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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
For competing with Discord, it seems like it would benefit from a more robust free offering to compete with Discord. Being able to create a free Discord server is great, and it is incredibly capable for most communities that don't need
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
or fear of Roko's Basilisk [0] [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> From an enterprise perspective, Excel is so entrenched it would be a 5-10 year effort to port existing spreadsheets to sheets. Practically speaking, most companies wouldn't see the benefit. And at the end of the day, it would have
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
No, for many reasons. Workbook calculation performance, advanced, complicated spreadsheet incompatibility, worse UI/keyboard shortcuts, slow UI, different language than VBA for custom functions (It isn't necessarily worse, but it&
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
What are your thoughts about it being the 7th most dreaded language on Stack Overflow's 2020 developer survey? I've never programmed in Ruby, but it seems attractive to me.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Every time I see an "ł", I think there's something on my monitor, or dead pixels. I definitely tried to remove the debris from my monitor with my thumb before realizing it was an "L with stroke" haha :)
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
AFAIK, I didn't have to add any plugins to achieve that feature. I believe you can set the order to be Shuffle Tracks or Shuffle Albums out of the box, but I might be misremembering if I needed to do anything for that to be there. see:
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
foobar2k wins again ;)
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
That makes so much sense! Thank you for explaining, abduhl!
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Interesting! That is really surprising to me. I would guess then that the increased traffic from people ordering online instead of in person offsets the increase in driving to work/socializing etc.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
That also would be reflecting a significant (assumed-- possibly non-existent--see twblalock's reply below) reduction in the number of car crash fatalities we'd normally have if lockdowns weren't going on (There were 38,800 to
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
As with basically every study that comes out these days in the social sciences, my response is: "We'll see." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
The gigantic replication crisis in social science and medicine for a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
YMMV, but I got 4 months of Tidal for $1 as a Black Friday deal, and I really felt like its "radio" feature was better than other services. It's one reason I miss Tidal over Spotify.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
The software being written being slower is of course enabled by those hardware improvements, but 1) the slow software is due to those technical inefficiencies making software easier/less expensive to produce, and 2) we can still make f
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
It looks like there is a law against companies writing contract clauses barring you or penalizing you for writing a negative review, but I don't know if there is a law that bars companies from deleting truthful, non-libelous reviews. S
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Do you mind if I ask what company you're with? I'd love to put it on my list of companies with good interview practices that I would want to apply to. If you're not comfortable with getting that specific, just for my personal
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
- MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) https://maps.org/ - Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Except the revenue that they potentially would have been losing out on had they not acquired their competitor.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> Andrew Carnegie provided far more real, unquestionable value to people too. It ended up being worth it. The same can be said for Leland Stanford or most other monopolies. They didn't become monopolies by not providing value. Absol
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Hi, I'm thinking of learning how to edit videos. What software do you use, and what is the best way to learn it, for someone who isn't a master at photo/video editing, but is a power user of computers generally?
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Yep. Exactly the same reason we break up procedures and functions into smaller units in procedural code, to be able to reason about individual pieces, and understand each step. I've never used Pandas, but I imagine I'd have the ex
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
And IFERROR() wasn't added until Excel 2007. The other way to make that operation less unwieldy if the expression was complicated, to avoid repeating it I'd put that inside another cell, and that way it would be =IF(ISERROR(C2),0,
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Does this exist but applied to industrial/aerospace/military interface design? The extreme example that always comes to mind for me is the Apollo Command Module [0], but all different kinds of more complicated/advanced interf
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
For anyone else not in the know, "DoH" means "DNS-over-HTTPS" Here's an article from November 19, 2020 about the rollout and some of the criticisms/backlash: https://www.zdnet.com/article/f
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
For those who haven't experienced homelessness personally, doing volunteer (or paid) work for homeless shelters/outreach centers etc, or in mental health treatment centers, is one of the best ways to gain a fairly deep perspective
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I'm in the same boat as you having no formal college/university CS training. You've given me a good idea for a blog series. Writing posts that go through the solutions I came up with for each day of AoC if I can do so without
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
I've gotten bitten by Google locking me out of an account because I hadn't logged into it in a long time, and the device that I used to log into it was stolen long ago. Even though I have full access to the recovery email address
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
BTW, the entirety of my post after the URL is simply quoting from that page. I would have liked to have remembered to put ">" in front of those paragraphs so it was clear that I didn't write all of that, but c'est la
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
It's not until just now that I realized the irony inherent in my reply. What the person I was replying to did was to "post the wrong answer", and I was uncontrollably impelled to enact the very phenomenon I was describing, co

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