trentmb

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   by trentmb 11y ago

   > experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden Weird- I visited an IKEA with four friends and it felt much like a theme park. There was a cafeteria and everything. Granted, our 5th friend--wh
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   Isn't that what JetBrains switched to?
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   A capitalist is a capitalist, regardless of minority status- they're still agents of exploitation. EDIT: #yolo
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   I cheat- on work days, I have a big glass of water and a 200mg caffeine pill. I have an alarm go off one hour earlier than I need to, take the pill, drink the glass of water. By the time my actual alarm goes off the caffeine has kicked in a
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   I was a math major and while trying to get a job in programming I got asked how I felt my skills in mathematics would transition to programming- The language (spec) is my set of axioms, the standard library existing theorems, and my program
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   Both? I have a samba folder on a small VPS that I work from in DroidEdit, but switch to JuiceSSH when I need to make commits/compile stuff.
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   RCA Pro10 Edition II tablet/keyboard combo, with DroidEdit. https://rcaav.com/tablets/android/pro10-edition-ii/ Until I can afford a new laptop.
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   We've gotten worse.
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   by trentmb 11y ago

   Dumb question- why not launch it into the sun? Do the (projected) costs of storing it for 10k+ years exceed the costs of leaving Earths orbit?
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    Can I register a valid XP key with it?
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    Whoah, cool. Even more reason to empathize with animals!
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > revocable Axioms aren't exactly a thing Aren't revocable axioms why there are different geometries?
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    If we were strictly hunter-gatherer, sure. As far as I know, humans have a monopoly on the industrialzation of livestock production.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    Why?
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > It takes a lot of work but it's worth it. It's good that you recognize it for what it was. A lot of people don't get there. I don't really know what the next step to take is.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    I grew up in the care of parents that decided to stay together for the children. I can't really complain--they both love me--I grew up in a safe middle class environment, one of them always read with me at night when I was young, I nev
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    I suppose it depends on the driving. Earlier this morning I was cruising some empty county roads, windows down enjoying the (relatively) warm weather and sunshine, blasting some Chris Thile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > I've been doing web client and server programming for some time now, and I can without a doubt claim that it poses its own set of challenges that compare and oftentimes exceed in complexity to those encountered in the "lower
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    Thanks for the chuckle. I needed it!
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    PHP keeps a roof over my head, the heat on, and food in my belly.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > That's still population control doesn't matter how you dress it up. Yes, apologies I wasn't clear.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > like population control I don't think many people that support a UBI oppose better sex education, greater availability of contraceptives/birth control medication, and abortions.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    That's the great thing about threaded commenting, as opposed to the typical sequential forum style- it's easy to mentally block out a bullshit thread.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    Yeah, I'm basically a 'full-stack' dev right now. I enjoy thinking about and designing the database schema. I enjoy writing the back-end code. I enjoy thinking about the REST API. I. Can. Not. Fucking. Stand. the front-end wo
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    Yes- it just kick-started my curiosity is all!
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    If anyone else got curious about induction on the reals, my first interesting result was this Math.StackExchange post: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4202/induction-on-re...
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    I'm generally in the text-only camp, but do enjoy videos as a supplement. Some text descriptions + pictures of how data structures function left my brain oozing out my nose, but an animation always clarified things for me.
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > milk Oh god, I go through a gallon of milk a week- what do I need to know?
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    > Absolutely a first world problem I don't understand this statement. Doesn't this mean it's a problem every developing nation will eventually face? Wouldn't it be nice to have already figured out a solution by then?
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    by trentmb 11y ago

    It's chilling, isn't it? Facebook/Twitter could have severely hampered (if not ended) the Arab Spring if they wanted.