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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Definitely. I'm waiting until the engine fails in my 15-year-old jeep to purchase a new car, but as that's close on the horizon, the only consideration is which EV. Not buying another carbon-emitting vehicle if I can help it.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
I know those people would be glad for the money, but damnit it was 80 Fahrenheit on Friday and it's nearly Thanksgiving. Whatever's going on with the weather, humanity doesn't need to be making it any worse.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
You clearly think very highly of CS grad students :) I've met a few that couldn't code let alone write proper tests, even though their foci were not policy or say the lighter side of user experience.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Interestingly, I've avoided using Facebook as much as possible. I keep the profile alive because my siblings expect me to have one and tag me in stupid things I don't allow to actually show up on my wall. I actually log in maybe o
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Stackoverflow is a good language resource for me -- if I don't know the language I'm working in as well yet, it's invaluable. For non-beginner questions I don't find your percentages to be accurate, apologies. In the lat
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Sales.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Being too clever for your own good and writing wonderfully elegant code that randomly breaks on some other engineer who doesn't know you long after you have left the company. Surprise tire fire!
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Yeah I'm finding it's basically impossible to purchase a house inside the city limits. Last weekend I saw an 850k two bedroom cottage on a half acre in Boulder, and a three bedroom (nearly twice as large, had a full basement) hous
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
"Natural talent"? I'd chalk it to hard work.
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Yes. It is incredibly hard to believe, considering sexual orientation isn't a matter of like (as in liking math, or strawberries, or the color blue) but as far as I know is innate. Preference outside of sexuality is attained through ex
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
There are a lot of people for whom "math" means just the algorithmic computation drudgery they teach you to vomit out on exams by pouring it down a funnel into you in an ordinary American high school or UK A-levels math course. Do
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Exactly. I don't drive, because I don't have to, but the vast majority of people I know live so far from their sources of income (and in some cases, grocery stores etc.) that even taking public transit, if there are routes to get
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
In the US a bachelors is typically four and often five years, if taken in engineering or CS... Is this the European version you are referring to?
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
CDN's tend to block Tor. A lot of the Web is stood up behind one CDN or another. Cloudflare is the one that sticks out to me. But then again, a lot of people do use Tor to do stupid shit like DDoS or run C&C for botnets. So my th
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
Ever tried to contribute? Their trac is such a mess it's incredibly difficult to find something to work on, let alone someone sane to talk to about which tickets are actually open and need work. irc channels are pretty much dead except
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by sporkenfang 10y ago
The author graduated and nobody stepped up to maintain the work. Happens to 99% of graduate student projects. The sad truth here is a lot of well maintained open source work is funded by companies who pay individuals to work and/or mai
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
I have a zsh configuration that I've built over time and thoroughly customised... on Linux. For mac, which I have only recently started using at work, I use oh-my-zsh since it takes all of the environmental differences guesswork out of
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
I have a betta. It's pretty easy to tell when he's feeling something; if you've ever had or seen one, you know they're pretty expressive little guys. Granted, he mostly seems to be anticipating being fed (or the possibil
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
I'm not sure why this is a problem, considering that if one nation-level party is interested in you, probably multiple are? As long as the users in question know someone is poking around, they can take steps to reduce their online pres
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
It's become popular to pick on Twitter since they've previously made some shit decisions about how to handle free speech and user rights. My thought is that any company handling user data and accounts that state-level actors might
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
I'd agree with that. It's not that there is no value in Twitter nor in the amount of data on things people like and talk about on the service, but more it's more difficult for new users to intuitively jump in and start than i
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
For anything important, I take notes and draw by hand, and I don't print (never learned how to, due to a slightly unusual upbringing, and all previous attempts to learn have ended with a mash of cursive and unjoined lettering since I&#
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
Wonder who Bighetti is supposed to be making fun of.
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
As long as you like what you're doing and someone will employ you, right? Those folks probably have significant experience. Experience can't always trump creativity, but this is pretty cool. I'd not mind learning from a cowor
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
Having many highways isn't quite the same as having many good highways...
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
You define what is important for yourself. OP, it sounds like you're choosing to accept other people's versions of reality instead of focusing on what you can do (and add) by sticking to your own values and doing the best you can
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
> The advantage of pmem is that short-lived VMs can directly access data from the host instead of copying in. Is it just me or does this sound really, really exploitable from the VM-to-host direction? I'm hoping there's some wa
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
So does this eventually lead to a great merger between the ideas of "web site" and "app"?
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
So... how is this better than Apache Cordova?
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by sporkenfang 11y ago
To compare to one of those advanced mathematics textbooks you're making an example of, D&F is one of the canonical texts for an introductory graduate algebra course, but it is one of the least user-friendly works I've come acr

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