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by rroot 4y ago
> _remember where exactly I heard a particular sentence_ Ha! Yes. Sometimes VLC doesn't remember where I was in the book so I have to faff around a bit and try to figure out where I was. When I skip to content that I've heard b
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by rroot 4y ago
Mitsubishi is an interesting company. Cars, industrial size generators, erasers and now I see pitch black pencil. Their Boxy eraser is amazing. Hard to get nowadays though. Anyone know of a better one?
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by rroot 4y ago
Been there, done that, caused a burnout after a long time. 0/10, wouldn't recommend. Pay was good though.
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by rroot 4y ago
During the Covid pandemic, I watched from a distance a group of 6 people start and destroy a project. After the 6 months, they didn't even have a a MVP. This was run on a 6 month fund from the local government. They didn't know ea
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by rroot 4y ago
Mr Edmam I have received and read your response regarding my apology to you. I'm concerned that I may have upset you more than I realised. My grandfather once told me not to take in too seriously random strangers comments. I try to li
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by rroot 4y ago
Are they scam?
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by rroot 4y ago
"I suspect ... are probably somewhat okay ..." This is not an argument against what he said.
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by rroot 4y ago
Mr. Edman. I have no doubts about your experience. I'm sorry if I've hurt your feelings.
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by rroot 4y ago
You're right. I worded my reply very badly. I was thinking about the psychological effects. The article mentions it but doesn't go into it: "However, 63% do fear it will be problematic to know how much their co-workers make&q
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by rroot 4y ago
A brilliant XKCD for survivorship bias: https://m.xkcd.com/1827/
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by rroot 4y ago
4% quitting. But what effect does it have on the other 96%? Quitting is an extreme response (not wrong, and I totally understand people who'd decide to quit). But what's the response of the other 96%? No response? Lower productivi
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by rroot 4y ago
I think this is way beyond a "a fault in our system" error. Until KFC publishes a detailed incident report I'd be keen to assume this was done by more than one Nazi sympathizer.
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by rroot 4y ago
>due to some issues How messed up does your DB schema need to be that you have issues with ordering entries by date?
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by rroot 4y ago
If you've set up your rules from scratch using nftables then they are not compatible.
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by rroot 4y ago
In met a guy once that pulled my aside once and told me he was an alien.
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by rroot 4y ago
I wasn't going to read that but I did. I kind of agree, but it's "social media" that's dying not the internet. The social media has gone absolutely toxic in an frantic attempt to maximize revenue per user.
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by rroot 4y ago
The majority of the content you read on the web is there to lure your retinas so the website can shove sponsored photons into them. The goal of de-cluttered web is nice. But if clutter is even just a notch more profitable, that ain't
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by rroot 4y ago
I came to say exactly this.
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by rroot 4y ago
I watched a few person test team blow itself up (people leaving, going toxic, doing minimum work or other things, ...) because they wanted to get it 'right from the start'. Many, many, months in it was barely not functional.
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by rroot 4y ago
I came to ask this. I went straight onto the website to look for SQLite comparison. It's after all the dominating embedded database. I do realize the use cases can be different, but then say and show that in the comparison. (I'm t
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by rroot 4y ago
That's good news. Does the app sync on exit?
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by rroot 4y ago
Seems like the glasses market is ripe for a disruptive startup company?
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by rroot 4y ago
My only two frustrations with otherwise brilliant Joplin is the sync and (lack of encryption). Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent2
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by rroot 4y ago
I highly recommend Borg Backup. I had to give up on Duplicati years ago, perhaps they're OK now. But Borg is magic. https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
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by rroot 4y ago
It was an amazing day when I discovered b-ok.
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by rroot 4y ago
Good story. I think advice can come in many form and shape, you just have to recognize it as such. A bit like luck. Sure, you can win the lottery (if you buy a ticket). But a lot of what people call "luck" is a combination of: 1.
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by rroot 4y ago
1. If you have to start with a template, then shell script is not the right thing for whatever you're trying to accomplish. 2. Shell scripts are wonderful, but once they exceed a few lines (give or take 50), they've entered the fa
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by rroot 4y ago
Can we start calling Zuckerberg's Meta something else. Zmeta?
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by rroot 4y ago
Looking though 3 year old code... Lord Gsus, who wrote this s*it?! Then in git log... really?! Me? Did I write this?
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by rroot 4y ago
That viola is a beautiful instrument in its own way. Although it did reminded me of the elephant man.

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