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nik9000

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  • What are the best fictional books you’ve ever read?

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  • Never Let Me Go is the most "not for me" book I've ever read. I can see why people love it. And I respect what it's doing. I just don't want to play a long.

  • What are the best fictional books you’ve ever read?

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  • Project Hail Mary used to come up on r/books from time to time and was polarizing. Lots of folks loved it. Lots thought it wasn't good.

    If you loved the Martian I think you'll like PHM. I did.

  • Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet

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  • I've stopped using stash and mostly just commit to my working branch. I can squah that commit away if I want later. But we squash before merge so it doesn't tend to be worth it.

    It's just less things to remember.

  • 60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it

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  • I think lots of the kernel folks are paid to contribute full time. For a while I was paid a full time maintainer on some apache licensed search stuff. Before that web stuff.

    I guess the demoninator in that fraction is low.

  • Do you use your personal Github as a portfolio when applying for jobs, or instead a self-hosted VCS (whether Git or otherwise)?

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  • My job is almost entirely public on GitHub. It is in my resume and the next time I use my resume I hope folks read it. Lots of folks won't but they probably don't value my particular set of skills.

    I think the usual wisdom is most jobs won't care.

  • Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy

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  • I'm just a hacker. I'll never be a thought leader. But I am passionate about my work. And my kids.

    I love solving the problems. I have a few posts on the company blog but they put a chat bot on it a while back and didn't care that it felt offensive to me.

    But I'm here, reading this. Maybe I'm grey matter.

  • Infinity

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  • My analemma.

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    Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB

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  • My guess is the big video ram is high resolution textures, complex geometry, and a long draw distance. I honestly don't know much about video games though.

    The smaller install is totally the map streaming stuff. I'm unsure quite why it has to be so big, but again, I don't know video games. I do recall you having to tell it where you want to start from and it'll download some stuff there.

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    What are the scariest games you've played?

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  • I recommend it. Try to go in blind.

  • I've gotten my work to pay a "Neovim subscription" for two years

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  • Many years ago the Unicode Consortium has a fundraiser where you sponsored and emoji. Someone at my company sponsored one and posted to the internal mailing list. Short story short a couple dozen of us sponsored stuff and the company paid us back and wrote a cute blog post. Cheap marketing. Felt good.

  • What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?

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  • "I once ran the Indy 500. I must confess I'm impressed how I did it I wonder how close that I came."

  • [QUESTION] What is a food that is savory, sour and with a hard consistence?

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  • Pickled okra is wonderful. That a gumbo are the only way I can eat the slimy stuff. Pickling seems to burn away the slime.

  • Thank God For That

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  • I don't know but the suggest makes me so happy.

  • Married people, where do you land?

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  • My favorite lately is Bea Wolf, a retelling of Beowolf. Oh! And Pebble and Wren.

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  • I like this explanation. I don't think we can do a lot better than this one at this point.

    I think a fun next step is "forget what's real, I want to write a story with humans interacting with aliens that's consistent with what we see now." What do you have to invent to make it work? Nothing really works for me. But stuff like the dark forest is good. I can suspend disbelief enough to enjoy it.

  • What is something you SHOULD cheap out on?

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  • I bought some $50 open back headphones a while back and they a just worlds better than anything I'd had before. Is there a step up from there that'd similarly rock my world?

    My mic is pretty similar. $100 got me an SM58 and it's wonderful. You have to basically eat it and I can peak it if I'm loud. But it sounds so much nicer than most things. I know there's a few steps up from there. But I don't sing so think I'm fine.

  • “If Young Voters Voted at the Same Rate”

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  • The key got cut off I think. 538 has a standard key for predictions. Darker colors are "lean" and lighter colors are "solid". So it's confidence. Looks like I'm this example there are no states with the medium style of confidence for Republicans.

  • Born in the USA Was a Protest Song

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  • I lived in Australia from 10 years old to 12. I somehow picked up that Waltzing Matilda was a sad song about how shitty world war 1 war. And also that the Brits where shit about it, somehow burning through the lives of their allies. Oh yeah, and now the crippled vet's homeless.

    I remember someone explained it to me. And other kids. Because Matilda isn't slang for backpack we still used.

  • Do any of you have M$ Word running in present form?

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  • Try your local library.