the area of the universe is so stupidly small that I'm convinced our simulation is determining how low the speed of light can get before interstellar travel is outright impossible.
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by oorza 3y ago
Opened in macOS and it appears impossible to open a folder of any sort. I type the folder path into the Open Folder thing at the top and it just silently fails. There's no menu or anything to open a folder either. This seems lacking s
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by oorza 3y ago
Maintainability and readability are two sides to the same coin. It's not exactly rocket science to cook up an example situation where making a change in one place is less maintainable than making it in two, because of overly DRY, over
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by oorza 3y ago
That's why I like to tell people to always remember to stay MOIST - the Most Optimal is Implicitly the Simplest Thing. When you add complexity to DRY out your code, you're adding a readability regression. DRY matters in very few
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by oorza 3y ago
Conceptually equivalent to the ancient arts of private constructors and factory methods.
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by oorza 3y ago
What goes through someone's mind that they spend all the time and effort to create a visual gag and then don't put images of said visual gag on the documentation?
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by oorza 3y ago
The FF address bar is an extremely unappreciated and under-praised search apparatus. I use it wholesale, dozens of times a day, and it can almost completely replace bookmarks (if you have a memory for titles and keywords), so it has for me
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by oorza 3y ago
Ditto my 2021 Volvo, with alertness monitored as well (it pops up an adorable cup of coffee on your dash!).
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by oorza 3y ago
> Becoming a regular smoker is often a hunt for something that can get you just as high as the first time, but nothing will. (Concentrates can get you very high, though.) At my peak, I was a half-gram, gram of concentrates a day smoker.
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by oorza 3y ago
Might be because there's a lot of people like me that only like that style of beer. I don't dislike other types of beer, but I'd rather drink something else than a lager, stout, porter, pilsner, etc. I've found that th
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by oorza 3y ago
If it's running locally, just use an abstraction around the database and swap in SQLite for local builds.
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by oorza 3y ago
Alternatively, everyone not taking advantage of the credit card protections isn't taking advantage of what's offered around them. Everyone should be subsidizing everyone else, because no one should be using a debit card to make d
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by oorza 3y ago
Why don't you just make the transformer API stable, public, and let the community do the hard part? There's plenty of us that have experimental transformers doing all sorts of fun things, these are problems that can be solved exte

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