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by thrower123 5y ago
Fortunately, you can still get a fairly decent twitter experience by curating your follows into private Lists. You get a chronological timeline of those users' posts, and you actually see all of them, rather than whatever subset the a
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by thrower123 5y ago
And god help you if you want to get anything to work just a little bit differently from how the "one command" chooses to set things up. Like, create-react-app is great, but if you have to eject, you've got no parachute
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by thrower123 5y ago
My tolerance for multiple classes in a file or larger classes is heavily driven by what tooling I have available. If I've got a structural outline panel, like in IntelliJ-based editors, or the SuperCharger plugin in Visual Studio, then
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by thrower123 5y ago
I'm currently dealing with a framework where I've got to define data models here, register them with dependency injection over there, use them in an API controller a third place, register the routes somewhere else, and touch three
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by thrower123 5y ago
> off-topic, spam, uncivil comments, duplicate posts, They are all of these things, as I've defined them. I'm going to take what few actions I can take to try to make this site useful to me, and direct it, little as I can, in
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by thrower123 5y ago
I'm less interested in most of the topics that make the front-page these days. Covid, crypto, NFTs, security exploits, Tesla news, privacy, Apple products, scientific papers about health - none of this stuff is very interesting to me,
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by thrower123 5y ago
What an enormous rip-off... The difference between the 2nd and 3rd editions was miniscule besides renumbering the problems sets.
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by thrower123 5y ago
The average human programmer isn't very good, so I'm not sure that is the achievement that they should be shooting for.
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by thrower123 5y ago
Go old-school and play some BattleToadz
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by thrower123 5y ago
Recruiters need to pass the bozo test to prove that they have read and understood the first sentence of my LinkedIn profile before they rate anything beyond having their email reported as spam. It's a high bar for them to cross; I&#x27
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by thrower123 5y ago
If terrible websites hadn't destroyed the utility of popup windows, and caused browsers to block them by default, the MSAL popup flow would be clearly better than using the redirect flow. It's a much nicer experience, and far eas
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by thrower123 5y ago
At least with the physical spam, I can use it in my woodstove as a firestarter.
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by thrower123 5y ago
Ad companies gave up any right to not be blocked decades ago when they were serving actively malicious stuff that would backdoor browsers and own earlier versions of Windows. Since then it has been irresponsible to use the internet without
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by thrower123 5y ago
> Always makes me wonder how many dysfunctional companies are out there letting deadbeat remote employees collect paychecks and do as little work as possible because nobody cares enough to press the issue. I can't imagine it's
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by thrower123 5y ago
When the latest car we bought came pre-loaded with 2048 on the absurdly large central touchscreen control, but had no physical knobs to control the heater, I resolved to never buy another new vehicle again.
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by thrower123 5y ago
Most people are dumb, and can't keep two separate ideas in their head. This feels correct, especially in aggregate. Many of the failures of public policy in recent years stems from a failure to confront how stupid the public at large i
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by thrower123 5y ago
No. The burnout rate is sufficient that most people in the software industry have five or fewer years of experience, and very often it's not actually five years of cumulative experience, but five years of the same year of experience, s
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by thrower123 5y ago
I have never seen brainstorming sessions be useful, and they've been heavily in vogue since I was in pre-school. Nobody ever actually prepares for them, so they don't have the slightest idea what the real constraints of the situat
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by thrower123 5y ago
I've never known any serious work to actually get done without people "going dark" to actually accomplish it. The constant statusing that doesn't allow one four hours of uninterrupted concentration is demoralizing and gr
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by thrower123 5y ago
The supposed kidnapping plot against the governor of Michigan is illustrative. Three-quarters of the conspirators in that case were actual undercover federal agents or paid informants.
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by thrower123 5y ago
Lack of screenshots is a recurring failure of projects that use a Github readme as a website.
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by thrower123 5y ago
The Stirrup Theory is the kind of nonsense I'd buy when I was 11 and believed in Civilization 2's technology tree. There's a thousand years of highly effective heavy cavalry predating the purported introduction of stirrups to
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by thrower123 5y ago
I am surprised that there is so little usage of decent scripting languages as configuration. Lua always seemed like it would have been perfect for that kind of thing, or Python, back a decade ago when Python was less... what it has turned i
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by thrower123 5y ago
How terrible is the Windows version of Zoom running on Wine/Proton?
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by thrower123 5y ago
The promise of WebAssembly is that we can stop writing shitty Javascript and write shitty web apps in slightly less shitty languages, without having to transpile it to shitty Javascript. Ideally this will lead to less overall shittiness. I
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by thrower123 5y ago
If they're upset about the statue outside of the museum, they'll be irate about most of the contents of it. That whole back-left corner of the museum is fascinating anthropologically, but not exactly ideologically aligned nowadays
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by thrower123 5y ago
No, they'll get bad ideas and try to implement them even more badly. Everybody's dealt with that one asshole* who overdosed on category theory and proceeds to write Haskell in Python for the next two years. * It's me, I&#x27
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by thrower123 5y ago
They dropped a bunch of new content around Christmas and numbers still went down... Not that much of it was very good, but I would have expected a little temporary goosing for Cobra Kai or The Witcher.
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by thrower123 5y ago
One of my favorite Sim games, SimTower, started life as an elevator management and scheduling simulation and had a game bolted on afterwards.
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by thrower123 5y ago
I wouldn't try it until there is an LTSC build. That's when you know a Windows release is actually done.

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