factotvm

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by factotvm 4mo ago
No, it’s a lost sale.
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by factotvm 7mo ago
It probably started with the Third Amendment to the Constitution, continued with the Posse Comitatus Act, and was alive and well last November under the leadership of Mark Kelly.
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by factotvm 7mo ago
The important words are, American citizens . In times past, the thought of "waging war" against your own citizens would be a bad look.
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by factotvm 7mo ago
> In order to fix this, we might start sending out satellites in every direction Minor correction: Satellites don't go in every direction; they orbit. Probes or spaceships are more appropriate terms.
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by factotvm 10mo ago
The laughable thing here is the "argument" that one cannot judge the societal impact of the FBI unless one has worked in law enforcement.
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by factotvm 1y ago
Read The Fine Prompt, more or less, right?
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by factotvm 2y ago
Don’t forget that most modern version control systems are distributed. The same can not be said for ticketing systems.
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by factotvm 2y ago
Not to mention, the best commit messages are about the code that isn’t there. As you say, we know what’s there. I need the author to tell me why it’s there, and perhaps what other alternatives were abandoned because they didn’t work. You kn
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by factotvm 2y ago
> 2. Margin of commit messages is often too small for documenting the rationale - this job is better left for tickets. The commit message lives with the code. The number of times in my career that a company has migrated, changed, consoli
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by factotvm 2y ago
Only if gun manufacturers are liable for murders.
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by factotvm 2y ago
I read Head First Design Patterns years and years ago. I'm a fan of the series. It's less for dummies and more using ideas from psychology to help you learn the material. I'll forever recall the power and conciseness of the D
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by factotvm 2y ago
You can disambiguate two types with the same name from different libraries, e.g. `Factotvm.URL` and `Foundation.URL`. Do you mean something more full-featured? You are not prefixing types with three letters, if that's what you think ha
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by factotvm 2y ago
I'd like to see the difference in bug detection between "pull requests" vs. "over-the-shoulder code reviews". Edit: or, rather, in my experience the author of the code often finds the bugs when explaining it to the
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by factotvm 3y ago
I would imagine consciousness shrinks in the presence of an all-powerful god.
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by factotvm 3y ago
Slack is web-first at best. It has nearly zero platform conventions, at least on desktop. (It’s been some time since I’ve used the mobile app.) A quick couple of examples: multi-selection and drag-n-drop, both all but broken on desktop.
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by factotvm 3y ago
Kansas, birthplace of the Lynx browser.
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by factotvm 3y ago
It’s been great in many ways, but the user interface is horrible. Why they show the scores on the thumbnail for replays is beyond me. Time shifting is all about not knowing the outcome beforehand. It’s as if this was created by people who d
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by factotvm 4y ago
Your talk of audio reminds me of how the climax of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) is so powerful because of its restrained sound. The silence of Chingachgook's inaudible wail makes me want to weep. The slicing of knives and reports fr
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by factotvm 4y ago
I'm here for this, but not to declare empathically my position. Rather, I'd like to ask a question: Say I'm learning a new language that is opinionated about casing. Suppose it was easier to read one style, but the language
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by factotvm 5y ago
For me, it’s because I’m on my work machine. I don’t move my personal credentials to my work machine. (In fact, I moved over to my phone to write this comment.) We could discuss that aspect—sharing accounts on computers that don’t belong to
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by factotvm 5y ago
In essence, Goodhart's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by factotvm 5y ago
Did you miss the part about kids?
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by factotvm 6y ago
Yes, I believe we do. I only need think of the math discovered solely to predict the stars to know that without the night sky, we are different. To say nothing of the poets.
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by factotvm 6y ago
You have chosen poorly. If we lose that essence of humanity where we feel wonder and awe looking up into the night sky, then we lose one of the prime movers of discovery and science. Or do you think cat videos can do the same?
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by factotvm 6y ago
Please check out The International Dark-Sky Association and consider donating. https://www.darksky.org/ Note: I am only a donor and not affiliated with them in any way.
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by factotvm 6y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by factotvm 6y ago
But one is about the past and one is about the future. And those items in the past have been heavily investigated, brought to the courts, and due to no evidence, summarily rebuked. Apples and oranges. Don’t get me wrong, the world ending in
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by factotvm 6y ago
You’re off by about 20% on the take home.
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by factotvm 6y ago
According to the downvotes, my statement must be false and predictions are the same as lies. If it’s been proven false, don’t say it. If it can’t be proven false, carry on, as that’s not against the terms and conditions. Or, a false equival
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by factotvm 6y ago
Predictions are different than lies.

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