🔗 Quick links thread
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
tactics + blitzkrieg + tanks
+politics
In the early days of the war Germany played the countries nicely. Part of the Belgian government believed that Germany would respect Belgian's neutrality stance originating in the 1831 treaty that created the country. But this required to distance itself from the WWI allies France & England. France explicitly offered assistance to defend the territory from a German invasion with the purely practical reasoning it would be tactically easier to stop the an invasion on a common defense line going from the Maginote ligne to the North. Germany executed almost the same general attack idea as it did in WOI, but adapted to modern warfare. For example quickly taking fortresses with glider planes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Eben-Emael). A rather new idea that they executed nicely.
Quickly after the attack German diplomacy followed with a simple message: let's not repeat WWI, just surrender to prevent this outcome.
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I think he is talking about @blakeyrat :
http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/529/why-i-havent-fixed-your-issue-yet
hmm, again:
Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue YetYou are competing with this. Usually, you will lose:
http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/api/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/couch.jpgAs with all things in life, a trade-off is involved. There is an implicit agreement which needs to be understood by both consumers and creators of FOSS projects1. It goes something like this:
I agree to provide you with some free code which solves your problem. I recognize that in doing so, I have taken on a small portion of responsibility to you as a user of my code. I agree to try to help you if you have difficulty in using my code. I agree to try to fix bugs that you find in my code. Crucially, you agree that I, in acting without remuneration, am free to assign priority to the above points as I see fit.
P.S. happened with that oneboxing?
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@dse said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
P.S. happened with that oneboxing?
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@dse said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I agree to provide you with some free code which solves your problem. I recognize that in doing so, I have taken on a small portion of responsibility to you as a user of my code. I agree to try to help you if you have difficulty in using my code. I agree to try to fix bugs that you find in my code. Crucially, you agree that I, in acting without remuneration, am free to assign priority to the above points as I see fit.
Why you not put
>*
at the start of those lines?- I agree to provide you with some free code which solves your problem.
- I recognize that in doing so, I have taken on a small portion of responsibility to you as a user of my code.
- I agree to try to help you if you have difficulty in using my code.
- I agree to try to fix bugs that you find in my code.
- Crucially, you agree that I, in acting without remuneration, am free to assign priority to the above points as I see fit.
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Markdown: not quite as annoying as typing in lots of HTML by hand.
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In Plain Text the text is the source
No, the bytes are the source. The text is the output.
It just happens that the format is so much simpler than any other so we can abstract away the difference. Or at least we could before Unicode happened.
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@r10pez10 I'm going to guess I could read that essay and not once see the terms:
- Usability
- Discoverability
- User studies
- "I spoke to non-technical users and..."
- "Statistical evidence suggests that..."
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@ben_lubar said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Ok, on anothr issue, after this toaster
http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/529/why-i-havent-fixed-your-issue-yetI have many newlines, but they are all eaten up by dwarfs in their kitchen.
Maybe ?
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@r10pez10 I'm going to guess I could read that essay and not once see the terms:
- Usability
- Discoverability
- User studies
- "I spoke to non-technical users and..."
- "Statistical evidence suggests that..."
That was a good guess.
Also missing:
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Why I Need an AR-15
A well reasoned response to this latest assault weapon panic.
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@cartman82 As expected, boils down to "Fuck off! I like guns!"
Which is, as Jim Jefferies observes, the only non-bullshit argument for owning them.
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@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@cartman82 As expected, boils down to "Fuck off! I like guns!"
Which is, as Jim Jefferies observes, the only non-bullshit argument for owning them.Ultimately, that's the only "non-bullshit" argument for owning anything.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@cartman82 As expected, boils down to "Fuck off! I like guns!"
Which is, as Jim Jefferies observes, the only non-bullshit argument for owning them.Ultimately, that's the only "non-bullshit" argument for owning anything.
well anything recreational anyway.
"Fuck off i like eating" is a valid argument for owning a garden.
"Fuck off i like being warm" is a valid argument for owning one coat (the argument loses validity after the first coat)
etc.
but yeah. "Fuck off i like X" is about the only valid argument for owning anything recreational
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@accalia said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
"Fuck off i like eating" is a valid argument for owning a garden.
Why do you need to own a garden? Why not government food lorry pass by once a day and issues you a meal?
"Fuck off i like being warm" is a valid argument for owning one coat (the argument loses validity after the first coat)
Why do you need to own a coat? If you want to go outside, you ring a phone number. A government employee arrives and leases you a coat. Once you are done with outside, you leave the coat on the curb, for government employee to pass by and collect it.
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@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
As expected, boils down to "Fuck off! I like guns!"
His prediction about certain people reading the article was correct.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Why do you need to own a garden?
because this doesn't happen:
@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
government food lorry pass by once a day and issues you a meal?
