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by dagw 2y ago
While framework idioms are important, they're secondary to delivering working, maintainable software that solves real problems. To a first approximation, you will never be the person maintaining the code you wrote. So if that person
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With Claude I've had great success with first uploading the docs so that it has them as context for the rest of the session. Without doing that I got all kinds of answers, sometimes using a different framework or an older version of th
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many major pharmaceutical companies (like Novartis, Roche, or Sanofi) aren't even American While true, their ability to charge so much more for the drugs they produce in US markets make them much more profitable than they otherwise w
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by dagw 2y ago
As yet another layman, if they want to simulate a duel then they should make it first clean hit wins. Kind of like judo or boxing, where you do have points, but if someone lands a 'finishing' attack they win. Points only come in i
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by dagw 2y ago
I can't explain myself why they are never mentioned They're never mentioned in the headline news because they don't stand a chance of winning. But they're actually discussed quite a bit every presidential election, not
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We use them for all kinds of one off R&D projects at work. University students and researchers build all kinds of stuff with these. I know several companies who build low volume specialty industrial applications powered by RPi hardware.
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As cleverly demonstrate in this famous scene from Yes, Prime Minister https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks?si=VtYSzCoD_7-kyvhs
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by dagw 2y ago
While I would much rather have a nice downtown condo in a major city over a ranch house in the sticks. I would rather have the ranch house in the sticks than a condo in the same location as that ranch house. Some dream of living in a condo
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by dagw 2y ago
How many of the people doing that are locals doing it as a regular thing, vs tourists doing it as a one off experience? The core argument in the article is that the younger generation aren't going to their local clubs regularly enough
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by dagw 2y ago
Did you read the article? It's mostly about the business of running nightclubs and organising music events. Something that falls cleanly with the interest of the FT and its readers. The headline is just some SEO optimised clickbait to
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some old guy holding the pink FT pages in a London cafe Where do you think the people going to those raves in the early 90s ended up? As old guys who now have well paid corporate jobs in the city and read FT. That guy could probably bore
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by dagw 2y ago
I guess since they used "rave", people assume they use the commonly understood definition of the word yea, this article has unfortunately fallen foul of the 'headline doesn't match the article' problem. Seems to b
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Some people seem to get their application flagged for manual review, and that can take a long time. Otherwise it takes less than 20-30 minutes to get a reply in my experience.
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by dagw 2y ago
I'd guess it's more that it's easier to get to the top of the hill in the first place using an e-bike. Without an e-bike most casual riders might write the whole thing off as too much work. Once you start going downhill the m
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I'd wager mountain bikers being able to use ski lifts to go uphill is almost certainly a much bigger contributor to inexperienced people doing 'stupid' things than e-bikes.
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by dagw 2y ago
Prices fluctuated a lot based on weather and demand. Seeing order of magnitude fluctuations day to day is not uncommon. Prices can be close to zero one day and hit record highs 24 hours later.
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by dagw 2y ago
People have successfully installed SteamOS on their own hardware using the Steam deck rescue/reinstall image that you can download from Valve. So if you're up for a bit of hacking you can build it today.
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Is it? A quick search seems to indicate that Steam has 75-80% of the Windows gaming market share.
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Despite the headline, the article makes it clear that it is talking about legal nightclubs, primarily in large cities. The younger generation just isn't into clubbing every weekend in that way, don't want to spend (or even have) t
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by dagw 2y ago
In this particular case TX and PX are referring to PSUs complying with certain third party certifications, and have a specific quantifiable meaning. So in this case Tx is always "better" (or at least not worse) than Px in a very s
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by dagw 2y ago
Fizzbuzz wasn't about seeing if a candidate knew the 'tricks', it was to test if you knew how to code at all. If you know about loops and if statements you can do fizzbuzz even you've never heard about modulo operators.
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by dagw 2y ago
Django has tools like Ninja and DRF that let's you use Django in much the same way you would Flask, while still being comparable with the rest of the Django ecosystem. The difference isn't so much one of actual scope, but rather t
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British TV had Space 1999 Not be confused with Spaced (1999) :)
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it was a nightmare getting windows/mac builds to work correctly I think both statements can be true. Yes getting cross platform windows/Mac/Linux builds to work using Conda could definitely be a nightmare as you say. At the
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The 6% is an average over all the benchmarks. Depending on your workload Linux can be anything from 15% faster to 9% slower. So if you need performance for a specific task, make sure you actually check how it performs in your specific case.
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PHP and composer do. Is that a new feature? Pretty sure it didn't a few years ago. If the thing I need needed the libfoo C library then I first had to install libfoo on my computer using apt/brew/etc. If a new version of th
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I have no clue why people would use Conda The big thing to realise is that when Conda first was released it was the only packaging solution that truly treated Windows as a first class citizen and for a long time was really the only way to
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don’t regularly take buses to the other side of Europe They used to. When I was growing up, way before budget airlines, buses used to be the way you traveled around Europe for cheap.
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Wikipedia says 1219 unicorns as of August 2023, with 702 of them being from the US.
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it would be a matter for the courts and not a matter for insurance The specifics of the contract is besides the point. Taking you to court is meaningless unless you also have insurance, since if you're a freelancer or small company t

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