rickosborne

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by rickosborne 4y ago
I've used the audio recorder. Other than the permission to use the microphone, it doesn't use any other permission. It doesn't even ask for general filesystem permissions, and assumes you are savvy enough to know how to use t
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by rickosborne 4y ago
> Surely this will filter out ~50% of people who are good but don’t have any public code? Not OP, but I follow a similar process when I have to do coding interviews. I work around the "no public code" problem easily: "grea
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by rickosborne 5y ago
FWIW, your optimizations assume well-behaved SVG handling. This one, for instance, will cause problems: > In fact, even each z can be dropped, provided no stroke is being used, removing three edges. While that may be true according to th
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by rickosborne 5y ago
> I don't think SSH keys are things you should share across machines in a password manager. While I agree with the first half of your statement (don't share SSH keys), I cannot agree with the second (don't put SSH keys in
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by rickosborne 5y ago
Looking at the storage on my PS5, the largest game on it is the preload for "Horizon: Forbidden West" which goes live next Friday. It's 88GB. It's an open world RPG with several dozen hours of gameplay. "Returnal&qu
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by rickosborne 5y ago
> Hidden downvotes are a terrible idea First and foremost, I agree that this will probably end poorly. However, I could see this being a good idea in the right hands, because it _could_ be used as _part_ of a more comprehensive auto-mod
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by rickosborne 5y ago
It's been a few months, so I went back and checked my story. I definitely never did get the refund, but maybe I was misremembering things. There's one extra piece I had forgotten: the split "release" of the Mac version
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by rickosborne 5y ago
> On Steam if you don't like a game, or if it doesn't work for you, you can get a full refund no questions asked as long as it's within 14 days and with less than 2 hours playtime. There's a hole here: that 14 days is
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by rickosborne 5y ago
Hello from Philo! We were seeing drops of a few minutes each day, but as of December we've gone days without even the slightest interruption. We had to really work to get Dishy to not have any obstructions, but since then it's bee
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by rickosborne 5y ago
Not OP, but we do the same thing. We basically keep job listings limited to "we're writing cloud software using Angular, Spring, and relational data". We're a large company, so other teams do it differently, but my team
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by rickosborne 5y ago
If you haven't already seen it, you may be interested in Introversion Software's retrospective on their unreleased "Subversion" game: https://youtu.be/1giu6sMnAxY (That whole series of videos is interest
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by rickosborne 5y ago
Obligatory: My statements are my own and do not reflect the opinions of my employer. I'm not going to name that employer, but let's be honest, I can't stop you from figuring it out if you really want. > Are there any big s
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by rickosborne 5y ago
> I can't say I've seen anyone out of a bootcamp that was a great hire. My own experience has been that there's no correlation between where the dev graduated from and how productive/valuable/etc they've bee
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by rickosborne 5y ago
My current job is in biotech, writing cloud software which helps clinicians (and researchers) gather supporting evidence for their diagnoses. The install base is small, so it'd be hard to claim it makes the _world_ a better place. But
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by rickosborne 7y ago
Hey, they fixed it! It's amazing what 2 months can do. The previous version had some pretty borked handling of public timelines. Having said that, it still requires a bit of hackery. There's no way to get rid of the home/l
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by rickosborne 7y ago
But it's worth noting that Pixelfed is intended to be your own walled garden - there's no "here's my public photo stream" configuration. It's intended more like a friends-and-family thing. That being said, it&#