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by tetraca 4y ago
Ahh, totally forgot that QBasic and QuickBASIC were different. I figure there was no chance that they were going to ever be in a demo program in any case - I just remember it being difficult to make good graphics with the regular drawing to
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by tetraca 4y ago
There were quite a few draw modes (SCREEN 7 had a high resolution, SCREEN 13 had the most colors available), but I would reckon that the text mode was a lot faster and easier than trying to do things with the built in graphical functions. I
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by tetraca 4y ago
Where do you get your fish? I feel like I would have to go pretty out of my way to even buy a fish with bones still in it. Having to carefully eat a fish with bones is not something I like dealing either, but I noticed with fish I catch mys
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by tetraca 4y ago
> If you let your kids laze around and do whatever, they will ignore you when they are 15, and wish they had stricter parents that forced them to do more things growing up when they are 30. This doesn't resonate with me at all. As a
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by tetraca 4y ago
If they aren't themselves drawn to and captivated by the medium, then they simply shouldn't be here. They should be somewhere they actually care about instead. You could maybe set something up that would pique their interest (modd
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by tetraca 4y ago
> Staying when you want to leave indicates there's enough compensation to 'make it worth it' at least versus whatever shitty alternatives you have. Leaving when you want to stay, to me, would be a much bigger indicator tha
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by tetraca 4y ago
It's really not that hard to keep your forms of merriment clean and appropriate, if you are a generally good-natured person that likes who you work with and wants to make them laugh. That said, there are certainly people that can only
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by tetraca 4y ago
In that case, I don't think the idea of joking was the problem so much as shoving politics into the workplace.
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by tetraca 4y ago
Regardless of whether it is standard or not I've definitely worked on sites that worked this way back in the day. Smarty+PHP would generate the beef of the page, then certain components of the page would be pulled in using Ajax request
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by tetraca 5y ago
You don't toast it _all the way_. Heat it up a modest amount, just enough for the ice crystals to melt, and it will spring to life as if it were a practically fresh slice of bread (until it is freezer burnt, at which point it will be a
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by tetraca 5y ago
So, how long until marketers also completely ruin this avenue to get real opinions about things?
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by tetraca 5y ago
I've tried many times to like pork belly - particularly in Chinese food - but I find the thick layer of fat often left on it to be thoroughly unappetizing. I don't mind fat left on most meats but I can't deal with that stuff.
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by tetraca 5y ago
Pair programming should be another tool for your tool chest, not some religious orthopraxis that needs to be performed because some book told them it was good and so you should do the good thing all the time (and that is probably the root o
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by tetraca 5y ago
It makes sense though? If you're browsing via HTTP there is no expectation at all that what you are doing is secure. If you have a problem in HTTPS, you are expecting to be secure, you might not be. Hence, a warning.
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by tetraca 5y ago
Do you fear that one day your child might be something greater than you yourself ever could be? No. There is no greater accomplishment humanity could achieve than to make itself obsolete.
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by tetraca 5y ago
You can't take anything else, either. Not your toys, not your memories.
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by tetraca 5y ago
This mindset is so weird to me. I can't imagine just wanting to buy things for the sake of buying things. I generally only buy things because I have problems I recognize and want to solve. And the more heavily advertised a solution to
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by tetraca 5y ago
If they're genuinely useful, maybe you don't really need to quit them so much as establish firm boundaries as to their use. Not just as a matter of time, but also space and even circumstance. Something for instance, like "I c
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by tetraca 5y ago
In practice, not so much. Every gas station in my area installed these things, and they are busy as they've ever been. You would have to go well out of your way to avoid ads.
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by tetraca 5y ago
I use LinkedIn to passively trawl offers from recruiters and ask for references. Most offers aren't particularly good but a few random recruiting recruiting connections I made ended up being important. The data I give LinkedIn effectiv
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by tetraca 5y ago
Surprising. We do a PR and review for nearly every block of work we commit. Most pass without comment. The ones that have comments usually have good suggestions, or actually catch an error.
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by tetraca 5y ago
I would describe it this way: my mind kind of has a scratchpad of sorts that's separate from what I see or hear. It's a dream-like space that you can conjure a vague image onto that's visual in nature but distinctly different
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by tetraca 5y ago
Without Microsoft, Edge would just be another chromium fork for the pile. If it's not directly imposed on you, it would have little value to add.
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by tetraca 5y ago
> Telemetry:? Same as Ads; should be opt-in, not out. To be fair, if you asked people if they wanted garbage they probably wouldn't say yes. You only get these acceptance of these sorts of impositions when there is no other alternat
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by tetraca 6y ago
Besides KDE and GNOME (and some GNOME forks like Cinnamon), none of the other choices are particularly close to a decent full desktop experience. They are generally either limited in nature or require you to be one of those people that like
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by tetraca 6y ago
My commute was only about 20 minutes, so it was actually kind of a pleasant transition between each part of my day. I'd just use it to read and meditate. My previous one though was one of those 1-2 hour commutes by car that was just a
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by tetraca 6y ago
I have almost the opposite problem - without a bus to keep me scheduled, it's very easy for me to accidentally overcommit and do too much work one day and end up mentally exhausted for the evening. I have tried things like timers but t
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by tetraca 6y ago
Having built sites of similar levels of interactivity, we would have used some sort of server side framework with a template library (A custom PHP framework+Smarty, Spring Boot+Thymeleaf, Python+Django), without any front end frameworks at
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by tetraca 6y ago
The game binary is generally completely worthless without its associated assets, though. Nobody would really want to install Skyrim without the master esm since the assets contained therein are essential to the experience. Maybe that's
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by tetraca 6y ago
It might have been a concern long ago when space was a premium, but these days in the world of >=1TB drives you could probably build your entire software library in the most horrifying, space inefficient way, and it would still be comple

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