plainnoodles

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by plainnoodles 4y ago
So "why" is just "idk" and it seems like the person generating them found her on accident once, and then kept trying to find her again. I'm a fan of a good creepypasta and honestly a memetic SCP that "lives&quo
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
> so he drives to the Google parking lot on a weekend and finds no one there. Obviously Google+ wasn't a serious enough concern to Google that would require weekend hours so the author concluded (correctly) that its not the existent
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I just recently migrated all (4) of my domains from google domains to cloudflare. Some of them (.cafe) because it was 50% cheaper (20ish bucks instead of 40) and others (.com) because even through the price was ~ the same ($9ish vs 12) I st
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
My main qualms with bash as a scripting language are that its syntax is not only kind of bonkers (no judgement, I know it's an old tool) but also just crazily unsafe. I link to a few high-profile things whenever people ask me why my ma
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
One of the weird things about Java is that there's a big low-latency/high-performance Java community around that stems from Island (now owned by NASDAQ) using Java as the platform/language for their matching engine. Then, tal
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I honestly think it is that bad. Heartbleed was reviewed twice by literal OpenSSL experts and security experts who were specifically looking at it to determine whether it was a security vulnerability or not and concluded (incorrectly) it
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
Yes I'm sure China or Russia would be *thrilled* if their citizens wanted workers to own the means of production. Definitely would not involve tanks or squares or soon-to-be iconic historical photography at all.
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
Adding on: and sometimes, even when they manage to make an interesting point, they've gotten so lost in their appraisal of their argument that the philosophical question ends up not even being the one they actually care about. To that
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I'll throw out another "class" of person - someone who believes something, and at least grasps the concept of philosophical reasoning enough that they'll attempt to build one of the basic forms of argument - usually an a
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I'm not a greybeard by any stretch, but I personally get a lot of mileage out of just stopping to ask: Does the extra layer of abstraction, or extraction of code to a method, or creation of a class - does it make the code *right now* e
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
The problem is that the author probably likes manhattan for various reasons that you can't just move outside of manhattan, like: - family nearby - friends nearby - as a consequence of the above two: support network is in manhattan - en
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
A company I used to work for took roughly this path: 1. 1 mildly technical, mostly business-domain person, a spreadsheet + auto-clickers 2. 1.5 persons still only mildly technical and mostly business-domain-y, a VB gui and some basic networ
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
Probably just not even saying anything at all, given they found the USB shortly after it was lost.
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I don't usually actually laugh at HN comments, but when I read "audited" in this context, I did. I don't know why, but this kind of tongue-in-cheek use of a more "sophisticated" word to refer to something munda
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
> There are all kinds of invisible forces that you abutt that can be difficult to figure out This was my main experience, and all I did was try to set up the ability to simply send emails to myself (gmail) (and no-one else). Things lik
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I have an XPS 13 9310. What's this crucial tweak? I've been running it on a vanilla Arch install for about a year and haven't noticed much battery drain on standby (maybe a few % per day left sleeping?)
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I think it's reasonably fair to point out that, sure, while these people don't have the extra wealth as income , they did indeed grow wealthier, and significantly so. And generally we tax when things make money. A couple points a
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
Postfix is a special kind of hell though, in that getting a good setup requires wading though decades of legacy stuff and patching together a bunch of non-default stuff to get, for instance, dkim signing and stuff working right. I've d
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by plainnoodles 4y ago
I agree it's overblown. It's amazing how robust of a setup (more than sufficient for residential use!) you can get with little effort given how easy things are nowadays. I've been self-hosting a lot of load-bearing household
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Python type hints are such a huge boon to the language. I worked in what I would imagine was a pretty typical mature medium-size python codebase. Typically, it was never too hard to figure out what a type was. Sometimes types were passed
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Great attitude to make sure you understand the realities of the system and protect yourself from being exploited by it more than is already inherent in the relationship between wage labor and capital.
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Part of it is just for fun. I like to collect the CDs. I like knowing the files I have are very faithful representations of the released media. And so on. I really don't think it's hoarding - the overall data sizes here are small
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Within the past few weeks, what with the JWST coming online and more radioastronomy happening than ever, and also economic inflation coming into the news for the first time in a while, this is unfortunately not the first time I've had
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
This is absurdly sad to me. I like to own my media (in the most practical sense that current IP laws let me do so). I run a Plex server and use PlexAmp as my primary way of listening to music, and my criteria are always this: * FLAC or simi
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
This is my experience as well. If you're just there to fulfill your credit hour obligations, you can squeak through managing to shield yourself from truly learning much of the language at all. I think much of the value, though, is in t
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
I took 5 years of french in high school and really loved it, so I leaned into it heavily and read novels in French, etc. I felt pretty confident in my vocab and grammar, and I even had a decent time reading some of the Old French stuff from
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Isn't there a "chat"-like feature similar to Twitch, where you can see everyone's usernames?
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Unfortunately, the stock market also has no real distinction between what a long or short run is :\. "The market can remain irrational longer than your can remain solvent" is the relevant platitude. I worked in prop trading for ha
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Really, it's the browsers' faults to conflating the variously-tangentially-related concepts of entity identity, domain ownership, and connection encryption.
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by plainnoodles 5y ago
Aren't electrons about 3 orders of magnitude smaller than a sub-atomic particles like protons? And I can't find an estimate of the diameter of a neutrino easily from google (do we even have one?), but it seems like neutrinos are e

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