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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Playing by different rules does not allow one to defy the laws of mathematics. OK, but the rules in the paper seem pretty arbitrary and unintuitive to me, so by picking different rules one is no longer defying anything. In particular t
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I've found pixel-count improvements stop mattering for me somewhere around DVD quality for a lot of content. I can tell the difference between that and 1080P, but stop caring once I'm actually watching the show/film. For the
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The page is 1.03KB of HTML and ~1.5KB of CSS. The HTML has about a dozen lines of Javascript in the footer that, at a glance, seemed only to execute onclick to do something with the menu. I'm pretty sure a 166Mhz (with an M) Pentium co
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by spanhandler 6y ago
A tried and true pattern I've seen is "build the barn, live in the barn, build the house". And then sometimes the house is also sheet-metal-clad and looks pretty barn-like—it's just better sealed and insulated and has
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Best I can tell, tiny homes are mostly just very expensive, more-instragrammable Mobile homes, kit-prefabs (A-frames, say), or RVs (depending on how they're built) for people whose class-self-image would be threatened by living in a Mo
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I do it the other way around because 1) I "only" have one GPU, 2) it entirely solves driver-caused instability or other pain in Linux, since Virtualbox Linux drivers are really stable, and 3) it lets me easily suspend-to-disk, res
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by spanhandler 6y ago
In, say, a major shopping chain suburban parking lot, anyone annoyed by a car alarm going off for five seconds is just looking for something to be annoyed by. Different story on a city street or in a neighborhood, sure.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The alarm. Not good for anything else, so may as well use it for that. Or pop the trunk if you can, and if it'll pop up high enough to be noticeable, and if you don't have anything in there someone might walk off with. Or that iPh
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Been driving about 20 years in the US, owned eight or nine cars (mostly small to mid-sized sedans and minivans) over the years between me & the wife, and I can't recall ever seeing headlight level controls.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Probably something to do with the "status games" definition of friendship from Impro. Friendly ribbing in a faux-antagonistic relationship may also come off as really healthy-looking, comfortable, and pleasant, for similar reasons
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the transition of "tech fashion" from something early computer nerds did at least somewhat authentically to its modern form was, at first, an example of exactly that (by people who "don't care about
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Or replace the $80+ "tech" climbing pants or selvedge jeans, expensive trail runners or toe shoes or whatever, tech company t-shirt, and American Giant (on the cheap end, it goes up from there) hoodie with: $25 Lee jeans or Target
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I just mean that it's the kind of thing many people who have some concept of how cell phones work might assume is illegal because tracking a bunch of people and storing all that info, or broad, non-tightly-targeted-and-regulated use
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Every professional, expert, specialist, or technician feels this way about the stuff they know. "Why don't people know [basic thing about their work]? What a bunch of uneducated morons." The answer is because if they knew all
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Staff may go to schools even when they're closed for students. That may not have been the case there, but cleaning a "closed" school isn't necessarily ridiculous.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The only site my tech-challenged dad can kind-of use well is Craigslist. Plain text, accessible, good hierarchies, nothing buried or nested, fast, and, crucially, everything is in the same place every time he visits. Some of the best UX on
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Not having any practical need for a “Perl version manager” as other languages have (shit, it’s even useful with Go) is an underrated benefit of choosing a language as stable as Perl. Version? What is your distro 30 years old? Just run it!
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by spanhandler 6y ago
st with tmux is pretty great. Just about the lowest input latency you're likely to find on Linux, AFAIK, and tmux means you need few or no patches to st to have a full-featured term. Not as low-latency as Mac terminal, but then again I
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Hahaha, I've already forgotten :-( It ended up being some arcane combination of config for... webpack, I think? Which is really weird because it seems to me "bundle all this in one file for web" is one of the countable-on-one
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I think React's decision, when faced with a desire to track state alongside code, to partially reimplement objects inside of functions rather than just saying "know what, this new feature requires class syntax, deal with it"
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Confession: it took me like two damn hours the other day just to figure out how to get TS code that included Node modules packaged for the browser. There was a lot of advice that was wrong or outdated or otherwise didn’t work. I’ve written
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The cmd version with the modifier directly next to the spacebar involves no wrist rotation at all. I tried it to check before making my last post, and my hand feels way more tense doing ctrl+z/x/c than cmd+z/x/c, using a
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Admittedly it’s better on Mac keyboards, with Super directly next to the space bar. Less strain and movement to hit that with my left thumb than to stretch down to ctrl (if I hadn’t mapped caps lock to control). The rest of the layout is w
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I think sync should always have been the default. Most of the syntax ugliness and screwing-about over the years in JS and especially Node codebases that I’ve seen has been everyone wrestling against that default because they do need their
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It has a cheat sheet at the bottom, including how to exit, though? Like maybe there’s some way to disable it with a switch but I’ve never seen nano without it.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I came to Mac relatively late and only after years of using Windows and Linux, but I really wish everyone else would copy Mac’s default English keyboard layout & shortcuts. Super+x/c/v for cut, copy, and paste, their relativel
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by spanhandler 6y ago
My 2014's Intel graphics handles games newer than that without graphical artifacts... Unity games in particular are usually fine. However, if you're already playing Morrowind (or OpenWM) then you don't really need anything el
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by spanhandler 6y ago
"We do daily standups" But then actually it's people from multiple totally unrelated teams ignoring each other and taking turns talking at a manager, hoping same manager chooses to hover over someone else for the day and tryi
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I think you're significantly underestimating how well-performing PHP is, in the narrow but important field of serving dynamic web pages. Go (or Java, or C#) can be faster but you might be surprised that it's less of a slam-dunk