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by pantaloony 6y ago
1) that seems basically fine, but also 2) non-commercial efforts run by hobbyists and gated from the general public ought to be Ok. If you want to run a PHPBB site and subject yourself to harmful garbage by letting randos write to your se
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Radical idea: if your service requires subjecting lots and lots of workers to scarring images, the correct solution is for that service not to exist. Facebook doesn’t have to let people post material to their site with very low barriers to
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by pantaloony 6y ago
A lot of those sorts of phrases become automatic even when they don’t make much sense. A bit like “African American” accidentally being used as a label for people who aren’t American at all. Right now throwing in “white” and “men” is kinda
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I bet I could get my MacBook’s battery life down to 5hrs with Slack, Chrome, WhatsApp, and VSCode all running, while “not doing anything that demanding”. Use Safari, use native-code messengers or open them only as-needed in response to aler
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Webapp or otherwise JS-and-media-heavy browsing in anything other than Safari easily takes 2hrs off my battery life on a MacBook. Chrome and FF are power hogs.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
This is obvious running on weak hardware or constrained VMs. Modern Gnome is nearly unusable, while KDE is fine down to fairly low specs, especially if you dial down the animations.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Ah. The property angle suddenly lets all the pieces fall into place. Now it makes sense.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Whole page is around 5KB with three requests, one of which is the favicon. Browsers are fast when you just give them (mostly) regular ol’ HTML. The network, rendering nutty CSS with animations and gradients everywhere, rendering SVG, “hero”
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I can’t tell whether this is debunking a myth I didn’t believe to begin with, or if I do believe the myth but am too dumb to recognize that it’s what this article is about. This is bizarrely opaque for so many words about a fairly small (I
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Links had a much better UI, last I checked. Or at least more-discoverable. IIRC it rendered pages a little better, too.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Or X forwarding to use a nice(?) GUI printer config tool (or run Firefox or Surf or whatever) if those are already on the remote machine.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
My immediate reaction was “it does—but it’s in the interpreter so of course you don’t have to write it”.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Don’t worry, every time we’ve had to or chosen to do anything to the newer houses we’ve owned it’s been a constant series of discoveries about how out-of-square everydamnthing is. We level something perfectly and... it’s nowhere near matchi
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by pantaloony 6y ago
You’re thinking of expensive or maybe region-specific “designer” homes. If you just go look at most of the kinds of new houses being built, up to surprisingly high price points (as noted in TFA), it’s exactly as described. The waste of sp
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by pantaloony 6y ago
So far as UI quality goes, I put stability (rarely changes) and consistency/predictability (clicking this may take a bit without feedback that anything’s happening, which isn’t great, but it always gives a result, even if it’s just a
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Strongly disagree that the CLI is intuitive. It’s very easy to kick off unintended actions or back oneself into a corner while doing things that seem reasonable. It’s like using Git in that it’s very hard to do well without a good understan
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by pantaloony 6y ago
There are lots, and lots, and lots of books. With those that have been filtered by time and decades to centuries of fans and specialists, if you can’t get something out of them usually that’s your fault—which is fine and normal, since for
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Our high school had many interior classrooms with no windows, and the perimeter classrooms only had one or two small ones each. It was relatively new (at the time) so was built with air conditioning in mind.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
15 x 0 is 0.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I like Mobile home especially because of affects how you write it, and how you say it.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Jackets. Hoodies seem to be popular, and come in various weights. Blazers can fit typical “everyday carry” stuff without losing fit (though larger phones or really thick wallets might be a challenge, if you don’t ant them to be noticeable
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by pantaloony 6y ago
They’re too bulky and swingy for most people doing physical work, while also not being able to hold most things they’d really want to, versus typical work pants that might have like one big extra internal pocket on the thigh and a hammer lo
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Seems reasonable to me. One of the first things I’d reach for if I wanted to build a flexible tool that’d perform well, last, and be broadly useful is the ability to chop up the workload, ideally into a fixed size, but into some practically
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Particularly when climbing ladders. Anyone who’s ever gone up a ladder and felt like they needed a third hand for carrying crap has experienced why the hammer loop exists. Plus securing it when you’re up there so your dumb ass doesn’t knock
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by pantaloony 6y ago
When I’m not wearing comfy “tech pants” with extra internal pockets (Prana, REI, and so on) I’ve been wearing a lot of blazers. Extra pockets that, blessedly, aren’t in my pants; dresses you up but not so much that people in my hickish ‘bur
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by pantaloony 6y ago
They key part seems to be: > There is no contest for the popular vote. And that since the rules weren’t “whoever wins the national popular vote is president” we can’t know how campaigns and voters would have behaved under that rule set,
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by pantaloony 6y ago
You’re missing a whole world of how governments can get market actors to do things, unless you’re putting “incentives and guarantees” under “force people”. In fact that approach of using market actors to the benefit of the country used to f
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by pantaloony 6y ago
The power of teacher’s unions varies a ton. Supposedly in some places they have so much power it’s impossible to fire teachers for pretty much any reason. I’ve never seen anything close to that, but I believe accounts that such districts ex
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> In the United States, you can spend 6k on health insurance and 12k out of pocket for unlimited family health care. Where? How? I... this total is about what I’m seeing for shit-tier covers-nothing insurance. Like, there are plans out t
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Wow, that’s... much cheaper than I’ve seen. In my non-coastal middling-wealth state, you’re looking at $1500/m for an HSA family plan that still leaves you with tens of thousands in risk per year, and reducing that risk gets expensive

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