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by xedrac 4y ago
Your choice of words did not go unnoticed. You could say Lars is a bit of an expert on signals... he's off to some unknown slot, connected by destiny! ;)
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by xedrac 4y ago
I've gotten to the midlife crisis part... but with a large family and a mortgage, I think crisis mode is going to linger until I finish paying off my mortgage in a couple years. For some reason my wife doesn't like the idea of me
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by xedrac 4y ago
You'll be even more impressed after trying to match this in Factorio...
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by xedrac 4y ago
In the case of Lars, this may actually be true. Imagine working on the same project since the year 2000. I'd want to try something new too.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I'd be fine going back into the office if I didn't have to deal with our horrible open office floor plan. The visual and auditory distractions make it really hard to get into the zone. I don't love commuting either, but the
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by xedrac 4y ago
I don't think I understand how the transition from non-union to union is supposed to work. Can't Amazon just fire everyone that doesn't show up to work and hire replacements? Or is that only possible in at-will employment s
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by xedrac 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more with the general premise. Not a day goes by that I don't wish I had more land and space to grow things, raise animals, and let my kids play and explore their world. Clean air, less noise, more nature, and
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by xedrac 4y ago
I lived in Japan for several years and found most people there to be open and friendly to other races. I had friends from India, Nigeria, China, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Brazil, US and Europe. I don't know that any of them felt p
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by xedrac 4y ago
Sure, but just because Rust isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't a huge improvement over the status quo.
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by xedrac 4y ago
This is great news! Congratulations on the progress. I wish I had the time to jump in and contribute as I believe this project will provide a lot of value in the future.
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by xedrac 4y ago
I dislike unlimited/untracked/open (whatever buzzword) PTO. I feel like I have to beg for time off, so I end up taking very little and burning out. Even when I'm sick, I feel like I have to justify why I cannot work. I gue
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by xedrac 4y ago
Java could never fill all of the spaces that C++ is used for because of the JVM and garbage collection. Rust certainly could, and should, in my opinion as a long time C++ developer.
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by xedrac 5y ago
> Gambits are countered. Lines are refuted. Unstable positions are quickly stabilized. Again, the vast majority of players are not strong enough to even know any lines, let alone refute the endless variations that may be thrown at them.
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by xedrac 5y ago
> I hate real chess. Real chess is all about playing for the draw. For the vast majority of players, this simply isn't true. Even for the top players in the world, it's only sometimes true when they are playing with the black
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by xedrac 5y ago
@ryandrake I believe the poster's comment about "political agenda" was really referring to more of a "social agenda".
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by xedrac 5y ago
That doesn't work so well if you're trying to push a social agenda to people who aren't interested in LGBTQ+ or racial "wokeness". Imagine someone searching for all content that doesn't include some form of LG
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by xedrac 5y ago
See my comment above about She-Ra.
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by xedrac 5y ago
In one kid show "She-Ra" for example, every relationship is gay/lesbian save for one. I cannot prove harm in any meaningful way, but I think this sort of misrepresentation of reality is very confusing to kids.
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by xedrac 5y ago
There could be factors other than inflation affecting the cost of the parts he's mentioning, but in my purely anecdotal evidence, I have to agree with him. The price increases I have witnessed in many sectors have been far greater tha
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by xedrac 5y ago
Supply and demand isn't going to change. You can build up instead of out, but I think the point was there's insufficient supply.
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by xedrac 5y ago
As I've gotten older, my taste in video games has changed and I find most of them unrewarding. But one of my favorite games is Factorio. There's something so satisfying about creating, automating, and advancing civilization on t
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by xedrac 5y ago
Reminds me of the old story of the King's servant saying to the monk, "If only you'd learn to pander to the King, you wouldn't have to live like a monk." To which the monk replied, "If only you'd learn to
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by xedrac 5y ago
It took me a full two years of complete abstinence before I stopped feeling the pull. It was a much more powerful addiction than I realized - leaving a gaping black hole in my life that seemed to suck the life right out of me. It would co
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by xedrac 5y ago
That's funny... every team I've been on in the last 10 years has used Linux workstations almost exclusively, with a few Macs here and there.
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by xedrac 5y ago
> They were programmed in lisp the whole way down and could be run code interpreted for convenience or compiled to microcode for efficiency. You could open up system functions in the editor, modify and compile them while the machine was
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by xedrac 5y ago
I for one don't want the phone form factor to influence my desktop experience. They are two completely different workflows that have conflicting needs IMO.
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by xedrac 5y ago
I was at Brandon's home just yesterday, although he wasn't present. Next time I see him, I'll have to ask him about this. I am also a Mormon, but nothing in the Cosmere stood out to me as being directly inspired by our reli
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by xedrac 5y ago
A 3x8 work week would be ideal for me. I would take a 40% pay cut in a heartbeat and live more modestly, so long as I still had decent health care and could afford the basics to support my family. It's interesting how time has become
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by xedrac 5y ago
> Learning a language is difficult when there is little to no mapping with previous languages When I was first exposed to Scheme and Haskell, I wondered how anyone could be productive in such useless languages. Ironically, they ended up
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by xedrac 5y ago
While I'm not on the Apple train, I love how they are pushing AMD, Intel and NVidia out of complacency. No more of these little tiny incremental improvements to milk the industry. Bring your BEST to the table or get left behind!

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