brango

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by brango 9y ago
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the pick up community, AKA gaming (as in "The Game"). It's a good way for hetero guys to meet other hetero guys. A lot of people who stick with it are the type who want to better the
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by brango 9y ago
Just talk about girls a lot. One of the guys I met in a bar at a language exchange (good places to meet other hetero guys btw) even joked about this when one of my other friends came over ("Hey we just met each other but both agree she
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by brango 9y ago
I can recommend the book Anatomy of Friendship [1] by Reisman. It's an old book but dispels the myth that things are more difficult now than in days gone by, since he quotes ancient Greeks/Romans lamenting the difficulties of frie
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by brango 9y ago
I like to think that in some small way, I helped make this piece of art :-)
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by brango 9y ago
The food industry plays all sorts of games. Ever seen what's actually in "pork" sausages or "chicken" nuggets?
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by brango 9y ago
Wouldn't it then be a drone?
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by brango 9y ago
I stand corrected.
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by brango 9y ago
That can fly themselves and perform accurate 3D manoeuvres.
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by brango 9y ago
It's not a tech issue, it's a business issue. Why give people bigger raises than they may otherwise ask for? That's just wasting money. It's the same logic for why you only get a good deal when you threaten to leave your
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by brango 9y ago
No it doesn't. It means an exponent is present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
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by brango 9y ago
> of my own choosing Billions of marketing dollars are spent influencing people to make them "choose correctly".
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by brango 9y ago
While some people may seek aloneness, I can't imagine anyone seeking loneliness.
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by brango 9y ago
In a hunter-gatherer society you'd have far higher chances of survival in a team/tribe. I don't find it surprising at all that feeling lonely (a desire to be part of a tribe) would have such a strong impact on mental (and the
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by brango 9y ago
No one bothered replying to my issue and suggested fix. I'm not doing work without maintainers agreeing my approach. So no.
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by brango 9y ago
I'd want to because grpc doesn't support javascript on the web. REST is the defacto standard. I am aware Google use gRPC in their SDKs and backends, none of which are JS web. So yes, I want to build microservices with gRPC but exp
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by brango 9y ago
I know. It doesn't work well enough. If Google focussed on this I think gRPC would gain massive ground. But issues are left open for months without any response, etc. We've had to drop gRPC as a direct result of this.
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by brango 9y ago
Looks interesting, but TBH I'm still waiting for full swagger spec generation. It should be easy to go from grpc->swagger to generate REST client libs. Unfortunately in practice the swagger generator has many holes in it making it u
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by brango 9y ago
Master=stable and in prod, non-master branches=dev & staging. Jenkins deploys automatically on git commits.
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by brango 9y ago
Do some useful work for someone and ask them to reward you with the book.
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by brango 9y ago
No but it was "paid for" by the student living with/spending significant time with the guru doing chores for them. I'd rather pay a few bucks per month to avoid that.
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by brango 9y ago
Maybe. The cost-benefit of kids never really seemed to make much sense to me. Perhaps I'll live to regret it or change my mind in future. Either way, I make my bed...
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by brango 9y ago
I guess so.
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by brango 9y ago
So you're saying those "outraged" parents don't like it either and don't like to see people freeloading and not taking their share of the pain? They're "outraged" because some people are getting off s
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by brango 9y ago
I honestly never understood why you'd put yourself through all that for someone else's genes to propagate.
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by brango 9y ago
We choose not to have a child because they are not easy, but because they are hard.
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by brango 9y ago
I wondered when fravia would make an appearance. +ORC got me into programming too. Great days cracking winzip and defeating parental controls :-)
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by brango 9y ago
> I've had a few inspectors demand access to my home to verify that I wasn't watching TV illegally Ask to see their warrant or tell them to get lost. They have no power of entry, possibly unless accompanied by the po po (in whi
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by brango 9y ago
Boo hoo. Do you think Medieval cities like those in Europe were built for public transport as well?
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by brango 9y ago
Start teaching yoga.
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by brango 9y ago
I can think of a few non-porn applications for this. It also seems like it wouldn't be a million miles from this to being able to generate the 3D armature of a person in a video, kind of like a kinect in reverse (i.e. video file goes i

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