pantaloony

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by pantaloony 6y ago
It's funny how in 2020 PHP use is a sharply bimodal signal—it either means your tech leadership is clueless/absent/hopelessly-terrible, or they are among the few who've achieved true enlightenment.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
As in sales clerk. Ring up sales, stock shelves, putter about and put things in order. Read a book or knock out some pushups if it's a really slow day, everything's in order, and the owner's not a dick. That kind of thing. [E
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by pantaloony 6y ago
IDK about Gibson but back in the '00s I tried someone else's brand new First Act from Walmart (or wherever, but probably there) and it'd be fair to say it didn't work. [EDIT] that is, I could play a large number of tunes
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> Let us not kid each other. For most people their "work" is not a choice. The system is set up so that it is either you take whatever job you can to survive, or it is homelessness and no health benefits for you and your kids.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I don't have a gripe with the term per se but in this case omitting who did it plainly renders the headline clickbait. If one tiny bit of info added to a headline would lose you most of your clicks, you're being deceptive to gai
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Notably, a bad hit can result in multiple outs.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
For me checking the mail when I’m not expecting something (so, 50 weeks out of the year) most closely resembles emptying a small trash bin every so often so it doesn’t overflow. I’m generally pro-USPS for other reasons but yeah, checking th
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Sure, which is why I edited that “algorithms” is more accurate. When I read proofs I have to go through each step and figure out what every term on either side “does” to something “going through” it to make sense of it. I’d rather have my s
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I map “natural” on the touchpad to moving the page. I map “natural” on the scroll wheel to moving the scrollbar. Both are “natural”, but opposite.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I’m legitimately not sure democracy will survive modern, sophisticated propaganda techniques, plus an open, international Web, plus losing the ability to more-or-less trust audio and video recordings that we’ve grown used to over the last h
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by pantaloony 6y ago
You’re not alone. My brain works in steps, not proofs. If all code looked like Haskell and friends I doubt I’d ever have gotten into it in the first place. [edit] algos, over proofs, would probably be a better way to put it.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I'd imagine the (apparent) need to process, what, 12ish of these per weekday has something to do with it. How many can you manage in the "pipeline" at that rate? What's their staffing like? I bet they're staffed as
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Mostly because it's a very effective way to ensure things get fixed, while gaining the "attacker" nothing. It's harmful, but so is finding 4000 insecure databases, sending 4000 notification emails, and having 3950 of the
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Gnome is crashy, gobbles resources, incredibly laggy, and drops frames on my beast of a newish hex-core machine. I've switched to KDE in a VM on Win10 (some of the crashes were Linux graphics drivers, not entirely Gnome's fault,
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by pantaloony 6y ago
My blame scale for breaches, most to least: 1) the cultural and economic forces driving everything online way before that’s anything like a good idea, 2) companies storing more than they need to, 3) the people who left it unsecured (bigco,
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Taking amusement in catching little social lies isn’t exactly gatekeeping. More like sport. I don’t give a damn whether people call themselves Stoics or not and whether they’re sincere—whatever that means—or not, but I’m very sure, specific
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by pantaloony 6y ago
GameCube’s design wasn’t just intended to fit the use case of packing it up to take it to grandma’s or to your friend’s dorm room on another floor, it also communicated that that was something you could/should do with it. Great desig
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I think almost all the interesting games on the X-Box either already being available for Windows or else having a just-as-good version available for another console is a lot of what kills interest for emulating it. You can play Halo and suc
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It’s not clear to me that most of the drownings were related to inability to swim. If you dump a few hundred strong swimmers in water, unexpectedly and all very close together and panicking, then add that a bunch of them are kids (many of w
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> The past is a pretty different place. These hundreds of passengers died when they couldn't swim the twenty feet to the shore. It makes you question why they wanted to have their party on a boat. I’m not following this. Seems like
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by pantaloony 6y ago
They don’t save me from having to go look at other files to learn things about the code I’m actually interested in; they can be misleading in ways that types aren’t—in particular, it’s very hard to know what sorts of things an all-green tes
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> I would also say that there's a pretty big difference between "stiff upper lip/no emotions" that people imagine when using the the adjective "stoic" and the Stoic writings of Marcus Aurelius and the like.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It doesn’t account for the communication value of static types. Personally, I consider static types primarily a communication tool, so IMO the review’s interesting but not very useful per se . Also the main point of it seems to be “resea
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I don’t get the cost claims. The time it takes to note which type I intend something to be is mostly either so low that I recover it via improved hints and such very quickly, or larger but only because I’m documenting something complex enou
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> You're going to have to learn that, as a laborer at a firm, the quality of work you do is, at best, loosely correlated to your monetary compensation. This has been one of the most disorienting and most important realizations of my
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by pantaloony 6y ago
The NES and SNES classics come with excellent controllers (side-by-side then with the originals and it’s hard to tell the difference) and aren’t hard to “hack” to run an expanded library. Disk space is limited but you can fit about as man
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by pantaloony 6y ago
The one thing I really miss using x86 boxes rather than Raspberries Pi is the dd-to-sdcard-and-boot workflow. Makes recovery easy, trivial to back up the exact software you’re running on one. If the whole thing goes up in a fire, buy anothe
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I have a crappy model-or-two-old Asus Chromebox that runs Retroarch well and cost about as much as a Pi with trimmings back when I bought it new. Runs N64 just fine. 2GB RAM and a low-clocked dual-core Celeron. Actually with a RAM upgrade (
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Unfortunately “adequate support to help people reintegrate so going back to crime isn’t their best option” looks a lot like “rewarding criminals” to a good portion of the electorate. Maybe in part because social services in general are so b
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by pantaloony 6y ago
IIRC they have a library you can drop in a mobile app to talk to their watches. At least they did a few years ago.

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