mrcus

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by mrcus 2y ago
Yeah, none of these other stories and photos are from reality
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by mrcus 2y ago
Yes, but this doesn’t prevent issues like the xz issue, where the code looks fine, but the build scripts alter it.
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by mrcus 2y ago
I am very concerned about Rust. Rust’s “decision” to have a very slim standard library has advantages, but it severely amplifies some other issues. In Go, I have to pull in zero dependencies to make an HTTP request. In Rust, pulling reqwest
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by mrcus 4y ago
I suggest you read Amnesty’s report on the human rights situation in China and reevaluate your position: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/eas...
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by mrcus 4y ago
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
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by mrcus 4y ago
On a transatlantic flight I recently had the displeasure of browsing over a satellite connection. A lot of sites simply never loaded, even though the connection speed was reasonable. The multi-second latency made these sites that loaded ten
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by mrcus 4y ago
Why do you feel the need to bring this up?
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by mrcus 4y ago
This is a good example showing that all work is not removed by automating a task, such as selecting which products are related and displaying that on an online store’s product page. Some work may be removed, but new work is added to compens
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Street Design Manual for Oslo [pdf](oslo.kommune.no)
16 points by mrcus 4y ago|2 comments
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by mrcus 4y ago
Genuinely asking: Do developers look at these styles as more than helpful tips? Surely these CSS/JS blobs that Figma outputs have to be correctly and carefully merged into the codebase?
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by mrcus 4y ago
I think the correct response is that it really whips the llama’s ass.
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by mrcus 4y ago
Most people seem to think w3schools has some form of association with the W3C. It is actually run by a small family company, Refsnes Data AS, from Sandnes, a depressing city on the western coast of Norway.
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by mrcus 4y ago
Good questions. The usual answer is “because it’s a good staring point for teaching the team to talk and coordinate often”. As with most scrum ceremonies, the standup should probably be adapted to match the needs of the team. It doesn’t hav
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by mrcus 4y ago
My bad. Great work by the Russian crew. Got my years mixed up, Norway won in ‘09, but hosted in ‘10.
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by mrcus 4y ago
That’s from the Norwegian finals! The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation has such an impressive and passionate technical crew, it is really fascinating how they manage to make truly world-class productions with a comparatively limited set o
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by mrcus 4y ago
They changed their charging port once since the release in 2007 and they made one other connector change (removing the headphone jack) during those 15 years.
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by mrcus 6y ago
Nope, especially considering the implications of this, with the amount of people working remotely. Google Meet, Classroom, etc. are down. This is probably literally costing billions every minute just in loss of productivity.