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by smrq 3y ago
Not only is this a weird generalization, but it doesn't even make sense. Why would a terrorist want to downplay the frequency of terror incidents? That defeats the entire purpose of trying to, you know, inspire terror.
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by smrq 3y ago
Warning: I saw this video three days ago and I had this damn song playing in my head even before I saw this link today. It'll never leave. (It's a great song, at least...)
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by smrq 3y ago
The only thing I will credit Win8 for is that it felt really good on a Surface--Win10 was actually a step back on that platform. Which is natural, because 8 was clearly designed for the Surface to the exclusion of everything else, and they
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by smrq 3y ago
That's terrific. I was worried that it was going to end at the terse OP, but the follow-up post has just the kind of play-by-play details that I can't get enough of in debugging stories.
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by smrq 3y ago
If humanity can't figure out how to handle population decline, then it's doomed, full stop. There's only so much planet to go around; there's a finite limit somewhere. Rather than treating population decline as the issue
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by smrq 3y ago
Well, as long as we're talking crazy, might as well make the language Toki Pona or similar. (Now that would be a really self-selecting dating pool.)
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by smrq 3y ago
Honestly, if this sold me on any product, it's the Analogue Pocket. None of the iOS stuff seemed particularly inspiring or inspired, but that's one piece of hardware I didn't know I needed in my life.
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by smrq 3y ago
Honestly, I don't know why people overthink it... a major bump means "your code probably has to change"; anything else means "your code probably doesn't have to change". That's more than good enough for me
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by smrq 3y ago
I like but don't love my Glove80. The build quality just feels a little cheap given how decidedly not cheap the price tag is. And the thumb clusters are quite pointy. I do like how the key well shape makes it easy to reach an extra row
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by smrq 3y ago
How can it be corruption when it's all because of just "a few bad apples"? (Quoth my thin blue line next door neighbor.) To that world view, nothing wrong is systemic; it's all down to individuals whose behavior is not c
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by smrq 3y ago
When I was in 4th grade (and maybe other grades too, I don't really remember), a friend and I were sent off to a 5th grade class specifically for math. I don't know how practical this is in general; I was lucky to get a lot of acc
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by smrq 3y ago
I've gotten jaded with that approach too. The same thing happens, just on an individual component scale. (The number of times I've gotten written into a corner with $dropdown_component is too damn high.) My pendulum has swung to d
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by smrq 3y ago
We've been able to misuse glyphs as pictographs as long as computers could render 8, =, and D.
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by smrq 3y ago
Admittedly, couldn't they spend some effort on making that invocation less subtle instead?
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by smrq 3y ago
Given that nobody is paying them, "I don't feel like it right now" is as perfectly valid a reason as any. With an email response like that, I certainly wouldn't feel like it for as long as possible.
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by smrq 3y ago
That wasn't the position of the goalposts.
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by smrq 3y ago
That's certainly a valid opinion to have.
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by smrq 3y ago
If Reddit was a business I wanted to give money to, then Reddit Gold would be a perfectly fine way to do so. Ephemeral is just fine when all you want to say is: hey, poster, I liked your words. Hey, website, I liked how you enabled me to
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by smrq 3y ago
Because fire doesn't require a substantial amount of infrastructure in orbit?
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by smrq 4y ago
When I navigated to your link I first got a full screen popover from Imgur and briefly thought that was the point. And, in a sense, it was.
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by smrq 4y ago
Unfortunately, the better it works, the bigger the incentive for adversaries to muck up the data with astroturf posts. The only safe bet is a well kept secret.
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by smrq 4y ago
What does battery life have to do with Apple's walled garden?
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by smrq 4y ago
Unless you want to, well, use hardware. I've had a hellish time trying to do USB device development through WSL.
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by smrq 4y ago
Perhaps ORCA [1] might pique your interest. I've mostly bounced off of live coding because of the interface issue, but something about the ORCA interface tickles my eyeballs and gets the creative juices flowing. Shameless self-promo ex
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by smrq 4y ago
Yep. Firefox (seems to be a pattern in the replies). Back-back-forward every time on YouTube now. It's terrible.
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by smrq 4y ago
Why doesn't the naming argument also apply to variable naming? (I.e. shall we call everything "x" and "y"?)
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by smrq 4y ago
I don't understand why Tailwind proponents can't seem to see this, and tout "smaller CSS files!" as a benefit. You're still declaring the styles for every element somewhere. The client has to get those bytes somehow
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by smrq 4y ago
I learned to type on my first non-traditional keyboard using a previous game from these devs, "Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing". Similar offbeat sense of humor (though, if playing Sousa marches taught me anything, shouldn't
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by smrq 4y ago
When I was young, I had a book of mazes-with-rules[1]. This would have fit right in! There were definitely mazes that involved multiple entrants into the maze, and rules governing whether edges were allowed to be taken. Thanks for unlocking
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by smrq 4y ago
That... doesn't make sense. The user isn't complaining that React is bad, just that your app is bad. And your app is bad because you handled history incorrectly, which has nothing to do with your choice of UI framework.

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