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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Vote with your wallet, very nice!
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Would it be possible for you to contact your customers and agree on a credit system? No finances being moved (because of the war) but you'll keep a track of their charges and after the war settle up. This will be difficult on your side
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
My anecdata is I moved jobs several times because the problems we were solving became less technical and more political; I'll take a salary decrease to enjoy my work, thank you very much. As long as it covers regular life expenses, I&#
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Because PNG and GIF are accepted, what happens if I submit transparent pixels? Do they become black? White? Do end user devices render them transparently with window BG behind them? What if the GIF is animated? I feel like Apple left a few
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Left a job in 2020 over exactly that. Our customers loved when we could fix/build features in a week, but after 18 months the bloat made it impossible to ship a new feature in the same month. I actually went behind my manager's ba
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
"In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not."
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
The context is NameCheap's CEO gave Russians and Belarusians "one week to get off my platform, no refunds" a few days ago. This was of course a very crass and inappropriate emotionally-charged response to Putin's little
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
> ignoring the complex bits Hallelujah
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
bang Next!
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
> Warning: The tabindex attribute must not be used on the <dialog> element. ... Why? I don't use MDN often, mostly just as reference material. I have enjoyed their documentation before, it's always been short and to the p
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Smart CEO
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Russian organizations may receive euros as payment, which are still usable in Europe to buy things. This gives the EU a huge level of control over Russian spending in their markets; if they pay less, it's not like Russia can just excha
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
That's another point of sanctions; they aren't one-way. It's to show others that while cooperation is ideal, if your partners act in bad faith you can survive just fine without them and are ready to accept the loss of their c
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I'm very interested in building something like this for WASM programs; the goal of course is to make it easy for non-technical people to see that "Oh the software reads data from example.org, writes to /folder/data.txt,
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
This is a very under-discussed set of people; I left a job mid-2021 to work in an office (and threw away a promotion), and it's been the best decision ever. I even gave up some freedom to use the tools I enjoy most, because the new pos
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
As someone who has difficulty asking this question to themselves: - Is anything I'm seeing similar to a previous effort that I under-performed in? - Do my own expectations of success make sense if I weren't me? (would a random str
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I agree with the premise that using a google-like AI to "detect someone who looks like a criminal" is a terrible idea; but I also think that if you're out in public you shouldn't expect privacy. Loads of people think if
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
My favorite thing about rust is that it has no magic "don't look behind the curtain and your programs will be safe" guard - instead, you define the guard yourself; it's just unnecessary for 99% of code, and within the 1%
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
"some time later" I could see a MS dev specifying that in a requirements document somewhere XD
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Good?
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Linux already overcommits memory so much you can imaging it's infinite, the big show-stopper is the 64 bit integers used to track it. We'd need infinite pointer sizes before we could meaningfully use infinite tape.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
My personal machine has a python script in the bacground and in addition to a host of other things (un-tarring downloaded files etc) it tries to take a photo of my face once an hour. I use some CV to detect the face & take 10 frames of
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I've used searx with moderate success, but you really have to put effort into the different backends. Sometimes paid backends actually are worth it, a lot of the time it makes sense to write your own with a ~1 week on-disk cache of the
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Having a conversation with people isn't even that cheap, an email / phone call starting with "I'm looking for an engineer who can build XYZ stuff and I can start your salary at 123 plus ABC benefits, please get in touch
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
> You see, ASCII art uses a monospace font, and the cats screen was the only part of the startup sequence that used a monospace font. Drawing the backstop window was forcing the rasterization of an entirely new font, which was costing ti
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
> When macOS resumes from 0% battery, it's stuck in 30Hz mode This sounds like detailed, testable data; I wonder how much effort it is to query this in code at resume just to confirm?
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Same story here with MacOS and Arch Linux; and Apple doesn't make their hardware easy to run linux on! I've found that overall my linux systems require more prep work to setup (planning bootloader, partitions, init system, backgro
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Request for clarification: does "you" refer to yourself or the legal entity? If the legal entity, will a python upvoting bot in a jurisdiction where programs can be citizens satisfy contract terms?
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I love the organization! Not sure if the comments are exactly to-spec, but sounds reasonable enough for parsers to ignore broken lines just like how css is parsed.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Honestly I find Bill Gates a pretty OK dude, all things considered. If you live life without making any mistakes/enemies that means you really didn't live at all.

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