ChrisRR

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by ChrisRR 2y ago
That's the interesting part about their comment, is that they've instantly assumed that these are pointless contracts based on name alone. Without looking into it you can't just assume that mindfulness training doesn't h
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
Blood pressure reduction and water and sanitation both sound like genuine issues though (I don't know what the social media one is about so I couldn't comment. Do you actually know that those are pointless contracts or are you jus
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Yes. Many times hiring experts is 100% the correct approach. Getting a rando with next to no experience or knowledge of the product to spend an hour looking before making sweeping changes isn't
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
I'm not american, I just genuinely haven't seen any clearly beneficial moves yet PS. Your green username gives you away
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Our local parish spent literally years arguing about removing a dog poo bin from a park
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I'm not sure what parts you're referring to as "clearly bad" because so far I haven't seen any examples of that. What actually seems "clearly bad" is the random stripping of funding with little to no rese
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
It's fair to assume that if a brit writes something online, it's highly likely to be a piss take joke. We just don't waste our time writing /s on the end of every sentence
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
Why would you assume that the open source project in question would be written in US english? Hell, why assume that the project even be written in english at all? There's more non-english speakers in the world than english speakers
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Give it a week and see how many of them are taken down in the name of "efficiency"
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
Given how many parish councils are just a bunch of biddies, be thankful they even have websites.
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
You mean like when musk walked into twitter and just started blurting THIS IS TOO MANY MICROSERVICES because he thought it made him sound smart?
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I wouldn't say highly competent. Even at its best the US has such a tribalistic view of politics that has held back so many improvements
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Dumbest change so far*
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Or toosday for the US
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I'm english, my team is english. We use english spelling throughout. I'm not switching to american spelling to appease americans who aren't reading my code, in the same way as I'm not programming in french either
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That's localisation
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And then a LAHHSUNSE.md for US readers.
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> write boilerplate Python code This is my biggest issue. I'm still impressed that we need GHz and GBs to run simple apps that were achievable with MHz and MBs 20+ years ago
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
Seems like the Pentium 4 issue. Realise that your current approach isn't sustainable long term and change your approach
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I feel like I'm missing something. How is 3.2.0 release 3.0?
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I found it very easy to avoid YT shorts when I realised it's just clips of youtube videos that I've already watched.
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I don't think you necessarily have to be searching for bad news to be doom scrolling. The problem is with most of these services (this website included) is that even if you're trying to read limited topics, you'll still get b
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
Wikipedia discussion and edits have always been a bit of a cesspool, but most people just don't look at them (especially when US politics is concerned)
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Ceedling v1.0 released – Ruby-based unit testing and build system for C projects(github.com)
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No chance at all? Surely creating your own site is creating your own echo chamber
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The purpose of DOGE is just to constantly keep Elon Musk in the news to satisfy his narcissism
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America has had oligarchs for a very long time. The government is very much in the pocket of big businesses
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by ChrisRR 2y ago
I have a vague memory of reading that scrabble in a language that you don't speak has its advantages, as your brain isn't wired to favour words that it uses more often which may not be so valuable in scrabble
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How did you learn? I'm an embedded dev and when I tried to learn basic web dev, all the resources were a mess of importing unnecessary libraries
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> Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start I'm an embedded dev so I've so far removed from web dev, but recently started looking into learning web dev for some personal projects. My god wha

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