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by sershe 6y ago
I use an English-only-letters keyboard to type in English and Russian (finding a good keyboard with Russian letters is a hassle and stickers are ugly), and it doesn't force me to touch type. I still index-finger-peck by memory (and I s
902.
by sershe 6y ago
I wish there was a way to exclude some websites instead! I want most of the extensions like ad/script/etc blockers to run everywhere, except say GMail.
903.
by sershe 6y ago
Oh but it totally will works. Economic incentives change decisions at the margins... sure, many won't switch from philosophy to engineering, but faced with increased costs (for example), many will. My mom back (in the USSR, a slightly
904.
by sershe 6y ago
No, it's not at all murder. At the very worst, it's disproportionate defense against crime. If you kill someone actively trying to kill you it's obviously fine, if you kill someone vandalizing a house it's the same princ
905.
by sershe 6y ago
And as another ex-Soviet I'd prefer they never do. There is already real-life intimidation. 2 Seattle Councilmembers who disagreed to vote to defund police to a sufficient degree had protests around the house, and Oakland mayor's
906.
by sershe 6y ago
This reminded me of my last Civ 6 game with Gathering Storm (an expansion that introduced disasters and global warming that can be extremely destructive... 1) Set disasters to maximum, map to old (flat), and with non-trivial amount of ocea
907.
by sershe 6y ago
Read up on murders in the CHOP and nearby. Nothing to do with police or white supermacists. Everything to do with the people in the CHOP, eh, protesters I guess?
908.
by sershe 6y ago
I just consume local Seattle media describing multiple murders in the CHOP, all of which were between protesters (or whatever you choose to call people hanging out there), nothing to do with police or right-wingers. If I was living anywhere
909.
by sershe 6y ago
I really don't understand why financial crimes need to be special. Anyone showing a pattern of illegal behavior involving casual disregard for the well-being and rights of obvious victims should be taken behind the shed. If anything, f
910.
by sershe 6y ago
Conspiracy theory time! I don't really believe either of these with any non-trivial degree of probability, but I figure at worst I'd get downvoted, and maybe I'd get some insightful takes. There was an opinion expressed after
911.
by sershe 6y ago
I would assume this is because of how fast flu is evolving and how many strains there are, with different ones predominant in any given year. Covid is (relatively) stable, so you'd just use the same one.
912.
by sershe 6y ago
They were not the ones initially choosing to engage. I wouldn't expect them to have sound judgment or impartiality after they were attacked in the first place and fired at with a taser. Again, he absolutely didn't need to die, but
913.
by sershe 6y ago
How is what I said racism? It's maybe culturalism, and weak if that. It might have been very sad that Ottomans have once conquered Constantinople, or that Anglo-Saxons displaced Celts and were in turn conquered by the Normans, or that
914.
by sershe 6y ago
I am more familiar with iPhone-only apps as far as Apple specific ecosystem goes and the "simplicity" if usually off-putting, it's just polished lack of features beyond the basic scenario. I suspect Mac apps might be similar
915.
by sershe 6y ago
Heh, I have the reverse problem, on Windows 7 my uptime is measured in months and everything is great. On Mac everything, including drivers for the Mac's very own mouse and the built-in microphone, we atrocious. Heck, for my first old
916.
by sershe 6y ago
There was a specific thread on Mac whatever, or a bug filed I don't recall, with dozens or more of comments. Introduced in a specific version, and never fixed (well, as of 2-3 years ago), terminal would sometimes crash on reflow. Not s
917.
by sershe 6y ago
I thankfully don't use it everyday, but Mac and literally everything on Mac (even the terminal started crashing on resize towards the end of the time I used it every day). Over time, I started keeping a note where I put every bug, miss
918.
by sershe 6y ago
I feel like to understand Git, you need to understand pointers. I love git, it's so much better and so much easier to reason about than Perforce/whatever, in my view.
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by sershe 6y ago
Heh, one thing I love about Jira is all the UI redesigns. At some point I was using 3 Jiras for the same project - a public open source one, an internal company one, and another one shared with a customer. All 3 were different (but relative
920.
by sershe 6y ago
+1. I don't actually have too many complaints about the features, other than perhaps that the download management is intrusive and inconvenient, but it's SLOW. So SLOW. It's mind boggling how much CPU it uses and how much it
921.
by sershe 6y ago
Microsoft Teams, hands down. It is utterly atrocious. I've never seen an app that uses 40-80% CPU on a modern laptop non-stop to do not much more than ICQ/AIM/mIRC used to do in 1999 on a thing that's probably less power
922.
by sershe 6y ago
I generally found that it's reverse. In lower paid jobs, and especially in menial jobs like when I was selling newspapers on street corners for fixed salary in HS, you work fixed time and 100% check out at the end of the day. Next day
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by sershe 6y ago
That doesn't really follow. If we are burning down a house to get rid of ants, the house didn't really get destroyed by ants. And, it's quite obvious from the reality on the ground right now, as I said a month ago when it was
924.
by sershe 6y ago
There's a 21-feet distance supposedly required for a trained shooter to draw and fire a gun before a knife attacker can close in. Sure, they had guns drawn, but you still cannot "wait" until they approach. And, frankly, this
925.
by sershe 6y ago
So what this says, basically, that if comparing to the deaths and other effects from lockdowns on general population, given its age, covid deaths are to be divided by 5 or so, before even adjusting for age (I'd assume most would rather
926.
by sershe 6y ago
Making a HTML-only website backed by server-side code is generally easier than having two interacting application - one on server, one on client. My point was that even complex, popular apps can easily be implemented in HTML-only without lo
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by sershe 6y ago
Well, you have to remember than another game sorta like that was Duke Nukem Forever :)
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by sershe 6y ago
Is there an ADA angle to sue people (especially various govt agencies and stuff like banks) for discrimination based on inaccessible websites? I'd donate a lot for a credible push for bloat-free web.
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by sershe 6y ago
If Gmail or Twitter can do it, so can you. And hey, plain-HTML Gmail is actually vastly faster (noticeable even on my gaming PC, and much more so on my banking laptop) and basically as functional as the "regular" one. Javascript i
930.
by sershe 6y ago
Your argument is self-contradictory - people are moving out of cities because they are expensive, which basically tells you everything you need to know about where the real demand is (suburbs are super cheap everywhere except SFBA). They ar

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