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by samspot 1y ago
When you achieve expertise you know when to break the rules. Until then it is wise to avoid premature optimization. In many cases understandable code is far more important. I was working with a peer on a click handler for a web button. The
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by samspot 1y ago
My wife uses this solution. When I am at work and someone wants to know if I can do a team dinner, I have to call her if she's at home, or tell them I'll get back to them. I never know if I'm free and finding out is inefficie
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by samspot 1y ago
Great comment, and I love the thought process. My answer to the question: What is the difference? Humans and corporations are exceedingly predictable. We know what they both want, generally. We also rely on human issues as a limiting factor
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by samspot 1y ago
A lot of niche things I want cease to exist in this advertising-free world. If the interest isn't mainstream enough to get a word-of-mouth recommendation then it can't survive. The services we use to find these things, Google, Ets
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by samspot 2y ago
This makes AI image generation very boring. I don't want to generate pictures I can find on google, I want to make new pictures. I found apple's tool frustrating. I have a buzzed haircut, but no matter what I did, apple was unable
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by samspot 2y ago
I bought a Bosch dishwasher about a year ago and didn't experience any of this. Maybe it depends on the model?
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by samspot 2y ago
New Angular versions lose support so fast that they are already highlighted as risks in our TLM tracker on the first day they are released!
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by samspot 2y ago
The reason reading was put on a pedestal is to ensure young learners develop the skill of reading. Once you have the essential reading skills, reading loses it's special position. But it can be hard for adults to break the mold of what
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by samspot 2y ago
You don't need to know about parasites to recognize a correlation between diet and death. People are very good at detecting patterns.
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by samspot 2y ago
"But on the negative side, stoicism’s Providential claim that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things which seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath (a claim Christianity borrowed from Stoicism) can be used
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by samspot 2y ago
In my experience these bad books often are missing acknowledgements and citations. If you can't thank a single person for helping make your book, then its not worth reading.
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by samspot 2y ago
What if you can't use the mouse?
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by samspot 2y ago
Don't feel bad, native English speakers like me can't understand it either. FWIW I think those that explain it are mostly making up reasons.
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by samspot 2y ago
In my experience, screen reader users stick to the mainstream browsers to preserve compatibility. https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/
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by samspot 2y ago
I learned some 6502 last year in service of NES ROM Hacking. If you're interested in doing the same, NesHacker's Final Fantasy guide was instrumental in getting me started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzEhyvHB
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by samspot 2y ago
If you decide not to totally quit a network, do what I do: 1. Turn off all notifications, especially for replies, likes, and content suggestions. 2. Train yourself not to look for feedback on the things you do post as a matter of habit. Int
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by samspot 2y ago
This would be my first use of AI agents. "AI, buy me 1 month of PBS".
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by samspot 2y ago
At the rate I watch, this would save me money.
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by samspot 2y ago
They have tons of physical stuff too. And if archive.org is ever destroyed we'll be glad they weren't the only ones with these records. Plus, people donate things directly to VGHF that may not be on archive.org.
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by samspot 2y ago
I'd say they would need at least 30 people each to support windows & mac native apps. Especially considering all the extra overhead having multiple codebases introduces. Maybe more than that. Edit: Just to clarify "need"
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by samspot 2y ago
In 17 years you never had a past co-worker contact you about a job? That's confirmation that your past performance is affecting your future job prospects. And if you have had that kind of contact, then your statement above is a lie.
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by samspot 2y ago
I've often wanted something like this for music or video games. The "truth" of the reference doesn't much matter. The point for me is: I like this thing, now I want to try some things that are related to it. However, I w
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by samspot 2y ago
I highly recommend turning off the autoplay next video option in YouTube. It will enhance your life.
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by samspot 2y ago
"unwilling or unable" is extremely key. I recall a US Senator talking about his son who has schizophrenia. The father would pay for an apartment for his son, no strings attached, and still find him sleeping in the street. It may b
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by samspot 2y ago
For me, the only thinking this inspired was: 1) Haha 2) But I already played Cookie Clicker I've been trying to disentangle myself from the internet for the last couple years. Maybe this hits better for those who haven't yet reali
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by samspot 2y ago
From my small company experience, this is more likely incompetence than maliciousness. Spreadsheets get passed around and remerged back into the blob. Mind you, I don't mean to excuse this behavior. Just to understand it. And of course
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by samspot 2y ago
I sent this to my blind friend and found out this page is fantastically inaccessible. The only keyboard usable thing on the whole page is the mailing list signup. A few <button> tags would go a long way here, as well as general semant
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by samspot 2y ago
I kept expecting a Buddhism pitch in the article. It reminded me so much of the opening premise of The Untethered Soul. I'm not too interested in Buddhism specifically, but I have been separating myself from technology more, and It&#x2
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by samspot 2y ago
I've never noticed the busy indicator preventing people from asking me this question. And when I message others, the busy light is merely an indicator of how long I may need to wait for a response. My advice to anyone reading is not to
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by samspot 2y ago
I'm a US iphone user and I had no idea what iMessage colors meant until journalists started making a big deal of it. Not that I doubt the stories about green-shaming, it just never occurred to me.

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