sirmarksalot

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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
This looks interesting to me, but I've been looking for a language learning app that goes beyond flash cards and SRS as its core teaching concept. SRS is great for learning individual vocabulary in a vacuum, but kind of falls apart whe
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Depends on how you define "insecurity". Availability is one of the pillars of security, so even your joke falls apart. Several years ago the trendy thing to do for security was to get a USB-A security dongle and lock your importan
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
> And don't be afraid to use negative emotion as a pointer for where to start This is so important. My therapist would say that negative emotions like anxiety and anger are information from your body. It's not always useful inf
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Meaning that the main viable use case for them now is intra-site navigation, i.e. the menu bar at the top of the page.
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I didn't mean to contradict you, just elaborating on it a little more and taking it in a slightly different direction. I think even with your caveat, there's still an implicit belief that there's still a relationship, however
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I'm gonna go out and assert that the statement "if you're not paying, you're the product" has never been true on a large scale. Rather, the two are unrelated. In this day and age, you are always the product, whether
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Run cables along baseboards, under rugs, under doors, along the stair runners, etc. If the cable needs to cross an egress point, put a rug over it. If you can convince your landlord, drill a single hole to bridge the upstairs and downstairs
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I think it's more likely that they've bought more accessories than you and get bit by more incompatibilities. I think the issue is that there's nobody designing the entire end-to-end experience of what happens when you use ev
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I've noticed the same thing. In in-person conversation, I'm usually slow on the draw when it's time for the next person to speak, and if I'm with interrupters, they almost always beat me to it. But in video calls, the ex
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Yeah, there was that whole South Park episode where they argue that the slur should be repurposed to refer to people who ride motorcycles too loud and turn left on red, but unfortunately that's just not how slurs work.
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
"kind sir" was auto-replaced with "kind f**"
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I remember when that happened. "Sir" or "kind sir" had become a cliche, and the mods added a replacement filter to discourage people from using it. Understand that SA at the time lived by the edgelord ethos, "if I d
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Good rain gear and a set of fenders feels like having super powers.
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
A system that requires nearly everyone to drive cars is not compatible with disabilities. If fewer people drive, it frees up road space for people who actually need to drive, as opposed to people who drive because it's the easiest way
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
My friend has one. It's the only one I've ever seen.
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
A couple of my (Asian American) friends swear by Kask helmets for this reason, though they're quite expensive.
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Living in a city, the idea of leaving anything of value on your bike, and expecting it to still be there when you get back is completely foreign to me. When I visited Amsterdam, I even had the seat stolen off my rental bike. Biking in the s
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you arguing that companies shouldn't have DEI initiatives because they didn't help sufficiently in this case? Do you interpret this as evidence that DEI is somehow bad?
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
This reaffirms the flawed notion IMO that the value of patents is in protecting ideas rather than the expense incurred in the development and validation of those ideas. A lot of the romance over patents is based on the idea of a lone invent
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I noticed something like this with Nintendo's early Switch games. Both Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey had a design philosophy that something should always be just over the horizon, waiting for you to explore. It sounds romantic i
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
You are factually correct, but the intentions are a bit murkier. The explosion of video arcades in the 70s and 80s was due to how lucrative the machines were as an investment, not due to any passion on the part of the owners. The value prop
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
You're restating the article's point. Naive DRY says make the dumb analyzer happy by abstracting out the coincidental similarities. If you work in a place that recognizes that this can be a red herring, then great, but a lot of de
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
The large file problem is a major issue in games, and basically means that developers who would much rather use Git, don't have the option of using Git because it would be crushed under the weight of all the art assets. So instead ever
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Depends what you mean by "change the model your brain [uses]". In terms of the fundamental model of how Git works, it perfectly describes what users actually want (get me the repo at revision X), but not what they expect (get me f
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
THEN WHY ARE WE YELLING?!! I DON'T KNOW!
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
To everyone asking "what else works better," I remember using Product Studio at Microsoft, which was a thin client over an SQL database. It had some flexibility problems, but it was so, so fast. It's the only ticket managemen
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Yeah, so the details really matter here. A lot of people hear "In country X they live on $2 per day," and think that you can experience the same standard of living in that country as you do in the US. But that's really not th
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I suspect you've never been a technical liaison to an offshore team. I believe your vision is to replace all satisfying work with soul-crushing work. If all your work is done by people who don't want to work there, including the s
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I think the Agile Manifesto is an exercise in subversively asking management for a very reasonable-sounding thing that is completely impossible: autonomy. Every line poses a threat to a well-known corporate best practice, and the natural re
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
There's a big difference in values between the financial independence retire early crowd, and the conspicuous consumption techbro crowd. FIRE is a trauma-informed strategy, and what your friends are doing is meeting what they see as th

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