curtis3389

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by curtis3389 3mo ago
RIP King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIgnNtZrN4
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by curtis3389 8mo ago
If you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak. Also, every card has a qrcode that links to educational material on the real-world topic. (Predictable, specious critiques: reductionis
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by curtis3389 1y ago
The UK seems terrible at this whole "free society" thing.
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by curtis3389 1y ago
Here's the cosponsors of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1/co... I think the purpose of the change was to "increase revenue": > Requiring that certain
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by curtis3389 1y ago
Oh dear God in heaven and Ada Lovelace forgive me for the horrors I have wrought.
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by curtis3389 1y ago
Hey! Don't blame us programmers for new features! We don't usually write the user stories!
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by curtis3389 1y ago
Pine64 updated the PinePhone with the PinePhone Pro.
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by curtis3389 1y ago
Reminds me more of the Amazon Delivery Partner model where the way you want to do something implies harming innocent people, so you have a third-party do it to shift blame for the deaths.
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by curtis3389 1y ago
A good reminder that the United States never outlawed slavery.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
The Rust for Linux politics mess should be laid squarely at Linus' feet. He's the BDFL. He approved adding Rust to Linux, and he massively failed at communicating what that even meant. If he wants Rust in the kernel, he needs to k
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Thank you so much! That's incredibly enlightening!
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Something I've been wondering: why do ebooks take so long to render? My kindle seems good at it, but opening an ebook in calibre/fbreader/etc can take minutes or even fail in some readers depending on the ebook.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Remember the name McKinsey. They are an evil organization that does bad things to good people. Anyone from McKinsey is to be regarded with suspicion at the very least.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
“…You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmo
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Regardless of everything else, most people should not be using bcachefs yet. Kent has even stated that unless you're okay not being able to access your data for chunks of time while bugs are being fixed, you shouldn't be using it.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
ISO standards have always reeked of EU regulatory capture to me.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
neither. permaweird.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
I was thinking more of every web app needing one or more "if isIE() {} else {}" blocks somewhere in its codebase. Now we have the wondrous pleasure of doing the same for Apple.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Mobile Safari is the new IE. Random idiosyncrasies that are poorly documented dictated by the whims of a single corporation. Apple has broken stuff multiple times in the past few years.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
IIRC, America's weird relationship with sex is rooted in our Puritan history. Idk about our comfort with depictions of violence. We definitely have a history of "cowboy & indian" films, so it could come from the glorifica
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by curtis3389 2y ago
I doubt it will be _the_ standard, though. I think we'll need to flip the setup so that a cord is in the car with people stealing them for the copper.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Their first point seems valid. Remember the AOL search logs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release The rest of Google's points are worthless hogwash.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
This is also known as "The Oracle Method"
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Too bad Microsoft is just a bunch of Ferengi in a trench coat.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
We're probably just talking past each other. The reason GNU comes off as religious is because they frame the whole issue in terms of human rights and moral imperatives (it is wrong to hide the source and we have the right to share). OS
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by curtis3389 2y ago
sigh OSI was established specifically because they just wanted to share code and didn't care about GNU's 4 freedoms, so don't be surprised when the proponents of open source give you projects you can't even fork.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Actually this is open source. This is what the term refers to. What you mean is that it's not free (libre) software, which is most certainly is not. They do not respect you and your rights: https://www.gnu.org/philosoph
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Not a lot of communication with your colleagues when you die on Friday and nobody notices until Tuesday. People came in and worked an entire day while she was in her cubicle decomposing.
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by curtis3389 2y ago
I also love Clean Code and think it unfairly gets a bad rap, but here's a great, sometimes hostile, conversation with the author that touches on the issues: https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blo
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by curtis3389 2y ago
Domain-Driven Design is fantastic. Test-Driven Design by Example is a good (and fun) read.

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