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by trebbble 4y ago
US here. On the old end of "millennial", if that matters. More than 95% of my personal communication with other humans I know (remote communication, that is, not in-person, obviously) is in WhatsApp. The rest is phone and SMS and
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by trebbble 4y ago
Android's developer docs are the only ones from Google I've used extensively enough to have an opinion on them, and that not in the last three years or so, but those spent at least a decade being notably poor.
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by trebbble 4y ago
It's part of the job with Rails . In many other ecosystems your tools just tell you the answer immediately, or you can at least easily grep your way to an answer.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> The "magic" factor in RoR is much less than, say, iOS development in XCode. And RoR has the benefit of being text-based, so whatever functionality you're looking for, you can be sure it's in a text file somewhere. N
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by trebbble 4y ago
It's chiefly difficulty reading & navigating the code due to all the magic (made even worse by dynamic typing), plus reliance on extensive, comprehensive tests to maintain any amount of confidence it's doing what it's sup
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by trebbble 4y ago
I've been in the guts of about five Rails codebases that were already in production, and they've all been very bad, and the badness difficult to overcome in part because of Rails and/or Ruby (which is why I hang some of the
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by trebbble 4y ago
> EDIT: I see I have touched quite a few nerves. It reads like a post you made for yourself, not for the benefit of any reader.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> you have to count the entire Democratic party Progressives wish the Democrats were progressive. There's a progressive caucus, and it's stronger than it used to be, but is still far from steering the party.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Zero progressives I know want that. Most distrust technology generally, and hate surveillance especially, government or otherwise. You've created a straw-man.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Clicks the "learn more" button
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by trebbble 4y ago
> Any speech that violates the official narrative is deemed wrongthink and seems to be fair game for law enforcement/regulators. I see enough "democrats in disarray" or shitting on the Biden admin (maybe both justifiably!
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by trebbble 4y ago
Right, but without enough suction it's just not going to get any of the dirt down in the carpet, no matter how many times it goes over it. It'll just get light stuff that's right on the surface. Shitty upright vacs (so, the
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by trebbble 4y ago
I never understood WTF people were talking about with the cables. I'd go 5+ years with various Apple cables without a single sign of fraying. Not even careful with them, would just wad them up in bags when moving around, that kind of t
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by trebbble 4y ago
> great battery life, etc. The "great battery life" is part hardware, but largely software. See also: iOS devices with "worse" specs and smaller batteries that perform way better than "better" Android coun
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by trebbble 4y ago
> But that's not how most human communication work. It's not even how it can work. See the Malicious Genie problem for a memorable demonstration of the fundamental problem. Chasing "precision" beyond what's nec
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by trebbble 4y ago
Plus the sun is really hard on car paint and interiors. It's part of why people prefer covered parking or garages. Thought at $255k maybe they've used way, way more UV- and heat-resistant materials than most cars do.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Quotes "not working" is because we search for things in quotes that definitely exist (and may even be possible to induce to appear on a search page, by other means) and get "no results, have some trash instead" in resp
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by trebbble 4y ago
> When I finally found an old user name she used, then the searches worked. Her correct name and the other information I was searching with were in the page. So it was indexed, the information was simply ignored, because it wasn't n
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by trebbble 4y ago
I think part of it's that they just don't index a whole bunch of the Web anymore. You can search things in quotes that must exist, and get "LOL no such results here's some irrelevant shit". That's what peop
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by trebbble 4y ago
'07. It went to hell in '08 or '09. That's when my much-remarked-upon search skills became entirely useless, because you could no longer direct the search engine with any precision.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> Swipe from bottom to switch programs? Swipe from top left and top right to get different (IMPORTANT!) panels? Why are three lines a "Menu"? But sometimes it's dots, or a gear icon, and they're never in the same plac
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by trebbble 4y ago
> If there's some vaccuum bot that can almost take the place of a real vaccuum on carpet please let me know because I don't vaccuum enough at all. If that one famous vacuum-repairman AMA on Reddit is to be believed, even most h
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by trebbble 4y ago
Yeah—I'm a reasonably dextrous person, but had to disable 3d touch on iOS and whatever the fancy pressure thing is on recent macbook touchpads, to make them usable. Constant mistakes with either turned on.
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by trebbble 4y ago
It did used to be possible to craft searches that'd find that kind of thing, with Google. Not in natural language, but you could guess enough unusual words that might show up on a page that had that info to zero in on it. Their apparen
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by trebbble 4y ago
Oh shit I forgot about it being in Wayne's World. That's very likely the first place I heard it.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> I don't know how I missed it. Haha, I was sure I'd read that post, but had to look for quite a while to find it again, myself, for some reason. > I guess these days not everyone hears it growing up? I'm actually not s
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by trebbble 4y ago
> Yeah, I appreciated this article -- will confess I definitely thought the joke originated with The Office. - kevin___ I'd not be a bit surprised if a double-digit percentage of viewers thought the joke originated there.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> as if they are competitors on an episode of Takeshi's Castle. "It looks as if the two teams are merging, like two black holes: if both suck, surely they'll suck even more together." "Right you are, Ken!"
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by trebbble 4y ago
The author goes on to point out that that's exactly what the joke there is supposed to be—Scott making a mess of attempts to deploy a tired joke is the joke. A poster in these very comments admitted to having believed that the joke
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by trebbble 4y ago
By the time the translation was made (~1920), it could also be "know-it-all" (I assume this started as a sarcastic use of its sense of "headmaster") which is pretty close to its typical meaning today—to me it implies som

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