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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
That explains so much.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Sorry, too busy peddling meaningless features like "Colonways" and advertising for Disney.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
To "alter" a commit message after it has already been widely disseminated, branch from the offending commit, make a new commit with a message that contains the relevant info, switch back to mainline, and then merge that branch.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
nearlyfreespeech.net
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> If you're the sort of person that believes in these sort of tricks (I don't), you'd probably jump to the conclusion that the person ignoring the pile of resumes was okay watching the place burn down around him as long as
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> the impact of a bad hire far outweighs good hires because they consumer the time of managers Sounds like a lot of bad manager hires...
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
What do you mean? Hard to understand what you're describing.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Disregard this, I suck cocks.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
To answer your question: > What are the odds? Very good, actually. You seem (and seemed) to be unaware how dismissive your original comment was. In fact that was the entire point of the response. To take issue with that response on the
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> “Directly” is immaterial if every part of the tool chain supports it transparently. Which granted isn’t a given In other words, it's not immaterial (and even hinting that it might be by introducing the word in the first place is a
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction that results from not having taken the time to make sure that the criticism lines up with the thing being criticised. > It blows my mind that there's so much devotion to the tool first, problems
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Reading stories like these, I’m glad I don’t even have a Google account.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
The key word being "directly". Aside from that, it remains to be shown for most projects that the downsides are outweighed by the upsides (which are often theoretical or aspirational even, rather than actual).
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
From the Laporte interview: "I'm 65. I can tell things I wouldn't [have] told if I were earlier. Hypercard was inspired by an LSD trip." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJKjBHCh18
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> with many assets being built and minified ... often needlessly and even to the author's own detriment, given the need to configure (and then maintain the configuration of) the shoddy tooling that produces the blobs--and the inabil
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> artful commentary More like, intellectually lazy kitsch that idolizes a controversial figure known for driving advertisers away on the platform he runs himself. Even besides the kitsch part, I'm not surprised at all that advertise
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
I like how it immediately tests your resolve by asking you to sign up for an email newsletter.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
What is the Wikipedia Foundation? Is it some kind of scam impersonating the Wikimedia Foundation?
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Suppose all those people causing you headaches got together and started a subreddit and wrote all the same comments there. Everyone who reads you either hears about your new posts that way, or they follow otherwise but still jump over to t
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
It's been known for a while that Doom maps can encode arbitrary logic. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Voodoo_script
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Ah, the John Daggett vs Bane fallacy. What makes you think that getting paid by users will make them give up revenue from other sources?
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Web APIs are far more stable and reliable than you're giving them credit for. Do you have reason to believe that this API will break? No points will be awarded for citing jank that is a direct consequence of depending on proprietary,
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
The source code mangling (uglification) is really doing a lot more harm than good.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
It's important to be precise and clear-thinking when articulating problems, lest we identify the wrong one but believe it's the right one. Your issue is not with the program being in-browser, but rather it being an online one that
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Just because Rust people are in denial about it doesn't make them not exceptions. The Either/Result monad is isomorphic to checked exceptions, with any differences being pretty much just syntax.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> wood chips to breakfast cereal > https://www.apple.com Shots fired
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
What for, if ((void *)0) is sufficient in C?
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
He should not, obviously. He needs to run Twitter to the ground first. So far, it's been going beautifully.
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
I was hoping for bigger drama after some EU institution gets banned for advertising social.network.europa.eu, but I'll take what I get…
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by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Twitter is hardly dominant, especially in the European Union. It’s mostly Americans who are obsessed with the bird site.

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