JustARandomGuy

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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
You seem to know a lot about weather, so apologies if this comes off as a stupid question. What value add do companies such as AccuWeather and others provide over simply going to weather.gov? Is their UI simply better, or do they run their
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
It surprises me that the chain cuts so neatly - if you look at the images the cuts look rather clean and surgical. I would have expected it to be more of a crushing and jagged cut. The gear used in these large scale engineering ops is absol
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Dissenting. OP, your first sentence is If a website offers you to sign-in using Google (or any third-party service, say Facebook, Github, etc.), don’t use that feature. Titling this as "Third Party Auth" is a reasonable and corr
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
I volunteered as an election judge in a neighboring county (Hello from DuPage County) and can affirm much of tptacek's post. Having the experience of an election judge, I'm not worried about anyone trying to steal the election, th
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
I fully expect to see another economic dip within the next 2-4 months. We've learned nothing from the previous corona wave and this winter is only going to exacerbate it due to everyone staying inside.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
I signed up for IFTTT Pro for $4/month - as the article says, I think the suggested $10/month is too much, but there is definite value in what IFTTT provides. IFTTT is great for quickly moving data around, but I wish there was a z
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Note that the article is about optimizing a Gatsby site for SEO; it's not a general SEO tips site, of which there are many. With that said, it's quite amusing how small SEO changes can dramatically improve search visibility. It&#x
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Glad I completed my Hacktoberfest requirements earlier; a little bummed that the shirt will invariably = low quality contributors. A better way to do this IMO would be to kick off a year long contest; for example: you sign up, every week yo
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Seconding this recommendation. Excellent stories and high quality acting. PBS runs them occasionally late at night.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
> Former clerks were 16 percentage points more likely to attract the votes of the justice for whom they had worked One question I immediately have is that are they controlling for the side that the clerk argues on behalf of? I would ex
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Very happy with Porkbun ( https://porkbun.com/ ). Newer registrar, but their console is clean, nice looking, and it's easy to update settings.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Wow, TIL! Thanks for the link. I haven't been in downtown Chicago since the middle of March; my employer is keeping us at home until at least 2021.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
American here (work in downtown Chicago), I used to get Pret several times a week as one of their stores was right next door to my office. They have delicious sandwiches, bakery items, and fruit cups, but it's very expensive - a croiss
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Out of curiosity, when you're doing a SOC2 compliance review, are your relying on their documentation of security measures, or would you check to see that the documentation matches the security measures that are in place?
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
I tried out the TTRSS with another feed and saw what you did - there's definitely about a minute gap between adding a RSS feed until those articles are processed and available in the web view. I assume it's due to the current heav
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
> You can also follow up with any charity you grant to out of Charityvest yourself and ask them if they receive Charityvest's grants in a timely manner. Generally all charities will gladly confirm receipt of a donor gift This is a
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
I see quite a few people in this thread blaming the high cost of AWS. I don't understand, why is this a problem with AWS - isn't it a problem with freeloading? Yes, moving hosting may save you some bucks, but fundamentally isn&#x2
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Google Apps Scripts (equivalent to VBA in Office) can script most Google products; you could build a form on one tab of a Google Sheet, use Apps Scripts to store and query data against Cloud SQL, then use another tab of Sheets to output the
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Love the change. I really like the "annual commitments" pricing - I love it when I can pre-reserve a certain amount of performance and get a discount for it.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Finance will move from London for the same reason that British Airways now claims that it's a Spanish company: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/12/ba-spain-no... - laws can be a massive
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
The "globally influential" and London being a top financial center will certainly decrease after Brexit. You'll see a lot of EU banking moving from London to Berlin or possibly Paris.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
We always have these articles about needing to learn COBOL, - I think we see more of them since there’s more pressure on old systems such as unemployment these days - but it’s important to note to anyone reading this that learning COBOL is
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
>Airlines currently are throwing incentives to cancel later vs earlier. An insightful comment, and it's exactly why I booked a vacation flight for late this year already. United in particular was offering very generous terms - they
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
Tell us about yourself. Are you early/mid/late career, what types of jobs you're going for, locations, etc. If you're looking for advice, it really depends on where you are in your career.
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
I'd sign up for something like that in a heartbeat. I used to do COBOL, but the problem is that possibilities for advancement are very limited - there's far more jobs available - and promotion pathways - for a Python or Java coder
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by JustARandomGuy 6y ago
From the article: * State unemployment agencies are notoriously underfunded* And there’s the problem summarized in less than a single sentence. Yes, they need help, but it’s the same kind of “help” as in “I want a BMW but I only have a dol
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by JustARandomGuy 7y ago
Just contributed as well. Thanks for doing this, it's great work.
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by JustARandomGuy 7y ago
Do you remember the name and date of that congressional report? Would love to read it.
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by JustARandomGuy 7y ago
Since you're reading this, a feature request: I would love it if you could put up a REST endpoint for extracting all the images (example code here [1]) on a web page, and more endpoints for extracting all the links, script addresses, e
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by JustARandomGuy 7y ago
>Rolling your own error library is trivial. And right there is where you’re going to lose most people. If it’s is trivial, why isn’t in the standard library? If everyone needs to do it, why not standardize? I love Go, but i have to agree

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