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by vosper 6y ago
> Dear [sender], thanks for bringing this to my attention. Booleandilemma is actually busy on other work at the moment, and needs to be able to focus on that. Please send these requests to me, rather than to booleandilemma, and I will ge
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by vosper 6y ago
Hanging sheets of foam-backed mass-loaded vinyl might help. But maybe not practical :)
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by vosper 6y ago
> There are "significantly higher mortality rate among people who regularly sit for prolonged periods" and "long term complications of prolonged standing" [3]. What's left for us? Floating? :-) Alternating could
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by vosper 6y ago
Was it ever Apple who charged for tethering? I always thought it was in the hands of the networks and their various plans. Today it seems like it's not even a feature anymore, just something you can do with your phone (or, at least for
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by vosper 6y ago
Perhaps it would just move the problem from the earth to the moon? If we're going to the effort to build "satellite movers" to get unwanted/dead satellites to a moon orbit, then perhaps we would be better of just sending
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by vosper 6y ago
Anecdote: the company I work for has largely moved from GoToMeeting to Meets. It's better than GTM in almost every way, and we were already paying for GSuite.
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by vosper 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see whether they make this stuff available to paying customers via the API. Currently they say they have no plans to do so [0], but what if it takes off? When you are an API customer you are supposed to honor al
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by vosper 6y ago
> this is another nail in the coffin for the hobby of building and modding cars. I confess ignorance about this hobby, but I had imagined it might be easier for a hobbyist to build an electric car than an ICE one (once the parts become
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by vosper 6y ago
Never bet against pizza, I guess?
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by vosper 6y ago
> It sounds like you don’t think there is any truth to what he is saying I've no idea how you reached that conclusion given that the comment you're replying to says >> I'm sorry he had such experience and I'm no
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by vosper 6y ago
Yeah, callbacks are fine until you get a big stack of them (so-called “callback hell”). Promises were the touted solution to callback hell, async/await the touted solution to endless promises chaining. While async/await is (tasty)
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by vosper 6y ago
If you're writing modern nodeJS you're probably not using callbacks or promises (directly) anymore (or using promises a lot less than you used to - Promise.all and Promise.allSettled is about it for me, and that's not that of
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by vosper 6y ago
Could this also be remedied by Apple supporting Nvidia GPUs again? And then you plug in a beefy eGPU?
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by vosper 6y ago
Is it only a few tweaks and controls short of being a handy basic 2D fluid-dynamics simulator? I've used this [0] but the UI for barriers is really frustrating. It would be nice if there was something web-based that falls between the e
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by vosper 6y ago
> Apple clearly does not want you to have a general-purpose computer Can you explain the existence of the MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro?
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by vosper 6y ago
What's your opinion of the ANR system in your Jeep? Was it effective?
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by vosper 6y ago
I think the affect of the butyl dampener on actual internal vehicle noise is minimal. I've done that part, and my doors close thunkily now (not that I ever cared) but the car is just as loud as ever inside. I think that unless you&#x27
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by vosper 6y ago
I’m not sure if thinsulate is the same thing, but you might also want to look at Mass Loaded Vinyl with a closed-cell foam underlay (can be bought together as one sheet). It took me quite some reading up on road noise to realise that MLV, a
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by vosper 6y ago
Is it Spotify dropping them, or the artist / label / licensing authority pulling the music from Spotify?
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by vosper 6y ago
> "Flu shot is free only if your insurance covers all of it." More accurate would be "Flu shot is free if you already paid for it through the insurance contributions that are reducing your take-home pay"
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by vosper 6y ago
Yeah, it's separate repos. Interesting to know about the monorepo option, though - thanks.
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by vosper 6y ago
Not the person you're asking, but we use CircleCI, and it's fine. The YAML config language is okay, it gets the job done and hasn't been horrible to maintain or modify. Though we only have a few steps in each. My current grip
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by vosper 6y ago
> who also own Sencha who make Ext.js -- a pay-to-use JavaScript framework. I pity anyone who's paying for Ext.js (self-described as "The Best JavaScript Framework In The World"). That is some ancient shit right there. The
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by vosper 6y ago
> As revealed in a new Studio 3T survey of more than 18,000 developers and others, Studio3T sells Mongo client/IDE software. So take this survey with more than a few grains of salt. On my part, as someone who is responsible for an a
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by vosper 6y ago
> The Cypress e2e tests on our build server sometimes fail for no discernible reason. You'll probably be interested to hear that Cypress are... uhm... addressing this by adding "flaky test detection" and some amount of aut
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by vosper 6y ago
https://www.meetenhancementsuite.com/ Not that you should have to install an extension to get basic UX
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by vosper 6y ago
What's Go like for REPL-driven / exploratory development? That's mostly how I use Python.
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by vosper 6y ago
I'm surprised to hear this - more details would be appreciated. If someone doesn't beat me to it, I'll come back this afternoon and TL;DR the 22 minute video linked here.
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by vosper 6y ago
Seems like you're asking for UI components (page, panel, button) that you can just use? This isn't the problem Next is trying to solve. You might be better off with something like MaterialUI, Ant, Bootstrap, of any of the many oth
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by vosper 6y ago
> Why isn't it possible for my headphones to connect to my phone and computer at the same time. Having to change the connection 100 times a day is so annoying. Some headphones do that just fine - as far as I know it’s a choice the m

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