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by rendall 3y ago
I wrote an extension that did something similar for Twitter, back when Twitter had "So-and-so liked this" tweet, which was inevitably something awful. It's archived now, because it's no longer relevant. But you might fin
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by rendall 3y ago
Men: make new friends now. Elderly isolation is rooted in the habits developed in middle age, and it particularly affects men. Overcome that awkwardness and make new friends.
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by rendall 3y ago
Yes, and that was what I myself thought as I scrolled past. "Jimmy Wales also hasn't exerted control over Wikipedia policy in a long time, and as of this year no longer even nominally has the right to overrule ArbCom." Exce
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by rendall 3y ago
Voi ei. Amerikkassa vaan.
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by rendall 3y ago
Hmm. I don't find that theory convincing. That sort of humor does not really fit in with their body of work, but random absurdity definitely does. Hamsters aren't really known for promiscuity. Fecundity perhaps, but then the ins
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by rendall 3y ago
The comparison wasn't notable male athletes versus non-notable female athletes. It was non-notable male athletes versus non-notable female athletes. The observation that male sports is more popular, while true, is a non-sequitur .
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by rendall 3y ago
I remember reading an accusation from someone upset about a page deletion that the notability guidelines are so tight in order to drive traffic to Fandom. At the time I thought it was absurd, but I find myself wondering about that a lot.
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by rendall 3y ago
I live in Finland! Unions are so powerful here they are practically a branch of government.
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by rendall 3y ago
It is very difficult for us humans to really grasp that unknown unknowns are real and have an effect. On some level, we assume that if we don't know something, it's not worth knowing, or we confidently make things up not even real
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by rendall 3y ago
... but if they do ask the question and then despise you for your answer, isn't it best to surface that during the interview rather than after you've made a commitment to spend 8 hours a day with those people?
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by rendall 3y ago
Huh! Amazing. In my high-school we insulted each other's mothers every day. Going to the teacher about it would have been inconceivable. Was it common practice at your school, an anti-bullying initiative or something? Was this in the U
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by rendall 3y ago
> high transitivity of professionals, monopoly of work, high income, and some sort of power law in terms of outcomes, and asymmetric info that can be on the weak side of the negotiation that can generate high payouts I don't know
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by rendall 3y ago
Our body of knowledge derives from intimate familiarity with an environment that is rare in the universe. The extremes here do not compare at all to cosmological extremes. It's not surprising that our chemistry is quite sophisticated a
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by rendall 3y ago
This is how unions weaken. Divide first, by implying that some class of workers are not worthy of collective bargaining agreements. Then conquer, because unions aren't powerful.
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by rendall 3y ago
TL;DR Wikipedia has no defense against organized, bad actors. The institutional protection protocols are easily weaponized against unorganized and solo editors. My experience wasn't so bad. I was less irritated by the harassment and do
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by rendall 3y ago
Absolutely happens. It is more common than not, with anything controversial.
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by rendall 3y ago
I once made a small observation on the talk page of a biography of a living person. This identical observation had been made many times in the talk page, I was to learn. That observation lead inevitably and inexorably, within a single week,
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by rendall 3y ago
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by rendall 3y ago
Oh, yes you were replying to GP who seemed to imply they do use it as a design tool.
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by rendall 3y ago
> I didn't make any claim about how many platforms it runs on, though. We should probably define terms. You mentioned that HTML + CSS make a terrible design tool. I suppose that's true in the same way that C++ is a terrible d
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by rendall 3y ago
IIRC (it has been years since I've worked with it) Windows Presentation Foundation does not entirely cover the same problem set? I mean to say, that I believe the solution space of CSS - the problems which can be solved with it - is mu
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by rendall 3y ago
I think people blame CSS - the solution - for the inherently difficult problem of describing layout in machine-and-human readable form.
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by rendall 3y ago
My aha moment in CSS was learning the rules of specificity, when one rule overrides another. I had always assumed on some level that later rules override earlier ones, which is true, but only part of the story.
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by rendall 3y ago
Not having heard about it, I looked up Lazarus, and it appears to be an IDE? Is that comparing apples to oranges? CSS addresses the extremely difficult challenge of layout across devices and platforms. Does Lazarus do that?
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by rendall 3y ago
You're right. My apologies to the community and @idopmstuff
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by rendall 3y ago
I appreciate your taking the time to give your thoughts on this. I disagree, but sincere thanks.
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by rendall 3y ago
I was curious about the question raised in the article: why the name "barrel" files? Even as a native speaker, the term didn't make sense to me either. I opened by asking ChatGPT what barrel files actually are both to verify
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by rendall 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT about the name "barrel files" > The term "barrel" is a metaphor. Just like a physical barrel holds multiple items in one container, a barrel file holds multiple exports in a single file, making it eas
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by rendall 3y ago
I did not understand this part: I created this collection of components for people who want to learn more about neobrutalism. There was nothing explaining what "neobrutalism" is.
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by rendall 3y ago
I agree with the first part. As for the last, I'd argue less than half, but without hard data any position is a Rorschach test.

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