chucksmash

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by chucksmash 4d ago
Rebooted the phone and I now have access again. Inclined to believe it was an A/B test. Firefox 156.0, Android 17 (Pixel 8a), uBO 1.74.0
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Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?
25 points by chucksmash 4d ago|6 comments
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by chucksmash 5d ago
Correctness is not a binary thing though. I doubt many people here are brave enough to claim their code does what is supposed to do in every conceivable case. Maybe you have high confidence in the correctness of parts of the code. Correctne
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by chucksmash 5d ago
Nothing can travel faster than light through vacuum, so that bit is implied as well. I disagree with their quibble about the title being intentionally misleading but, meh, I've picked stranger technically correct hills to die on, the r
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by chucksmash 12d ago
(2017), if the pictured award is to be believed
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by chucksmash 20d ago
Loved these games. Grew up playing them with a yoke + throttle controller my dad bought for MS Flight Simulator. Didn't have the specs for Tie Fighter to run well but X-Wing worked great. I'd angle a clock radio next to the yoke f
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by chucksmash 20d ago
+1, useful read! Seam is used liberally throughout because it captures the idea well (i.e. a place where you can cleave ball of mud code apart to begin refactoring efforts in an isolated way) and that takes many different forms throughout t
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old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
71 points by chucksmash 1mo ago|73 comments
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by chucksmash 1mo ago
A DDoS against a blog that iirc was attempting to dox the archive.today maintainer. The bit about tampering with archived pages is news to me though. Wish the wiki discussion included receipts. Is "two users report they were redirected
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by chucksmash 1mo ago
Great question. It's a vague term and a moving target that not everyone agrees on. For instance, retarded is now considered a slur. If OP is saying "my director said the R word," then I would question whether OP spared the go
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by chucksmash 1mo ago
Because "slurs" is vague and covers a wide variety of utterances that run the gamut from unprofessional to unemployable and I had a tingle of Spidey sense that OP might have chosen the vague phrasing specifically to inflate the si
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by chucksmash 1mo ago
Don't get shy now. Which slurs?
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
> Mirza Ghasemi: A smoked eggplant dish cooked with garlic, tomatoes, and eggs, from the Caspian Sea area. That sounds good. Makes me think of hunkar begendi.
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
It's endemic and it predates AI. I took a CS class 15 years ago where >40% of the class was caught copying the class project off of pastebin (no clue if it was specifically bait or student code that had a tell-tale error).
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
The world is full of nuance. Just like whataboutism and "both sides" can be convenient rhetorical devices for people lying to themselves or others, accusing someone of either can be a convenient figleaf for avoiding thinking about
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
Because I don't have a CEO?
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
It's a really good point. "It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Always remember that" is all well and good but pretending 1960s ditch weed and fentanyl are a single problem with a common prescrip
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
Sharing network access? That's not friendship. That's a tenth anniversary wedding gift.
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
Any given trade also has a capacity. A mispricing opportunity can only absorb so much investment before it's no longer mispriced. A particular trade that can 2x $20k won't be able to do the same for $20 billion. It's why RenT
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
Here at least I believe the gambling laws have changed. Most gas stations I go into now have "gaming" machines and there's always some soul sitting at them at any time of day. I'm mostly on team let-people-do-what-they-w
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
I used to use this as my example for how big a megabyte actually is. I think the entire text is 4 MB uncompressed (a nagging voice in my head says 16 MB, but I think that's just the residual part of me that never really believed how bi
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by chucksmash 2mo ago
Your company's software enhances the process somehow, making it easier or faster or cheaper. Your company's software did not unlock the technology of road building. There were roads built before your company's software and I&
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
Just because it's easy to say doesn't mean it's wrong. By the same logic, you could say Microsoft Access should have all the capabilities of Postgres because it's painful for small businesses to move off of it when it&#x
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
1. Create a domain like myquickanonemailaccount.com. 2. Use the domain exclusively for hosting your own mail, but create a fake account creation page that just temporarily doesn't work. 3. As an added bonus, should you one day get a su
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
I just showed this to a Black person and they said it was regarded, whatever that means. More seriously. Is "moronic" okay? It's just an ever so slightly more archaiac way to say retarded. The meaning, the negative connotatio
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
Mercy me, a slur? Retarded also has a non-offensive meaning. It just means slowed. In fact, while I wasn't around at the time I'd wager that "mentally retarded" came into an official usage specifically because it was a c
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
And my point is that I went out of my way not to use it any more in that circumstance. Yet in the years since, I still talk about poor decisionmaking, poor luck, poor performance, and poor word choice. Because it would be poor logic to go t
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
Why would you think I'd continue to say it after realizing I'd inadvertently hurt the kid's feelings? You are making assumptions of ill will from me in the anecdote I shared just like you are making assumptions about the OP i
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
In 2004 I used to volunteer as a tutor at an afterschool center in a low income housing project. One day a middle schooler was complaining about how much homework they had and I ribbed them a little, "oh, poor baby." They were stu
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by chucksmash 3mo ago
> I'm embarrassed by the way you're trying to be offensive Oooor, try this one on for size: What if they're not out to cause offense and the malice you impute is just an illusion under which you yourself are laboring alone

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