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by smrq 2y ago
I was really, really hoping that this article might change my mind about Wikipedia editors; that it would show me that they have some legitimate points that I have been unaware of, and that the gripes about them are uninformed if not totall
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by smrq 2y ago
The funny thing about this is that Monopoly was designed to be a simulation of capitalism rather than a fun game. So it's arguably less of a simulation.
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by smrq 2y ago
We had an instance where a literal semicolon was accidentally added to the top of every page on our e-commerce website. Nobody noticed it for a while because it was hidden underneath the nav bar thanks to z indexing. The weird part is that
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by smrq 2y ago
I'm 69" tall, and I wonder if that would be a spike of its own if we didn't use a combination of inches and feet.
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by smrq 2y ago
In my humble opinion, Space Alert can't be beat. Just prepare to explode a lot; like any good co-op, there's a learning curve. After you get hooked, get the expansion, which comes with an addictive character progression system wit
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by smrq 2y ago
It's kind of beautiful how largely unreadable this is, yet how the critical part is completely unchanged.
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by smrq 2y ago
Spaces instead of tabs are an accessibility problem for some people. Being able to read and write source code is priority #1.
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by smrq 2y ago
"It says we can do these things you're concerned about, but we promise we don't yet. Also, it said we could do them before, too. So what's the problem?"
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by smrq 2y ago
Well, 15% of the time, it works every time.
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by smrq 2y ago
This list seems long but closer to typical than 5-6 would be, imo.
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by smrq 2y ago
I'm legitimately surprised that there seems to be no pornographic equivalent to this yet (or, at least, not one I've heard about in passing). Porn-on-demand seems like it's always a prime target for AI tech, maybe because the
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by smrq 2y ago
Once, many years ago, I dropped a knife and caught it, fortunately by the handle. I felt very stupid for the obvious reason, but my cat was by my feet at the time--so I'm not even sure it was the wrong thing to do. Well, crisis averted
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by smrq 2y ago
This is the reason I refuse to use the word "clean" to describe code anymore. It's completely subjective, and far too many times I've seen two people claim that their preferred way of doing things is better because it&#x
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by smrq 2y ago
I've heard nothing but gripes about Win 11 from distinctly normal users. Like, the kind of user that calls me panicking because they can't find a file, because they got the Explorer search and directory bars confused and typed a
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by smrq 2y ago
Heh, I know that coroutine hack! The intro-to-C-and-ARM undergrad course at Indiana University used it for one of the lab assignments, at least in the late 2000s. It was clearly enough of a WTF that I remember it well, this many years later
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by smrq 2y ago
Well, what's the point of having a formal grammar if nobody follows it and things outside the grammar have defined behavior?
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by smrq 2y ago
This is the way. My work codebase has probably 5% unit test coverage -- it's frontend and a lot of it isn't sensible to unit test -- but I'm quite happy to have the tests we do. If it's nontrivial logic, just test it. If
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by smrq 2y ago
I would love to see a space advocate's response to this, mostly so I can disregard it because they are heathens on the wrong side of a holy war, but also because this is the only argument I've ever heard one way or another which s
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by smrq 2y ago
Sounds like a safe assumption. The only realistic assumption, really.
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by smrq 2y ago
I love Magic Maze dearly, but I would be hard-pressed to name a co-op that causes more anger. It features my favorite individual token from any board game, the comically oversized "Do Something Pawn," whose entire purpose is to be
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by smrq 2y ago
Ah, because given said understanding, surely it's impossible to hold a different opinion than yours.
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by smrq 2y ago
Time and money are factors into wrongness, too. That's what differentiates software engineering from computer science.
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by smrq 2y ago
Just based on reading TFA, I doubt it since the ACE apparently relies on getting to the kill screen in the first place. Imagine if OoT's ACE was triggered by the end credits rolling; you can't improve your times with it because it
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by smrq 2y ago
Well, no, it never went to court.
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by smrq 2y ago
I enjoy intentionally mispronouncing words to my fiancee, and this one is definitely going into the rotation, so thank you for that! (Now, to figure out how to get "tortoise" into casual conversation.)
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by smrq 2y ago
I don't think you've been associating with the kinds of princesses that I have been.
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by smrq 3y ago
I don't know about your city, but Live Nation has been eating those up around here. I go to these kinds of venues exclusively, and over the last decade have gone from zero shows sold through Ticketmaster to maybe 50/50. At least t
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by smrq 3y ago
"Always" implies not sloppy; sloppy playing would be sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, but unpredictable amounts. I should know, I'm a sloppy drummer ;)
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by smrq 3y ago
To me, Jet Set Radio Future was worth buying the entire console back in the day. Halo was just a nice bonus.
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by smrq 3y ago
I have a conjecture that aphantasia may be overrepresented in software disciplines. It seems sensible to me that a field which is almost wholly abstract would select a higher proportion of aphantasic people than average, as it would be of n

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