wild_preference

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by wild_preference 8y ago
These types of people confuse the ease of pooping on something with the viability and worthwhileness of that thing.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Well, people had been using hosted email from their ISPs, AOL, Hotmail, etc. long before Gmail. Gmail came out and offered an insane amount of storage, basically toppling the regime. So surely Gmail wasn't the one that surprised you. T
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by wild_preference 8y ago
http://lite.cnn.io/es times out for me.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
What's with forks of adblockers just lightly modifying the name? uBlock -> uBlock Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#History Adblock -> Adblock Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Feel free to email them and offer them money to improve their free service.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Ever since my late-20s, the thing my idle mind likes to fixate on just as I'm trying to fall asleep is my parents' mortality. Not the best sleepytime fodder.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I hit that figure quite a bit back in my stimulant abuse days. But your blog post specifically refers to chronic sleep loss.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I think we're just in the age of "if you have an opinion on anything, no matter how shallow, you should share it and suggest it's self-evident, universal, and the only thing that matters."
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I feel like we're diluting the atrocity of shitty ads when we refer to anything and everything as an ad. Netflix's above-the-fold, skippable "Now Showing" preview on the homepage can't be compared to the unskippable
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by wild_preference 8y ago
At the same time, how many cheap Windows laptops are only so cheap because they come with a lot of pre-installed bullshit? Also, 5 year old Air for $1k? That's almost how much they cost new. I'm seeing half that on Ebay/Craig
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I don't think so. Let's substitute balk: > The more enjoyable a job is, the lower the salary the boss can offer before people [hesitate to] take it.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
> Seriously, it's the only decision that makes sense if one has the chops to get into one of those places. For you, sure. There are better ways I can think of spending my 20s and 30s than just setting up for retirement in my 40s, be
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by wild_preference 8y ago
You can't even do a tiny lateral transfer in the US medical industry without reschooling, so how would it work with foreign degrees?
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by wild_preference 8y ago
What's the "logical basis" for concluding that they think it's good for anyone to collapse economies? I don't think this weak "gotcha" rhetoric is conducive to good discussion. You're trying to disarm
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Or because it's still one of the best ways to keep in touch with people, like all the people I'm not close enough with to call (so, almost everyone).
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Notice how easy it is tell others what to do.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Reminds me of ex-presidents/ex-leaders who have regrets about decisions they made when we depended on them. Now when they're washed up and have zero clout, they're suddenly on our side again.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Well, those people will need healthy people in their health insurance pool to fund their lifestyle, so maybe not.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Well, yes you do, because the thing that makes this complicated is all the various out of process dependencies like the database.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
You can check your rating from your app.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
The browser's Javascript console also only runs code locally, but getting people to copy code into it is a serious attack vector. Not saying that's Apple's reason, but being limited to local execution doesn't mean it&#x2
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Then you end up with a system where someone can arrive at the right answer via AST that you didn't expect, which was a frustration when I helped students with a service like (IIRC) CodeCademy.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Agreed, this flippant attitude is more toxic than people trying to look out for themselves in a world where even the Food Pyramid is bullshit.
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Well, since subsidized pricing depends on you giving real information, then you make things worse for everyone else. If you can only enjoy something (like a lower price while giving fake information) because everyone else doesn't, then
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by wild_preference 8y ago
> Knowing that I'm resistant to noroviruses also makes me more comfortable about traveling. This seems like one of the major downsides of these services. I think you would've been better off in life if you, say, did the traveli
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Though to be fair it's not obvious where to encode validation. You're saying it should be intrinsic in the parsing rules of ipv4. But there are reasons why you would want to validate in a separate pass. For example, the more error
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I've seen criticism online related to how soon the beta happened before release. But gamers are such a childish (usually literally) and entitled bunch that I've noticed it's hard to take most of their criticism seriously abou
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by wild_preference 8y ago
They're saying it's a better experience. I'm saying I'd rather have it in the browser that I already use. Good example being that I want to keep the article open or accumulate them in Safari instead of have this weird mo
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by wild_preference 8y ago
I find it similar to arguments that try to scare me with "but then we won't be able to eat meat for every meal." "Well, good," I think, "sounds like exactly what we need."
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by wild_preference 8y ago
Their eggs aren't!

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