voidifremoved

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by voidifremoved 3mo ago
Self published uncontroversial statements of fact about individuals or companies are permitted but they don't establish notability, which is the whole issue here. You need broad third party coverage to decide if you should even have an
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by voidifremoved 4mo ago
Amazon just ended support for older Kindles. Not sure how that's any different.
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by voidifremoved 5mo ago
Virtual Threads aren't quite the same as green threads (they don't block the OS thread) and they work extremely well now.
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by voidifremoved 5mo ago
Nice site, but missing the Law of Conservation of Misery.
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by voidifremoved 1y ago
> A lot of it was unfortunately organizational politics The hardest bugs in my experience are those where your only source of vital information is a third party who is straight-up lying to you.
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by voidifremoved 4y ago
My recollection is that before subreddits were a thing, Reddit was not that far off how this place is now.
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by voidifremoved 4y ago
On wikipedia: don't trust it blindly and always read the talk page.
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by voidifremoved 5y ago
The original is almost impossible to debug when something inevitably goes wrong too. I have encountered dozens of places where streaming API calls have been reworked into imperative by whoever ends up maintaining it just so they can figure
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by voidifremoved 6y ago
One of the most prescient of the 20th dystopian novels was Fahrenheit 451. This was not about a totalitarian government burning books. This was about a population numbing themselves with bright colours, bland affirmation and meaningless fee
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by voidifremoved 7y ago
I first encountered this at SCEE in 2008.
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by voidifremoved 7y ago
A while ago, Google photos autogenerated a video for me from my photo library. It was about a minute long, stitched together dozens of photos, called "dog video", and with a horrifying yapping dog soundtrack. Every single photo wa
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by voidifremoved 7y ago
At a large organisation I worked at years ago we used to call it Coder Shopping - when a manager would do the rounds trying to find someone who would say "yes" in a situation like this. Invariably there would be someone who would,
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by voidifremoved 8y ago
My personal favourite was when my partner bought a book on breastfeeding through my account, and for weeks afterwards my recommendations were full of erotic novels.
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by voidifremoved 8y ago
Which was adopted by trolls as a "white power" sign, very much to muddy the waters as to what is or is not an intentionally racist gesture, and to have fun with the idea of offence and racism at the expense of anyone that might po
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by voidifremoved 8y ago
It isn't about ideology it is about ease and quality. Facebook is legendary for introducing breaking changes to their API without warning, for having terrible documentation, baroque and inconsistent APIs, flaky behaviour and broken exa
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by voidifremoved 8y ago
Having in the past crunched like mad on multiple titles, I will say that few things annoyed me more than non-essential people staying late and just messing around, eating the free pizza.
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by voidifremoved 8y ago
There is a difference between being willing to work at the current pay, and tolerating exploitative conditions out of fear of destitution. Which is where UBI comes in as the missing part of a liberal capitalist economy. Until you remove the
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by voidifremoved 8y ago
A Wizard of Earthsea, and then The Tombs of Atuan. Then read the rest of the series, which are all good, it is just the first two are particularly wonderful.
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
But then both are just a kind of polygon, with an arbitrary number of sides of arbitrary length. At which point you really want a variable length list of Sides, each with a length property. Or you want a series of points with relative coord
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
I would say it is far more of a process and managerial failure. That it was even possible is to me quite damning of project oversight, for allowing the system to get to that stage with such inadequate procedural and UI safeguards.
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
> how would you get eye images on a regular enough basis for it to be useful Could they be collected from all those devices with front - facing cameras people spend their lives staring at?
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
> evident in some parts
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
I didn't even know that there was an anti-Catholic element to it, until I went to Lewes one year. It was eye-opening. For example, the Cliffe bonfire society refused to join the main parade because it meant giving up their "No P
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
Not to mention the anti - catholic bigotry that is still evident in some parts of the uk on bonfire night.
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
Requiring comments be attached to a real identity invariably does the exact opposite of what it intends to and lowers the quality of commentary. Sure, some people use the cloak of anonymity to perpetrate abuse, misinformation or low-effort
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
I broke my phone about a year ago, and it took a few days to sort out a replacement. In that time I went through exactly the same process I did when I quit smoking. I became aware suddenly of all the time, all the gaps, all the moments that
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
In real life it is possible to judge the mood of a group and avoid or defuse contentious situations. In addition, such groups are usually transient. Real people, especially friends of friends or other passing acquaintances, don't usual
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by voidifremoved 9y ago
Agreed, that is the standout. I enjoyed the one about not being able to see beauty, but I felt it didn't go anywhere. Stories Of Your Life takes the central idea of Slaughterhouse-Five and dresses it up with physics. Its good, but its
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by voidifremoved 10y ago
So many possibilities, but my mind went straight to Pyramid Song. I think there is no way to objectively answer something like this. Even if you get some kind of majority in favour of one particular answer, that doesn't make it "t
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by voidifremoved 10y ago
One of my personal favourites. Years ago I worked on a stock control system for a popular clothes retailer. Where previously store managers had to spend hours on the phone ringing the depots to see what was in stock and reordering popular l

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