alliecat

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by alliecat 8y ago
Sure. Trump's an abhorrent human being but that doesn't stop me from respecting their gender identity. I don't go around misgendering people I don't like because I don't like them. That's shit.
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by alliecat 8y ago
It's always interesting when people try to Solve Art. Art is inherently subjective, and you have to accept that a lot of it just _sucks_. It's up to you to curate your own taste, and you do that by trawling through the terrible ar
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by alliecat 8y ago
There are a million and one online communities where men are welcome. Let us have just this one, please?
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by alliecat 8y ago
Step off it, mate. There is a correct answer: People who call themselves women are women. Simple as that. You're not the arbiter of Gender.
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by alliecat 8y ago
Modern turbofans are basically ducted fans spun by a smaller turbojet engine, so they are basically huge fans!
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by alliecat 8y ago
"Sucking" doesn't actually generate any thrust - In highschool, my physics teacher did a demo with a T-shaped pipe with a fan in the middle, suspended from some string. Without the T, the pipe moved as you'd expect. With
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by alliecat 8y ago
Background App Refresh has been a thing for ages - It took them a while, but Apple solved this problem in a super user-friendly manner.
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by alliecat 8y ago
This reads like a creative writing exercise from the same people who were hurling violent abuse on social media at (ex-)SV people, mainly women and people of colour, who spoke out about abuse and similar attitudes they'd experienced in
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by alliecat 8y ago
Hang on a sec, I'll move my EU-based company's entirely EU customer base as well as all of our EU citizen staff and EU-based suppliers... oh wait.
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by alliecat 8y ago
This makes me uncomfortable. Private subscriptions were a direct revenue stream for Github, and explained directly how they can afford the infrastructure that provides the service. Generally when previously paid stuff becomes free, it'
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by alliecat 8y ago
This is a good article, but I think there is a lot more to be written on this subject. I would really like to see a proper "long-read" exploration of what is a very real and under-acknowledged problem.
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by alliecat 8y ago
Not everything uses Semver (which is primarily aimed at software libraries). Blender's versioning scheme is consistent and reasonably well documented.
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by alliecat 8y ago
I hear this a lot, but I find Safari to be an entirely usable browser day-to-day - the reduction in power usage is very noticeable vs Firefox or Chrome.
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by alliecat 8y ago
"Do you want to meet them?" is perfectly acceptable. People seem to have no issues using it to refer to me, somebody who doesn't feel particularly at ease with referring to themself as either "him" or "her&quo
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by alliecat 8y ago
iPhone owner since the very first iPhone - I know ;)
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by alliecat 8y ago
> Cross-check with your friends how they feel about the company. This is very important. I have a friend who took a job at a Mysterious Fintech Startup - he told our social circle in the pub and the entire table collectively groaned and
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by alliecat 8y ago
Which is one reason, among many, for YouTube to build a native application.
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by alliecat 8y ago
Makes sense. The NSA can't backdoor the kit if China already have, right? I understand it's oft more nuanced than this, but the comment about glass houses comes to mind.
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by alliecat 8y ago
I say again; Don't be rude. Especially don't be mean about other people's environments for the sake of being mean about their environments. Which is what you just did.
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by alliecat 8y ago
Don't be rude. LabVIEW is used in production in a lot of serious environments.
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by alliecat 8y ago
It's an XKCD1053 event - Somebody discovered something that was new and interesting to them, and probably decided to share it knowing there are other people who also aren't yet aware.
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by alliecat 8y ago
The only thing I remember about Secure Scuttlebutt is that it's anything but secure, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read it - can somebody jog my memory?
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by alliecat 8y ago
In an ideal world that'd be great, but for single-dev projects you can more effectively deliver features if you just pick a database and stick to it. It's a shame it's MySQL (I'm in the Postgres camp these days) but Mari
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by alliecat 8y ago
This is probably exactly what I've been looking for as a blogging platform. Definitely giving this a go.
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by alliecat 8y ago
Bloody hell, mate - It's perfectly valid to highlight the fact that somebody's PoV may be biased based on their past contributions, there's no need to bring race into it. They're just a car company.
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by alliecat 8y ago
Coal mining is a historic industry; we should not be pushing anybody into coal mining (Looking at you, Australia) I’m assuming you picked coal mining because it’s an example of a dirty, dangerous position in an industry that’s rightfully
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by alliecat 8y ago
It charges quite happily off the 3W max which is standard on most non-power-delivery USB-C ports (inc Apple's, iirc)
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by alliecat 8y ago
Ruby dev here, Rails is pretty good at sessions. I hear the Python crowd have some great stuff too.
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by alliecat 8y ago
It’s no longer required; High Sierra and Mojave both officially support eGPUs.
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by alliecat 8y ago
I want to try and charge a MBP off the iPad Pro!

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