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by shantly 7y ago
I just don’t think that such things are bound to always be fine, is all. I’m aware of the evolution of language and not upset that folks don’t like it when I put a circumflex in “rôle” these days. I would like to know where new expressive
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by shantly 7y ago
I think I’m allowed to judge loss of expressiveness with no apparent benefit as bad. It’s fine to judge things.
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by shantly 7y ago
English seems to be losing nuance quickly, as we smash words into synonymity through ignorance or, relatedly, allowing figurative, sarcastic, or hyperbolic uses to overtake and replace original meanings. I know languages and word meanings c
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by shantly 7y ago
Even NPR spends most of their time armchair quarterbacking presidential campaigns. News happens. How will the campaigns respond? One candidate makes some claim about another's positions. How will that affect the campaign? Did their pol
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by shantly 7y ago
Powerpoint's for sending information to and between C-level folks. It's basically the only file format you can send them that they'll maybe actually open. Its use in actual presentations is secondary.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's a great rule if you want to get people to never write down whatever information would have been contained in their TODOs. Anywhere, probably. Best case it remains but just without the TODO label, so... congratulations? Or goes in
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by shantly 7y ago
> I'm sure Google is able to adopt a working ticketing system. If you already have an issue tracker then it makes absolutely no sense to keep a separate out-of-band ticketing repository such as source code sprinkled with TODO entrie
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I dislike banning TODO comments from passing through both for the reason that they're so coupled to the code they reside along that turning them into an issue is rarely helpful, at least as I write them, and that they can convey
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by shantly 7y ago
> As I got older the headache itself got less and less and mostly what I get now is the aura (freaky lightshow in your eyes) and a single Tylenol is fine. But for 20 years it was not a fun experience at all. I know people with way more f
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by shantly 7y ago
Ultra-hardened bunkers on earth are easier and cheaper to build and run than a half-assed Martian colony, and post-impact earth is less shit to live on than Mars. Unless the impactor’s, like, dwarf planet size.
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by shantly 7y ago
Dev lead (actual lead, not just a title) and product manager roles would definitely help, and developers can move into those. Granted that’s not everything, but you’ll need some of both of those to make it, especially product management, ev
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by shantly 7y ago
> Possibly because vue does not have any builtin http capability I mean, it does run in a web browser.
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by shantly 7y ago
From what I can tell, having followed several mises.org links over the years, castles-built-on-sand reasoning is kinda their whole thing. They rely on the reader missing some obvious objection, or some unjustified leap or connection between
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by shantly 7y ago
1) look into transferring your credit while it's still good (it can expire) to some place with a fairly cheap online CS program. Most degree programs, including most CS degree programs, are the "do the work, get the degree sort&qu
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by shantly 7y ago
Weight lifting's more effective for me at controlling fat than it "should" be according to charts and calculators and such, cardio and calorie deficits, even largish ones (1400 calories/day was one I kept up for 60ish da
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by shantly 7y ago
I can't wait until I can get rid of home Internet. And just have a dumbphone as the only way to contact me. Or mail. I'll just hit up a coffee shop or the library every week or two to pay bills and see family photos or whatever. S
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by shantly 7y ago
My mom used to record all her soap operas (on VHS) so she could FF through the ~1/2 of storylines she didn't care about at all. I think this is, or at least used to be, fairly common.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's a cultural/socialization thing. Lots of people grow up with the TV always on in the background at home, going to sleep to the TV, and so on, so they keep doing that when they're on their own. Some who don't do it wh
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by shantly 7y ago
Most mass-market TV shows and movies are such that you can tune out a good 25% of the time and still follow them just fine. Some of the worse ones aren't even as demanding as that. Also, people want to do something with their hands whi
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by shantly 7y ago
That kind of thing's basically the norm among the rich, no matter where they live. Not really surprising that the non-rich do the same thing when they go somewhere that makes them, relative to the locals, rich.
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by shantly 7y ago
They also want to be able to afford housekeepers, gardeners, and cooks at a rate so low they can afford to have all three and still come out cheaper than having one of those in the US.
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by shantly 7y ago
Getting paid to write software for 20 years. Full-time, professionally, for 12 or so. Been considered "the smart guy" several places (others' words, not mine). Income's great. I couldn't do anything "harder&quo
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by shantly 7y ago
Not too well, no. Off-the-rack basically requires good luck and a good eye for how a suit's supposed to fit to find something that works well enough to still be tailored some (rather than extensively, or simply being hopeless) so it&
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by shantly 7y ago
Can confirm, 4K77 is all you need. There's an in-progress scan & clean of Empire, too, and in the meantime the Despecialized edition is an OK substitute. IIRC ROTJ is done already (I think the sources were easier to come by than Em
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by shantly 7y ago
> Careful fans know the difference between the original theater cut of Star Wars: A New Hope Careful fans know the original theatrical cut was just called Star Wars :-)
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by shantly 7y ago
Even putting that aside, it's more the kind of thing you'd expect in an art film than something intended for general audiences, even assuming the film overall is good (or good at doing whatever it's trying to do) which does n
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm pretty sure highly-accurate audiovisual media are all tied up in fear of death at this point, in a way that a given live performance of something cannot be, so it bothers us when they're not eternal and unchanging, while live
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by shantly 7y ago
> Are fiction books really that updated (in terms of the words, not formatting)? Sometimes, but not often enough, in the way that's under discussion, that it's a fair comparison to what's already done in the film world,
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by shantly 7y ago
They're simply ignoring massive rates of fraud in their store so they can profit from it, and have been for... what, over half of their existence, at this point? ("oh but we're trying, no really we are, but it's just soo
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by shantly 7y ago
> You're talking about software you run locally on your desktop -- that's something quite different. > > and a wide variety of server software & daemons Mind, I don't hate Java or anything, I'm just saying,

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