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by troad 11mo ago
This is relatable. I often find myself starting a reply on here, really thinking it through as I type it out, and then hitting delete on what I just wrote. Sometimes I even hit submit, and then delete a few moments later. It's just har
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by troad 11mo ago
It's also bad with games that have been sucked into the live service hell-vortex. I can't fire up a quick game of Madden against the CPU because EA has turned Madden into a multiplayer lootbox casino, so they chuck Linux-blocking
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by troad 11mo ago
It's fairly telling of the state of the software industry that the exotic craft of 'fixing bugs' is apparently worth a LinkedIn-style self-promotional blog post. I don't mean to be too harsh on the author. They mean well
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by troad 1y ago
There are a thousand and one legal reasons one may wish to block a region, including Europe. From anti-gay speech laws in Hungary, through the VAT/tax obligations that kick in at one cent, to all sorts of watershed rules and disclaimer
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by troad 1y ago
> You might as well be making the “I’m okay with my 2004 Honda accord with a tape adapter” argument. I love how authoritatively you say this, as though this is meant to be just so patently absurd it doesn't require any further argum
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by troad 1y ago
This is a wild take. It's one thing to criticise the BEAM for things it's bad at, it's another to criticise it for the thing it absolutely excels at. The BEAM is built around passing immutable messages between cheap green thr
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by troad 1y ago
Thank you for saying this. It's not a popular view, but it is the correct one. > You really don't want to end up with dementia and related illnesses, it totally sours everyone's view of you. I don't think I've re
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by troad 1y ago
> actually quite easy to solve I cannot square your earlier assertion that we should be more mindful "that not everybody writes in English", with your current assertion that all code must only ever contain English, for simplici
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by troad 1y ago
> Really, this bug is nothing but programmers failing to take into account that not everybody writes in English. This bug is the exact opposite of that. The program would have worked fine had it used pure ASCII transforms (±0x20); it was
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by troad 1y ago
> However, unlike TFA and other comments, I don't suggest `Locale.US`. That's a little too US-centric. The canonical locale is in fact `Locale.ROOT`. Granted, in practice it's equivalent, but I find it a little bit more se
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by troad 1y ago
I'm not intimately familiar with Californian zoning, but I have to say, all this talk of the 'seventh Regional Housing Needs Assessment cycle' reminded me of the Five Year Plans used in socialist countries. I wish the people
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by troad 1y ago
> In fact even this isn't correct, i/I represents one phoneme, not one vowel. Not quite. In English, 'i' and 'I' are two allographs of one grapheme, corresponding to many phonemes, based on context. (Using l
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by troad 1y ago
I think the pushback isn't so much against the existence of the tools per se, more against the pervasive idea that everyone needs them. When every other learning resource is titled something like "Ten reasons you need to be using
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by troad 1y ago
Going against the grain here, but I liked Stimulus so much I lifted it out of Rails and plopped it into a Phoenix app. I think the problem here is a disconnect of assumptions. Stimulus isn't meant to be an alternative to React. If your
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by troad 1y ago
> This is all moot because greenfield projects rarely exist anymore outside of being an entrepreneur, and if you're selling something, you're probably using a shopify wrapper of some sort 99% of the time. If you're working
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by troad 1y ago
Oh neat, I didn't realise that was an option for personal accounts, I had incorrectly assumed they required a business sub. Thank you for the tip!
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by troad 1y ago
I really wish I could restrict CLI access to 1Password per vault (or even per item). When I briefly tried Kamal, it made me very uncomfortable for a script to ask for access to my entire 1Password - every login, credit card, etc. While I
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by troad 1y ago
You're confidently asserting things that are legally unsupported, while accusing everyone else of being dumb. Rein it in, champ. Using police scanners to listen to unencrypted radio chatter is legal in all states. In minority of states
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by troad 1y ago
What word games is he playing? You're making a factual claim about the legality of something, and you're being directly queried on the veracity of that claim. Given that it's legal (in the US) to film/livestream cops so
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by troad 1y ago
So, hear me out, books are pretty great! Lots of people say things like "I know I should read, but it's this whole thing ..." and then you find out they've been stuck on page 3 of Wuthering Heights for forty years, beca
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by troad 1y ago
That seems like an ungenerous and frankly somewhat hysterical take. By default, you are opted in. Perfectly clear. The purpose of language is communication, not validating your politics.
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by troad 1y ago
That would not be evolution, that would be an attempt at creationism. There is no evolution police, and never will be.
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by troad 1y ago
Yes, that was my point.
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by troad 1y ago
The original meaning of sane is "physically healthy". Its usual modern meaning is "mentally healthy". You're using it to mean "reasonable". At which exact point is language prohibited from evolving, and wh
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by troad 1y ago
Two weeks left in the sub to figure it out, but I'm not yet sure. I was never all in on all the tooling, I mostly used it as smart search (e.g. ImageMagick incantations) and for trivial scripting that I couldn't be bothered writin
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by troad 1y ago
You can opt out, but the fact that it's opt-in by default and made to look like a simple T/C update prompt leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The five year retention period seems... excessive. I wonder if they've buried anythin
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by troad 1y ago
Gotchya.
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by troad 1y ago
> But what if the citations are valid? What if they are, at least, credible? That's how it tends to be. Flippancy doesn't correct this. But here's the thing, even 9/11 truthers tend to make claims that, on surface lev
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by troad 1y ago
> I've seen cases where Side A has 10 examples of case law that support their position, which they use in their motions and filings -- and Side B has 10 counterexamples of caselaw that support the opposite position, which they also
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by troad 1y ago
Strong disagree. A competent lawyer can usually see where the weight of precedent lies, and it's extremely helpful to have that precedent for legal clarity and prospective decision making. Statute law cannot cover every case, and syste

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