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by rekabis 4d ago
German has a habit of creating new words by stringing together existing ones. Think “Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften” for “legal protection insurance companies”. Just one word, complex meaning. One of the most hilarious pieces of C#
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by rekabis 4d ago
>The people who are upset by this change, in my experience, are all the people who would answer that a programmer's job is to write code. The people who are happy about this change, are those who would answer a programmer's job
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by rekabis 4d ago
>Every programmer I know has basically gone insane over the last couple of years. This is the most turbulent time to be a software engineer I can remember. We’ve had it relatively easy up until now, but there’s an increased feeling that
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by rekabis 5d ago
https://archive.ph/Pvjeu You’re welcome.
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by rekabis 5d ago
https://archive.ph/h5K3n You’re welcome.
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by rekabis 5d ago
https://archive.ph/Tw3Zm You’re welcome.
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by rekabis 5d ago
I have never owned a vehicle newer than 20 years old, I have just never seen the point of doing so. The financial math just never worked out. With that said, I have always done my research and managed to obtain vehicles which, after maybe s
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by rekabis 5d ago
I want a solarpunk future, even if it means fewer personal devices and a simpler Internet. A place where everyone has roughly equal economic potential (sub-10× between wealthiest and poorest) but everyone lives healthy, vibrant lives with p
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by rekabis 5d ago
When punctuation can change the tone of an entire title. “Why are we doing this again?” Is essentially “why are we doing this action a second time?”. “Why are we doing this, again?” Is essentially “please repeat/re-state the reasoning
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by rekabis 7d ago
I stop breathing all the time. At least once or twice a week. Luckily I’m awake at the time, relaxed in a sitting position, and have no problem starting back up. I just get “petered out” on an exhale with my trachea fully open and unblocked
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by rekabis 7d ago
On iOS, the footer obstructs the “start your journey” link with no ability to correct or bypass.
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by rekabis 7d ago
It’s much, much higher in tech. It’s at least 60% of all job listings in general software and web development, and I have seen strong hints that it may be as much as 80% of all job ads in games development.
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by rekabis 7d ago
It depends on the objective. Make a graph with two axes. Vertical is longevity. Throw-away apps at the bottom, software meant to last decades at the top. Horizontal is how critical the software is. Ad-hoc or experimental or trivial stuff ne
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by rekabis 7d ago
I am cautiously optimistic, especially for people who need both a phone and a tablet in the same device, like my MiL. Certain apps like WeChat makes it extremely annoying to have more than one device. Now if only they could make a senior’s
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by rekabis 7d ago
Get the second gen. Either it’ll flop so hard that there will be no second gen, or a lot of issues will be corrected in that second gen.
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by rekabis 13d ago
Not only that, but +4℃ is also when megafauna - any species over 45Kg (100lbs) - start to go extinct. And that includes humans. At that point, we’re looking at our global population free-fall cratering into the 1-2B range over 1-3 decades,
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by rekabis 22d ago
> I once joined a team where the TL was pretty strongly against using version control or having tests. Not any time within the last decade, I hope. Because that’s borderline gross incompetence.
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by rekabis 23d ago
> Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid. Now granted, it’s in-app Safari for the iOS Hack app, but still. Not great.
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by rekabis 23d ago
Am I seeing UTF-8 confusables in the title, so as to bypass janny scripts?
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by rekabis 23d ago
Good. Without a physical escape hatch off-planet, we are viruses that are overwhelming the little planetary Petri dish we are inhabiting, to massively deleterious effects on both ourselves as well as the global ecosystem. While I would rath
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by rekabis 23d ago
In Canada, I was able to get both shots last year, when I was 52. I intend to take the Shingles vaccine again when I am in my 70s. Yes, there is a family history - my father is sliding into dementia in his late 80s. If there is any chance,
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by rekabis 25d ago
I use a nearly-abandoned piece of software called BookCrawler to track what I own so I don’t accidentally get second copies. I started using it in 2012 with my iPhone 4s, by 2017 it ran into something like a stack overflow error with the da
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by rekabis 1mo ago
Don’t know what you have been using, but my Kensington Expert Mouse is over 20 years old now, and is still going strong.
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by rekabis 1mo ago
Poverty is horrifically expensive. It simultaneously extracts everything it can from you, and thus prevents you from escaping. Almost everyone who has never been poor has no clue how violent poverty is.
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by rekabis 1mo ago
The cheetoh’s paranoia is extensive.
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by rekabis 1mo ago
The boogeyman du jour happens to be AI. I suspect that OP is simply not very clear, and is asking if AI adoption seems to be dehumanizing what you do.
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by rekabis 2mo ago
This. In many cases, they cannot even properly articulate how AI will improve things beyond vague, meaningless, corporate-speak jargon. Most cannot even properly define AI’s place in the org in the first place. They just cannot be seen as
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by rekabis 2mo ago
I think a single clock-output-only microcontroller would be nifty. Something where you can save settings, such as NTP servers and an all time change dates, but that’s it. Pair it with PoE Ethernet and you wouldn’t even need a power supply,
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by rekabis 2mo ago
The only true winners in those prediction markets are the insider whales that already know what will happen. Anyone who is not an insider is a loser.
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by rekabis 2mo ago
Every sentient being plays. Cats play. Dogs play. Even bees play. And certain AI have been demonstrated to play spontaneously, albeit in limited ways. On the flip side, only sapients demonstrate sufficient curiosity to ask questions. We’re

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