trebbble

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by trebbble 4y ago
Nope.
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by trebbble 4y ago
I find myself in the utterly bizarre position (to me, anyway) of defending a megacorp against government interference because government has failed to reign in the bad behavior of the entire rest of the software market . Granted the EU&#x2
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by trebbble 4y ago
There's competition of regulatory regimes —mandatory and strict (could be stricter, IMO) vs. optional and looser. Absent government outlawing a bunch of the bad behavior Apple tries to curb, I like being free to have that choice to
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by trebbble 4y ago
macOS, for that matter, despite over a decade of predictions that that'd be taken away.
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by trebbble 4y ago
They've done this since the early days of the app store. Mostly-content apps without really broad appeal have long carried a high risk of rejection. > Homescreen widgets: utterly useless, but can't get more iOS-y and less web
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by trebbble 4y ago
I do think it's at least surprising that changing your email address on GitHub would cause you to lose access to places where you used GitHub 3rd party auth to login. If those schemes don't centralize management of those kinds o
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by trebbble 4y ago
Damn dude(ette?). I sincerely wish you peace. I suggest we not continue this (doesn't seem like you were planning to anyway). Sorry if this exchange caused you pain.
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by trebbble 4y ago
> Anecdotally, I would say that the two interests are positively correlated. The physical sciences (and social sciences) are core pillars of the liberal arts, so... yeah, I'd hope so.
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by trebbble 4y ago
No rigour? > Show me that liberal arts types are on average more ethical than science types Liberal arts types? Science types? More ethical ?! I could pick out more but that was a fun, dense one, and anyway I don't want to engage
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by trebbble 4y ago
Again, feel free to disagree with and ignore the entire millenia-long traditions of the liberal arts outside math and science if you like. You may be right, and all those other people wrong. It doesn't seem like you're really try
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by trebbble 4y ago
Shrug . If you don't find it valuable, feel free to ignore it. Meanwhile most of your requests amount to "give me a liberal education in a Hackernews post" so are entirely ridiculous.
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by trebbble 4y ago
We don't get to see, directly, how everyone else experiences life. They might tell us, and they might do so more or less truthfully and accurately. They might struggle to communicate those things in a way we really understand. Meanwhil
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by trebbble 4y ago
I think that's one of the most important qualities of literature and poetry—they can illuminate those "truer than science" personal-perceptual aspects of the human experience, which are hard to get at otherwise. Literature as
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by trebbble 4y ago
Seven house members. Vice President, entire Senate, and the rest of the House, told them to pound sand. About as comparable as a housefly is to an elephant.
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by trebbble 4y ago
Evidence points to it mostly being small-scale and largely accidental (e.g. someone has two residences and forgets they voted in one place earlier in the year, votes in second place later in the year, accidentally commits voter fraud). When
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by trebbble 4y ago
Yeah, I would entirely love it if I could use the same key for everything I have that takes a key. That'd be great. As it is I just don't bother with keys for, like, back doors to my house and such. They're in a drawer somewh
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by trebbble 4y ago
Clearly it contains alchemists' lost secrets to creating slimes. But is cursed to gradually turn anyone who reads it into a slime. Which at least one player will obviously try to do. There's some good motivation to complete the qu
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by trebbble 4y ago
Linux was my main desktop OS for about a decade. About four years of that on Gentoo, so yes, I do actually know what I'm doing, didn't just pointy-clicky install to an Ubuntu desktop and never learn how to actually use or configur
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by trebbble 4y ago
It only just dawned on me reading this—Windows doesn't actually "cut" files, does it? The behavior's different from "cutting" text. The files remain until you paste, right? Mac's choice makes a ton more se
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by trebbble 4y ago
Then you can select other text to paste over.
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by trebbble 4y ago
I hadn't thought about it until just now, but soundtrack music has been so terrible for the last 15-20 years that it's one area AI might genuinely be much better than what we've got now. Be hard to do worse, anyway. Studios a
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by trebbble 4y ago
I'm so glad the gap between "we can keep very-long-term records" and "AI now dominates content creation" is going to be large enough, even for very recent things like video games, that I'll have enough excelle
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by trebbble 4y ago
Boot from external media (USB disk, cd or dvd if you're kicking it old school, maybe even network) with no persistent storage (ramdisk or whatever only). Mount the hard drive. Format. Rsync the files over. That's pretty similar to
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by trebbble 4y ago
A non-mobile work environment, but unplug one cord and you can take the laptop part to meetings, including offsite, you can travel with it, work from the coffee shop or roof or park, keep working if there's work being done on your offi
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by trebbble 4y ago
> It’s entertainment. Complete disagreement here. Informative writing may serve as entertainment, but if it's done well, that's not all it is. It helps people understand the world, which can provide all kinds of benefits beyo
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by trebbble 4y ago
Holy crap. The links from these couple posts incline me to believe the guy's fallen into "safe to ignore for the rest of his life" territory, whatever decent work he may have done earlier. I don't get what's with fo
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by trebbble 4y ago
Pans that aren't non-stick can be made far less sticky by not adding anything (except maybe some fat—oil, grease, lard, butter [ghee especially], et c.) until after they're hot. I think it causes phase-changing water in whatever y
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by trebbble 4y ago
I've seen well-seasoned cast iron that was nonstick if you treat it the same way as stainless: get it hot before adding anything, and put quite a bit of fat (oil, butter, grease, whatever) in first. I've not seen any that were non
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by trebbble 4y ago
Sounds a lot like our teams' experience with yarn a few years back when every post was like "yarn is a perfect replacement for npm, npm is now deprecated, LOL don't use it or you're an obsolete fool". It became a ru
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by trebbble 4y ago
> At least in the US, house purchases are by default anonymous. The only reason I know the sellers of my house is because they put in their trust name their full legal names. But most homeowners don't have the house in a trust. That

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