uglygoblin

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by uglygoblin 5y ago
We are either all on the same project or this is a common outcome ;)
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
I wish Robin Hobb all the years she desires and thank her deeply for gifting us with her stories so this animal could retreat to them when it needed a vacation from reality.
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
This is one of those games I play intensely for a few weeks every year before forcing myself to stop. It has so much depth and is so addicting. The spectator mode on the web version is fun and I learn a lot watching other players.
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
The title should be updated with the fact that this is from 2018.
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
You are making it all about money but things like reputation, legacy, and ego can easily be "skin in the game".
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
AWS was charging me 0.50¢ a month for over a year for an account that was tied to a Google Suite email address for a failed startup I was part of. I couldn't recover access to the account. They couldn't figure how to give me acces
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
Robots.txt can accomplish the same thing which means they periodically grab a single text file from you.
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
"I still understand how it works" is memory. Maybe you have an amazing memory but imagine 15 years later.
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
This is a small pet peeve of mine. I believe if your core business is not the content of your blog you should make it very easy to get back to your main product dashboard/homepage.
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
If the researchers desired outcome is more vigilance during patches and contributions I guess they might achieve that outcome?
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by uglygoblin 5y ago
Maybe he was very productive in other endeavors, personally or societally and it was a net gain :) or maybe hundreds of patients over 15 years had undesirable results at the hospital that would of been better had his salary gone to somebody
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
You've put into words what I haven't been able to, thanks for this take. I totally agree we are generally just dealing with another flavor of the same behavior.
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
I started using Terraform on our project in early 2019 which was version 0.11.13. The upgrade to 0.12.x seemed non-trivial so I put it off... now 2 years later and we're at 0.15.x. Looks like I need to clear my schedule in a upcoming
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
My first experience with an online service was Prodigy sometime around 1995 or 1996 and one of the first things I stumbled across was the MUD Gemstone 3. It blew my mind that hundreds of people were all existing in a shared world. I directl
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
I had similar experiences in high school where I was bullied constantly but the only way I knew to deal with it was by fighting back aggressively (verbally and physically). It sometimes stopped them from bullying me more directly but usuall
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
I've had the exact same experience.
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
One of my favorite concept albums is Ulver's "Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": https://youtu.be/PlrW9SUCINo
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
This is precisely what I do when I write code destined to be an AWS Lambda Function. It really feels like the only sane way to do it. It also makes it easy to mock the incoming request/event for integration tests.
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by uglygoblin 6y ago
Ditto! Digging through Diku and the derivative Smaug codebase was my gateway to programming and I am forever thankful that such software existed and was available for a young teenager to dive into.
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by uglygoblin 7y ago
I'm all for more search engines but I'm not a fan of the brand name Cliqz. I instantly think of the bogus/low quality search results on a parked webpage.
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by uglygoblin 7y ago
I'm not necessarily a fan of Teams but there's an unofficial Linux client that I use almost daily. It has some issues but mostly works. https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
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by uglygoblin 8y ago
Another Roguelike game called ADOM that has been around since the 90's was brought to Steam with upgraded assets and sounds a couple years back.