@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Why do you need to own a coat?
because this isn't a thing:
@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
ring a phone number. A government employee arrives and leases you a coat. Once you are done with outside, you leave the coat on the curb, for government employee to pass by and collect it.
but then you knew that already.
care to try that troll again?
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@boomzilla Huh. The airline industry implements a physical instance of multi-threading and throughput improves. Whodathunkit?
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@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@cartman82 As expected, boils down to "Fuck off! I like guns!"
More like: "given that I like guns, why AR-15?"
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@flabdablet said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@boomzilla Huh. The airline industry implements a physical instance of multi-threading and throughput improves. Whodathunkit?
Definitely would not help for some () who required no less than seven bins the last time I flew.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
some () who required no less than seven bins the last time I flew.
When flying:
- Wear slip-on shoes
- Carry-on no more than one PC, in a specific padded pocket so you can grab it out easily (I like laptop backpacks for this)
- Pre-bag your carry-on toiletries
- Keep anything metal (keys, et cetera) in an outside pocket of your jacket (easily removed) or carry-on instead of in your pockets
- Don't wear a belt
With a little practice you can easily dump into two bins in under a minute: remove laptop, add phone beside it, and then jacket and shoes in a second bag. Carry-on can go on the belt directly. Done.
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
some () who required no less than seven bins the last time I flew.
When flying:
- Wear slip-on shoes
- Carry-on no more than one PC, in a specific padded pocket so you can grab it out easily (I like laptop backpacks for this)
- Pre-bag your carry-on toiletries
- Keep anything metal (keys, et cetera) in an outside pocket of your jacket (easily removed) or carry-on instead of in your pockets
- Don't wear a belt
With a little practice you can easily dump into two bins in under a minute: remove laptop, add phone beside it, and then jacket and shoes in a second bag. Carry-on can go on the belt directly. Done.
2/5, not bad.
Nope, I:
- Wore standard tie-them-up shoes (though they slip on and off through careful exercise)
- Took 6 laptops, their cords, and several peripherals
- Don't carry toiletries (Well, maybe some hair gel)
- Anything metal is already in my personal pockets (excepting the above computing equipment). Turns out you still need to remove metal objects from the carry-on (or the metal objects I had coincidentally blocked/disrupted x-ray scanning)
- If I don't wear a belt my pants aren't aligned, leading to suboptimal movement and distraction. I haven't yet found a nice enough plastic buckle either...
To be fair, I had everything in the bins in about 47 seconds (once the bins had separated. Stupid vacuum effect), and only slowed the line down for two people all-in-all (which I motioned them to skip me).
Despite this, my stuff has had a 100% chance of secondary screening in the last three times I've done this. ;P
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Took 6 laptops
I got scolded when I tried to put 2 laptops (side-by-side) in one tote once.
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@dcon said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Took 6 laptops
I got scolded when I tried to put 2 laptops (side-by-side) in one tote once.
Hence 7 tubs. Though it might have been one more since one of the carry-ons was being dumb...
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Don't wear a belt
Oh, and I always get nailed on this... (damn, forgot again!) But then I only fly about once/year... Mexico this year. Belize next!
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
People love to make fun of Derek Smart, but he has a legit civil case in their changing the conditions of the EULA without informing previous signers of it, or giving refunds to those who did not agree to the new terms. That's long been considered lawsuit-worthy.
Additionally, they changed the conditions of the EULA specifically to remove the clause allowing refunds if the game didn't make its ship date. That's really really really shitty.
I loved the concept of bc3k. Some aspects of the game were too boring or buggy, but I enjoying playing it a bit on it's time.
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Pro divorce (story on reddit)
A story in the "pro revenge" subreddit about a guy who (supposedly) engineered the perfect divorce with his cheating wife. Probably just some pathetic shmuck's fantasy, but even so... holy shit.
At first I was into it. But as he ratcheted the manipulation again and again, I was like "I think I'll rather cheer for the cheating wife, thanks".
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@cartman82 when it got to "I fuck her whenever I want by saying we might get back togrther" I decided he was either lying or a sociopath
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@Jaloopa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@cartman82 when it got to "I fuck her whenever I want by saying we might get back togrther" I decided he was either lying or a sociopath
Yeah, it really goes off the deep end at the end. It's kind of like a good revenge movie. Gets you to cheer for the slighted character and then slowly strips away layer after layer of rationalization, until they are revealed for the monster they've become.
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On why RavenDB is written in C#
Guy who made a noSQL database in C# justifies his decision.
Well, he didn't go into the main point of contention - GC can create performance issues at unpredictable times, while something like C gives you much greater control. I wonder why C# language doesn't allow at least some control over GC. That seems to be the main "misfeature" holding the platform back for high performance tasks.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I wonder why C# language doesn't allow at least some control over GC.
