amyjess · HackerTrans

16 dagen geledendiscuss

I remember reading this article when it was first posted here five years ago, and I've been fascinated by Bank Python since. It actually reminds me of a number of systems I've come up with in my head but never told anyone about or wrote down in any way.

amyjess

25 dagen geledendiscuss

I'm sorry, but what? Why do cars need apps now?

amyjess

5 maanden geledendiscuss

I absolutely need a pure SDI workflow. I like browsing through files on disk by the double-clicking them, reading through them a bit, and then using Alt+F4. I tried that with Notepad++ once and I ended up with hundreds of files open in tabs because Notepad++ remembers everything you've ever opened even if you Alt+F4 the app.

I also like sometimes having multiple files open at once and drag the windows around my monitors as I need to and you can't do that in Notepad++.

Also Notepad++'s UI is bloated. There's just too much going on.

And please don't suggest I muck around in settings, I'm not interested in spending hours mucking around in a gigantic bloated settings dialog, I want something that Just Works™ with no configuration just like Win95 Notepad.

Edit: My specific use case here is for viewing files, not editing them. I use a different editor when I'm actually writing stuff but for browsing I just want old Notepad.

amyjess

5 maanden geledendiscuss

Are there any text editors for Windows that are feature-for-feature and bug-for-bug compatible with the Windows 95 build of Notepad?

I'm looking for a plain and simple text editor with no programmers' features—no line numbers, syntax highlighting, etc.—no tabs or MDI whatsoever. No, I'm not looking for something with "you can turn these off", just a complete reimplementation of Win95 Notepad made via black-box testing.

amyjess

7 maanden geledendiscuss

As somebody who has no problem whatsoever with weed, it smells like pus from a tooth infection to me.

I have had dental abscesses in the past that made my mouth taste like I was in a room full of cannabis smoke.

amyjess

8 maanden geledendiscuss

IMO Outemu blues are better than Cherry's. They're actually clickier.

amyjess

8 maanden geledendiscuss

> “We are committed to operating like the world’s largest startup, and … that means removing layers.”

I learned a long time ago that behaving like a startup is not a good thing, and I've specifically oriented my career towards working at companies that don't even want to pretend to imitate startup culture. I'm very happy in enterprise-land.

amyjess

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My favorite video game company is a little Japanese outfit called Nihon Falcom. They've been around since 1981, have about 65 employees, release exactly one new game a year, and if you've played any of their games, you can tell they're all made on absolutely shoestring budgets. They have also never posted a loss and have an absolutely bonkers amount of cash on hand (enough to keep the company going for several years on their current budget IIRC).

They also make the best story-driven RPGs I've played in my life. And they specifically went the story-driven route because it's cheaper to hire good writers than it is to wow people with AAA graphics or a giant open world or whatever.

More video game companies should be like Falcom.

amyjess

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Housecats are descended from the African wildcat, not the European one. The African wildcat forms colonies just like housecats.

Much of the myth that cats are naturally solitary creatures comes from people studying the behaviors of the European wildcat and attributing them to housecats, which is wrong because that's not what housecats are descended from.

amyjess

4 jaar geledendiscuss

The wage gap is largely a function of how women are expected to be the primary caregivers of children.

Here's a detailed article that goes into these things: https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16268362/gender-wage-gap-explai...

It makes sense that young women would earn more, but the gender-wage gap appears once you get into middle age as by that point childrearing expectations have destroyed women's careers.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

GitHub has always owned 100% of the project from the day the developer created their account. The developer owns the code, yes, but the account itself and the actual GitHub project structure is 100% owned by GitHub. From a legal perspective, it is a 100% GitHub-owned project that's a derivative work of the developer's code. Legally, the website is a derivative work, and derivative works are owned by the creator of the derivative work, not by the owner(s) of whatever the work is derived from. There are restrictions on what the owner of a derivative work can do based on the licensing of the original work (for example, GitHub can't merge GPLv2-licensed code and Apache2-licensed code hosted on their platform) but GitHub still owns the derivative work entirely.

