phist_mcgee

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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Great comment with fantastic context and examples!
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
It reminds me of that pithy remark by someone I read a while ago which was (paraphrased): "Any time someone pushes forward AI as a field, people will almost alway remark: 'but that's not real AI.'" It's true, t
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
This smacks of capitalist supply theory that is completely reductionist, and doesn't include outside concepts like vendor lock-in, price-tiers etc
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Don't cut yourself on that edge there mister.
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Care to explain the Zawinski test? Google gave me zip on it.
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Getting cert errors on this for chrome :(
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
My PhD thesis was on this very topic! https://eprints.utas.edu.au/31437/ I created a reading comprehension game/platform for 10-12 year olds. It was not easy designing the game to be fun and educational, but found
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Link?
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Trip San Pedro Prison Tour(blog.linuxdeveloper.io)
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
I have just launched a cheap fuel finder (for Australia) application using chakra. https://petrolbuddy.net.au It's been such a joy to work with, and I have loved the abstractions so far, especially things like <Flex>
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
That last line! Oh boy have I seen some PHP projects rushed out that sure do live by the skin of their teeth. They really do need a rewrite.
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
In a nutshell it is simply allowing you the ability to present fallback content with 302s but with a more gentle redirect than a 301, which tells you it is permanently gone.
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Eh, so what, they're not using the correct mathematically term for complexity. Do most developers care if it is quadratic or exponential? I don't care, because they're both varying degrees of bad. It's just one gets wors
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by phist_mcgee 6y ago
Real engineers smoke a pack of Marlboros a day.
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
It might have a lot to do with the high profile nature of gentoo on the /g/ board on 4chan. There are a lot of people still on the gentootrain.
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
Is there a reason pbs.org doesn't use TLS?
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
Stallman is that you?
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
The Tasmanian state government also presents funding for video game startups. Giant Margarita, and Myriad Games both from Hobart have received funding.
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
Well look at it from Netflix's perspective. You are in no way an indicative normal customer. They don't support certain browsers, because there is no need to. Privacy hiding VPNs are used to evade content locking as part of Netfli
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How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of Lunar Artifacts [pdf](nasa.gov)
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
What a really insightful comment. I had never thought of it from that perspective. I like to view culture as a layer on top of our instinct and natural proclivity for certain behaviours. Men's choice to exhibit or inhibit their anxiet
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
Can we all agree that the author of that article wrote incredibly unsparingly, and did not presenT any form of an interesting narrative, for something that could have been a quite interesting topic/personal story. In fact, it felt like
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by phist_mcgee 7y ago
What did you expect to happen? You're using an online service connected to signing authorities. Of course it can be remotely broken at any time, that's how the internet works, it's all remote.
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by phist_mcgee 8y ago
And 4chan theoretically is better still, because the anonymity means posters are not rewarded at all for their contributions. Even the same poster, posting twice in the thread is not identifiable on most boards, allowing the discussion to b