titaphraz

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by titaphraz 1y ago
The main theme is survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/ There's nothing wrong with telling your story in a book. But telling it as a half truth is just as bad a lying.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
The inkscape extension link is to a empty page: https://inkscape.org/~MarioVoigt/%E2%98%85imagetracerjs-for-...
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Are there economists here? If you could make (non radioactive) gold AND keep it secret, how much (oz?) could you produce a year without substantially affect gold's market value? Asking for a friend.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
That's very interesting, two comments: - Automatic black box with autocomplete is a deal breaker for me. It'll drive me mad. - I only use the mouse in the terminal if I have to (it disturbs and slows my flow!). So anything that he
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> in the Netherlands all kids are basically expected to bring their own cold sandwiches every day Nothing wrong with that. But there's a massive difference of everyone bringing their sandwiches vs. everyone getting a hot meal but li
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> The thing about witnessing a 7-year-old having their hot lunch tray yanked away and replaced with a cold sandwich It's bizarre that this happens in America.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
That's simple. It's so simple that it uses the word simple 12 times in that simple short text. That must be very simple. Simple as that! I like simple stuff.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Would handling governmental data make you a high value target?
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by titaphraz 1y ago
I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials. Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yh_S31R9g&list=PLWuyJLVUNt... But he has a bunch of other videos.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
There is never silence. Software buttons can do two things, a) what they say they do, or if not, b) trigger my rage response right away.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Seriously cool! A Linux build on the horizon?
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Yikes! Sorry!
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by titaphraz 1y ago
I click "Download the App" and fuck all happens. How the hell did you fuck up that simple app?
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Lord jesus fucking christ. I love this motherfucking shit.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> Note added January, 2022: This document was written for Go's release in 2009, and has not been updated significantly since. Although it is a good guide to understand how to use the language itself, thanks to the stability of the l
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> China will definitely blink first There are other countries in the world apart from US and China. US has effectively alienated most of these with tariffs (save for Russia). So prepare for a lot of friendly blinking between these countr
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Apparently it isn't unlimited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713451
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by titaphraz 1y ago
It's really hard to find stuff from the "old internet" on google. I know it's there. But instead it feeds me garbage marketing articles that just touch the surface and then try to sell me something.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
No. The guy showed up in Bows & Arrows contest with M1 Abrams.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Pretty much every time I add a new contact to my phone I start to get really strange ads online. I figured it out when I added a guy who's retiring for the army. I started getting retirement ads for soldiers. Then, I add a guy I loosel
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by titaphraz 1y ago
This was foreseen 3 years ago: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
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by titaphraz 1y ago
What does it cost to lose the control over it? I'm sure the an equivalent database could be maintained in another country for a lot cheaper, like in China or Russia.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> they all seem to do a great job Yeah right.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Microsoft loves open source, remember? It doesn't love you.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Brilliant idea. To make it more accurate: - Don't force people to participate in jury duty when waiting for jury answer. Many of them will just click random answers. - Provide "I don't know/Skip" as an answer. Other
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by titaphraz 1y ago
Thanks. I was only going to find the part about UML but I ended listening to the whole thing. What a legend!
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by titaphraz 1y ago
UML was a scam really. They took a lot of very useful diagrams and created a absolute behemoth of unproven system to develop software and sold it. The diagrams are very nice and useful. But the UML as a process, if taken literally, it a tot
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> Lines of code is a pretty poor measurement But let's say at least that it's abused, exploited, perverted and a molested measurement before we call it a poor one. It not all that bad when you have context.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
> He is a self-made multi-billionaire HAHAHA! No he's not. He inherited his dad's empire. Tanked it and the Russians bailed him out. He's a charlatan, fraudster and a con artist.
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by titaphraz 1y ago
If only Mango Mussolini had an ounce of credibility.

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