GlennS

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by GlennS 4y ago
Difficult. I will attempt to answer this in a way that won't upset people and may be informative? Here are two ways of looking at it: a. People in the USA* have massive fights about things that no-else cares about, and software project
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by GlennS 4y ago
Honestly I guess it's just a difference in taste/demenour. My background was originally in C# then Java (plus JavaScript on the side, since most of us have to do that), and when I first came to Python I found it to be a lovely lan
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by GlennS 4y ago
Why would you ever leave a voicemail when you can leave a text message? I think I disagree with all the advice in your comment, but this part has me particularly baffled.
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by GlennS 4y ago
I often write out callstacks/dependency chains on paper. I find that makes it stick. Try actually using the program as an end user would. Read error messages, read code, make predictions about what the code does, find out if your predi
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by GlennS 4y ago
I've had two climated-related jobs, and I would recommend it. I find it very motivating personally. It also means you'll be working with decent people who care about their work. Don't expect to be paid top dollar though!
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by GlennS 4y ago
I don't, sorry, just found it by Googling.
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by GlennS 4y ago
Not knowing anything about how Google works internally, this is very much how it looks from the outside. They just don't seem to be able to make products that anyone wants. And the products they made before which people did want just d
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by GlennS 4y ago
I was originally just going to link to a Colugo, which I think are still pretty cool, and probably good evidence of what early stages of vertebrate flight looked like. Functionally they're not doing full flight like a bat, but their fl
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by GlennS 4y ago
The people in the past who broke from mainstream culture and went experimental faced disapproval too. Maybe you just need to hang out with weirder people?
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by GlennS 4y ago
Still gutted they never made Grand Theft Auto: Weston-super-Mare.
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by GlennS 4y ago
> This is true despite the fact that you know exactly when the market will hit a bottom. Even God couldn’t beat dollar-cost averaging. I'm a bit unconvinced by the studies that say this, because I don't think the "buy the
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Global warming changing the wines Australia can make(smh.com.au)
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by GlennS 4y ago
Ah yes, sorry, I was very unclear there. Mediawiki Visual Editor is fine to use. It's not fine to make plugins for.
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by GlennS 4y ago
I haven't worked with it in almost that long, but I still hate it quite a lot. I try not to be too fussy about tech overall, but Spring is on my "I won't work with this again" list: 1. Spring 2. Mediawiki Visua
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by GlennS 4y ago
Your comment is incomprehensible.
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by GlennS 4y ago
Today I learned that there is another type of pigs-in-blankets. To me pigs-in-blanket are sausages wrapped in bacon, not in bread/pastry.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Other people have given you pretty good answers already, but... If you're an individual with some spare cash, buying stocks during a recession is probably a good idea, even if they falling.* If you're a population, you probably do
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by GlennS 5y ago
So why did you go for a mechanical keyboard if you're fine with a laptop keyboard? I ask because to me the point of a mechanical keyboard is that you want more feedback/certainty on your keypress than an ordinary desktop keyboard
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by GlennS 5y ago
> Why would that be the assumption? I thought the phrasing of the person I was replying to implied they were grinding that particular axe. Of course there are more complex things to discuss here, and in practice reality here is not yet
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by GlennS 5y ago
You don't need a mechanical keyboard to get full key travel. I do have mechanical keyboards and feel like I get a benefit from them, but I think you can get most of the way there with a standard non-laptop-style keyboard with keys that
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by GlennS 5y ago
> As a bonus you can replace cheeseburgers with labor and they will say "lump of labor fallacy". The trouble with this simple and seeming obvious hypothesis and labour (by which I assume you mean immigration) is that labour sit
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by GlennS 5y ago
Love it!
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by GlennS 5y ago
Thanks very much!
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by GlennS 5y ago
Perhaps something a little snappier and with less axe grinding?
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by GlennS 5y ago
Is that documented anywhere? I've been using Nix for about 6 years now, and have mostly been using `nix-env -iA`, `nix-env -qaP --description` and `nix-env -e` the whole time.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think this might be a broader Linux thing: we could probably simplify a lot of things by going back to the assumption that computers will have a single user.
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by GlennS 5y ago
Since you're being critical, I think you should suggest a better wording for "Columbus discovered American" that you think will piss fewer people off.
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by GlennS 5y ago
I'd guess that's not on the cards any more. Amazon has been building up in Australia over the last few years. I think most Australians aren't yet aware how much better online shopping is everywhere else, and my bet is Amazon
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by GlennS 5y ago
I think traditionally most people in most countries ignored the stock market and consider it boring to talk about. Maybe less so in the USA? Not sure. But a lot of computer folks have spare money at the moment, and in that situation you hav
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by GlennS 5y ago
> They're also using monkeys - which yes, look cute, but are not primates. Monkeys are primates. Perhaps you mean they're not apes?

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