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by blowski 4y ago
Why do we need to push a single means as the "right" one? All these existed pre-internet, no reason why they can't or shouldn't continue to exist now.
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by blowski 4y ago
To do what? You also need people to install said package.
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by blowski 4y ago
When there's so much spam, there's a cost to everyone.
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by blowski 4y ago
There's no workaround as far as I know. This MSN (!) article is about the same thing, albeit it's almost certainly a lower quality article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ubuntu-flavors-to
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by blowski 4y ago
So if I look at most codebases, someone would be able to explain what all the code does and why it does that way? I'm extremely sceptical of that, even if I myself wrote the code 3 weeks ago.
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by blowski 4y ago
Calling this a checklist is probably confusing. It's better described as a list of answers you should obtain. For example "Has a co-founder stepped down?". A single yes or no answer doesn't tell you much. But an answer l
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by blowski 4y ago
Yeah, I don't think the concept works in this case because it's too noisy. But I don't think it's "silly". Everything's silly until it becomes normal.
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by blowski 4y ago
At the point you create the data, you don't have link rot. At the point you create the link rot, you don't notice it. At the point you notice it, you don't have time to fix it. At the point you try to fix it, you don't h
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by blowski 4y ago
Quite a lot of the UK police, ambulance, and fire services are using it. I also had a taxi company using it recently.
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by blowski 4y ago
It’s similar to what3words and that seems to be working fine.
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by blowski 4y ago
Not the OP’s reason it seems, but I have to delete Xcode quite more frequently than you’d think because it gets into a weird state during updates. This seems to happen once or twice every year.
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by blowski 4y ago
FWIW I downvoted you for predicting that your comment would be downvoted.
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by blowski 4y ago
Technicallly, this is great. The UI is nice as well. But... if it were my dream job, I'd definitely put more effort into the cover letter. I'd use it to say why this is my dream job, rather than simply re-stating what's on my
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by blowski 4y ago
There are 2 methodologies with very similar names. “Agile” is recommended by big consultancies. It aims to improve managers’ control of processes and costs by removing autonomy from those doing the implementation. It does this using templat
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by blowski 4y ago
I learned Angular with v1. When v2 came out, it was so different I had to learn a new framework either way. I went with React because it was the one gaining the most traction. I think that’s what happened writ large.
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by blowski 4y ago
My son is 9 and attends a standard British primary school. Today, he was explaining that two of his friends are arguing a lot because they can’t agree on rules to a game. He’s trying to stay friends with both of them, and has figured out th
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by blowski 4y ago
Hotmail only offered 2MB for a long time. Then Yahoo started offering 250MB which seemed crazy. So when Google offered effectively unlimited storage, it really did seem like a joke.
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by blowski 4y ago
> However, since SSR is becoming a more important topic these days Is it? This is the first I’ve heard of this fantastic news. What’s changed to have caused the increased importance?
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by blowski 4y ago
The blue light flickers to green, showing I've eaten below my regulation level of fat and sugar. Thank fuck for that, I can't take another visit from the Doctors. The last examination hurt so much I couldn't sleep. I hear the
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by blowski 4y ago
I detect sarcasm, but perhaps not. This _will_ be good for those with dyslexia.
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by blowski 4y ago
Ah I see, like on this page - https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2021_per_mi... . Thanks!
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by blowski 4y ago
Tangent to the Wordle tool posted. Is PerThirtySix a reference to FiveThirtyEight? The latter must be one of the most well-known brands in the sports analytics space. Or is 36 an important number in sports?
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by blowski 4y ago
We’re using two different definitions of recursion. Both are in the dictionary. Both are in active usage. Whether you think one is obsolete is irrelevant.
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by blowski 4y ago
Smartphones increased usage of social media because you can use it everywhere, all the time. When it was tied to a PC at home, there was a natural limit.
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by blowski 4y ago
I don’t hate it - I love it. I’m just sick of reading that it’s the future, I mean a hype cycle. It’s going to take all our jobs, I mean it’s shit. It can beat a grandmaster at chess, I mean it can’t win at tik-tak-toe. It’s somewhere in th
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by blowski 4y ago
Indeed, the current Fox vs Dominion case is highlighting that very point.
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by blowski 4y ago
Learning about io from that book helped me understand JavaScript a lot better.
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by blowski 4y ago
The Art of Postgres is probably it. https://theartofpostgresql.com/
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by blowski 4y ago
I had this problem recently trying to hire people good at and willing to work with a big Angular v1 codebase.
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by blowski 4y ago
Yes, unconscious bias is a huge risk in my “trust your got instinct” approach to hiring. For example, I bristle at the name “Daryl” because I went to school with someone with that name and I remember him laughing at me. Maybe this is why I’

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