EscargotCult

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by EscargotCult 2y ago
I stand corrected! I do suppose I could also get a travel safety razor that comes apart into 3 parts (as opposed to a single piece with a butterfly opening) and pack them separately. Of course that could mean some blade wastage: I'm ra
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by EscargotCult 2y ago
> I think that it's also important to consider that it's much easier to cut oneself when using a double edge razor. I've actually found it to be the opposite in my case, after having used a double-edge safety razor for alm
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by EscargotCult 2y ago
> Fingers crossed for remote work bringing some sort of equalizer effect here. I work at a fully-remote company, and my org had a meetup soon after I first started working here. I was surprised to see how many of the people I work with s
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by EscargotCult 3y ago
Their outage heatmap is also basically a population density map too. https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by EscargotCult 3y ago
> Copilot is bad at accessibility because web engineers are bad at accessibility. All of the bad habits in this post were learned from its training data. 100%, and this is why Copilot is damn-near unusable for Bash scripting (yeah, the r
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by EscargotCult 3y ago
I'll just quote from Stevey's Google Platforms Rant > Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown int
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by EscargotCult 3y ago
It uses the native iOS video player APIs, which (to my knowledge, it's been a while since I tried) the official app doesn't. Also overall, it follows a lot of the "recommended" iOS design guidelines and has the look and
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
I can't imagine it being anything else in that year. That must have been a struggle-bus of a UI to work with for something this laborious, though.
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
This is already happening with stock "analysis" that you see on Yahoo Finance for any given symbol. For example, take a look at https://stocks.apple.com/AbKUdK1ZvSFK4NdaMwMd27w
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
I think they've mentioned that they expect that their generics spec will evolve, plus they're waiting to see what idioms emerge before refactoring the standard library.
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Sigbovik 2022 Proceedings [pdf](sigbovik.org)
1 points by EscargotCult 4y ago|0 comments
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
Probably. Google and GitHub already support WebAuthn for 2FA so it's relatively trivial for them to ditch passwords altogether and use WebAuthn as the single credential.
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
Reminds me of the Stack Overflow profile badges, which themselves were inspired by Xbox achievements.
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A Next Chapter: Postlight Joins NTT Data(postlight.com)
1 points by EscargotCult 4y ago|0 comments
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
Apollo is a really good mobile app for Reddit, but I expect Reddit will eventually buy it. As for new users, it's likely a lot of people that reach Reddit from Google - their SEO seems to have gotten loads better in recent years. They
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
This could be crowdsourced. Imagine some sort of reporting network of volunteers, running the simple program (memory allocation and periodic checks) on any hardware they're loaning time on, and submitting their location and altitude as
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
+1 the only thing that's "surprised" me between Go releases has been their changes to build flags in 1.18, and gofmt takes care of that anyway. Now that I think of it, gofmt changes if you have autoformatting enabled is proba
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by EscargotCult 4y ago
For anyone looking, here's the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30779291
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
Sounds like Stack Overflow's early growth strategy, minus the wiki aspect
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
re: the Dead Internet Theory, anyone who browses the "news" sections of any stock trading app, Yahoo Finance / iOS Stocks app can see that the likes of Barron's, Zacks Investment Research, Motley Fool, Benzinga, etc have
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
> Am I being paranoid? Is it reasonable to connect my images to a random third party service like this? Depends on your line of work I suppose
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
> Confluence to an extent also without using a vendor-specific markup format, too!
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
> I've thought about this a lot over the past few years, and I've come to the slightly sad conclusion that Google isn't to blame. I don't know about that, at least in the realm of programming-related searches. It&#x27
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
> But it will also let good programmers write very good programs and libraries, and that's going to be a huge benefit for everyone. I hope we can see some good examples of generics being used in the standard library once 1.18 is rel
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by EscargotCult 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it takes years for the phase-out, if it ever gets phased out at all. There is a particular type of organizational culture that believes having the "big" option for a productivity tool is the best op