seanofthedev.bsky.social
Full stack web developer professionally, hobbyist astronomer, musician, outdoorsman. I'm usually doing something with code.
(neo)vim, Ruby, *nix
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I can't either, but ublock origin achieves the same results and it's free.
It's more difficult on mobile, but there are similar options there in most cases.
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As much as I like the series, sometimes it’s like he took one woman and split all parts of her personality into enough shards for his female characters to each have one.
But at least they’re not all sex objects and set pieces. And his strong women aren’t strong only because they’re like men.
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40 x .1 = 4
40 x .01 = 0.4
4 - 0.4 = 3.6
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Counterpoint: tacos are so good, no association can ruin them and they’re happy to be the weapon wielded against a toxic ego.
Tacos are the Ewoks of fascism. Small, but powerful, and delicious when fried.
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Literally the only format more confusing than MMDDYYYY.
Except maybe YYMMMMDD
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You forgot your own origin story?
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If history has taught me anything, I’m just gonna assume there are home-made antennae on that hat.
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We’re all on edge these days, so I don’t doubt the timing and the flippant nature got to you.
The reason it got you might even be same reason they sent a poor response. I’m sad to say I’ve done similar things when frustrated by something completely unrelated.
The solution is probably ice cream!
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Low effort criticism deserves low effort response.
The short Ruby newsletter is the antithesis of spam. It’s clear that great effort is made to collect content that a Ruby dev would be sad to have missed. It’s a tool that saves time and educates.
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Any plans to have it work easily with production logs, or perhaps a single log file not in a Rails project?
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Did he warn you about the barre chords, or just wait for the pain to set in?
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Don’t get me wrong - even the good devs who multitask are insane and weird and they should feel shame. I’m pretty sure my boss’ git stash has gigabytes of half finished work, like some sort of psychopath.
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Yeah, there’s a huge difference in performative chaos and just being a dev who thrives in a multitasking scenario.
I may have misread - it sounded like you were saying all devs who juggle multiple branches were de facto unproductive.
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I can't do it either, but having known some folks who can, I think it's that they get blocked by an idea until they can put it into the editor. So they need to swap, purge, and then go next or else their brain starts using swap space.
It doesn't seem to directly make them more or less productive.
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They always know, and it's the worst feeling not being able to explain things to them.
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For me, Twitch reigns because of Twitch Turbo. I can't possibly support all the streamers I enjoy, so having the option to enjoy all of them without ads and at least support the platform is what keeps me.
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I don’t know. My graphics card doesn’t work now, but it looks delicious.
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Be sure to share all your theories and guesses about everything. You missed a time in the 90s where fora where FLOODED with dissertations on who was a darkfriend and who wasn’t and who would live or die.
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I can’t reply! I don’t want to give anything away.
Like any series, it has variance and there are things to love and be annoyed by. That’s part of the fun, though, finding out who feels the same and who feels differently and why.
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I bet there’s a way you could take it out and frame it. Ideally with some sort of seal that would keep it from being marred. Clear epoxy, maybe?
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Having read the series so many times (you catch hints even on the 3rd and 4th read), it’s a lot of fun to watch others experience it for the first time. Keep sharing and I hope no one spoils anything. You’re getting to the point where a LOT of fan theories were born.
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@jkulcha.bsky.social
In case you didn’t already see this
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Isn't that the definition of "being a fan?" I don't know that I'd call that having "hang ups & fixations" - I worry that that sounds dismissive.
You and I are doing exactly that: your fixation is on what makes it a Zelda™ game, mine is on what makes it a <eighties_font>Zelda game</eighties_font>.
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If instead you truly mean that "Zelda game" means nothing except that it's created by the owners of the IP, then "Zelda game" means nothing. That's not crazy or wrong, it's just not useful. It's dealing with the game as a legal entity, not an experience for the player.
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There is a core to a Zelda game that developer labels can't supersede.
What you're describing is superficial (2D, 3D, etc) - all Zelda games should have at least the Zelda core present, even if it looks like a space shooter or a walking simulator, or "Zelda game" means nothing.
What is that core?
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But there has to be some criteria, even if it’s personal. What makes a game a Zelda game? Once that’s established, it’s reasonable that some games with Zelda in the name might not fit.
The only stance I would outright reject is that it’s a Zelda game if it has LoZ in the title.
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Yes, I currently fall into the camp of "BotW and TotK are amazing games, but they aren't Zelda games." Inasmuch as I'm allowed to define what a Zelda game is, anyway.
The kids who grow up on BotW and TotK will say the same thing about OG-OoT, and they're just as correct.
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I probably won’t ever agree that Zelda has gotten better since OoT (I was there, 3000 years ago) but I see no costume flaws, my man.
I like Assassin’s Creed inspired belt, and all the armor detailing looks top notch.
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I haven’t played Zelda since the OoT, so maybe I’m missing something.
What I do know is that this is bad ass. 12/10 would set up a lawn chair for the whole performance.
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As someone who hopes to be the person in the room that someone can mark as “safe to be myself with,” I appreciate insight into the struggle. I might have supported mandates before considering this perspective, but this makes too much sense.
Let the bigots hang themselves with their own rope.
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Damn it, we can't give those pre-rangoons more reasons to be smug!
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Linux is to developer evolution what crabs are to biological evolution.
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If you take Joel's post literally, and without any thought beyond the surface, yes. As I read it, his point was that when you accept an argument you can think carefully about how to interact with it in ways that will either not raise, or will raise a more informative error.
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I’m now wondering how many “method undefined on Nil” errors could have been avoided by considering this approach.
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You can also approach it like this: in order to be equal, the fraction missing 2 parts would need a denom twice as big as 8 (16) to be equal. If it’s less than 16, then 2 of them are more than 1/8. If the denominator is bigger than 16, 2 of them are smaller than 1/8.
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Ruby isn’t perfect, but I’ve noticed that any valid criticism for Ruby is found only by diving very deep into its implementation. The areas that most programmers use most of the time is nearly flawless.
Beyond that, it’s the syntax for me. It really is expressive in a way few languages are.
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“For example, in the expanding Universe, time-translation invariance goes away, and so energy is not conserved under those circumstances”
But average energy density remains unchanged, doesn’t it?
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But which one will you consume for breakfast?
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I believe my peers of the design persuasion usually use Inkscape.
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Not to mention a woman's center of gravity is in her hips, and for a man, closer to the chest. Having the extra weight above is far more taxing than it would be even if penises weighed as much as breasts. In fact, a 3 lb penis would probably reduce back strain on the whole. Balance and ballast.
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I see; I misread. I can see how a template language is a barrier to a designer.
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Learning slim and haml takes about a half a day. After that you look up syntax less often than you look up Ruby syntax. While it’s fair to not like them, claiming they are so abstract as to impede work is weak at best.
Learning is gaining expertise, not losing it. Knowledge is elastic.