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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't think macos will allow you to run a downloaded cosmo binary without going into security settings and enabling it. That's not an experience I'd want my customers to have personally which means if you care about mac nor
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by thefaux 2y ago
This feels like such a fixable problem. Presenters should be required to show up early and test the av or send the conference their slides in advance.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I believe pretty strongly that swearwords are a negative indicator in the long run. It is one thing to voice your frustration internally or when debugging and another to ship them out into posterity, which is unprofessional. I was pretty tu
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by thefaux 2y ago
Gambling is also ruining professional sports for me because I find the frequent gambling promos during the games depressing and disruptive. Many years ago I worked at a company that had Ladbrokes in the UK as a customer. On my first visit t
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by thefaux 2y ago
Cycling disproportionally attracts men who are also technically minded. It gets people who tend to be in their heads into their bodies and also taps into a spirit of adventure. It can be very seductive to those who catch the bug, but it is
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by thefaux 2y ago
I prefer Final Fantasy 3 on snes. Diablo is up there though.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I am guessing you haven't interacted with the developer of kitty. It is astounding how needlessly rude he is. No matter our expertise, we all have areas of ignorance and it is precisely due to that ignorance that we may not have the la
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yes, I am reading James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue which tells the biographical story of the main players on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It is almost shocking, even though I knew, how impoverished these musicians were even though t
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by thefaux 2y ago
Always worth reminding that the political axes tend to be horseshoe shaped rather than linear. Extremists on both sides are more similar to each other in many ways than they are to more average people. But of course each side projects their
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, I have noticed this effect. I use my phone less than most people in public, but I often have the instinct to reach for it to avoid something about my environment that is at least mildly uncomfortable.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Would love to see this in SF. It's especially bad on 101.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Two points that people are making that I feel necessary to refute because they come across as being offered from a place of bad faith or ignorance: 1) the suggestion that Biden should resign from the presidency because he is standing down f
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by thefaux 2y ago
Not only is this accounting callous, it seems to presuppose that there is societal benefit in reckless, antisocial driving behavior. I don't believe that this is true. Imagine a world in which median vehicle speeds remained the same an
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by thefaux 2y ago
We also could largely solve this problem with technological enforcement but people really hate that. If we made both the financial penalties for speeding and the probability of being caught sufficiently high, we could practically eliminate
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by thefaux 2y ago
Even if meant as satire, I find these disturbing.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I truly do not understand the psychology of a video game cheater.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't know. There are some benefits to be sure, but I figure that above some threshold (and 3B is definitely above that threshold) it becomes difficult to make new friends without worrying about their ulterior motives.
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by thefaux 2y ago
IMO, people get way too caught up in the formal specification of grammars. Writing an unambiguous parser by hand is not that difficult. It can be done without a lexer using recursive descent and a switch statement at each byte in the input
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by thefaux 2y ago
"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best idea
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by thefaux 2y ago
This is sensible, but I don't fully understand why there is such pressure to support inherently ambiguous infix operations. I get that 1 + 2 * 3 might be marginally nicer to type out but 1 + (2 * 3) is completely unambiguous no matter
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by thefaux 2y ago
Please explain how certain players having more or less unlimited capital advantage that allows them to snuff out any potential competition leads to more aggregate freedom.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I agree that this is not an easy problem. I have written a status bar for a fairly widely used open source build tool in java. I hijacked System.out and System.err globally and added all writes to a queue that I line buffered and interleave
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by thefaux 2y ago
I agree that this was neither my finest nor most constructive comment.
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by thefaux 2y ago
This is a flawed analogy and I think there is a false dichotomy by framing skepticism around building more highways as inherently anti-car. I'm going to go out on a limb and say most drivers do not enjoy traffic and most residents near
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by thefaux 2y ago
> However, when it comes to separating code into modules or packages, Python is more convenient. Kind of curious about this. I find packaging in Lua quite convenient. I make a file and return either a value or a table full of values and
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by thefaux 2y ago
This is very interesting data. I believe that it is generally considered common knowledge that it's very difficult to increase youth turnout so most campaigns don't even really try. But given how entrenched polarization is, increa
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by thefaux 2y ago
What PG doesn't say is at least as interesting as what he does.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Unsolicited writing advice: drop the self-aggrandizing grandiosity. It is distracting and undermines the work itself. Zig is a language for writing perfect programs? The fact that a progress bar is needed at all is a symptom of the lack of
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yes, why?
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by thefaux 2y ago
Lua and Forth is like pb&j.

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