For example, if I were to stand up a website using Apache httpd using PHP and Drupal, then the website is 100% mine but it contains code owned by the Apache Software Foundation, Dries Buytart, and Zend Technologies. None of those three have any rights over my website, even though they own the code I built it on. I still have to respect the licenses to the code I use—I can't make my own fork of httpd containing code I copy-pasted from a GPLv2-only project, for example—but the website is still my website.

Or for a non-code example, let's say I were to write Lord of the Rings fanfiction. As a derivative work, the fanfic is 100% mine even though it contains characters copyrighted by the Tolkien estate. I can't legally distribute my fanfic to people without getting a license from the Tolkien estate (but thankfully the Tolkien estate is willing to look the other way), but it's still mine, and the Tolkien estate can't just yoink my fanfic and publish it in an anthology unless I give them permission either.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

The developer only owns the code, not the account. GitHub owns 100% of all accounts on their service.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

The MIT license explicitly gives the entire world the right to distribute and modify and project licensed under it. The author isn't allowed any takesie-backsies. Everyone is well within their rights to host copies of faker and colors and any other MIT-licensed project in existence regardless of whether or not the author objects to it.

If the author didn't want third parties redistributing copies of their code, they shouldn't have released it under the MIT license.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Whether or not it grows back is irrelevant. I will not stand to be without my hair for even a single millisecond.

The only way I would even remotely accept chemo is if I could get a 100% guarantee in writing—with an agreement to immediately kill me if I wake up early—that I will be put in an induced coma before chemo and not taken out of the coma until after my hair has completely grown back and surpassed its previous length, and I want the anaesthesiologists legally obliged to err on the side of me not waking up ever over the possibility of me waking up before my hair has fully grown back.

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5 jaar geledendiscuss

Even if the cancer has a very high survival rate following chemo, if the only way to save my life involves losing my hair I will refuse treatment and let myself die.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I long ago decided that if I got a terminal disease, I would refuse any treatment that would extend my quantity of life at the expense of my quality of life.

I've seen what chemo does to people. No thank you. If I get cancer, I'll just self-medicate with whatever opioids I can get my hands on until either the cancer kills me or the pain gets bad enough that the opioids stop being able to do anything for it, at which point I'd just intentionally OD by a massive amount while alone in a remote location.

(and on top of all the debilitating, crippling effects of chemo, I am also, for multiple reasons, particularly attached to my hair... it's one of the only parts of my body I like, and I would literally rather die than lose my hair)

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Honestly the first two paragraphs of this article alone indicate that this article is a polemic intended to stir up a pogrom against so-called elites. This isn't intellectually gratifying: it's an angry political screed.

Furthermore, as a Jewish person myself something else jumped out at me: there is a long, long, long history of the word "elites" being associated with control over the media as an antisemitic dogwhistle. Any Jewish person will read this, see "the media is controlled by elites", and immediately understand that this is a restatement of antisemitic conspiracy theories that are over a century old. This article is wildly irresponsible.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I have about a decade of experience, I live in Dallas, and I've spent my entire career working for local Texas companies.

I never saw a six-figure salary—not even close—until I got the offer for the job I'll be starting next week. It's a remote position working for an east coast company. Even if my soon-to-be-ex-employer allowed me to continue working from home forever, I'd be an idiot to leave this salary on the table. I should've done this sooner.

amyjess

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Well, I can finally say it: I'm part of the Great Resignation.

I found a new position that's 100% remote, I put in my notice at my current job the week before last, and my last day is coming up this week.

It's kind of bittersweet: I'm leaving just before my fifth anniversary here, and this is the only company where I've even made it to three years, much less five, but it is what it is. I like what I do, and I like my coworkers, but I just can't go back to working in an office after spending the last year working from home, so it's time for me to move on.

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