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by wheybags 1y ago
Pay attention to people and try to be empathetic. Do this to everyone, not just those you suspect of being autistic. That's all anyone can ask of you, and it works. Autistic people aren't aliens - if you engage empathetically they
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by wheybags 1y ago
If anyone else was left wondering about the details of how CDC actually generates chunks, I found these two blog posts explained the idea pretty clearly: https://joshleeb.com/posts/content-defined-chunking.html https:
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by wheybags 1y ago
I think you're misinterpreting what I meant. I was not trying to diminish the cultural importance of any other medium of expression. What I was getting at is that I feel the unique thing about programming is that the gap between though
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by wheybags 1y ago
Maybe I should have made it more clear in the post itself but, what I was getting at is that windows is the last mainstream OS that is reasonably permissive. MacOS has gone too far down the walled garden road already, and besides, they nev
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by wheybags 1y ago
He should try quack.exe
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by wheybags 1y ago
I wonder what this means for Intel's Arc lineup. Would be a bit crazy to have privileged access to a competitor's roadmap through just owning a chunk of them. I also have to admit I really hope they dont cancel them. A triopoly is
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by wheybags 1y ago
In my experience, conditional breakpoints are so unreliable, that I just dont bother trying to use them. When I need one I add code like if (condition) print(""); Then add a breakpoint on the print. Calling prin
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by wheybags 1y ago
Oh man. Start a manual job, wait for it to appear in the UI. 10 minutes later, it finally appears. Or just refresh the page manually immediately after starting the job, and there it is...
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by wheybags 1y ago
It also continuously fails to scroll down in the log view when watching output of a ci job live, and has done for years. It's so annoying that I made a userscript to force scrolling: https://github.com/wheybags/use
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by wheybags 1y ago
It's not just about new codecs. There's also people making products that would use codecs just deciding not to because of the patent hassle.
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by wheybags 1y ago
Yes, because mpeg got there first, and now their dominance is baked into silicon with hardware acceleration. It's starting to change at last but we have a long way to go. That way would be a lot easier if their patent portfolio just di
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by wheybags 1y ago
As someone who hasn't had any exposure to the human stories behind mpeg before, it feels to me like it's been a force for evil since long before 2020. Patents on h264, h265, and even mp3 have been holding the industry back for dec
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by wheybags 1y ago
> act as a drag on the ecosystem as a whole, making it very hard to get any new features I dont see this as an issue though. Terminals are pretty much a solved problem, they dont need any new features. IMO it makes more sense to spend ef
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by wheybags 1y ago
I wouldn't say you should explicitly check, necessarily. More like, you go to implement the widget and when you open the appropriate file to get started, it's already there.
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by wheybags 1y ago
Guessing, but possibly a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
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by wheybags 1y ago
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by wheybags 1y ago
Just let me donate directly to firefox. It's seriously about time this happened. Split off from all the Mozilla bs, it has its own independent management, and runs on donations, same as Thunderbird. I even theorise they could cut the G
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by wheybags 1y ago
I don't really understand this - to me, DnD without rp is just a bad facsimile of a video game. Wouldn't you rather just play skyrim? Or Baldur's gate in coop mode, if you still want to be social?
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by wheybags 1y ago
> I've never heard anyone claim that about Irish - an actual Gaelic language. Many people from other parts of the world don't know it exists, so when you say "Irish language", they just think you mean hiberno-english.
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by wheybags 1y ago
> all EU countries except Ireland mandate second language teaching in schools Ireland does mandate second language teaching in schools, it's just not a foreign language, it's Irish (separate language, not a dialect of English).
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by wheybags 1y ago
Hot take, but I've always felt the world would be better served if mathematicians and physicists would stop using terrible short variable names and use longCamelCaseDescriptiveNames like the rest of us, because paper is cheap, and abbr
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by wheybags 1y ago
If I need that, I send a message like "hey, you got time for a quick call to talk about x?". It's normally better to just figure out what you want to say and send it as a dm though, a call is a heavyweight escalation for rare
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by wheybags 1y ago
I've lived in the EU my entire life, in three different countries. I have visited and have friends in many more countries. Literally everybody I know has either a visa or mastercard debit card. Yes, people dont use credit cards specifi
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by wheybags 1y ago
Why should anyone appreciate paragraphs of text from someone who thinks Europeans can't use payment cards? What reason would I have to presume the content of said paragraphs is better informed, given they have trivially disprovable rub
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by wheybags 1y ago
I used to just do "n/a", "na", "none", or "0000", whatever would make it accept.
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by wheybags 2y ago
One (admittedly obscure) reason is the way rdp handles smart cards. It cancels any locally connected devices and forwards the client's instead. Which is a problem if the whole point of the machine you're connecting to is that it h
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by wheybags 2y ago
Seeing a a lot of very negative responses here, and I'm not sure they're entirely deserved. To steelman the argument, I presume the author means they are using fake deadlines, but critically, telling the team they are fake - in
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by wheybags 2y ago
There's a message encouraging Russian visitors to not support the war in Ukraine. If your antivirus is flagging any Cyrillic text, that's a bit overzealous IMO.
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by wheybags 2y ago
I still think we should have forced everything into a 32-bit char, with no distinction between codepoints and grapheme clusters. One press on backspace removes one char. Address of char 7 is base+7x4. String length is byte length x 4. cat &

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