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by codyb 4y ago
Hmm, yea, the drug stuff seems a lot worse out West. I'm sure there are people openly doing drugs in NYC but they must be way out in the outer boroughs. You'll see people strung out a bit sometimes in Midtown though. But it's
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Yea, this rings really true, and it's pretty frustrating that we can't do anything about Rikers cause of it. The abolish prisons before neighborhoods are actually safe thing is... ridiculous. You have to uplift the communities bef
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Disagree. No one maintains change logs in their repos most times, so a linear git history where you rebase existing branches on top of their base branches allows for a clean commit history on new features to be merged in which can then be s
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Yea doesn't the NYTimes have a section pretty much devoted to retractions? I'll see them in their morning news letter and I think it's pretty common at most news organizations with integrity to understand that sometimes they&
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by codyb 4y ago
I doubt it, but they'd probably be against people quoting copyrighted material verbatim without attribution in their own work after.
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How much this brings to mind those old black and white newspaper cartoons with the big fat cat in a suit riding on the backs of the poor pulling out his pockets to show how empty they are.
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I don't think it was booking but after hurricane Ian swept through the Ft Myers, Florida region this year my parents got a full refund before they even reached out. I don't know what service it was but they were very proactive abo
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You have had some very interesting experiences at JFK. I'm honestly always amazed at how fast I can move through security there. I just flew out recently and it took... maybe a half hour to check my bag and get through TSA security wit
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Yea... but... wouldn't the Fort Myers area count as part of the middle ground that's fine? They don't get hit hard consistently. Should we say that NYC should be abandoned cause Sandy hit 10 years ago and another might hit ag
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There's also the fact that if we don't subsidize places where natural disasters occur millions of people are going to start moving rather quickly. Everywhere's a disaster zone now, we need to account for that, do our best to
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“reduced creativity due to the tendency to incrementally modify known successful designs rather than explore radically different and potentially superior ones.” This rings _so true_ to me. You go into a meeting, one person says some idea. Y
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by codyb 4y ago
I think it's illegal in NYC to not accept cash and I fully support that. There are a lot of unbanked people here that have enough on their plates without further discrimination. And also cash is king and coins and bills are very neat.
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by codyb 4y ago
I do most of my work in the terminal. I work on JavaScript/TypeScript projects. Soon Java, we'll see if I use the terminal for that. I love streamlining my ZSHell and ViM experiences by tooling around and have produced some nice s
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by codyb 4y ago
Huh? This is when you go to the grocery story and at checkout they ask if you want to donate to the Red Cross or St Judes Hospital for Children or some other large well known charity. This isn't a donation to the employees, although I&
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by codyb 4y ago
People seem to have _really strong opinions_ about Apple. I’m in an IRC group and the people in there are great but then very tribal when anyone mentions Apple. It’s a little bizarre to me, the litany of things they can talk about. I’m pret
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by codyb 4y ago
Comparing and contrasting Erlang’s BEAM with Java’s JVM taught me an absolute ton about software engineering.
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Hmm, I switched to Dvorak in about a month… you just use it till you stop having to think about it, no?
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Memory is different than chess ability, maybe his friend just has more effective techniques for memorization or visualization or both.
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by codyb 4y ago
I've not been enjoying the back to the office aspect of things... but it always feels better after a wonderful ride through Midtown rush hour traffic. Just being out there moving the body is always wonderful.
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Yes, because people who bought at 20,000 are holding your ball for you... and you're holding the ball for people who bought at 10 dollars... Or am I missing something?
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It took me a bit to realize that people would think 105 taxed at 10% on the first 100 and 15% on the last 5 until I realized the idea is that people think that someone making 105 has the full 105 taxed at 15%.
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Maybe they could enforce rules notifying users where their ads were coming from?
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They probably have a way to take over accounts to check bug reports. We've had that at places I've worked. Where you'd be able to impersonate a user in order to see what was going on with their specific set of user data to co
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by codyb 4y ago
Wow, what an interesting response. If someone told me they were trying different approaches to similar problems on their own time I'd say "Sounds like you'll probably learn something someone using the same approaches or not s
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by codyb 4y ago
That's interesting, I wonder if the brain ends up making a map from foods to nutrition profile in order to cause cravings to food that'll satisfy a need. For instance, I've heard of people craving grapes before to get the Vit
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Lol, these stories are like bringing up some horrific accident every time someone talks about cars. Things happen, that's life, but it's really important to put things into proportion at some point.
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I dunno, that seems like a lot to me living in NYC where we have basically none of that and life is fine. We all get on the train and go our ways and peak ridership is millions a day (prepandemic was almost 6 million on the MTA trains alone
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But how much money flows into their coffers from increased tourism/isn't spent to bail out businesses with less customers? I think this leaves out that people who can more readily access more of Germany spend more money when they
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As much as maybe fare evasion is a secondary concern, I think the main reason they're cracking down on the subways in NYC is because people weren't feeling safe on the trains anymore. As much as I love a free and open and fair soc
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That 9 Euro ticket was awesome when I visited! Totally recommend! Applaud the initiative. Really neat.

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