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by vanadium 8y ago
I live in an unincorporated area two blocks from the border of Chicago. By getting the whole "municipality" thing out of the way and falling under county jurisdiction, property taxes are reasonable (and we pay for emergency servic
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by vanadium 8y ago
Respectfully, "we live in a society" isn't an answer any more than "the sun rose today". Plenty of European nations reason about this in far more pragmatic and dignified terms than does the United States.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Assuming the person has complete agency of their body and life, that's not exactly in your wheelhouse to proclaim with such certainty.
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by vanadium 8y ago
As someone who quit a 17-year cigarette habit for vaping starting in the early-ish days (2011, and it's come so far since then), nicotine salts might be the answer to those who relapse from trying to quit via vaping because it "di
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by vanadium 8y ago
Is it possible to dehumanize the firing process any further than the words, "Resource Action"?
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by vanadium 8y ago
"IBM Watson Marketing Automation" being another I was made painfully aware of recently, which was the result of the Silverpop acquisition at least in part.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Oh hell. I've had the GPU replacement a couple of years back on my MBP Late-2011. That machine might be the Ship of Theseus by now, but it still holds up. Here's me not looking forward to another failure.
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by vanadium 8y ago
A consulting company I worked at a few years ago had an "Interactive" team whose "UX" designers used exclusively Material Design for everything. It was...something special. Everything was just sort of cobbled together wi
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by vanadium 8y ago
It's for this reason Illinois residents don't buy a car in Wisconsin or another neighboring state with a more advantageous tax structure; you'll get nailed post-haste. But if you're driving up to buy a few cases of New G
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by vanadium 8y ago
"It turned out that in that version of IE, the console object only existed when the devtools were open. So a stray console.log call was causing an exception because console was undefined. But when I opened the devtools to see what was
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by vanadium 8y ago
Service Workers, probably.
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by vanadium 8y ago
I know more than a couple of good front-end developers that work remotely from rural locales for big-city companies laying down 135k-140k USD salaries. I also know directors in other companies in said big cities making only 10k more than th
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by vanadium 8y ago
Whither the Omnibots? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibot
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by vanadium 8y ago
None. None at all that anyone's noticed in our home, and I imagine the speed associated with the fewer server requests and their payload offsets any negligible performance degradation that would have been there.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Been running it myself for 5-6 months, and other than the occasional (actually, very rare) complaint from the Mrs. that a link she clicked won't go through due to a blocked tracker/analytics intermediary, it's been a peachy t
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by vanadium 8y ago
I can relate to Brad Frost's issues picking up React. Vue, on the other hand, took me a day to wrap myself around and pick up with some certainty.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Bills. Mortgage. Family. The individuals in the development team I lead. All of these things make getting up in the morning and coming to the office well worth it. Having a hobby that isn't coding, but just as intricate and puzzle-solv
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by vanadium 8y ago
Corpspeak. Usually on part of Account Managers and sales folks, where every wheel (including the English language itself) must be reinvented in a cycle of no more than 5 years... ...or you're not "moving the needle." I'v
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by vanadium 8y ago
Plenty of the "Amazon's Choice" flags are...a little deceptive. Maybe not deceptive in a conventional sense, but say you see a product in the search results on Amazon and one has that flag. You click on it, because hey. Then
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by vanadium 8y ago
I don't remember a time it wasn't.
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by vanadium 8y ago
I can't help but read this, as a former webOS app dev, with a bit of irony given the source.
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by vanadium 8y ago
Yep, also why I switched from Chrome to Firefox on Android. And my home network/VPN is sitting behind a Pi-hole instance for good measure.
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by vanadium 8y ago
You forgot the part where the Dev team needs to get it under one second, and like most of the articles telling developers to get their experiences loading under one second, completely forget to give the parameters under which "one seco
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by vanadium 8y ago
I remember the AllAdvantage.com cheat as well. It became so popular to game that one that not only were novel tactics like yours employed, but automatic mouse hijacking apps for Windows made some headway for those that didn't want to s
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by vanadium 8y ago
It also weeds out, disproportionately, those who have major obligations to family and other things outside of work I have no business asking about, regardless of marital status or children. Guess which socioeconomic groups it tends to disad
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by vanadium 8y ago
I've been dreaming of a viable scramjet since the X-30.
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by vanadium 9y ago
I'll be at MGC in a couple of weeks and kinda hope that Pippin's there so I can have a go at it. :)
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by vanadium 9y ago
With the CD32, though, you could legitimately turn it into an Amiga desktop.
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by vanadium 9y ago
Console hardware collector here. $4K is insanely overpriced unless the thing was never opened in the first place. I've been meaning to get a Bandai @tmark Pippin from Japan, but we're still talking maybe $500-600 and the "gam
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by vanadium 9y ago
I've had to uncheck "Preview" and set it to 0.25x speed for best results. And a second pass at anything it didn't cover (which isn't much at that slow speed). Works OK, although it takes forever either way. Just sli

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