david422

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by david422 2y ago
> There are plenty of large projects written in Python I've worked on one of those, and I would not recommend it.
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by david422 2y ago
> Only a single ethernet port in the basement. Then the kid wanted a gaming station and we moved where the TV was. I should have put like 4 down there. Just drop a switch down there.
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by david422 2y ago
Ok I went looking through those paintings. That is an ... odd account. AI? Not AI? Looks like mostly just screenshots from some 90's computer games.
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by david422 2y ago
This is from memory, and I can't find the sources - but at one point I read that some company developed some new pesticides for lawns and as a side effect, dandelions were killed. Which meant the company did a PR campaign to re-brand d
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by david422 2y ago
I worked with a new co-worker that ... had trouble writing code, and tests. He would write a test that tested nothing. At first I thought he might be green and just needed some direction - we all start somewhere. But he had on his bio that
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by david422 2y ago
Also random aside. I dislike this pattern for modal dialogs. Often times I will need to gather information from somewhere else, and in the process of attempting to get focus back to the dialog I've touched/tapped/clicked on s
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by david422 2y ago
What's the incentive to buy? Get a shirt with a low number for the prestige?
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by david422 2y ago
I'm gonna guess it started as a fun idea, and the fun continued by solving and implementing fun new features ... But seems like a huge amount of time sunk into something that I can't imagine anyone would actually use for more than
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by david422 2y ago
> Genuine question: what is the solution? Arm Ukraine until Russia leaves.
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by david422 2y ago
Russia is not acting in good faith, so a compromise doesn't help. If both parties had legitimate grievances and acted in good faith, they could come to a peaceful lasting compromise. But instead, one nation aggressively invaded another
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by david422 2y ago
Imagine being on the support team trying to troubleshoot when something goes wrong for a customer. Maybe that's the catch ... there is no support.
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by david422 2y ago
> If parking somewhere requires an app I mean... it is pretty handy to just add more time from your phone instead of running out to the meter to feed more quarters in.
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by david422 2y ago
> I don't know the demographics of your game, but this is especially true of teenagers. (But not exclusively true.) It's just a card game, and I expect that the average age is actually quite a bit older. Which is one of the rea
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by david422 2y ago
> So many people who are otherwise functional in society, for whatever reason just can't play well with others when it comes to online communication. So I run a small game that has a couple thousand active users, and part of that is
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by david422 2y ago
When writing in text mode so that you can see what you are generating. Wouldn't really need it the other direction though.
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by david422 2y ago
> I see no reason why hate speech should be given the benefit of the doubt Because a lot of speech people don't like gets relabeled as hate speech - which is's not. Or a lot of discussion/debate topics that are sensitive g
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by david422 2y ago
Same here, I think that's why I prefer light themes when developing. Although I like my terminals dark for some reason.
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by david422 2y ago
Yea, I've used similar scripts where if you accidentally put in the wrong email address - oops, now what. You gotta restart the whole script? The script lockin can become a pain point.
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by david422 2y ago
There was an old android app called "Flick Hearts" (2011) that had the same concept of a center table (tablet) and individuals playing on their phones. I always thought it was pretty imaginative for the time, haven't really s
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by david422 2y ago
There are some models that basically do them all - fenix, epix etc.
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by david422 2y ago
I signed up for updates from https://smallandroidphone.com/ back in 2022 and have seen nothing since :( I think it's dead.
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by david422 2y ago
IntelliJ covers all those languages. I don't use 90% of the features but the other 10% are huge productivity increases.
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by david422 2y ago
> It's understandable when a pilot forgets about that one obscure button that's only used in some edge case only happening on one in 100.000 flights. They have recurrent training so they don't forget about those buttons th
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by david422 2y ago
If that's the case, the library should also have another function or method that can validate the barcode if the application should so choose. The library is the barcode expert, the app is the business logic expert. Expecting every app
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by david422 2y ago
When iOS + apps came out, Apple had a system whereby when an app got uninstalled it prompted the user for a star rating and review. Guess who was doing all the uninstalling? People that hated the apps, and app ratings reflected that.
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by david422 2y ago
Here's a format I really like: 3CatsHave12Legs! Easy to memorize, and pretty strong.
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by david422 2y ago
I would say rule of thumb, websockets are for two way realtime communication, http chunked is just for 1 way streaming communication.
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by david422 2y ago
Honestly, there are people that will always want free stuff, and that just needs to be accepted. Free users can give feedback, can spread info by word of mouth, and can also turn into paid users. A smart developer will try to use them as an
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by david422 2y ago
Whenever I upgrade computers, I never transfer, just start fresh. I keep old hard drives around and have backups in case I need stuff but... all that stuff I accumulate I don't actually need.
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by david422 2y ago
Well the other thing is paying for luggage. No-one wants to pay for luggage. But if luggage is free, it means that everyone with no/small luggage is just subsidizing those with luggage.

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