xionon

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by xionon 3y ago
It isn’t a zero sum game. It’s possible for all students to get As and for that to still be a meaningful measurement of skill. Grades don’t show your ability relative to others, they show your mastery of a set of knowledge and skills. You m
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by xionon 3y ago
Perlmutter reportedly said audiences wouldn't notice a replacement actor because "black people look the same," and was a major blocker to woman-led superhero movies because he thought they couldn't sell.
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by xionon 4y ago
The apartment analogy doesn't quite work, as the scanning only happened with photos that were going to be uploaded to iCloud. It wasn't like constantly monitoring your private residence, more like setting up a breathalyzer checkpo
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by xionon 4y ago
I have a vague childhood memory of looking through a large illustrated book about spaceships in our public library and being in awe. When I came back on another trip, it was gone. I never knew the name or author, but the memory surfaces eve
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by xionon 4y ago
What’s vile here? The art looks unique, detailed, and dynamic.
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by xionon 4y ago
They're saying neither; they're saying that politics is inextricable from life, and that work is part of life. You can't extract politics from work any more than you can extract personal life from work. People aren't rob
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by xionon 4y ago
I can confirm that in Thunderbird 102 on Windows 11, you can use View -> Font Size via the menu. It changes all UI font sizes I could find. I don't remember if this setting existed in the 9x releases. The default is 12px. The max ap
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by xionon 5y ago
You think that China, famous for it's nationwide firewall, will provide open solutions?
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by xionon 5y ago
> I ran Rails in production years back and swore it off then. We had constant memory leaks that seemingly came from Rails itself, and the only solution we had was "just restart the server." This hasn't been a serious probl
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by xionon 5y ago
How do you celebrate one’s accomplishments while ignoring one’s behavior in the process of making those accomplishments? Or rather, is it actually too nuanced to think the ends don’t justify the means?
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by xionon 5y ago
I don't understand your point here. In literally all these scenarios, you would still be billed, and it would be appropriate.
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by xionon 5y ago
> What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do? A meager defense follows. I've worked both "midwest design shop" and FAANG-adjacent jobs, from junior to staff to mana
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by xionon 5y ago
Ted Lasso is the best thing there, but far from the only thing. The catalog is pretty solid. I personally loved Mythic Quest and Schmigadoon. I have mixed feelings about Foundation as an adaptation, but I like it pretty well as a stand-alon
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by xionon 5y ago
Is this sarcasm? Population controls are a massive change to quality of life for most people.
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by xionon 5y ago
> Notably, text editors from 30 years ago still work fantastically. Email clients from 30 years ago still mostly work great (unless using certain popular anti-consumer cloud email providers). What text editors and mail clients are you us
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by xionon 6y ago
For what it’s worth, the 2->3 update was by far the most consequential; they merged in Merb, rewrote how routes and controllers worked, and completely flipped expectations on how JS and views should work. Rails 3->6 has had far fewer
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by xionon 6y ago
You still need SREs for using cloud services at large scale, and they can manage more cloud infrastructure per person than if it was colocated
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by xionon 6y ago
Unfortunately, the newest models do not have optical audio out, only HDMI.
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by xionon 6y ago
I don’t think that’s an accurate translation at all! Skinning a cat is not a common thing. It’s not a normal food for English speakers, so the phrase carries some sense that what you’re doing is unusual . It’s usually applied to a situatio
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by xionon 8y ago
There are 2^128 available addresses in ipv6. Encoding phone numbers isn’t even remotely a problem.
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by xionon 8y ago
Along with iOS 12, Apple released a new app called Shortcuts. It is not preinstalled as far as I know. I think they got it via acquisition. There’s a bunch of new hooks that app makers can/must use to integrate with it, so not everythi
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by xionon 8y ago
What you’re talking about is already happening with podcasts. A group of players get together, record their session, and publish. The bills are paid via advertising, donations, and sponsorships. The two most promenant ones I’m aware of are
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by xionon 9y ago
> The metoo campaign IM basically allowed anything from actual abuse to catcalling be called sexual abuse. It expanded the definition of sexual abuse to basically align with only the most extreme feminists. Are you implying that catcalli
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by xionon 11y ago
In React / Javascript land, isomorphism means, "the same code is used to render on the server and in the browser"
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by xionon 12y ago
Not only that, but they did it a second time with Captain America: Winter Soldier.
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by xionon 12y ago
That's not what this article is about at all. The technology described in this article is a distributed database. Github project: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/
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by xionon 12y ago
I don't believe anyone is suggesting that you charge the full price of the camera for every photo, but rather that it's a factor in determining the correct price for a single photo. Also, if someone wanted me to fly somewhere to d
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by xionon 12y ago
This looks pretty neat. Looking forward to you getting the disabled features ironed out. Some notes: * Project generation with most of the features and a couple models is taking a really long time. I'm sure it's a background job,
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by xionon 12y ago
That, and it was a chance to reference an Achewood comic, instead of an XKCD one http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007
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by xionon 12y ago
I think the point is that there are multiple sites like eHow, and searching each of them individually and then deciding which results were the best is sub-optimal. Plus, it prevents the serendipitous discovery of new sites like eHow. If onl

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