WillDaSilva

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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
They are far more comfortable than buses. Larger too. If you rely on public transit, then your city switching to trams for the highest frequency routes can be a significant quality of life improvement for you and the many thousands of other
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Gitlab-spinoff Meltano raises another $8.2M for its open-source DataOps platform(techcrunch.com)
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Crypto and the Belief-Powered Economy(ez.substack.com)
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
The Python docs themselves is a good place to start: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#slots The Python wiki also has some good info about it: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Usi
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You Can't Beat a Bad Workplace with Therapy(ez.substack.com)
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
No. Regular body temperature is around 37°C. Hypothermia starts at around 35°C.
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The Death of Company Culture(ez.substack.com)
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Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon(stupidhackathon.com)
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Addiction and tolerance are related, but distinct.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Another contributing factor is likely that back then most recorded voices you heard were from professional speakers/performers. Nowadays anyone can easily record their voice. Not only does this mean that many more amateurs will do so,
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
> Parents need to drop kids off [...] This is far from universal, and is a problem we should address wherever it is the case. It's bad for plenty of reasons, with one of the largest being that it prevents us from having schools oper
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Squirdle – A Pokémon Wordle-Like by Fireblend(squirdle.fireblend.com)
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Have you conducted interviews? In my experience, years of experience correlates poorly with technical ability. I've seen several senior devs with 15+ years of experience who can't complete basic programming tasks (in a language of
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
It can be done with a checkbox element instead, and then have the style changed (to translate it) based on whether it is clicked.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
The presence and depth of the debate about this formatting choice suggests that it isn't arbitrary. Many have provided solid reasons for why one option should be preferred over the other. They aren't merely articulating their opin
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Ribosomal Frameshift(en.wikipedia.org)
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
It is sarcasm. Nintendo is extremely hostile towards perceived infringements on their IP, and go out of their way to make modding and fan content difficult to use.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Banning it all but guarantees human obsolescence. We certainly need to tread very carefully here, but foregoing this advancement would be a grave mistake.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
The title on that Reddit post is far better than the one on this post. It'd be nice if Hacker News would increase their title length limit.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Weakref finalizers can help with instance destruction in Python https://docs.python.org/3/library/weakref.html#weakref.final...
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Neither does drawing one, as shown by the numerous artists (painters, illustrators, etc.) with aphantasia.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
I would recommend Open Data Structures: https://opendatastructures.org/ It's available for free online, or if you'd like you can buy a physical copy. It's got 14 chapters that take you through a variety of da
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
> We are all logical people That's a bold claim. In my experience the vast majority of people hardly try to think logically or apply critical thinking skills in most opportunities, and no human does so anywhere close to all the time
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
The harm people cause by holding believing false beliefs is rather complicated at times, yet extremely important and impactful nonetheless. For flat earthers in particular this video sheds some light on why their way of thinking is harmful:
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
What you include as a first-class element in your languages, versus what is packed away in a library, will affect what developers do with your language. For instance, Numpy provides array-language [1] capabilities to Python, but because it
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
The most common scenario in which you may be without the sqlite package is when you build Python from source, which is fairly common nowadays thanks to tools like pyenv. Also the FreeBSD Python package doesn't come with sqlite by defau
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Not all distributions of CPython 3 come with sqlite, as it's an optional feature that is only included when the sqlite library is found at compile time.
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Why were you planning to migrate in the first place?
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
Good question. Not sure. Maybe my mindset is too negative in general. Maybe I was prompted to take a negative stance towards it because of the use of the word "stop", as in "Stop Waiting for Godot" as opposed to "St
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by WillDaSilva 5y ago
This digital copy of the book was released in February 2020

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