TravHatesMe

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by TravHatesMe 2y ago
Speak for yourself. I'm typing on a thinkpad at the moment, I use the trackpoint all the time. Once you've mastered it, you no longer need to move your hands between typing / moving the mouse. Your fingers stay on the keyboar
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by TravHatesMe 2y ago
Wouldn't Jupiter's orbit create some interactions?
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
Maybe large swaths of users wouldn't download enhancement suites if you actually listened to them? It took like 3 years to support the basic feature to "never group tabs" in the Taskbar -- that's been supported by previo
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
You are naive if you believe they have zero political bias
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
This is a shame. CBC should trim the fat elsewhere. What are your thoughts on state funded media? I see the benefits but also the drawbacks, namely their partisanship when a political opponent wants to stop the hand outs
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
Isn't Alberta real estate historically boom and bust?
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
Interesting take. What are your thoughts on government healthcare? Just or unjust. To what extent?
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
> Non-nullable reference types as default was a bad idea Why?
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
Can the down voters explain themselves? I genuinely want to hear more discussion on both sides, and this commenter has provided some interesting points..
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
I often hear this apocalyptic outlook and I wonder how probable it is.. people speak of it as if it is a certainty but I am not entirely convinced. Can someone point me in either direction?
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
Unless you're building an app relying on office/COM apis
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by TravHatesMe 3y ago
I think it is a good layman's explanation, but I think the author could have explained NPC a bit better though, ie. mapping the inputs and outputs of a problem to a known NPC problem. Perhaps a brief overview of how NPC problems are pr
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
My friend thought brown eyed girl started with "hey there amigo" instead of "hey where did we go"
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
Hostile, really? I was around the forums a decade ago and it was a wonderful place.
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
Good advice. Same with Canada.
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
A little bit of both.
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
But reasoning includes statistical correlations
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
> more systems with "job security" built in. How common is this?
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
Gaming companies contributed to the death of LAN parties too. They killed the "split-screen" gameplay that would support 2-4 players on the same machine. They wanted each player to require their own copy of the game. They killed L
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
Great so will you volunteer to support a high rise behind you overlooking your house and backyard, a methadone clinic to your left, and train tracks to your right? Throw in a homeless encampment or two across the road to appease your bleedi
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
4. Drought / lack of seasonal flooding?
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by TravHatesMe 4y ago
But this approach doesn't scale. How can you expect everyone to have this intuition? Agreed that 100% coverage is stupid.
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
My father mentioned that while working for banks, back in his day (~25 years ago), there were "guidelines" of how much you should donate to $bigNameCharity depending on your position. He was pretty much forced to donate $1500&#x2F
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
You should be upfront about his political bias (which is in his best interest as it is his source of revenue). Don't get me wrong I like his videos but I also like hearing from the other side for good measure. Perhaps it is pedantic to
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
You could say the same about obese people, drinkers, and smokers. We also pay for the healthcare of pedophiles and rapists.
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
I feel like a script kiddie is someone that ripped off good code from others, maybe made a few adjustments at most, and claimed it as their own in an attempt to look cool
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
In other words, shouldn't we prefer integration testing, or perhaps partial integration testing. This requires an initial effort of setting up your test framework/environment, but in my experience integration tests provide good va
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
Bit of a tangent: I read the article to my wife and she mentioned that there is an episode of Grey's Anatomy where they wanted to perform a transplant of a pig's bowels but the Jewish (or Muslim?) lady refused. Interesting how one
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
Interesting. Maybe I will change my ways in the future. Thanks for sharing
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by TravHatesMe 5y ago
> You can become so convinced that you need fear to excel that you fail to realize there's a better way. But this is such an effective way of excelling. My fear of failure influences my output. Abstractly, perhaps we each need diffe

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