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by paledot 4y ago
It's a straight answer sufficiently couched in jargon that a non-technical person still isn't likely to understand the problem or how to resolve it.
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by paledot 4y ago
It's an unstable isotope with only 40 seconds in it.
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by paledot 4y ago
By your reasoning, only ads like this should be permitted, since they're the only ads that explicitly inform the user that they've been targeted.
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by paledot 4y ago
It's very likely that an attempt on his part to sue Microsoft would fail on the grounds that a tacit agreement was reached for the use of the work, based on his acceptance of payment. However, it doesn't sound like there was any a
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by paledot 4y ago
I'd go so far as to say if your test is doing something crafty, you're doing tests wrong. Maybe in a mock or fixture, but that's a write-once sort of affair. I also don't apply DRY (don't repeat yourself) to tests.
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by paledot 4y ago
True. The hourly workers are more likely to be living paycheque-to-paycheque, and their lives will be more impacted than a tech worker with 12 months of runway and job prospects everywhere.
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by paledot 4y ago
> His salary is already only $1/yr, and has been since 2013. So there's nothing to do there. That's a joke, a tax dodge, a PR gag, a farce. There's nothing fiscally responsible about it. Taking financial responsibilit
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by paledot 4y ago
HR. Is. Not. Your. Friend.
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by paledot 4y ago
Thank you for the insight. It's always interesting to hear how the experience of tech is different among people of other generations/demographics. Honestly, I wouldn't have pegged your generation as the one to use stickers -
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by paledot 4y ago
The revolution had a wide backing, but - importantly! - it was a revolution against the Shah, not in favour of Islamic fundamentalism. The hard-liners were merely the most prepared to step into the power vacuum that followed. Calling it
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by paledot 4y ago
Not really. Even most simple sites these days start with `npx create-react-app`.
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by paledot 4y ago
I'm still missing where this model achieves anything relatable to the real world beyond "less destructive than BitCoin", which honestly is a pretty compelling value proposition.
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by paledot 4y ago
It's been great, but the wolf and chickens can be a pain sometimes when you have to go to the bathroom in the next car.
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by paledot 4y ago
One of the Factorio devs (kovarax?) has a blog post about regretting the introduction of copy-pasteable blueprints. I feel like balancers are where the devs become complicit in that cycle. They could have 3+ lane balancers as single structu
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by paledot 4y ago
Until they're sued for trademark infringement...
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by paledot 4y ago
Glib, but I've heard it said that narcissism is a prerequisite for the job. What rational human actually believes that they are qualified to be the most powerful person on Earth? That said, most presidents have had qualifications other
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by paledot 4y ago
Not worth it. That remap has saved me more keystrokes than I can reasonably count. But adding the opposite remap for good measure isn't the worst idea.
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by paledot 4y ago
Sadly, SIM cloning attacks start by social engineering a cell phone support person into sending the attacker a replacement for the SIM they "lost".
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by paledot 4y ago
If the meeting is big enough that you can get up without missing anything or your absence being noticed (an all hands), you can probably just turn the video off. If it's small enough that people will notice/care that your video is
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by paledot 4y ago
> I’ve been a part of fandoms that are now seen as cringey or toxic. —BuyMyBitcoins Joking aside, there's definitely value to rotating usernames frequently. I've started using random strings on various sites because I really do
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by paledot 4y ago
"My gambling problem got so bad that I had to move to Linuxville." "Oh, Linuxville! I love that place, it has a great casino."
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by paledot 4y ago
Really? HN in 1822 would be filled with educated people seriously defending phrenology. 1922 HN would be falling over itself to defend eugenics. Apparently 2022 HN hasn't come very far from 1922. No one falls for pseudoscientific group
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by paledot 4y ago
At risk of sounding inane, the stars are still in the sky in the daytime. A star map showing what you would see during a solar eclipse is not an unreasonable choice either.
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by paledot 4y ago
I appreciate this very much. When a press release does make it to the front page (often from the SEC or another US government agency), I click straight through to the HN comments to get some context and perspective.
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by paledot 4y ago
Speaking of cryptic UX, though that one at least is standardized nonsense.
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by paledot 4y ago
Not if they fire you at 23 months.
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by paledot 4y ago
It's not particularly common in Canada, although I do see it occasionally. The principal problem is that a dot (especially handwritten) is easy to miss, whereas an unexpected leading zero induces the reader to check for a dot. I don&#x
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by paledot 4y ago
No, I've been using the Android calculator for years and never realized that it could do that. This is the problem with "clever" UX...
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by paledot 4y ago
There's no value to retroactive unit testing. Retroactive tests should be end-to-end or integration level, which you certainly can do without a framework.
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by paledot 4y ago
You put your finger on something that's bothered me for a while but was never able to articulate. I loved some episodes and some moments were pure gold, but much of the show was nonsensical and revolting. Dipped a toe into his other wo

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