MikeTheGreat

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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
While we're posting not-nice things, I'll throw my current favorite out: pipx ( https://github.com/pypa/pipx ). I use Python's Poetry to build a wheel and then pipx to install it. Super-easy, barely a
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
I'm always on the lookout for ways of packaging Python programs/script-piles into single-file executables, so thank you for posting this! The GitHub README says it builds on the Python .ZIP App format (PEP441), which in turns says
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
This sounds like a feature request / opportunity. Like, can the tool be expanded to do: 1) Finding vacation time for a group of people (family? college friends?) 2) Can you include black-out days (school days for kids, whatever your s
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
As I post here on HackerNews (subtitle: News for Nerds. Stuff that- wait, no - nevermind) I'm kinda ashamed that it took me until now to switch to Firefox. I can't count the number of geeks and IT professionals who have told me t
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Where do you live? And how is this supposed to work? Like, at all? Does the urgent care place have 2FA set up for every insurance company? Just the insurance companies they accept? What about folks that don't have their phone on th
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Yes, it does. Source: when I was 5 I saw my grandmother, RIP, doing that and asked her about it. She explained that as she got older her fingers got drier, and now it's just easier to flip pages that way.
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
> Remember to secure your load I don't know much about steel coils, and I'm hoping that something that fits in your back seat isn't as dangerous as those featured in YouTube videos, but the idea that the primary concern is
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Can I ask why it takes / took 45 minutes? That feels like a lot to clean one machine. Was that all 'active' time or was there a 'put things in the dishwasher / autoclave and let it sterilize for X minutes?' We
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Well, life takes us other places sometimes. Still, it's pretty cool that your kids are using previewjs.com! No, don't bother - I'll see myself out :)
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Are you sure? No offence, but I don't think there's anything to understand here. If we could solve climate change without "addressing thoughtless consumerism, corporate impunity, and lack of international accountability&quot
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Thanks for the reply! That was very illuminating! I remember Access + SQL Server being popular, and ASP/ASPX being popular, and Visual Studio experience being easy + popular, and never quite understood why everyone switched to the web
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
> Even as late as 2009 or so, Silverlight tooling was bringing in money for Microsoft Huh. It always kinda seemed like a "Microsoft's version of <...>, because Microsoft always has to compete with everything, including &
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
You had me a "Ultima-4 inspired game" :) It's free, it plays like Ultima 4 but modern (nice colors, animations, more than 26 possible actions :) ). I think I'm in love. Thank you for posting this!
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Lossy Stochastic Database?
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Agreed! Good earplugs (like Mac's Earplugs) will (almost) completely eliminate the higher pitches. There's not a lot that one can do about lower pitches, but a white noise machine can help (either a dedicated white noise machine,
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Is that specific to where you live? No offense, but that _sounds_ like a super-specific policy :) Also, how would that even work? Is there a second person who's watching the first cop's entire day? Like, even at 8x speed that&#x
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
If you don't mind my asking, what do you like about the 4th Matrix?
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
I feel like the understanding curve for Tenet is an opens-downward parabola. The first time you're just along for the ride The 2nd, 3rd time you're piecing it together. After you think about it too much you realize that it's
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
How is this different than them being an employee (and the employer deciding that they don't have to work on anything)? Also, I thought this was a British-ism, because over there employers can't fire at will and instead once the e
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
could you expand on what you mean by "the education industry"? I was picturing an army of teachers, but I don't normally think of teachers as folks who earn enough to be compared to tech money :)
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Thank you for sharing! Based on your last sentence I think we're in agreement that it's probably not great to give someone unsolicited advice (but it's fine if we disagree). I wanted to throw out a couple more thoughts: I t
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Can I ask what this tool does? I was trying to figure it out (the GitHub page isn't terribly clear) and came to the same conclusion you did (delete a chunk of the transcript and the tool would delete that audio). I think I just lack e
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
"Learning Tools Interoperability": https://www.imsglobal.org/spec/lti/v1p3/ From the page: "The IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)® specification allows Learning Management Systems (LMS)
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
I think you missed step zero: 0. Rent-seeking private company/ies realize that prisoners could be a literal captive audience, and successfully lobbies governments (state and federal) to require prisoners to use only a single, prison-ap
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
This seems like a good time to bring up Imposter Syndrome :) If you, or anyone else, hasn't heard of it then please definitely look it up. It's a short, quick idea and it's good for helping when I feel like I don't belo
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Now that you mention it, that's a good way to think about it. Of all the things on my phone, the only thing I feel like I absolutely can't live without (in my phone) is my OneBusAway app that tells me when my next bus is coming. A
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
I agree that most people want someone who's there for more than 'just a job', but I wonder if this depends in part on the industry. Like, what if you're looking for someone to help write software to manage and control pa
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
...and we've all been out of the loop at least once (probably more, if my personal experiences are any guide :) )
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
> I often find non-trivial CLI tools written in Python cumbersome because of the dependency wrangling necessary. I'm thinking of trying out Mojo in large part because they say they're aiming for Python compatibility, and they
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by MikeTheGreat 2y ago
Before I click "Buy It Now"... does this include shipping? :)

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