havernator

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by havernator 5y ago
If any students hear the word wrong, you'll get some really funny drawings. (my guess)
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by havernator 5y ago
White "Elder millennial" here, who grew up in red states with a Boomer dad who tried really hard not to drop the N-word in anger around me, but I still heard it a couple times. The "programming" worked on me great . I w
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by havernator 5y ago
TL;DR http, properly implemented, supports a ton more stuff than even many “web developers” are aware of, like… range requests, which are exactly what you’d think they’d be.
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by havernator 5y ago
I’d assumed Painting with John was as much about painting as Fishing with John was about fishing. Is he actually, seriously trying to teach people to paint?
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by havernator 5y ago
> They call themselves communists but they're really fascists -- the merger of state and corporate power. The “corporate” in Mussolini’s famous quote re: fascism meant something else. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by havernator 5y ago
http://spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html TL;DR copyright becomes absurd surprisingly fast when you have a large population, widely-available authoring/recording tools, and a way to store/search all of t
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by havernator 5y ago
I think skepticism and dismay are understandable reactions to “we stream a remote web browser to a local web browser so you can browse while you browser, and it costs $50/m” Doesn’t mean it’s not going to work. Doesn’t mean that, if it
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by havernator 5y ago
> Distinctive characters in fiction stick with me, but not order of events: I couldn't tell you anything useful about the plot details of my favorite films and books despite revisiting them many times. I can usually slowly work my w
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by havernator 5y ago
Yeah, seem to have middling abilities there. I’m fairly normal in most other ways, mentally, with really high (tested) spatial reasoning, and a good-but-nothing-special (on HN, anyway) tested IQ. Just badly deficient autobiographical memo
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by havernator 5y ago
Middle aged here. Almost, but not quite, no autobiographical memory. Been that way since I was really young. So that’s fun. Often I remember that something happened. Order gets wonky, even a week back. Sometimes I can kinda remember an i
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by havernator 5y ago
Liability insurance in the US may end up paying out for medical bills.
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by havernator 5y ago
Same here, read it when it was posted elsewhere in this thread with an implication of “this’ll show you how basecamp management’s in the wrong” and that was the only part that stood out to me as wrong in their handling of this. I kept waiti
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by havernator 5y ago
Hubris drives you to re-build things you shouldn't... which is how you learn why they work the way they do. And maybe to try things you "shouldn't", which end up working out OK fairly often. Is my take on how that's
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by havernator 5y ago
I don't notice much difference on the mid-grade beans until a week out, but the expensive top-end stuff is going downhill on day 4, maybe day 5. It's not ruined yet, but if you paid 50-100% more than for mid-grade beans, it&#x27
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by havernator 5y ago
Vacuum packer is a thing I don't have. Might work. I've heard conflicting things about freezing (I've tried it with lesser beans in Tupperware, didn't seem to make much difference either way)
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by havernator 5y ago
> Best way to get flavour out of coffee is cold brew (not cold trip). Can confirm that this is the best way to brew all but the finest beans. Elevates mid-tier beans quite a bit.
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by havernator 5y ago
IMO coffee is basically three distinct drinks: 1) Really, really, really shitty coffee that just tastes like bitter and stale, always. Often lots of ash tray in the flavor. (instant, many k-cups, some exceptionally bad gas station coffee, v
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by havernator 5y ago
They like real buttons, lacking flat nonsense, and densely-presented functionality. I do too, so I get the impulse to resist calls for change, but agree with you that a light-touch reorganization of some of the buttons & menus, and some
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by havernator 5y ago
Consider: visual novels, even when entirely linear, probably count as “games” for mobile sales. They’re damn popular, are often episodic or series or have DLC to drive more sales, et c. And that’s just one kind of non-“gamer” game that’s hu
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by havernator 5y ago
Don’t forget: “I want to go from two models of mobile OS ecosystem to one, in the name of choice and freedom”
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by havernator 5y ago
Kicking a business out of your mall for abusive behavior has got to be the lamest variety of “violating freedom” ever.
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by havernator 5y ago
Since don’t-have-monsters isn’t an option—yes? Especially since most of the ones being “murdered” by Apple aren’t the vulnerable, in any kind of relevant sense, but software developers and publishes. People who just use the devices knew wha
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by havernator 5y ago
I just know that these things won't happen right now: 1) Job interview? The big corporate sales prospect I'm courting? "Company policy is that we do all our calls through [some corporate communication tool]. It's on [sto
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by havernator 5y ago
Absent government regulation? Yes, exactly. If Mecha-Godzilla shows up I'm very, very happy to have Godzilla around to fuck them up, even if Godzilla is a dangerous monster and it would be better to have no monsters.
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by havernator 5y ago
Some definitely do charge more for e.g. subscriptions on iOS than they do if you go through their website. They can't advertise the website option in their app , but it can exist. Last time I made that mistake the site's subscr
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by havernator 5y ago
Apple can no longer force vendors who want access to iOS to play by the rules that I want them to be forced to play by, is the main risk of adding more stores. I bought iOS devices in part for the effects of that leverage—I chose that
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by havernator 5y ago
I already don't use Facebook, but I take your more general point. The main thing I don't want is to feel network-effect pressure from some huge non-Apple platform to install from sources with worse privacy and security guarantees.
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by havernator 5y ago
Some apps that would choose to be in the App Store if they had to, would instead use an alternative store. Some apps that wouldn't otherwise exist on iOS, would exist on alternative stores. I'd rather sacrifice that second categ
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by havernator 5y ago
I'd care about this a lot less if the government first outlawed most personal data collection & hoarding (by tech companies and others) before we go destroying the libertarian solution to this (outsource regulation to a company, wh
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by havernator 5y ago
Unlocked boot loader would be fine. Sideloading's fine as long as the UI's bad enough that normal people can't, say, click a link on a website and keep clicking "OK" until the app's installed on their phone, an

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