mrbadguy

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by mrbadguy 7mo ago
Arranged marriages are not the same as forced marriages. Your family simply plays matchmaker and it’s up to the prospective couple to decide whether they want to be together.
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by mrbadguy 8mo ago
Man you got me on readability. Just yesterday I had to input a random string WiFi password in a printer with only arrow keys to select each character. The password had an upper-case I in it but the moronic designers of the little password l
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by mrbadguy 8mo ago
You’re right. My point was more about the idea that “higher frame rate = better movie because the number is objective” rather than “all art is subjective”. In other words, I don’t think we should try to value art on narrow physical axes. I’
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by mrbadguy 8mo ago
If people don’t report crime then we have to leave it. The answer can’t be just to invade everyone’s privacy looking for crimes (before they’re even committed!)
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by mrbadguy 9mo ago
Agreed, the idea that there’s anything “objective” about art is kind of hilarious. Yes, it may be technically better in that there are more frames but does it make a more enjoyable film?
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by mrbadguy 9mo ago
Your film, too?
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by mrbadguy 9mo ago
Yeah bone conduction headphones are awful, I don’t know how people tolerate them.
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by mrbadguy 10mo ago
For now
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by mrbadguy 11mo ago
Keep at it, friend. You are not alone.
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by mrbadguy 11mo ago
It’s even worse than that: someone else shipped the bug and you have to work without pay to fix it.
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by mrbadguy 1y ago
Yeah the comments here are slightly surreal; the issue was that they didn’t have an off-site backup at all, not that it wasn’t on AWS or whatever.
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by mrbadguy 1y ago
Agreed, a single thread is painful if it’s actually spawning off multiple sub-topics. I suppose the better answer is to start a separate thread in Slack in that case but it can flow weirdly where the topic originally arises in one place but
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by mrbadguy 1y ago
Maybe you should try it
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by mrbadguy 1y ago
Their latest sham is the bag sizing box that has one side open. So, even if your bag would actually fit into a volume of the required size, if any of it is loose (often the case with soft bags)then it’s “too big”. I recently saw a lady try
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by mrbadguy 1y ago
Nailed it. All of the “progress” in the last, say, 20 years is exactly this. They call it “disruption” and wear the title “disruptor” as a badge of honour.
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by mrbadguy 1y ago
Well said. There’s a noticeable lack of judgement in many places these days; people think they can abdicate it to metrics and data but this is mistaken.
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
That’s simply untrue. The old way was definitely better because, with OTA, the manufacturers will succumb to the usual web-software bullshit of “we don’t have to sell them something that actually works now, we’ll just push the update later”
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
These kinds of announcements are quite misleading IMO. It’s not like smoking a single cigarette immediately takes off 20 minutes, it’s a cumulative effect caused by years of heavy smoking. It’s not particularly meaningful to average that ou
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
What?
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
This is an odd complaint. It’s not a waste of anything to update a record on an official document. Indeed, it’s more frustrating when they don’t because now I can’t see my full travel history by looking at my passport. Yes that exists somew
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
How’s that not true for just about any country?
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
I’m not American and I totally agree. Y’all and all y’all are brilliant!
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
It’s fairly mindless boilerplate for sure, but it does mean that when something happens that causes a change like this protobuf update, the change in your codebase is isolated just to the interface between it and your code ie your dumb conv
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
Oh I see, thanks for the clarification! Personally, I'm fine without that and with something like func Foo(r io.Reader) { var m MyStruct binary.Read(r, binary.LittleEndian, &m) } but we may be operating in dif
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
Can you please give me an example of what you don’t like? I’m not sure I understand the “write the code manually to do a struct” bit. You have to define the struct for sure, but beyond that you just pass it to binary.Read and it comes back
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
I don’t know about the padding (certainly it never inserted any when I’ve used it) but you can definitely state the byte order upon reading or writing. That would definitely be an oversight. Take a look at the encoding/binary package:
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
I’m not sure I understand the packed structs complaint. I have used Go to read binary data and it’s quite easy. You just need to ensure that all of your struct fields have fixed sizes e.g. int32 or [4]int64 or whatever. Unless I’ve misunder
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
This made me actually laugh out loud.
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
This is an unbelievably ignorant comment. As someone else pointed out, Swiss German is not the same as German and there are many (widely spoken) languages that are spoken in many different countries as there are many countries where many di
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by mrbadguy 2y ago
Gah! Don’t give them ideas!

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