alexander-litty

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by alexander-litty 4y ago
This is an excellent comment. Thanks for sharing your perspective in such great detail. >Their existence is defined by mental turmoil and acute pessimism. I’ve been trying to find the words for this - I (cis male and married) don’t feel
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by alexander-litty 4y ago
It’s transphobic in the “hydrophobic” sense. I don’t think he merely pushes back on activists; I find he delegitimizes the movement altogether. Which, disclaimer, I do think anyone should be free to do. But people who are offended must be f
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by alexander-litty 4y ago
Fascinating! While I’ve definitely heard “brackets” used in the midwest occasionally, “parenthesis” is the standard term by far.
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by alexander-litty 4y ago
In my lifetime, “parentheses” has been the canonical way to refer to () in the US. “Brackets” is an umbrella term that can describe one or all of (), {}, and []. If you’re in a context where only one of the bracket types would normally be u
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
It looks like you can specify the value type per property, for those cases where it matters.
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
> No competition at all. > Owner is so far ahead of the competition, impossible for anyone to catch up. :)
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
I think the 1.0 magnitude is there as a placeholder. The advisories say to ignore it: >Please disregard earthquake parameters
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
You're living in the shadow of someone else's expectations! Of course you're going to feel this way -- You don't deserve that, and emotions are going to ensue. That is the human in us, and that is the human in you. >
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
Not a great example. This bug was in one of the weekly snapshot releases, which regularly and knowingly have some unplayable element to them.
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
Liquid items are funny in the game. When you look at an item listing and you see something like “Mead”, that is truly all the item is —- it isn’t a cup of mead, it’s just a vague amount of the liquid mead itself, as if your hand was the onl
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
The FDIC-insured nonsense alone perplexes me. There is no web to spin here that favors them. Did they really think they could get away with this? Or did they have a severe cascade of miscommunication? It is incredibly irresponsible and care
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
The drama is pretty ridiculous sometimes, it’s true :) This aspect isn’t unique to Depop however. Other buying and selling platforms that allow negotiation are full of people trying to assert their nonsense onto you. It feels like it’s just
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
Anecdotally, this platform gives liquidity to your otherwise unsellable clothes, and that is the big appeal. If you have a dress you’ll no longer wear, you have a few online platforms to sell it on, but they’re not known for fashionable clo
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
My partner is a top seller on Depop. We send and receive packages pretty much every day, it’s been great for them during the pandemic. Depop has done a great job fostering a more human experience than other platforms. That’s definitely a hu
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
>isn't that a result of your relationship with your isp? Any ISP is allowed to sniff and manipulate packets, so this isn't just about my ISP -- it's the server's ISP as well as any entities in-between. Even if I did (
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
Dodged a bullet for now. I’m worried this is their extend-embrace stage, and the extinguish is yet to come. I truly hate to be pessimistic, and I’m not trying to start a flame war. I just can’t see this behavior lasting in the long run.
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
People also expect their postcards to arrive untampered. ISPs, Comcast in particular, inject ad-loading javascript into HTTP pages. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-jav... https:&#x2F
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
Acknowledging the damage inflicted by an abusive past partner. I'm able to say "this is something that happened to me" and address it as such -- It isn't a thing I push to the back of my brain to deal with later, or an i
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by alexander-litty 5y ago
I get the impression that the job market is very saturated right now. I'm on a private slack group for a tech recruiter company; it's well-discussed that the platform is seeing less hires due to the pandemic.
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by alexander-litty 6y ago
Things I’m working on at least once a week: - Learning how to play this, very slowly: https://youtu.be/egWhW_BdLrI - Audio synthesis from scratch in C++, and hacking a music synthesis engine on top of it. Consequently, lear
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by alexander-litty 6y ago
It is far more unpredictable to litigate based on intent and public perception. If an app displays a phone number but doesn’t say it belongs to the restaurant, is that making the current partnership clear or unclear? It’s a question left to
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by alexander-litty 7y ago
I thought RSS simply fell out of majority favor. Are there legal reasons behind it as well?