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> completely deprioritise classes in favour of homework and doing the reading in my own time I had two mathematics teachers in high school that took this approach to class time. They would lecture for 10 minutes then have the class do wo
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You couldn't make a decent living as a live musician well before Spotify came into existence. Source: raised and largely surrounded by musicians who either complained to high heaven about the pay or did something else to supplement the
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Is anyone willing to hire a 10 year old with an iPad to DJ at their wedding?
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Is this is the source of that 30% number? > 30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days. https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1634286688922132481?s=20
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For real? I started doing the 1 mile/2.2 km walk home from school at the age of 8. This wasn't in the idyllic 1950's America either - we're talking the mid 90's with plenty of headlines stating "it could happe
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> A healthy diet can easily include occasional sweet foods and drinks. When I was counting calories I actually agree with this. From a pure calorie-counting and weight loss standpoint, you can almost always make room for sweets and still
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I use the Screen Time feature built into iOS. It looks like Android has similar capabilities: iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982#:~:text=Go%20to%20S... . Android: https://support.google.com/an
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I set a 15 minute daily limit on Instagram. I also have my phone setup to block all non-essential apps between 7:00AM and 6:00PM on the weekdays, and I am not usually hitting my 15 Insta-minutes on those days. I could probably reduce that t
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I just think there is no "free dessert" when it comes to sweetened foods. You are either consuming a bunch of empty calories (sugar/honey/agave), dealing with unpleasant GI or psychological side effects (sucralose/a
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I had an issue with fungus gnats in a couple house plants. To eliminate them, water the plants from the bottom and cover as much of the open top of the pot as you can in flypaper (yes, this can leave a sticky mess behind). They need both mo
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Instagram will feed you more of whatever you are following or tapping. I have noticed that if I don't use Instagram for a few days I end up with generic, lowest-common-denominator videos. Scantily clad females, bar fights, car accident
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His solution of using `-L` to create a new named socket for each server does not seem cumbersome to me. I usually run `tmux attach-session` only once per day, so an additional argument would not be a major cognitive load. And I'd imagi
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Do Ruby's pack and unpack routines let you access a field smaller than a byte? What about a field that is split across a byte boundary? I agree that bit masking and manipulation is hard to read and can be misused by ego-driven programm
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I would like to add that you are not just "turning the handlebars" - you need to apply a lot of force to get the forward action to take place. Pumping is fun skill, easy to get the hang of with a little dedicated practice, and a p
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The USPS delivery vehicle in the rural, mountainous neighborhoods outside my city is an older Chevrolet Suburban. I am assuming this is a private vehicle, contracted to delivery mail in a certain area but its possible that it is government
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This sounds a lot like my nearby university town. Apartment complexes and retirement homes are being built. Single family homes are not. The message is clear. You are allowed to live there, but only temporarily.
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`git stash -p`
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There is also `git restore` for reverting local or staged changes, the other common use of `git checkout`. I am slowly remapping my keystroke muscle memory away from the footgun that is `git checkout` and using restore/switch. But boy
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>I dont want coyotes and bobcats around my house. neither does anyone who has pets or livestock Only people who do a poor job of looking after their pets and livestock fear natural predators the way you do.
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For the curious this flag has been available since GCC 6.1 (2016) and Clang 10 (2020). It is enabled by -Wall for both compilers. Interestingly (or perhaps coming full circle), the bug reference by the GGP comment is also called out in the
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Beej’s site is a gem. I remember coming across it in 2010 or so, thinking, yeah this stuff is great but what happens when this guy gets kids or a “real job” and the bit rot sets in? Here we are, closing in on 15 years later, and it’s both s
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>it's not for Emacs, it's for anyone Thanks - this is exactly the info I was looking for when opening this thread. I am going to try out Magit on Monday and, if its good (it probably is) will pass it along to some colleagues. I
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Of the 10 developers I work with the most, 9 are vim users and one is VSCode. The VSCode guy won’t shut up about it but then he is also the proselytizing type. Honest, I’m not that attached to vim and mainly keep using it because it’s what
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There’s a struggling developer on my team and this course covers everything he is having trouble with. Writing performant code? He does a fine job. Setting up an environment, navigating a couple terminals and getting code into revision cont
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I don't go so far as to boycott restaurants which serve octopus but I refuse to eat them myself. I did try it once. It was not bad. But not so good as to be worth the destruction of a fascinating creature. And yes, I eat pigs, cows and
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Does manufacturing account for a large portion of those 100k+ employees? Ericsson is not a fabless semiconductor firm, after all. They need to produce things like enclosures and PCB's (perhaps that is done by 3rd parties).
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>music pricing. For sure. My memory of those days is getting hazy, but IIRC CD's from top artists were going for $15-$16 in the late 90's. Maybe $12 if you were lucky. Considering inflation and that you might only want two of t
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Maybe if I have ChatGPT write my docstrings as sci-fi my colleagues will actually read them.
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In my city Uber was worlds better than the taxis it replaced. Before Uber, you would call taxi dispatch and give them your address. If you were lucky, the driver would show up at that address, within the wait time the dispatcher gave you.
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I guess I am an outlier here. I determined way-too-late in my college career that the (my) recipe for success was to attend lectures between 8:00AM and 1:00PM. Anything later than that and I would either fall asleep or could not concentrate

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