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by abirch 2y ago
GDP numbers with decimal points need to be taken with a grain of salt. The US economy will be hurt as well. Housing costs without Canadian lumber are going to skyrocket, especially with the different natural disasters and home building.
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by abirch 2y ago
This is similar to how do you prevent copying and pasting from Stackoverflow doesn't break your code or how do you prevent an intern from breaking your code.
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by abirch 2y ago
The classical joke: Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don't suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in
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by abirch 2y ago
When I started using glp 1 I went from obese to not obese very quickly. There are bad side effects for some but I’d expect many people to benefit. Saxenda that is mentioned in this article and comes off patent has the same active ingredient
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by abirch 2y ago
Please consider it an early Christmas present to yourself if you can pay a nominal amount for an API instead of spending your time scraping unless you enjoy doing the scraping.
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by abirch 2y ago
It seems that a programmer making their own compiler is like a Jedi making their own lightsaber
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by abirch 2y ago
The sad thing is that most people don't learn lessons from history. It took me far too long to start learning lessons from history. After an asset bubble and collapse people will understand why we have a lot of the regulations from the
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by abirch 2y ago
It'd be crazy if Microsoft purchased Chrome? The DOJ should be ashamed.
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by abirch 2y ago
I think that when GP stated "All the social networks mouthpiece accounts spouting nonsense suffer no repercussions whatsoever." they were referring to the people lying and not the social networks them themselves.
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by abirch 2y ago
What isn’t factual in this article? Is it political because it discusses puberty blockers and transgender adolescents?
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by abirch 2y ago
I love and hate this quote by Carl Sagan in 1995 I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industri
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by abirch 2y ago
I know a def who was denied a transfer and promotion because he couldn’t easily be backfilled. Spoiler he left company within 3 months
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by abirch 2y ago
I remember when he retired and the MSFT jumped. Satya is underrated.
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by abirch 2y ago
It reminded me of these old Unix lessons of Master Foo https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans/#master-foo-discou...
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by abirch 2y ago
Plus the recruiter adds your name to their file and tells future employers that they have x number of great programmers from which to select. You just ++x for the recruiter
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by abirch 2y ago
They built the one ring to rule them all.
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What about the Apple?
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by abirch 2y ago
I would gladly work for 1/2 the money to work 1/2 the hours. Like 30 actual hours per week.
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by abirch 2y ago
https://www.ft.com/content/c7bb24c9-964d-479f-ba24-03a2b2df6... This is one of my favorites. Very straightforward
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by abirch 2y ago
This is a good paper. I would label it "Caveats for Big O" or a map is not the territory.
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by abirch 2y ago
Thank you. My 3rd grader knows basic python so I'd prefer to stick with that or Scratch
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by abirch 2y ago
Minecraft Mods can only be written in Java and I want my kid to learn python. Jython is still 2.x and it'd be nice to let my kid write a minecraft mod in python. Not a business use case but a use case.
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by abirch 2y ago
This wouldn't be surprising. It's sad they've let it atrophy the way that they have. My understanding is that they purchased it to train their digital assistant on the voicemails (where we would correct the transcripts for fr
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by abirch 2y ago
Most pharm a companies spend more on marketing than research. If I were king for a day, I would ban direct to consumer marketing like it was banned before Ronald Reagan. Pharma companies could preserve their profit margins and reduce drug p
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by abirch 2y ago
This is similar to people who discuss how little it costs to make a drug pill instead of the costs to bring it to market. Like this pill takes 3 cents raw ingredients in it. OT: Don't get me on my diatribe about reducing drug costs by
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by abirch 2y ago
I've accidently archived something only to realize it when the toast pops up. I'm grateful for the toast instead of having the 'are you sure' like you mentioned. It's a nice compromise.
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by abirch 2y ago
I thought Yahoo's acquisition was what stopped their 18+ content But perhaps the most catastrophic misfire of all was the notorious ‘porn ban’ that came into place on December 17, 2018 – a policy partly driven by a US law [1] that made
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by abirch 2y ago
Google came out with Chrome in 2008. Prior to that they were dependent on the Mozilla Foundation. Microsoft came out with Bing in 2009. Some say that Bing is "Bing is not google" Much like Windows NT was rumored to be Novell Termi
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by abirch 2y ago
They're the same as in there the good takeaways could be written in an article. Does the Four Agreements really need a book? - Be impeccable with your word - Do not take anything personally - Do not make assumptions - Always do your b
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by abirch 2y ago
The funny thing is this is going to be benefit Microsoft significantly. Much of what Google did Chrome, Android, etc. was to prevent Microsoft from destroying it like Netscape, Novell, Lotus, Wordperfect, ... It's probably no coinciden

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