LanceH

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by LanceH 9mo ago
So much has moved to facebook and it's eternally frustrating. Facebook has its own priorities, and I get the last minute "hey! meet here" things the next day.
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by LanceH 9mo ago
I'm sitting here from the perspective of having 2 adult children -- both graduating early, and my youngest who enters high school next year. They all got phones starting with 9th grade (14 at the start of the school year). Generally
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by LanceH 9mo ago
By high school there is definitely an expectation that everyone has a phone. They will literally miss out on a normal method of communication between friends and classmates. They miss out on the social group and then fade away from it and
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by LanceH 9mo ago
I phrased it like this to a friend who was looking to buy an upgrade to a relatively new car: "What I paid you $1000 a month (his new car payment) to drive the old car?" When I put it in that perspective, he drove that car for q
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by LanceH 10mo ago
The first four episodes this season weren't good. The whole D&D metaphor already felt played out but is instead leaned on heavily again. The pop references are plentiful, but 5 seasons of the same references also gets old. The m
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by LanceH 10mo ago
It's not that I have any trouble doing one or two spaces. I just think it's a bit arrogant of any group to decide something is "wrong". Also, Pluto is still a planet because the new planet definition is absolutely stupi
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by LanceH 10mo ago
And two spaces after a period! Who's with me?
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by LanceH 10mo ago
A legit reason to hide your edit history is you might not remember what was in there. Say you have a moment of frustration and type out "this is an absolute garbage assignment by a braindead professor". Or you jot a quick note fr
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by LanceH 10mo ago
I miss dynamic range in music.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
> It doesn't generate good tests by default though. I agree with this. I've found I need a whole separate cycle of test writing to get proper (in both scope and accuracy) coverage. It does help tremendously with all the boilerp
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Referees, who are seemingly out to make both sides lose.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Who is the one choosing, though? I think it's the one who brings another person into the conversation with a problem begging for help that turns on that same person for trying to make the situation better. That is the person who need
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Confusingly, I was trying to debug something with a 529, and this outage really had me going for a minute.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
I'm not sure how we'd know. My wife sometimes buys and rereads a novel she's already finished.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
I was really hoping the comments were filled out.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
They also never caught the clowns in the forest stealing children, nor the satanic groups sacrificing babies in the 80's.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
That software was never fixed. Those cars were still on the road after the "scandal". The problem went away somehow.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Stomp on brakes is pretty basic, and all that was ever needed for overpowering a prius's engine/motor. This "scandal" was never about mechanical failures. It was almost certainly about driver error and mass hysteria. As
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Ah yes, where Toyota was found guilty of not being a US company. The only thing they did in the recall was the same floor mat anchor as so many other cases. "NASA engineers found no electronic flaws in Toyota vehicles capable of produc
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Lots and lots of articles written about 23% of 300 items -- at one store? Every store? What's the actual extent of the problem? There have been way too many articles and videos at this point to keep pointing at the same small data set
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by LanceH 10mo ago
The population increased because half of it wasn't dying off immediately. You have to include the half that dies off early in the calculations of QoL for hunter/gatherers.
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by LanceH 10mo ago
This brings back some memories :) I asked some coworkers about this and they had all adopted names that sounded like their Chinese names. Except Xiaofong who didn't have anything to match. It was mid 90's so we gifted him Ronald
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by LanceH 10mo ago
My solution with manufactured content is to just rotate services. I maintain netflix year round because they have enough, but I'll buy the special rate and cancel in the same day, giving me a month at a time of each of the different o
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by LanceH 10mo ago
We lost a lot of other things as well. Like modding and especially maps. It doesn't matter how good the game developers are, someone out there is could make a better map. The studios took control of everything, and their answer is to
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by LanceH 10mo ago
run your own servers, an admin watches them track people behind walls, player gets banned, move on. Oh, they took away player run servers...
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by LanceH 10mo ago
Amongst the discussion of rootkits and anti-cheat, I would like to add that part of the reason it is necessary is caused by the game companies that took away the standard method of playing multiplayer -- players running their own servers. I
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by LanceH 11mo ago
> only the wealthy pay full price for college This is one of those things that may technically be correct, but only because colleges are giving out tiny $500/yr scholarships to practically everyone.
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by LanceH 11mo ago
I know nothing about this specific situation, so I'm not speak to that. I am speaking to "why keep your wealth as cash in a safe?" I'm old enough that grandparents lived through the great depression. I know they kept w
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by LanceH 11mo ago
You mention a good point of using Python to put out the results. I think munging the input into a clean enough data set that you can work on is another place Python excels compared to analysis specific tools like R.
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by LanceH 11mo ago
> He told me once that when he returned home, he was struck by the trivial problems people had and obsessed over. I always feel put in a position when I'm in an interview and they ask about handling pressure in the workplace.

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