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by dbrueck 3y ago
I think the idea is that you have other stuff on the UPS too, and you'd prefer that stuff stay powered during an outage, but if your printer is on the UPS, it'll chew up all the power.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
A dev log or journal can be very helpful, here are 2 ways in particular that really help me: - context switching - if you have a backburner or side project, it's easy to get pulled away from it for days or weeks (or more) at a time, an
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> I think on this issues it’s conservatives that make a solution untenable. > Conservatives are going to be against giving out living space. So that kills any housing first policies. I'm trying to figure out the basis for your ar
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Utah has been doing a housing first program for about 20 years. It has definitely helped a lot of people, but it hasn't really solved the problem either. (I'm not saying the strategy is flawed - maybe it is, maybe Utah is doing it
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I don't like saying something is always wrong, but over time we've abandoned string templates for HTML generation because of maintenance issues - anything from fixing issues on a particular device/browser to doing a design re
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Hehe, for fun you should bookmark your comment and refer back to it every 5 years. If you're open to it, here are a few ideas to noodle on: - A lot of what you find fun/interesting changes over time. The partying of the 20s was fu
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Sure, except that they stated subjective measurements as if they were objective measurements.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> you loose in career opportunities , weather / outdoor activities, quality of food, and cultural enrichment for your children Hehe, this generalization is way off the mark. It's ok to live in a coastal/urban/whatever
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Haha, thanks for reminding me of .arj - good times!
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I've used Python on many large projects over the past 20 years. IME it's been extremely usable for big projects. Additionally I've consulted on a couple of large Python that were a mess, but on closer inspection, the team w
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by dbrueck 3y ago
There are a few key properties of Python that make it a really great language to develop in, especially at the start of a project: no need to figure out type annotations up front, high signal-to-noise syntax, and Python's absurdly dyna
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by dbrueck 3y ago
What's interesting is that Gmail has some limited vim key bindings, just not for editing text, e.g. j and k for moving up and down a list of emails, slash for search.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Hmm... this seems like maybe taking things in an overly literal way. It sounds like clearing the tower was their threshold for a successful test - if they didn't get that far, it would be deemed a failure. A phrase like "all I hop
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I dunno... be careful with this advice - a long exit ramp can be shortened by the company, or they can make your life miserable during that time if they don't. I once worked at a place where notice was neither expected nor tolerated: t
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by dbrueck 3y ago
They're required to file a flight plan with the FAA or they can't launch. If the plan says they'll go all the way into orbit and they abort early, that's ok. If the plan says they'll get 100m off the ground and go n
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> Even if effectively 0% of people hold extremist views (and I think that is a low number), they also commit outsized acts of violence. Sure, that's true. But it's always been true and, AFAICT, will always be true. But they are
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Sorry, can you elaborate on your point a little bit - I'm not sure where you're going but genuinely want to understand.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> There's no middle ground between wanting to kill someone and wanting to let them live in peace. A big part of the problem, though, is that the extremist voices/views get amplified the loudest, and then get trotted out as a ty
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> Two long-time-EU, never-Soviet members joining NATO is as nothingburger as it gets Finland has been occupied multiple times by Russia and ceded 10% of its land to the USSR in an attempt to make peace. Heck, some even argue that Finland
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Nah, I meant the first one, like the peers to this comment noted.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
What a strange part of Putin's legacy. I'm still hoping for de-escalation, but frankly it feels like we could easily have an incident that causes things to spiral out of control, a la the start of WWI.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Just curious, but why?
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> And because the majority of people have a better experience, I dismiss your second option of other factors being at play. That's fine, though the point I was (clumsily?) trying to make was that there are different factors here tha
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Again, we seem to be talking past each other, sorry. I'm really, really, really not talking about the search engine itself. I'm talking about the hunk of tech that makes up the interface layer between the human and the search en
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Yeah, I think we're talking about different things (and per my comment, I didn't say that it was a search engine). I'm reasonably well aware of what it is and what it's made of; I'm talking about a mental model for
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> I found that as search engines emulated natural language, their results got steadily worse I would wager that that has not been the experience for the general population (read: non-technical people) and/or that degradation of resu
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Similarly, when I think of ChatGPT as a really cool and advanced search engine frontend, its behavior - including its limitations and its failures - make the most sense to me.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
LOL, yes, although Shingy is actually an unfinished ChatGPT bot.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Sounds like a paid mastermind is basically the upper crust of the hordes of LinkedIn spammers constantly offering to help grow your business.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of svelte because the developer experience is pretty great when you first build something but also when you revisit something you haven't touched for a year or two. Another thing that svelte and similar tools get ri

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