Splines

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by Splines 6y ago
I would not be surprised if DMV employees were measured and rewarded on their throughput, so punting people who have anything wrong is incentivized.
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by Splines 7y ago
Apple's Goto Fail bug is similar but not exactly what you're looking for: https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
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by Splines 7y ago
As always, relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/386/
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by Splines 7y ago
Is Blizzcon streamed in China? I agree - nothing will happen. They'll likely heavily filter what they broadcast in China if they do stream there, and that's about all they can possibly do.
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by Splines 7y ago
I think that's one of the reasons NPR bought Pocket Casts - to get this data. Where are users skipping? When are they dropping out of a podcast? Etc. Personally I skip forward past ads all the time. I have half a mind to write a pod
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by Splines 7y ago
Check out the video game "Soma". It's a horror-themed game but you can play in "Safe" mode if that's not your thing. I'd say more but that would spoil things for you.
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by Splines 7y ago
I think if you hire another software engineer to help you it could potentially fail criteria C: "The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed.
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by Splines 7y ago
That 1TB you always pay for, while Backblaze is pay-per-use.
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by Splines 7y ago
Your relative was before their time: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/options/page/flow-mul...
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by Splines 7y ago
> I hope I can repurpose them for other iot signals. I bought one for that - it's authenticated on my wifi but doesn't know what to order on Amazon. Pushing the button will make it visible on the network but do nothing else.
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by Splines 7y ago
I'd say that disk comes a close second, if not first. Overtaxed slow disks with low memory makes for a terrible desktop experience. Once your memory usage climbs and your OS starts paging/swapping things to disk, seemingly trivia
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by Splines 7y ago
> Google Mail is quite fast for me as well... And I'm not even using some crazy fast computer, just old PC with Core i5. If you want to see fast mail, go load the basic html version of Gmail. I have it bookmarked because it loads
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by Splines 7y ago
Probably some combination of things that break principle of least surprise along with not needing to think about that thing very frequently. A good IDE and good coding standards can smooth things over. I'm ok with regex too, but if yo
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by Splines 7y ago
Re: performant code, the developer writes the code once, it is read many times, and it is run many many many times. Several orders of magnitude more. Yes, making code that is easy to read and less bug-prone is good. But at the end of the
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by Splines 7y ago
It should just be turned off for large channels. Pop an error message and direct users who need it to a support article, if they follow up real support people then see how many people complain.
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by Splines 7y ago
I ran into this earlier this week. Turned out a macro that was implemented as a wrapper function in debug linked differently in ship. I don't see this first-hand very often but I'd be surprised if this kind of thing isn't a
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by Splines 7y ago
If you made a "office space" kind of game, and it was something you could actually call a game, I wouldn't be surprised to see a community grow up around it as people discussed path prioritization, how to speed run the TPS re
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by Splines 7y ago
Plus, how much testing has the airplane gone with MCAS in an off state? Certainly less time than in the on state.
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by Splines 8y ago
You can use the basic html version of gmail: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui I use this - it's way more responsive and faster than the current gmail UI. My only gripe
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by Splines 8y ago
I realize this is probably not helpful for you, but it works on my machine. FF 65.0.1 on Win10.
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by Splines 8y ago
It's been awhile since I've used it but Moon+ Reader on Android can sync progress to google drive. At the time the syncing wasn't super reliable, but it worked sometimes.
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by Splines 8y ago
Win7 certainly has some rough edges in retrospect, but I occasionally interact with old systems and so many things are so much snappier. I'm sure the modern frameworks in Win10 allow for "new experiences" but the plain old d
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by Splines 8y ago
> and dismiss native apps as being duplicated work. It's worse than duplicated work, it's duplicated different work.
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by Splines 8y ago
Is that even a web browser? If you look at the full screenshot, (I'm not 100% familiar with iOS) it looks like an app launched from the app store?
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by Splines 8y ago
It's mostly a matter of convenience and practicality. I can change the battery of my Nexus 5 with tools (mostly a screwdriver and a plastic prying tool), but I wouldn't want to do it away from home since it requires me to deal wi
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by Splines 8y ago
> they put it into production once it was safer per mile than human drivers The thing is that I can take precautions to increase my safety margin - don't drive impaired, drive in good weather conditions, get lots of sleep, don&#x2
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by Splines 8y ago
Steam seems to solve this fairly well. If you need a runtime it is installed along with the product.
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by Splines 8y ago
That's why I use the basic html version of gmail. It loads instantly. Going to the new one is agony.
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by Splines 8y ago
How does OsmAnd handle traffic? For my commute I religiously use Google Maps to learn about accidents or other blockages to make my trip shorter. Can I do the same thing with OsmAnd? (I'm thinking no, but I'm unfamiliar with ho
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by Splines 8y ago
IIRC it's Samsung that is pushing the ads. In my case that I observed there's some content analysis that is being done so that they push relevant "smart" ads while a classic ad is being shown. It turns out the day that

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