eyerony

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by eyerony 6y ago
True story: my dad is confused by basically all technology and all modern user interfaces. The one site he finds usable without assistance? Craigslist.
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by eyerony 6y ago
I never thought trendy modern GUI design would get so bad that looking at screenshots of programs running on Windows 98 would feel instantly and overwhelmingly relaxing, like settling into a warm bath, as if parts of my brain being taxed fo
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by eyerony 6y ago
The appeal is that they need something on-trend to put in their portfolios for career advancement. It's their version of résumé-driven development. Project managers have similar incentives (screenshots are very powerful, in many settin
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by eyerony 6y ago
Oh is that what it is? I was trying to figure out why it looked so bad when not zoomed uncomfortably far "in", when I didn't recall that ever being a problem before. I think that's it. Ugh now I can't un-see how muc
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by eyerony 6y ago
> My hypothesis is the point is to compete with Jira. When they start making everything drag & droppable at a huge cost to UI latency and bundle size (plus, for some reason, idle resource use), we'll know for sure that's
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by eyerony 6y ago
Oh man, they've made it way harder to quickly evaluate the state of a repo, which has always (for me) been about 90% of the appeal of Github. Moving releases out of the tab list hurts, too. Does it also feel "heavier"/
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by eyerony 6y ago
> How are you managing to break apt not once, but "way too many times?" Raises hand my home server (running Debian) is currently in a weird state where a whole bunch of packages won't install or update because some libra
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by eyerony 6y ago
Strongly agreed, I haven't even kinda liked Windows since Win7. Still, it's not as bad as the constant oops-rebooted-there-goes-your-work fest I recall from early Win10. I forget it's there most of the time, until I suspend m
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by eyerony 6y ago
Hahaha, yeah, same smallish town's cops love to hassle people with late or early shifts playing "20 questions" fishing for drunks or I-don't-even-know-what ("5:30's awfully early to be going to work" look,
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by eyerony 6y ago
> I will not be migrating from Mojave to Catalina, and will use my current generation of Macs until they are obsolete, while finally making the transition to Linux I've recently been doing this, after some time (ahem, a decade) away
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by eyerony 6y ago
The fluidity is about keeping activity on the screen tightly in sync with motion on the trackpad and having zero or no unexpected behavior or jank when e.g. reversing a motion partway through to undo it (say, starting to slide three fingers
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by eyerony 6y ago
Once saw a police car in a smallish town whip a u-turn for no clear reason, no lights, nothing, nearly hit a car that was pulling out of a bank parking lot and the driver of which had clearly already looked that way and seen no-one coming,
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by eyerony 6y ago
Hey, it's me a couple months ago! With a side dose of "we may or may not fire you, we dunno yet" for several weeks (they did, abruptly, the day after once again saying they maybe wouldn't, and I guess I'll never kno
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by eyerony 6y ago
Factoring is the point at which a lot of people start truly hating math. As in going from having a weakly negative or even somewhat positive opinion of the field to hating it. I'd avoid the name.
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by eyerony 6y ago
> email client I hear a lot of "my email", as in "I opened up my email" or "where's my email?" Sure they could mean their email inbox, but they also mean the email client with that phrase, and don'
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by eyerony 6y ago
> Is everyone insane or is there something I'm missing. Difference in taste based on class-related norms & values, mostly, is what I'd say you're missing. Can make a thing really impressive/desirable to one group
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by eyerony 6y ago
Yeah, I dunno why it is, but that could well be. I suspect it has something to do with whatever's resulting in women attending and completing college at a higher rate than men, but that's just a hunch. [EDIT] jesus it's so ha
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by eyerony 6y ago
> Women I know who wrote software kept finding new roles where they'd be in management instead and then they moan that they liked writing code and miss it. Maybe that tells us that sexism in software development is prevalent and the
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by eyerony 6y ago
Yeah, you're on to something. I'd guess it's intense and precise coaching paired with people who don't do this sort of thing very often. It seemed to get a lot worse soon after they started trying to get a bunch more pre
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by eyerony 6y ago
They've been trending that way even at the live events. Last few years the obviousness of all the coaching and rehearsal has been extremely distracting. I mean it was there before but not quite so intensely. They all come off as roboti
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by eyerony 6y ago
Ages 0-22: zero times, basically never sick, never had strep or a sinus infection even once. Maybe, maybe had very mild cases of the flu once or twice when very young but then never got it again in that age range, despite never bothering
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by eyerony 6y ago
By the time I get them for those things I'm usually sitting at about 4 hours of sleep over the last 48-72(!) hours and unable to eat or (sometimes) even keep water down, so yeah, I need 'em. I wait that long so my body has a chang
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by eyerony 6y ago
If I could get antibiotics for strep or sinus infections without going to them, I'd pretty much never go. Those visits are really dumb because I already know what's wrong, and just need them to say "yep, it's the thing y
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by eyerony 6y ago
IMHO Perfect Dark is one of the oldest shooters that holds up (play the version on the Xbox 360, maybe also the XBone, not sure). Yeah yeah it's a console shooter, but it's outstanding and hi-res + dual-stick controls make it feel
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by eyerony 6y ago
At launch the boss fights were much worse. They updated it to provide alternative solutions to most or all of them, at some point.
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by eyerony 6y ago
Wait, is HR part of “the originals” now?
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by eyerony 6y ago
I think it wasn’t until my sixth or seventh play through that I finally felt like I’d found everything in that game. There’s just so much in it, and it’s content to let you miss most of it if you want. IIRC there are a three or so main ro
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by eyerony 6y ago
> Types are for compilers, not people, and personally I think there's more disadvantages than advantages re: time. Hard disagree. Types are for people. They're for people to tell compilers what to tell people. Which is incredi
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by eyerony 6y ago
> poor documentation Static types are documentation. Better yet they're documentation that can't go stale without a computer yelling at you that it's wrong.
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by eyerony 6y ago
A thousand rows wasn't impressive in 2000. I think people've forgotten (or weren't around for, so don't realize) how big a step back we took on picture quality and pixel density for monitors, for many years, with the swi

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