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by overgard 3y ago
Every Windows user I know hates the new control panels. (I use plural because they've been trying to replace the actual good control panel basically every version of Windows since 7 and it's an incredible mess). Enterprise users p
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by overgard 3y ago
I really hate the way they're forcing their products I don't want on me. Stop opening things in Edge, I'm never ever going to use it. And stop asking me to backup folders on OneDrive, I already have Dropbox, I don't want
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by overgard 3y ago
He probably just meant that younger people grew up with emoji so they might not be aware of the vast array of text smileys we used to do
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by overgard 3y ago
If you have a data structure like... struct item_t { char key[255]; char display_value[255]; } And your key has consistent path separators like a/b/c Then looking up parents and children is incredibly ea
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by overgard 3y ago
Another underrated benefit is this is potentially a lot faster. A flat array, which you can use to store this, is a lot more cache friendly to a CPU than a data structure with a lot of pointers. (Although this mostly requires a language lik
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by overgard 3y ago
Subaru (it's a BRZ)
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by overgard 3y ago
I dunno, I got my first car with Car Play a year ago. I'm not super impressed. It's buggy and slow and the interface is clunky. It's better than using my phone directly, barely, but I still would have bought the car if it did
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by overgard 3y ago
I didn't say that, just pointing out that a lot of these illegal drugs have already legal analogs that are quite similar in chemical composition. (If I were to make an argument here, it'd be more along the lines that we're ov
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by overgard 3y ago
I know some people that are (former) meth addicts, and you know where they got their start? I'll give you a hint, it happened when the doctors stopped prescribing their ADHD meds or they wanted a higher dose. Just sayin'
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by overgard 3y ago
Alcohol withdrawal is potentially much more dangerous than withdrawal from most other substances. Withdrawal is always miserable of course, but seizures, blood pressure, elevated pulse, hallucinations, etc. can be fatal in the case of alcoh
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by overgard 3y ago
Well, legalized meth is essentially ritalin/adderall (not exactly the same thing, but same class)
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by overgard 3y ago
I think that's a different context, because doctors were heavily encouraged to overprescribe it and it was marketed as non-addictive.
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by overgard 3y ago
Considering that alcohol is, by far, the most dangerous drug and it's completely legal, I think there's something to be said for your point. I gotta say though, it's sort of complicated when you're talking about legalizi
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by overgard 3y ago
My 2013 MacBook lasted 9 years (I'd still be using it if the battery connector wasn't shot.) In my experience Mac's last a lot longer than my equivalent PC's, although w/ an initial premium of course.
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by overgard 3y ago
How would you go about moving from Group 1 to Group 2? As a mostly technical person, I'm not allergic to the business side of things, but I kind of don't even know where to begin. I understand the product side of things reasonably
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by overgard 3y ago
I think this phenomena is less about PMs and more about a "data driven" culture. I worked at a mobile game development company for a couple years. While the industry was young, they had some really big hits and grew to be mid size
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by overgard 3y ago
I only had one experience with this early in my career, but I remember it wasn't good. Basically, we had a 5-6 person team that had to support like 10 important legacy services. One person essentially ended up being on call for a week,
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by overgard 3y ago
There's something more wrong if you need it to do this
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by overgard 3y ago
I've been coding since I was 8, so... 30 years, about 17 professionally. I'm not averse to new tools at all, but I've yet to see where I would want copilot or chatgpt. The problems I work on daily, like most professional devs
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by overgard 3y ago
I'm not trying to shame you, but how long have you been coding? I've not yet had the urge to ask an AI for coding help, ever. The questions that are decoupled enough from a field/project that it might be able to answer seem t
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by overgard 3y ago
How many people actually use a desktop email app? I use Outlook for work (mostly because the web client is awful), but outside of that I always access my email in a browser. Weird decision by Microsoft in my opinion. It seems like the only
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by overgard 3y ago
The part I struggle with is what exactly he's trying to say with his dress. Like if it was classically formal, I could see that he's trying to convey maybe a trusted solid businessman. But this is more like.... street magician? I&
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by overgard 3y ago
I'd rather just use a proper firewall I think. One thing that's super annoying about NAT is how hard it makes it to host your own server. I remember setting up FTP on my router at one point, but it was so annoying and flaky that I
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by overgard 3y ago
Is human readable IP that important though? I mean even though I know about CIDR it's still hard for me to intuitively think about it, and I will say by far the part of kubernetes I dislike the most is figuring out the networking layer
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by overgard 3y ago
Honest question, why are we not all just on IPV6 now? It seems like at this point almost all the underlying hardware and software should support it? It seems like the only argument for sticking with IPv4 is NAT, but I can't think of a
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by overgard 3y ago
I tried resoldering a laptop in an oven once in 2007ish. Sadly it only worked a very short time, like, maybe got the boot screen (I don't quite remember) and it uh was not in good shape. Dumb things you do in college
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by overgard 3y ago
Agree. I think it hurts the brand of the apps when they're themed, in that I load it and it looks jumbled and broken and I instantly think oh they dont care how this looks
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by overgard 3y ago
Evolution and adding complexity aren't the same thing. For example, evolution can also work in reducing complexity. Animals that spend generations living underground in caves will lose their eye sight over a long enough time period. Po
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by overgard 3y ago
Ah, but the solution is to turn that 12 argument function into a class that does one thing (runs the function), and dependency inject all those arguments. It still totally sucks, but you can pretend you're writing "clean" cod
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by overgard 3y ago
> Duplication, on the other hand, is detested almost as much as the goto statement. Honestly, even the goto statement isn't that bad. It's pretty useful in C code. I'm not saying anyone should put it in a new language, but

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