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601.
by strken 2y ago
If you want to increase adoption of a technology then the onus is on you to convince everyone else. I think being dismissive of the human element is not going to help you very much.
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by strken 2y ago
From what I remember of Thunderbird and Outlook, they both showed a visual loading indicator somewhere in the UI. Am I missing a detail of terminology here? By "loading spinner" I meant it in opposition to "do absolutely noth
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by strken 2y ago
As an Australian whose parents have 300kbps internet, please continue to add spinners to your apps. The round trip time to US west is 270ms for a good connection here. That 270ms doesn't include any processing (maybe 60ms or so) and th
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by strken 2y ago
The one objectively difficult thing about IPv6 is remembering an address. Four base-10 numbers between 0 and 255 fit in working memory, while eight groups of four hex digits don't. Even a shortened address can be difficult to recall.
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by strken 2y ago
Few notes on this: - To me it feels less like calling out the room dynamics, more like calling for a timeout or hitting the reset button - Just like hitting the reset button it's intentionally disruptive to do this, so don't abuse
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by strken 2y ago
Is a three-colour code going to tell you what's healthy? I think I'd prefer a standard nutrition label, since I'd guess that a mushroom battered in almond meal and deep fried in olive oil is probably made of three green ingre
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by strken 2y ago
What's wrong with negative electricity pricing? Are utilities meant to let consumers overvolt the grid and use their industrial customers and utility-scale generators to counteract it without any compensation or disincentive?
608.
by strken 2y ago
This is a bit complicated and I'm going to do a bad job of explaining it. The argument is that there are population clines, which are biological, and then those population clines are divided into races by choosing to ignore or use spec
609.
by strken 2y ago
I'm not an American, but Australia has a comparable number of power outages. A big factor is cost, and population density is what causes cost to be a concern. The EU has a population density that's three times higher than the US;
610.
by strken 2y ago
One of the important things about employing full stack engineers at small companies is that the skillsets of frontend and backend don't always meet the needs of the work they're doing. Consider two examples: sending an email, whic
611.
by strken 2y ago
Reopening classes is a powerful tool, but it would be a lot safer if the syntax was limited to class_eval and didn't let you define the same class twice.
612.
by strken 2y ago
> Honesty gets your resume shredded before a human even looked at it Does it? Mine is honest, fairly normal, and gets me through to interviews fine. What are common lies and why are they necessary?
613.
by strken 2y ago
They don't solve the problem, though, they merely reduce its scope. Ubuntu's LTS versions only last five years for free users, and they currently have to maintain seven of them.
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by strken 2y ago
After being laid off more than once, I think I'd adjust the advice a little: - You're only obliged to work your contract hours. If you do more then make sure that you, personally, are getting something out of it, whether that&#x27
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by strken 2y ago
I probably wouldn't have hired the candidate, at least for the position as stated. My reasoning is that the company advertised a position for a senior engineer with 4 years experience. Leaving aside title inflation and whether someone
616.
by strken 2y ago
I've started to think the solution to burnout is to just up and quit your job wherever anyone tries to force you to do anything without a good explanation. This is obviously not something everyone can do, but if you can, maybe it'
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by strken 2y ago
The comment you were replying to is about formal proofs of correctness, probably using tools like Rocq (formerly Coq) and TLA+. These tools can take an extreme amount of time to use and require specialised skillsets that are difficult to hi
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by strken 2y ago
The act of taking a beer with a strong existing brand that's popular among a mixed demographic that skews slightly Republican, and then marketing it with a "bland safe commercial" that intentionally uses a transwoman as the a
619.
by strken 2y ago
I define "trying to market a beer that's commonly drunk by Republicans using a trans influencer" as woke because it's: A) ineffective at marketing the beer, because it prioritises a social justice objective instead (maki
620.
by strken 2y ago
I read this less as "the Bud Light campaign was morally wrong because it was woke" and more as "the Bud Light campaign went disastrously badly for its brand and sales because it was woke". I have heard people call it &qu
621.
by strken 2y ago
I had the interesting experience of being banned from a Call of Duty 4 server, back when the franchise still had servers. It happened like this: we were playing the game mode Sabotage, and it went into overtime. When this happens, the game
622.
by strken 2y ago
What actions have you taken recently to handle the evil that is slavery in Libya?
623.
by strken 2y ago
From my experience with school bullying it was an entirely social problem. If the rest of the classroom agreed that you shouldn't be bullied then there were few ways for a handful of kids to go against that consensus, and most of them
624.
by strken 2y ago
I read the above replies as believing the linguistic use of "cargo culting" is fine, yet also appreciating knowing that the origin is nuanced and not completely correct (although building a radio mast from bamboo is close enough).
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by strken 2y ago
I find both takes misleading. "Windy" doesn't begin to describe winds over 100km/h on a dry and warm(ish) day in an drought. You could probably bulldoze a two hundred metre barrier in front of a bushfire on a day like th
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by strken 2y ago
> ensure that owning is always prohibitively out-of-reach for anyone born after 1980 I would expect a land tax to do the complete opposite and reduce the value of land by half or more, which would do quite bad things to the finances of h
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by strken 2y ago
That's the Kellerberrin B&S, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_and_Spinster_Ball . Hence why the uploader called it a BnS, the girl at the start says "welcome to the blokes and skanks ball&qu
628.
by strken 2y ago
I once lived in a sharehouse with blue paisley carpets and dark wood trim in the living room. It had a lot of natural light and honestly wasn't too bad.
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by strken 2y ago
It knows exactly what it is and who it's for, and I think that's great. Helping ill-suited users self-select out before they download your product is rare and wonderful.
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by strken 2y ago
I prefer it because I read by scrolling down one line at a time. This means that when I want to go back and read the previous couple of lines, I have to scroll up. This shows a big stupid menu of unknown size and behaviour on top of the tex

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