devchix

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This is an old one. What is a four-letter word name for a language that you write once and run anywhere? Perl.
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> function as an auto-dog walker for my organic dog on the days when I'm too swamped Be wary of renting to any penguin, if you do buy Spot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Trousers
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I've never had a FB account, never thought I missed anything. But, there's a Buy-Nothing group I want to join, and they are on FB. I admire the concept of Buy-Nothing, but I abhor FB and am not going to make an account to join B
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> The goal isn't to sell the robots Their website has a tab called "Shop". I clicked, thinking one could buy t-shirts, perhaps a Spot plushie, but for $75K and change you can get your own robot dog. The "Buy Now&quot
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Planet Money does some great reporting, the things they uncover, man, it's depressing. The episode about plastic recycling and advertising, the episode about REDMAP, the episode about the black woman who had her traffic ticket dismiss
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A Grenfell Story, spoken poetry about the fire. I had no idea who George the Poet is, this episode completely floored me. https://www.scpr.org/programs/snap-judgment/2020/03/11/78074...
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I've made it a principle to leave accurate, detailed, and positive reviews on Amazon for products I really like. I think I've mostly given up, I don't think they can move the smallest needle if the environ is so deeply poiso
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Boy meets girl is by definition a man goes on a journey.
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There are only two plots: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town. Although if you really think about it, there's only one plot, because a man who goes on a journey is a stranger who comes to town in another town.
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The reverse is worse, I think, feeling lonely while surrounded by people, or being with people who make you feel alone. I recommend a film called Somewhere by Sofia Coppola, it's about an actor (not old) going through the motions of
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Coding is coding. Cooking is cooking. Baking is baking. There may be similar overlaps but each is its own thing. I don't know about this guy's coding but his baking is bad and his analogy is worse. Preheat oven and greasing t
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I blame Bret Victor. He wrote an influential paper that was longish and people read up to the "last value predictor" section, had an a-ha moment, went to implement it, and ignored the rest. He hasn't update the paper since s
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> How can one extra pieceof mail for the entire year cause an "unprecedented" volume? Yeah I don't understand it either. McDonald's sell 2 billion burgers a year but when I ordered one million at the drive-thru it ca
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I love projects like this! Someone, in this case a municipal body, decided that something like this is worthwhile and funded it. Not only funded it but shepherded it to a delightful end product. In the din of CAC and conversion metrics,
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I had a Toshiba laptop that weighed 80 pounds, a quarter of that was the power adapter and an external drive. The backpack I carried it in could fit a folded yurt. It permanently altered my gait. Good times.
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I tell my work mates I spend probably 8+ hours in the kitchen during the weekend doing meal prep and they are some combination of aghast and disbelieving. Yes, 8+ if you want to eat decent, we're not being fancy. You can't just
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Have you ever come across a restaurant that had "Ordinary" in its name and wondered why? "Ordinary" was a set-meal served at a certain time in a pub, for a fixed price. The logical progression for what you proposed is
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I find that most passionate vim advocates have spent a lot of time learning, using, twiddling vim and the investment has paid off and now life is great. Is that a point for vim or his persistence? I'm unpersuaded that I should learn
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Up to that moment, hardware maintenance meant having to power cycle the server. True HPC systems like those that ran at the US National Labs didn't find its way to the general market, and still haven't as far as I know.
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I recall sometime in the mid 2000s there was a fever for achieving five-9s (99.999% uptime, I think -- it became fodder for a few episodes of Mr. Robot). Not that the metric ever went away, but back then a lot of BigIron(TM) vendors advert
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Poor people should stop having sex. Got it.
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I'm ambivalent about faulting language expressing something the writer is passionate about. Perhaps Tim feels much more strongly about climate change than I do, and his language reflects the intensity of his opinions. Should I write
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> Shouldn't the wage raise until you attract those people willing to do the work and stay? In turn, the cost of landscaping would rise to the customers. Utterances like "Americans won't take these jobs," "We can&
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This was not a story about bird-watching. I don't know if you're drawing the comparison due to the faintest glimmer of similarity or you think it's about bird-watching. This was not a story that divided people. "Everyo
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Nespresso gives you postage-paid recycling bags which you fill and drop-off at a shipper. > This simply isn't good enough. Recycling doesn't work if it either isn't convenient enough I hate this attitude that one cannot be
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Last 10% of bug fixed, 90% of total effort. I'm with you. This COVID-19 thing has changed my perspective on work, (although I'm not so sure about my employer's.) We're split into A/B team, one week in, one week
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Hello, former home yogurt maker here. I used to do this weekly, using a recipe from Harold McGee in the NYT. The incubator was a home oven left warm overnight. It was pretty painless with a success rate of 100%. But, the result was alway
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>(1) everything is text >(2) everything (ish) is a file I'm having a moment. I have to get logs out of AWS, the thing is frustrating to no end. There's a stream, it goes somewhere, it can be written to S3, topics and queue
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A podcast episode on whether Beethoven's Fifth is played at the correct tempo. It's a treat to hear it played at a much faster, breathless tempo, feels like an entirely different piece of music. Additional discussions on whether
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Speedy Beet(wnycstudios.org)
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