stirfish

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   by stirfish 4y ago

   Have you ever seen some sheet music, a schematic, or an equation and thought it would be more clearly expressed as a paragraph of English text? Those are meant to be read by humans too. You don't have to abstract everything, but I lik
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   by stirfish 4y ago

   Put the 20 line version in a properly named function, even if it's only used once. There are two reasons for this: 1. You're probably doing something else where you don't want to stop and decipher a magic one-liner. That comm
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   by stirfish 4y ago

   >The difference is that self-documenting code is bad. Code isn't documentation for humans. Documentation is documentation for humans. Surely you're joking? Code is meant to be read by humans. The comment above your single-let
4. 244.▲
   by stirfish 4y ago

   yarg was holding together pretty much every tech company.
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   by stirfish 4y ago

   I bought a Benjamin Marauder.177 with a Lothar Walther barrel, and some paper targets. I now have a ten meter air rifle range in the basement. I like how meditative it feels, focusing on a small point in the distance.
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   by stirfish 4y ago

   You won't be able to curate everything forever, so in the long run it's easier to get them asking questions (and to ask them questions) about what they're watching. They'll quickly be able to tell what's trash medi
7. 247.▲
   by stirfish 4y ago

   What's a Satan?
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   by stirfish 4y ago

   It can be a pretty quick talk, if you contextualize porn as a movie. Real people don't have sex the way the characters do in porn, just like they don't drive like the characters in action movies.
9. 249.▲
   by stirfish 4y ago

   >pornography is a level of sexual exploitation that no person, not even the actors involved, should be considered capable of legally consenting to partake in. Why?
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    by stirfish 4y ago

    The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson [1] A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk [2] The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin [3] We Real Cool by bell hooks [4] [1] >The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ash
11. 251.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    Better paid work for him than unpaid work for me
12. 252.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    There's a man with a disability working as a cashier near me, and I wait in line for him even when the self-checkout is open.
13. 253.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    >Otherwise we are just going to entertain and eat ourselves to death How did you want to die?
14. 254.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    Posting this comment probably felt good, so your account should be strictly regulated for your benefit.
15. 255.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    Emacs etched on a custom ASIC.
16. 256.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    > no documents about how to actually use the resulting software. Can all your engineers see all your other engineers' code? It's hard enough to get code to do what it says it does; I've very rarely seen documentation that&
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    by stirfish 4y ago

    #!/usr/bin/env bash xdg-open https://susam.net/blog/good-quality-dosbox-video-capture.html
18. 258.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    How? He used that computer to buy stuff online
19. 259.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    What is safety shaming?
20. 260.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    Violins, cellos etc come from the viola da braccio family (arm viola). I used to play the viola da gamba (leg viola), which comes in all sizes but you play them kinda like little cellos. They have six strings, frets, and you hold the bow a
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    by stirfish 4y ago

    I hope your daughters all find love and live happy, fulfilling lives with partners that have no cases on their android phones.
22. 262.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    I don't know the _best_ way to leave feedback, but here's a feedback form: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/requests/new
23. 263.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    What people are concerned enough about a Terms of Service change to leave Whatsapp, but struggle with the unlocked icon next to "Insecure SMS" in Signal? What people know that Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted, but think SM
24. 264.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    I left some feedback asking them to reconsider. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/requests/new
25. 265.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    > "send by SMS" is a bit confusing Can you say more about what's confusing about this for you?
26. 266.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    I agree with this - I already get a little popup telling me a message to a 6-digit number might cost me money. Just reuse that pop-up or something.
27. 267.▲
    by stirfish 4y ago

    I feel like I somehow caused this mess by becoming a monthly donor. It feels like I just got my friends to put letters in envelopes instead of only using postcards. Now we all have to drive to two different post offices - one for letters a
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    by stirfish 4y ago

    I've had enough of these impossible beauty standards. I'd take a smart phone that's 3x as thick (thicc) if it had 3x the battery life, but I currently settle for a case that's also a battery. When my T420 finally dies (i
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    by stirfish 4y ago

    I'd argue that threads like this are why interesting leaks show up on 4chan first and not hacker news.
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    by stirfish 4y ago

    I'm a big fan of the typo in the title :)