LargeWu

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by LargeWu 7y ago
Recession and depression have very specific definitions, and they don't involve the stock market. It's based on GDP.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
That's fine. For 95% of the queries you need, ActiveRecord-ish implementations are perfectly performant, and super readable. For the rest, they allow you to drop down to the SQL layer and specify exactly what you want or need.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The most recent edition of Make magazine had a pretty good overview of some different options. Doesn't go too much into depth but provides a good starting point.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I know your comment is, at least somewhat, in jest, but it's kind of true. My wife's boss has been spending a good bit of his workdays lately tracking and buying gold. But not buying physical gold. Just buying a promise from some
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Microservices, often, is just another word for "distributed monolith". Sure you can read the code of a single service quickly, but often in practice it's not possible to just make changes to one service. There are usually bot
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by LargeWu 7y ago
My contention is that there is very little actual political discussion happening there. It's mostly memes, upvoting parties, and tribalism. Any talk of "libs" or "liberals" is not based on any specific policies or i
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It's misguided to think that T_D is about politics, because it's not. It's about identity. The politics here are incidental.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Why is it? Why should it be? What's so hard about understanding somebody's desire for their art to be in the world without violating the boundary between that and their personal life?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Yeah, I guess I don't disagree that there's a lot going on there, but it's all in service of bringing in tourists, all sponsored by the casinos. Sure, locals are welcome to partake in any of that, but it's not "for&
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I'm not sure exactly what the author's thesis is. Yes, there are people that live in the city, and they don't all hang out at Caesars Palace every weekend. This is not news. What strikes me about the Las Vegas metro area, apa
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Most of them make you flash your room key, but they don't really check to see if you're a current guest. Edit: A few of the pools allow swim-up gaming. I believe they are legally required to allow you into their pool if you say yo
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by LargeWu 7y ago
"the ideals of not interfering with the potential biospheres (or lacks of biosphere) of other planets" I think their ideal is to protect planets from interfering with their ecosystems unintentionally . Microbial contamination, fo
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Not only provably, but explicitly. Voter suppression was the primary intent.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
That is election fraud, perpetrated by the people running the elections themselves, not voter fraud. If you can't trust the people running the elections, then no amount of voter ID is going to matter.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
This is, in reality, a virtually nonexistent problem. It's often used as a rationale for voter suppression, though.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
If there's any good that comes out of this, it's that people will hopefully see the value of physical paper ballots or records.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Just tell the truth. Medical is a perfectly valid reason. Tangent: What does it say about hiring culture that a gap of 3 months is a potential deal breaker? Like anybody who would ever deign to not be employed by choice is unhirable. God fo
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Compare that to the cost of software that works perfectly, but costs 10x what it currently does in order to achieve that perfection. Think of all the free (gratis) software you use that maybe would have a huge cost associated with it to be
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Also, be tall, that doesn't hurt.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Ted Chiang's work was the first thing that came to mind for me. "Understand" is a breathtaking piece of work, about a man whose brain rapidly gains unimaginable computing power following a series of treatments.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Probably just substituted a generic American sounding name, rather than a translation.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
That's a legitimate tradeoff, which may or may not be worth it to everyone. But that's not even close to the situation most developers are in. Most are getting paid somewhere around an average salary, maybe with a few probably-wor
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by LargeWu 7y ago
If you can't glean that devs with 15+ years of experience on their resume know how to ship software, then maybe the real problem is your ability to evaluate talent.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The main reason that employers seem to think it would be "better" (for them) is so they can pressure said employees for free labor and overly-aggressive timelines.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
How long is a piece of string?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I found mine because my church sponsors it, but this is a good resource: https://www.foodpantries.org/
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I don't get out to too many taprooms anymore, but I used to be in the habit of ordering their pils or lager first, since it's much harder to hide the quality behind the hops. Generally speaking, breweries that have good beers of t
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I donate to the local food shelf that serves people in my neighborhood. Donating money to food shelves is about 10x as effective as donating the equivalent amount of goods purchased at retail.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The way Amazon works, it's very possible that the version you found on Amazon for significantly less was counterfeit, being sold by an unknown third-party.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
So your thesis is simply "Poor people are lazy. If they worked harder they wouldn't be poor"? You're right that the difference between the middle class and the poor isn't luck. The difference between the poor and th

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