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by spedru 5y ago
The website decided to randomly turn into a blank white page after clicking through a number of items on the timeline. Said timeline also obscures the bottom of the tweet embed on a small viewport. Between that and the cutesy center-justifi
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by spedru 5y ago
I can understand the moderation team not going object-level in the name of professionalism, especially given that [whoever this really means something to] probably already know exactly what's up. That doesn't make it any less stra
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by spedru 7y ago
Sure, this is disputed, but I do wonder if it explains why my unfinished projects make me hate myself so much while my finished ones don't give me any real sense of pride.
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by spedru 7y ago
Yes. This is exactly what I meant. Didn't mean to come off as obscure, sorry, I'm a little out of it and English isn't my best language on a good day. I meant to tack a “distributed” onto that “panopticon”. A bunch of perve
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by spedru 7y ago
It's sobering to think about this in tandem with the fact that people in the IQ bracket for “engineer” tend to get away with crimes. Honestly, though, at least this can be turned into a concrete example to shoot down “if you don't
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by spedru 7y ago
I have no teaching experience but plenty of experience as a student. This is right on the money; it would have made me a much less frustrated child. Kids are sensitive to being patronised, and so many adults think they're slick.
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by spedru 8y ago
I'm not really versed in the idioms/social mores of Python, so please take the following with a grain of salt: This seems like it usefully solves a problem, but the invocation pattern is suspect to me -- Instead of "glom&quot
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by spedru 8y ago
My disappointment that this did not actually say "The Forever Monad" is immeasurable.
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by spedru 10y ago
This sort of article and the sort of thinking underpinning it is a betrayal of the uniqueness (relative to the more ``mainstream'' choices) of languages like Elixir/Erlang. In fact, part of the point of using a language like
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OpenBSD imports a letsencrypt client into the base system(undeadly.org)
3 points by spedru 10y ago|0 comments
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by spedru 10y ago
Betteridge's law is realized.
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“Election bombshell” allegedly exists on dead-man's-trigger servers(usnews.com)
2 points by spedru 11y ago|0 comments
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by spedru 11y ago
Every time some link or headline reads "now UTF-8 by default", the only reasonable response in 2016 is "about time".
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Werc – A sane web anti-framework(werc.cat-v.org)
2 points by spedru 11y ago|0 comments
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Annotated FOSDEM Schedule(s)(sciops.net)
2 points by spedru 11y ago|0 comments
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by spedru 11y ago
The only winning move is not to play, as they say. Televisions are overrated anyway.
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by spedru 11y ago
Two possibilities come off the top of my head. Vitamin supplements. Start packing yourself lunch.