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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Much like the other Beej guides, the target isn't that tightly constrained. This aims at POSIX options, and attempts to cover gotchas for cross-platform code. Not to mention that just because you're only developing for Linux doesn
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
I wonder if the survey question was something misleading like "Do you prefer to spend time looking through cooler doors or at an LCD TV with programming for you?"
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
My experience with Pixels has had them last about two years, plus or minus a few months. Always used a case, and the phones did not expire from direct accidents but thinks like the charging port failing (yes, I used a non-conducting tool to
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Vim's major benefit is that commands are composable. For example, `d` means delete -- but delete what? Well, that's based on the motion command you supply, from lines, to the end of the file, or even looking for a specific charact
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Does your sense of your senior dev pay include considering your benefits? Back when I was an underpaid junior dev, I once had my employer go and attempt to convince the software devs that we were making money than we thought via a statement
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
I actually had a desktop motherboard, purchased about 2003-2004, that did this. Mind you, as it slowly succumbed to age (capacitor plague, most likely), it would start repeating "No CPU Installed, No CPU Installed..." as I watched
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Assuming the binary on the disk hasn't changed opens to time of use type attacks, where an "evil disk" is substituted that changes the binary after the first load. (Or, more likely, some sort of rootkit) Unlikely, yes, but th
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
This seems like a bit of the perennially-linked "Choose Boring Technology" bit. Your corporate landing page/blog is unlikely to need anything fancy. This is true especially if you aren't in tech, while the article focuse
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
As someone replied to in the comments there, Apollo adding a mandatory subscription -- which doesn't sound like what the dev wants to do, anyhow -- is basically just doing a passthru subscription to Reddit. It's the same sort of t
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
From talking to veterans I know, "works for people who have VA" might be optimistic.
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by syntheticnature 3y ago
Dying notes are a fascinating thought, and relate to some of the cruft aspects I've seen with any sort of task-tracking. That said, in my usual note-taking app, I have things like recipes I might make once in a blue moon, and I'd
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
As best I can tell, Reddit's limitations on posting NSFW with Reddit hosting the image or video are implemented client-side, and unevenly across their first-party clients at that.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
To reduce the number of cables, in theory, though as noted it's not really implemented.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
From what I can see, Firefox deprecated the old add-on structure in August 2015, and the statistics then were ~15% usage for Firefox -- well into its decline from its heyday.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
My sole objection is I'd prefer a non-PDF menu, especially when on mobile. Also: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Worth noting the facet you're criticizing is how Dark Sky did it.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
You might be one of the "lucky" folks whose nails grow faster than average, then. That said, the article suggesting cutting once a month seems a bit on the long side to me, too.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Sounds like you might not need it. My fingernails seem to be unusually tough, so this intrigues me. The no-brand clippers often have trouble with them, and the one time I had an in-grown toenail the doctor had to get a stronger pair of cut
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Cutting nails is for shortening them, not cleaning them; while a month may be on the long side, definitely I try to clean under my nails daily and usually do more extensive cleaning with a nail brush (or toothpick, if I'm out of town)
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Pre-installed is the closest one will get to "works with Linux" from the larger manufacturers, so I evaluate it on that basis. Though sometimes it turns out they're using some obscure binary driver or even just an open source
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Indeed. While one should always look to check on other biases in play, in my experience "F" players survive layoffs almost as often as "A" players, and it's those in the middle that get hit. (Sometimes this may be b
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Ironically, in recent experience I've found Google Groups email routed to spam in Gmail, even with a Gmail-based sender and recipient.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
As someone who helps maintain some discussion mailing lists for a small non-profit, mailing lists "work" inasmuch as the email is accepted without error by hosts that, if you're lucky, just route it to spam.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
You're thinking of Discord, not Discourse.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
There is exactly one reason why I wish a supermarket would contact me out of the blue: a recall, since they would in theory know what I purchased if I used the card, so no need to first hopefully hear about the recall, then try to figure ou
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Indeed, I was recently looking for some information, and all the SO results I turned up were for the language in question as of 2011, and found to be inapplicable.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
2018 Gentoo-dev called, wants to let you know this is old news: https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg...
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Makes me think, though it's not 1:1, of a book I read in college called _Jihad vs. McWorld_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_vs._McWorld
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
"Tu quoque" is a logical fallacy.
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by syntheticnature 4y ago
Where I am I've been fortunate that the weather alerts have generally been for critical situations such as tornadoes. The Amber alerts, OTOH, have been usually across the state and of debatable usefulness[0]. 0: https://www.

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