violetthrift

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by violetthrift 8mo ago
For what it's worth, banter on social media with someone you're not familiar with is almost always playing with fire. It's really easy for something to come across wrong or just be kind of exhausting, and this effect is magni
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by violetthrift 1y ago
It is, though the other side of the coin was always uploading an image for your niche hobby sub and being inundated by sneering imgur users who wanted to know why your keyboard looked "stupid." The site developed a reputation (amo
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by violetthrift 2y ago
They function differently, but in terms of what gets communities to actually form and stick around, I think they're very similar: - Making a new space for your community is trivial for anyone; it can be done in seconds with a few click
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by violetthrift 3y ago
> So if tests are bad for developers, they won’t write tests, duh. Paradox solved. There need to be tests written, no exceptions, for some time to gain the benefits and make tests good for developers. Make tests work for them and they wi
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by violetthrift 3y ago
If there was a placebo effect, I would expect there to be a significant difference in the participants' self-reported sleep quality, but there was not: > Sleep diary data revealed no differences in the number of hours slept while we
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by violetthrift 4y ago
For me, I switched the preferred network type to LTE in Settings > Network & Internet > SIM > Preferred network type.
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by violetthrift 4y ago
> I have no doubt they could design an electric toothbrush which is both waterproof and has replaceable batteries They can, because mine is, and does! It was strangely refreshing to get an electronic device that takes plain-old AAA batt
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by violetthrift 5y ago
I do like some elements of the algorithmic feed, like surfacing things that several of my friends like or other interesting tweets from outside my immediate network. But the downside I've noticed is that this view is also far more like
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by violetthrift 5y ago
The bar example is a still a bit vexing to me, because it's the sort of problem/solution I often see brought up as an example, but I still fail to see the utility. A digital signature (e.g. PGP) already can act as a certificate of