Phen

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Opposite day.

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The loopholes were pulled throughout history so people don’t remember the old ways after a couple generation and stop asking why things are changing. If the church kept telling people to fast for 40 days they would have lost a lot more believers way sooner.

Seinfeld slams woke student audiences: “Back when I dated high school girls, they found me hilarious!” (www.thebeaverton.com)

HOLLYWOOD – With his Netflix comedy film Unfrosted debuting to abysmal reviews, 70-year-old comedian Jerry Seinfeld blames the failure on “extreme left, and PC college campus audiences”, unlike in his heyday, when the teenage girls he dated were fans of his comedy.

Phen,

I particularly don’t find TBBT to be worse than the average show of its kind.

Where do the rural homeless near you live?

This seems to be something people don’t always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that’s the case, change the...

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I have no idea where he slept, but there was one former millionaire homeless dude who setup shop on the side of the highway for over a decade. He sold honey, pine seeds and some other stuff like that that he managed to forage around the area (probably getting into people’s property too).

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Well their requirement for looking into it is probably not restricted to “payments with labels referencing the taliban” but something more broad.

Reflections on Xenoblade Chronicles

Xenoblade Chronicles has been one of the broadly popular JRPG series as of late, particularly within my own social circles. I have heard mostly good things about the games, and some vocal criticisms about the second game in particular. After finally picking up a Switch last year, I have now made my way through most of the...

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I was pretty much the opposite lol. Really loved the quest system on the first one and strongly disliked the cast of the second. The third is generally my favorite.

I got xenogears as a kid who didn’t even speak English after returning a non-functional Medievel 2 and picking xenogears as a replacement simply because it was more expensive and I realized the salesman at the store wouldn’t check the price as long as I was trading one game by another. I didn’t understand most of the game but I still fell in love with it back then. To this day it is still the first game I think of when someone ask me what my favorite is.

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Horrible Bosses.

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Why wouldn’t it?

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Sending an SMS as an operation is just as expensive as checking for signal. Which every phone is constantly doing.

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You’re gonna have to put more effort than that. The world has more examples of socialism working than failing, so you’re gonna need to back your claims up with some examples of why it would be impossible.

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I had to do some soap integration last year and it feels like it only got worse with age.

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Yep, though the combat is very hard to get used to early and it may feel to hard - only to feel too easy once you master it.

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I played it last year and got soft locked in the main quest about 15 hours in, but only realized after another 10 hours of side quests. Usually I wouldn’t start over but in the game I gladly did.

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Oswald Endswel

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Classic “you’re using it wrong”.

The tab people still use spaces for formatting if they want to format something. Tabs are only used for indentation.

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Programmers use a margin on the beginning of a code line to easily identify that that line is related to a previous line (for example, one line may establish a condition and the next line an action to be executed on that condition, the line with the action will have this margin in this case).

There are basically two ways to create this margin: by adding a tab character or by adding spaces. The tab character is a special character that exists specifically for things like this and most tools allow you to configure the size of the margin it adds. Spaces on the other hand have a fixed size so if you add two spaces the margin will always be of two spaces.

Programmers have forever argued about their preferences on this and it often results in very heated arguments.

Tabs are generally considered the best choice but many people disagree, usually because of one of those three things:

  1. they think that people who use tabs want to replace all usages of spaces with tabs and not just this specific use case. Then demonstrate how tabs can be unpractical on other situations (that don’t really have anything to do with the original argument).
  2. they use (or need to use) some shitty tool that do not recognize tabs properly, or that force an unpractical tab size on them (not as common these days as it used to be, but still happens).
  3. they actually want everyone to always display those margins with the same size regardless of each individual’s personal preferences.
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Water tank conversations really fuck with remote workers because they are always missing something, but if you can manage to redirect all work talk to happen in whatever communication tool the company uses, everyone tends to work better in the end, as nobody misses anything. But the only way I’ve seen companies successfully do this is by adopting remote-first approaches - when people only go to the office like once a month if even that.

Phen,

The point is not to force those talks to happen, the point is to make them not happen in a limited way. In an office what usually happens is people talking to other specific people about problems they are facing, by going to their desk or catching them on the coffee room. This should absolutely never happen. Any work talk should always be accessible to everyone involved. I don’t mean the whole company, but if there’s 5 people in a project, there should never be any private conversation between just two of them - even if others don’t join the talk they should always know the conversation is happening.

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Not to mention the album cover with an asshole on it.

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Speaking specifically about npm: A ton of packages used as dependencies for a million different things have very loose quality control, some even merge community PRs straight to release without checking the code in any way. More often than not I have run into packages maintained by people with no connection to the original dev and don’t even know how its code actually works.

I remember a couple years ago I needed to read zip64 files so I picked up the zip file definition and implemented the read operation for it in the package we were using for zips. I only implemented a very small subset of the format to strictly solve my problem. I opened a pr to them saying “here’s some quickstart of you plan to add full support for zip64” - next time I checked they has merged my pr as if was and now were having folks registering issues for incomplete zip64 support.

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Yes, I trust my coworkers and our company’s workflow enough to produce better code than that.

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I saw a bunch of memes about eclipses and concluded there was probably one happening somewhere

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I never associated it with the people pleasing aspect of my life, but it took me 35 years to finally enjoy one song by myself, to the point I actually didn’t mind just listening to it without doing anything else at the same time.

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Jessica

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I don’t know. If done well this could be a much better option than pausing whatever you’re watching to show an ad.

If youtube showed ads on the corner of the screen while you’re browsing around searching for something to watch, it would be a much better platform than what it is today and it would probably make more money too. If Netflix did this they would triple their revenue.

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