FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
I wrote thousands of lines of spaghetti Python code this way. Finally, doing things the right way no longer seems like overthinking but instead a massive timesaver longterm.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Out of curiosity, do you hand-code or do you use a tool like Bootstrap Studio?
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by FredPret 2y ago
Wow, I knew Aeron’s were good, but 25 years of use?
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by FredPret 2y ago
Then we will simply see fewer and more expensive models available for sale as some manufacturers and investors decide these regulations are too much and exit; others will raise prices to pay for the compensation and extended software suppor
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by FredPret 2y ago
Tying software support to how long the hardware lasts will ensure that every hardware manufacturer builds in a time-based killswitch into every device they make. Software engineers are expensive.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Why would China and the EU have input on a US merger?
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by FredPret 2y ago
We've seen an explosion in time spent looking at second-hand information online in recent decades - social media & news. I think a healthier way is to get information direct from the source, and from going and doing things. I think
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by FredPret 2y ago
Is this still true? I thought the current school generation started to like nerds more because that's who's doing the coolest jobs / companies
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by FredPret 2y ago
The tube is great (less so when they're striking or there's snow or it's rush hour). But London is a singularly great place for tube tunnels and other mass transit: - birthplace of the industrial revolution - had a ton of inf
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by FredPret 2y ago
It kind of works that way, it’s just confusing that the bank tells you their point of view. Your bank account is really two accounts: an asset on your books, and a liability on the bank’s books. When you talk about accounting for physical
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by FredPret 2y ago
You also need law and order. Years ago living in Toronto, I stopped taking transit when the crazies started getting on the train along with the innocent commuters.
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by FredPret 2y ago
The bank will tell you there's a credit because to them, it's a credit. Your bank account is a loan from you to them - they owe you that money. When your account goes up, their debt to you goes up... thus it's a credit to the
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by FredPret 2y ago
Just going to drill into a couple of aspects of your rant. First, fascism is a totalitarian ideology. You could have googled it yourself instead of parroting what The View tells you. It demands 100% subordination of individual interests in
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by FredPret 2y ago
That is why I sincerely hope this way takes over the debit/credit approach
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by FredPret 2y ago
> Douche No accounting for taste > born into ... wealth It's a very minor thing in the big picture to be born into a 3rd world country like South Africa's top 1%. > criminal wealth His dad likely had some dodgy dealings,
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by FredPret 2y ago
The simplest way to memorize it is to remember the accounting formula and one simple rule. - Assets minus Liabilities = Equity (net worth) - Your bank account or cash balance increases on the debit side From this you can figure out that if
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by FredPret 2y ago
I've often wondered about this in the shower. Why debits and credits, when we can just make income negative and let everything sum to 0? Then you can track the balance for each account in a single field in the database. And the answer
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by FredPret 2y ago
The most economically valuable 0.6%
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by FredPret 2y ago
You know you’ve gone off the deep end when you call Musk an “entrepreneur” in quotes instead of what he is - a regular, if excellent, entrepreneur. Having a leg up due to coming from a well-off background invalidates nothing. These top entr
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by FredPret 2y ago
I’ve had several servers with them for years now - private and VPS, and they do what it says on the tin.
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by FredPret 2y ago
This sounds more like a slogan, a belief, than a fact. It’s not true for the extreme top end: [0] Here’s a Yahoo Finance article citing several efforts to investigate inheritance vs self-made wealth in the upper middle class: [1] We keep el
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by FredPret 2y ago
> “ she had gone to a drive-in cinema with her husband and children to see a double bill of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and 2001: A Space Odyssey” Bizarre choice - apparently they marketed it as a family movie
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by FredPret 2y ago
I wanted you and your sibling commenter to know that even though we're probably coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum, I meant no malice or schadenfreude by my comment. Despite being a huge capitalist, I do think there&#x
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by FredPret 2y ago
In your usecase, is a self-rolled Gitea not even more secure and also easier to use? Who knows if your trade secrets get decrypted by an AI years from now
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by FredPret 2y ago
Agreed
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by FredPret 2y ago
Limiting access for EU users is an easy way to sidestep a hell of a lot of potential legal liability. It’s a fast-moving and complex regulatory environment that is focused on punishing/controlling big US businesses. Option A is to burn
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by FredPret 2y ago
You're right - we can get closer and closer to an absolute measure by looking at many brains and AI's solving a problem, and converging to maximum performance given a certain amount of hardware by tweaking the algorithm or approac
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by FredPret 2y ago
It might be the hardest problem of them all, because you'd have to understand how all problems work. But on the other hand, maybe it all comes down to a Turing machine requiring a particular length of tape and runtime.
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is a subtle aspect of intelligence measurement that not many people think about. To go from an IQ of 100 to 130 might require an increase in brainpower of x, and from 130 to 170 might require 3x for example, and from 170-171 might be 9
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by FredPret 2y ago
1) be nice 2) referring to a calculation or the reasoning of something as "the calculus" is a common everyday usage

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