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by wink 2y ago
Can only speak for myself but I have several groups of people I've met online 10 or 20+ years ago, chat with online ranging from daily to weekly, and about half of them I meet in person once to several times per year. No clue if it&#x2
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by wink 2y ago
I've repeatedly tried to make Puppet work for "small" installations, be it a single dev laptop, our fleet of default base VMs (before containers were a thing), or home use. You couldn't really do anything without communi
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by wink 2y ago
Maybe that's the spirit but you'll always have people who would like a clock on the wall, always visible and others who don't, but don't mind touching a button for it to light up. So I think "calm" can't b
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by wink 2y ago
> This goes way back. In the 1930s, there was a thing for radios with One Knob. Here's a 1950s TV ad for that.[1] There was a long period during which radios and TVs had a large number of knobs to be adjusted to get decent results.
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by wink 2y ago
I think it doesn't really enter the equation. The single worst lecturer I've had at university is now a professor. I don't enough about tenure tracks and we also call them differently (not adjunct, associate, etc) - but he&#x
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by wink 2y ago
Some of the noise is also there in German, cf https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergfried (the English page has the same name, but does not mention Burgfried). Just an example, could be very well unrelated.
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by wink 2y ago
There's "popular", then there's "every conference talk has @name in it instead of an email" and then there's "heads of state publish stuff there first instead of POSSE". I'm not saying it wa
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by wink 2y ago
I tried, I'd need to crank the font size up to 14+ to discern the difference ;)
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by wink 2y ago
Not sure if this is supposed to be sarcasm, but only from the direction of "lock the developers in a room and look what surfaces after half a year". Picking what to work on for [time] without external additions is a pretty good im
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by wink 2y ago
Not your fault, but I think it's such a silly argument. About 90% of my problems arise when I shift the parens, e.g. going from `(+ (1 2))` to `(+ (+ 1 2) 3)` or the other way round - and if there is now ) or )) at the very end (but mo
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by wink 2y ago
"Team A was victorious" doesn't sound out of place to me (ESL) though. Also pretty sure I've seen victory being used in a sense of "destroying the other team" - but I'm not defending its use.
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by wink 2y ago
They should have done the math just how often you buy a vacuum or a fridge though, because I observed the inverse effect. Buy vacuum -> 6 months of suggestions for vacuums and then nothing, not the other way round.
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by wink 2y ago
Yes, I also think around 2008 or so the most widespread use of Flash might already have been newgrounds et al. I don't remember really ever caring for Flash on Linux though. I do remember writing CMS backends for Flash websites in 2001
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by wink 2y ago
> But the overhead of just doing it yourself is surprisingly small in terms of the time commitment. Holy cow. The sole reason I learned SSI and then PHP in 1998 was because I was sick of this after like 2 weeks. This person has more pati
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by wink 2y ago
I'll let you in on a secret. If I had owned a GameBoy and not only a Super Nintendo I would have also brought it in in the 90s.
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by wink 2y ago
Not sure how it is today but in the late 90s it felt like we had a section about Nazis and WW2 every year in high school (in Germany). Yes, I get it, it's important - but it's not important to rehash it every year for 9 years. Tha
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by wink 2y ago
Not sure inspiring is the word I would hve picked :D Overall it sounds a tad better than the US, but far from perfect. Especially not accounting for different developmental speed of kids annoys me, although from what I heard it'd a bit
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by wink 2y ago
That sucks and I really don't mean to well actually here.. but in that scenario - which doesn't sound like the default outcome of going to a public school anywhere - would this not be "just" a reason to go for homeschool
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by wink 2y ago
I have no specific info regarding this plant, but for anyone who never experienced this: flying in people from other plants at the starts (and all 3rd party vendors for a hypercare phase at launch) seems pretty normal. If they have to keep
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by wink 2y ago
Thanks. Yeah my circle of friends is split on "can I charge at home: yes/no" - how absolutely surprising.
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by wink 2y ago
Never been to Sweden, so no idea, sorry. My understanding from most EU countries I visited is that VISA/MC works and AMEX usually doesn't. Also now that I think about it, most of these things (except #3) happened before the widesp
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by wink 2y ago
Ignoring the cost, do you have a parking garage with your rental apartment? Or street parking? My problem here is _where_ to charge, much more than what it would cost. And by "charging at home" I am not limiting it "your own
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by wink 2y ago
> About once every 10 minutes, a dragonfly dunks its body in the water ... and you see the water splashing in the video, with the ripples being visible for a bit. Again, I was not talking about the rotations, just the dragonflies touchin
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by wink 2y ago
Good point. I suppose many people, like me, would not think about that.. but.. IANAL but at least in Germany I think there's often some correlation of "not profit-oriented" and "no commercial purpose" - I mean, ever
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by wink 2y ago
Actually I'd be even more worried about the transaction cost "Sorry, I HAD to buy 3 kilos, just because of the overhead. It's a bit like mininum amount for free shipping, you know?" :P
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by wink 2y ago
One vacation in a European country my credit card simply didn't work due an error made by the bank (which would only have surfaced if I had overdrawn a limit while at home). One vacation in central america the ATM just swallowed my car
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by wink 2y ago
I suppose this was tongue in cheek, and I don't live in NYC - but where I live, a single ticket is 4 EUR, so that's 8 EUR there and back. So right now, parking up to a couple hours is already cheaper (if we ignore the wear and tea
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by wink 2y ago
That subreddit could basically not be further from the ones I frequent. There are some ok cycling ones, relatively low traffic, not many people, good content - and especially not only typical computer nerds.
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by wink 2y ago
You're making it sound like Reddit was unusable without API/client in the past though. I'd never used a Reddit client before I started using it at all on mobile. I bet a good chunk of users (esp casually browsing, or frequent
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by wink 2y ago
I'll go one further - whiteboards rock and post-its on a wall can go die in a fire. Unless they actually stick (they won't) and don't curl up (they won't) and you have coworker with a perfectly legible handwritign (you w

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