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by voiper1 4y ago
The title is based on a line at the end: "the curse of systems thinkers is to be correct, but never valued."
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by voiper1 4y ago
>And when I returned my cable box to Comcast to cancel my service, the representative felt compelled to counsel me: “NextLight, huh? you know,” he said, leaning in, “if you miss even a single payment, they’ll raise your price?” And then
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by voiper1 5y ago
I use rpl as search and replace (in place update supported) instead of sed.
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by voiper1 5y ago
What makes you say you are imprisoned in your career as a programmer? People career hop a lot.
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by voiper1 5y ago
Not just your replacement! If I have to check or change something or recreate it even 6 months later I often have no clue what the heck I did.
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by voiper1 5y ago
I recently went down the PDF rabbit hole for a project. I had to use different OSS tools to do everything I wanted. I was able to access three from within nodejs without touching the disk: 1) Libreoffice CLI for converting doc/docx to
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by voiper1 5y ago
Sounds like malicious compliance. But electronic forms can be easily ignored. If so, I'd follow up with printing it out and handing it to the person responsible for handling it. If it's not handled immediately, then also deliver i
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by voiper1 5y ago
Your first line sounds very similar to one of his paragraphs: >Don’t get me wrong; The Case Against Education drew plenty of criticism. Almost none of it, however, was quantitative. Some critics appealed to common sense: “Education can
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by voiper1 5y ago
Similar, but not exactly the same: I've come to appreciate that the bleeding-edge really means you'll bleed over it. In the search for "magic" to make my job easier, it often falls apart of the edge cases. So to just get
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by voiper1 5y ago
The difference that sticks with me is this: Linode: "We're really sorry, there's a kernel bug and we absolutely have to patch it. See here for the CVE. We're scheduling it for time X but you can do it in advance on the w
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by voiper1 5y ago
Quite possibly it was green woodworking. When the greenwood dries, it increase the tightness of the joining.
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by voiper1 5y ago
Americans abroad don't have a USA verifiable cell phone/landline so they're stuck...
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by voiper1 5y ago
Instructions unclear, password on all sites is now "correct horse battery staple". Inspired by this, there's a package https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn to estimate entropy and give suggestions.
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by voiper1 5y ago
Sometimes the magic links or codes expires in X minutes. That helps them feel secure. But like password resets, you're hosed if your email is hacked (unless you have 2FA).
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by voiper1 5y ago
If it's something direct like "return something" then what benefit is there over using the website's interface? Is it just this interest in doing everything by whatsapp?
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by voiper1 5y ago
VS Code has a local history extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xyz.loca...
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by voiper1 5y ago
https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-dev-finds-that-linux-users-gen... This dev found the linux users returned high quality bug reports >Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, tha
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by voiper1 5y ago
I checked, the order form lets you choose international shipping. Pricey, though...
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by voiper1 5y ago
Hah, but it was absolutely necessary. The government can't shut down companies merely for lying or legally cheating customers...
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by voiper1 5y ago
That was a very cool interactive article!
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by voiper1 5y ago
I'm sorry, I was really into the whole Deliberate practice thing and then I read this and thought "Oh no, did I have it all wrong?" So I read the book he quoted - "Source of Power". And you know what? It has a treme
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by voiper1 5y ago
>It says your career growth should be managed by your employer (don't let it...) Apparently, this _used to be_ a reasonable option. But "employer loyalty" is much rarer, so now it's a totally unreasonable option.
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by voiper1 5y ago
Or buy a lego bonsai
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by voiper1 5y ago
Wow the demo video looks amazing. I'm a programmer, but coding that would take much longer than those few clicks. I wonder if you could use a "standard" REST backend as a data source? You lose the ability to use raw SQL queri
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by voiper1 5y ago
Interesting, I hadn't considered doing this with triggers. I made my current stack save the user, time, and a diff of all changes to an event log (along with all the trace IDs.) Harder to set up, and error prone to not save (if somethi
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by voiper1 5y ago
Interesting data from Israel! https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/ For people that have received the vaccine in the last 6 months ("within date") the per-capita infection rate is an order of magnitud
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by voiper1 5y ago
"To err is human, to really screw up, you need a computer" Computers enable mistakes to propagate at tremendous speed...
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by voiper1 5y ago
They said somewhere it's also a marketing investment. If they have people saying "Yeah I backed up a TON of data and it's really unlimited" then more people feel comfortable and become paying customers. I can't find
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by voiper1 5y ago
I have things sending emails to myself, but sometimes I just want to mute them for a while. With this, I'd create a new bot for each project. Then I could manage the mute on each project individually with ease. Cool!
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by voiper1 5y ago
It's not just about patents - it's about easy, cheap building with limited access to tools and materials.

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