Because that puts a greater onus on the programmer to get it right, and they've not proved very good at doing that. :( It turns out that in a lot of common cases, it's possible for the compiler to completely understand the lifetime of objects without any hints at all and so it can generate code that is maximally efficient. Don't know if (the back end of) the C# compiler actually does that, but it's certainly allowed to, since these are only optimisations that would kick in when the program would be unable to observe (short of debugging shenanigans) that they had been done…
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Because that puts a greater onus on the programmer to get it right, and they've not proved very good at doing that.
Yeah but it kind of puts the platform in the second league for these high performance cases.
Since they managed to shove in tons of stupid crap over the years, they could have found time to add a few API calls to make GC more predictable.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Guy who made a noSQL database in C# justifies his decision.
Considering most NoSQL databases are designed to scale by adding more instances instead of adding more hardware, C# seems a perfectly legit choice. Assuming RavenDB is designed with that philosophy, I don't really know anything about it.
@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Well, he didn't go into the main point of contention - GC can create performance issues at unpredictable times, while something like C gives you much greater control.
Well, true, but you have 4-5 servers racing to complete the same map/reduce operation, so.
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While on the subject of C# GC:
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@cartman82
unsafe {}
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Notch analyzes his own twitter behavior (reddit)
Notch (author of Minecraft, billionaire) has been getting into a lot of twitter flame wars with SJW-s recently. Someone on reddit asks why. Notch responds.
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Notch analyzes his own twitter behavior (reddit)
Notch (author of Minecraft, billionaire) has been getting into a lot of twitter flame wars with SJW-s recently. Someone on reddit asks why. Notch responds.
For those who can't be bothered to follow the link:
From what I can piece together, this is what happened:
Once I realized I had fuck-you money and didn't care about my public image any more because it didn't affect my day to day life in any way, I started speaking out against things I personally thing are wrong.
This got a surprisingly good reaction, with people contacting me in private to tell me they appreciated me doing so, but were unable to publicly back me on it. I completely understood, but felt encouraged to keep doing so.Eventually, this led to people on the other side of the issue starting to attack me, either to libelous articles or by sending me tweets, so I'd start replying to those in public too. People went nuts, both because they like the drama, and because some people thought I was doing something good. Some people said they didn't care about the actual politics but found it refreshing to see a big name speak candidly.
This egged me on, so I kept doing it, and eventually it became a bad habit. I recently got completely baited into doing a public reply to some miserable c-word1, which they then tried to use to make me seem like a horrible horrible person. I'm currently trying to bring my twitter back to mostly just making bad jokes and complaining about video games.
Accusations of me being miserable are incorrect.
Accusations of me being a bigot are incorrect.
But I also kind of don't care what people think I feel or what people think I think, as that has no actual impact on my reality. I'm sharing this with you because maybe I can get some of that sweet reddit karma, and also because I still care a little bit.
1: clown
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[–]denshi 219 points 6 hours ago
some miserable c-word 1
1: clownConfirmed as mimesogynist!
Heh.
How can I make nested quotes expand by default without resorting to a code block?
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Yeah but it kind of puts the platform in the second league for these high performance cases.
Not as much as you'd think, and the benefit is that it's easier to make the code correct. Correctness matters very much; if wrong answers are allowed, you can accelerate things a lot by just returning
42
immediately.
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@cartman82 I saw a good chunk of that: he was gleefully throwing out trollbait left and right, delighting in how many people he pissed off. A real drunk-on-power trip. I thought about inviting him to the guac thread
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@Yamikuronue
http://imgur.com/gallery/8CBmGDrunk on power trip = having enough money not to be afraid to stand up to this bullshit.
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@cartman82 I was talking about tweets like this that made it clear he was having fun trolling:
(it didn't onebox the tweet he was replying to, which asked why he was always rude)I'm not touching the actual argument here in this thread :)
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@Yamikuronue Meh, that seems about the standard for twitter, and there aren't many butthurt replies to those.
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@cartman82 I saw a good chunk of that: he was gleefully throwing out trollbait left and right, delighting in how many people he pissed off. A real drunk-on-power trip. I thought about inviting him to the guac thread
To be fair I don't think the guac thread has strayed into mansplaining territory.
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I'm torn in the whole mansplaining thing. I'm sure there are more men than if alike to believe who do talk down to women because they're women, but some people are condescending arseholes whoever they're talking to. Is it mansplaining of someone responds to my wife in a particular way but normal dickishness if they say the exact same thing to me?
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@Yamikuronue Why would anybody follow that incompetent dickhole.
Think about how many thousands of people are suffering under terrible software because he put Java VM for desktops back on life support with his retarded development decisions.
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A decent rant about Apple's upcoming attempt to kill the headphone jack.
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@cartman82 They can't kill the headphone jack. Where would schoolgirls hang their trinkets?