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by couchand 5y ago
It would not at all be "hard to detect", the SHAs of it and all subsequent commits would change, it would appear in the GitHub audit log, etc etc
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by couchand 5y ago
It sounds like these anecdotes are related to internal business systems. In over a decade I've only once seen a place that dedicated an actual FTE to internal product management, and that was because a whole team was dedicated to buil
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by couchand 5y ago
i'm confused, what's wrong there? event starts at departure time and goes for duration. the arrival time is correct, and can be reported in any time zone.
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by couchand 5y ago
I order all the time from a restaurant with a distinctive name and menu near me. They might have their own website, but their real website is one of these outsourced menu ordering things. Last time I went to order, I looked up their name,
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by couchand 5y ago
FWIW I'm weary of everything I buy
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by couchand 5y ago
> their best interests are served by casting a ballot which doesn't reflect that is exactly the problem! You may be interested to hear about the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem then. Any non-dictatorial system with more than two alt
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by couchand 5y ago
What exactly do you mean by "the voter's actual preferences"?
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by couchand 5y ago
> They are building these gigantic highrises, that are destined to be packed with yuppies. Unless there have been major changes in the last few years, many of those buildings will not, in fact, be filled with yuppies. They'll sit v
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by couchand 5y ago
I had a similar experience recently: one agency report came through fine, one report came through with mysterious issues, and one just would not ever let me verify without snail mail. When it came time for my "real" credit report
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by couchand 5y ago
There was lots of reporting in 2020 about Democratic voters who preferred another candidate throwing their support behind Biden based on the idea that he was best positioned to win in the general election.
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by couchand 5y ago
The behavior you describe isn't at all irrational: in a nutshell that's the effect that propelled Biden to the White House.
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by couchand 5y ago
The API in the article is try_from by another name... but leaving the question of panicking to the caller seems right to me. In the "I'm trying to respond to the error" case maybe unknown should be a panic, but what about whe
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by couchand 5y ago
Was your new manager new to being a manager? I could see that kind of offer coming from an operator, but I could just as much see it coming from someone lacking confidence trying to project a miscalculated sense of authority.
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by couchand 5y ago
It's been a while since I've written Go but back then the idiomatic solution was a C-style enum and a fair amount of hope.
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by couchand 5y ago
OOP is not an alternative to ADT, and a language lacking an expressive system of value types will stunt your development regardless of what flavor the rest of the language follows.
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by couchand 5y ago
High-level idea seems interesting. opens pdf Wait, there's a chapter called "Race Problems and Proclivities"? Oh, no, this isn't good...
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by couchand 5y ago
FFI is painful, to be sure. Making sure the bindings you say you're using match the ones you're actually using is tedious and error-prone. Which is where CXX comes in: the static analysis tells you if you're holding it wrong
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by couchand 5y ago
Ok this thread just reached peak JavaScript.
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by couchand 5y ago
The Polio vaccine is still administered in the US as standard practice.
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by couchand 5y ago
Another commenter suggested sawing the seat post.
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by couchand 5y ago
> lose access to your account When you set up the device and GitHub showed you a handful of codes and said "don't lose these they're important" you kept them, right? > Authenticator transfer hell I've switched
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by couchand 5y ago
Taking still-locked bikes to handle elsewhere is definitely a thing.
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by couchand 5y ago
Saws don't care about the pins in the lock.
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by couchand 5y ago
A friend clarified this strategy for me the other day... Apparently you walk a fine line between beater not worth the effort to take and assumed abandoned and so fair to strip.
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by couchand 5y ago
Can you help me see the more charitable interpretation here? It sounded to me like the suggestion was to appeal to the supposed inflexibility of software whenever a question about process is raised. The software is entirely malleable. If t
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by couchand 5y ago
Hmm... commentor raises concern that string manipulation dressed up as prepared statements is potentially a source of SQL injection vulnerabilities. Maintainer dismisses concern as "FUD". Eight years later, article is posted sho
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by couchand 5y ago
Some would argue that allowing a patent on a naturally-occurring gene is the silly part there.
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by couchand 5y ago
> process/structural problems are quite easily solved with software. My experience has been the opposite: the software is easy, but only if you already know what it needs to do. So you have to actually solve the problem first. >
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by couchand 5y ago
Or you could just drain the pipes, too...
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by couchand 5y ago
You raise a goood point, deaths by knife do approach (checks notes) a rounding error on the number of auto deaths.

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