wharvle

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by wharvle 3y ago
Oh, no, lots of them aren’t great. A few are (The Wire…) and some more are at least pretty good. [edit] also I think there are a lot of different definitions of “good” in this thread. The average HBO show probably does have better writing
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by wharvle 3y ago
Like an average HBO series, then. Open with a bunch of sex, maybe tell a good story after (with, occasionally, more sex, sometimes with plot mixed into it).
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by wharvle 3y ago
Piling on the H:ZD love. Sequel ain’t awful, either. Kentucky Route Zero is maybe the most literary game I’ve played, if that makes sense. Damn good.
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by wharvle 3y ago
They don't need to ask at all for those.
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by wharvle 3y ago
I haven’t really had problems with it not working. Not more than other chat programs. My main gripe is the “teams” chats having aggressively terrible UI in ways that make my work-life worse. Most of my complaints would go away if they let m
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by wharvle 3y ago
Use a much-less-intrusive notification, and just use “necessary” cookies unless the user engages with the notification to say “yes, track me”. Or drop the unnecessary ones.
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by wharvle 3y ago
The term was originally about stocks of similar profile, not which employers one should aspire to have. Jim Cramer coined it, and modified it a couple times (eventually adding Microsoft).
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by wharvle 3y ago
All the layers and interrelated systems means that any given change of note requires a lot more input and communication than at a small company. Some of this is necessary, but usually a lot of it’s because most organizations are terrible
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by wharvle 3y ago
Heh—that, for fuckin' sure. The fiction there runs the opposite direction, where China pretends (and encourages others to pretend) that Taiwan's less independent than it is, meanwhile just about everyone acts like Taiwan's
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Styling is not handled by HTML. It's a separate concern assigned to CSS. For convenience HTML offered default styling. It in-fact was, and to some degree still is. I assure you we achieved a hell of a lot of styling before css exi
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by wharvle 3y ago
The notion that Gaza's more than some variety of closely-held protectorate is either aspirational or a convenient fiction, depending on who's stating it. They aren't even close to having a level of control over their own terr
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by wharvle 3y ago
Folks outside the company often join calls and video meetings. Some orgs may have their shit together-enough to exempt only those, perfectly, so they never violate recording laws, but I’d expect most would just notify on all calls/meet
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by wharvle 3y ago
Recording laws get in the way of this. You’ll start seeing/hearing a warning every time you start a call if they begin doing this. The live-captions tool in Teams is already better at understanding some of my colleagues than I am. The
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by wharvle 3y ago
True in theory. In practice, I’ve never seen a “more-correct” system actually replace the value of long-lived chat channels and a culture of discussing things out in the open on those channels. Long-lived chats don’t replace documentation a
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by wharvle 3y ago
> - Drag & drop works in a very weird fashion. When I drop something, a popup menu appears asking me if I want to copy, move or link the dragged item. There's no way to configure KDE to just move. I need to press shift before I
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by wharvle 3y ago
I never understood why those use front-brakes instead of rear-brakes like the roller blades I had as a kid. The latter I could comfortably use almost instantly, the former, I never got comfortable with.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Mars' famous dust storms aren't so good at causing damage, because the air's really, really thin, so they can't pick up heavy particles even with high wind speeds. A serious problem if you need to keep grit out of fine m
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by wharvle 3y ago
Groovy is god-awful though. Jenkins is... fine, basically, if you can get away with almost never having to touch Groovy.
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by wharvle 3y ago
1) As a "technical" user who started using Firefox when it was called Phoenix (then Firebird, then Firefox)—this is of zero value to me. Might be to (frankly, a very few) others, but I will see no personal benefit from this. I h
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by wharvle 3y ago
A comically large proportion of “AJAX”-type use of JavaScript could just be frames and probably perform better, if frames had evolved a bit rather than remaining stagnant. Fix that and give us HTML tables with basic features built-in and da
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by wharvle 3y ago
It might be the very-long takes without cuts (it’s nuts, he does the jacket-to-cardigan and oxfords-to-loafers getting-home routine and launches straight into his first segment all as one shot in at least most episodes, the craft and skil
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by wharvle 3y ago
Anyone start singing/reciting the song “Daisy Bell” at you?
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Another piece of reality is that sometimes people don't know how/what to look for in search engines, or they're so overwhelmed with work they don't have the time/patience to look for it, and they need the solut
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by wharvle 3y ago
They usually seem really serious about it. I dunno. I definitely don't go out of my way to bring what I do into a conversation or to focus on it if it comes up, because most folks find computers incredibly boring, and nothing I do with
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by wharvle 3y ago
OK, the glass may or may not be smaller on the windshield and rear (I haven't measured, and yeah, a greater slant could be the mechanism, not less glass) but the viewable area is smaller. Side windows are 100% for-sure smaller, because
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by wharvle 3y ago
They're separate, but one owns and controls the other. I'm not seeing how pointing out that they're separate (a point on which I don't believe anyone here was confused in the first place) adds anything material to this e
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by wharvle 3y ago
Windows and front/back windshields are way smaller now, too. It's like we're all driving around looking out of tank-viewport-slits. (I'm sure there are exceptions in some models—I drove a buddy's Jeep-truck the othe
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by wharvle 3y ago
> “When was the last time you googled for a way to roll back your iOS app?” > “Did you try the answers online?” A very high percentage of the time when people give me "great app ideas" when they find out I'm in software
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by wharvle 3y ago
Paris seems to do pretty OK on all of density, vibrancy, and aesthetics, while segregating all their somewhat-tall buildings to La Defense. I'm skeptical that moving all those into the city proper, let alone aiming for top-X-buildings
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by wharvle 3y ago
Planned cities always seem to get obsessed with far more "green space" than is needed, huge, useless plazas, and very-wide streets, which create miserable, too-spread-out spaces that never stop feeling sterile and wrong . There m

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