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by dfinninger 3y ago
Anecdotally, most teachers I know prefer digital. Papers never get lost, fewer trees, less to carry, and (of course) https://www.turnitin.com
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by dfinninger 3y ago
I have one too. Although it loads it into SQLite, so I’m kind of cheating. :)
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Every microwave I’ve ever owned has had a button to turn off the beeps. Usually, a long-press on 8 or 5.
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I use py_wheel to build packages to be consumed by data scientists in my company. It works well and is reasonably straightforward. Although the packages are pure Python so I haven’t had to deal with native builds.
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I find that it's great for keeping track of my D&D campaigns. It has a lot of features that make it great for managing that small group of people. I also co-manage a WoW guild with it. Roster, todo's etc. Great for a small num
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by dfinninger 4y ago
You may need to re-read the comment you are replying to. I have underlying medical conditions, so like the parent poster I have decided against any startups because I need to tie myself to a corporate overlord so that they can pay my insura
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Oh yes. There are many ways to search in Org mode. I typically only need tagging but you can use the agenda for searching as well. https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.ht...
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Or use Evil mode :) I don’t think I can ever give up Org-mode. Vim-wiki, etc just can’t seem to sate that itch.
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Well, not really. I follow a few channels that tell interesting true stories over some photos of and around the event. Over the past year or so a few of them have started supplementing with AI, but others have just gone all in. Posts are mu
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Well, a bash for loop is pretty close to Python: for x in a b c; do echo $x done Or ranges: for i in {1..10}; do echo $i; done Do you mean list comprehensions?
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I’ve also sat in an ER, waiting to be seen while in a lot of pain or with someone in a lot of pain or with visible injury. The only time I’ve actually been triaged immediately was when I had so much blood running down my face that the nurse
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Yeah, there are actually a number of scripts I have at my company that use Python’s baked in SQLite3 module to do something complicated very easily. There’s even a lib for Parquet making analysis on a small number of problematic files quite
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Anecdata, but I know multiple people that I associate with do caray a balance on their cards and by paying minimums. I don’t understand it, but then again I’m fortunate enough to have a software job that allows me to keep up with my social
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by dfinninger 4y ago
This is natively supported in PagerDuty, OpsGenie, etc. Routing, time-based suppression, alert reminders, etc. I’ve tried to implement all of that in Alertmanager itself, and it’s much easier to just swipe the card. As for the dashboard, th
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Sure, but in university that can be a useful exercise, whatever the language. There are many commonalities in just about every language. Learning your first language is hard, you’re second is freeing. At least personally I’ve found that the
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Technically, no. But sometimes it is used for that purpose. Most people you talk to expect “reading” to mean physically reading the book. But if you listened to it, you know the content as well as someone who read it. There’s usually not a
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I read “snd” as “send”. I also read “fst“ as “fast”. Word length also matters.
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I am very early on in my Japanese-learning journey. So if others contradict me, they are probably a better source. :) But from what I understand Hirigana is used more for Japanese words, and Katakana more for loan words from other languages
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I’m not the parent poster, but I would assume they are referring to Go’s typical usage of for-loops over something like Streams/Iterators/Comprehensions. (And other cases where idiomatic Go uses the simpler option)
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Well, anecdotally, I moved from Texas to the West Coast and lost 30+ lbs my first year. Losing access to good BBQ and queso were definitely factors. But I’d cite the inherent walkability of the cities I’ve lived in as the main reason. It gi
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Well, I'm here in a major metro area of the US and it's 6 months or more for every doctor I try to see. Very difficult to get in to see anyone for anything.
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I was trained in EE, and I’ve been surprised at how many times I’ve reached for Karnaugh Maps while coding. It’s really helped simplify some gnarly conditions I’ve come across. Each time I’ve forgotten how to construct them and use them fro
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by dfinninger 4y ago
At the core of K8s is an Etcd cluster, so if you’re spinning your own it’s the same thing. However, part of the value-add of cloud providers in the K8s space is that they hide it from you.
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by dfinninger 4y ago
The submitted link auto-scrolls me to the section on Rust, so I guess the submitter wanted to promote that specific section of the article?
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I was taken by TDD for about six months, years ago. I always felt that I was never good at it because edge cases I hadn’t thought of came up or the interface wasn’t actually the best/cleanest/most maintainable way to write that co
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I strongly recommend Go. It cross compiles very easily and can embed arbitrary files. I’ve used it at work to distribute to Linux, Windows, etc. it comes with a solid REST API toolkit baked into the stdlib for simple things and great librar
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Yeah, going to the Bootstrap examples, “view page source”, and seeing how the elements are put together is what made simple front-ends for internal tools so easy for me. Lots of examples and minimal pages to start from. Some team members ha
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Water flows down the easiest path. Make runbooks (and their maintenance) easy. This requires management buy-in to create incentives that make runbooks the easiest path. In my experience, getting management on-board is the most difficult par
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by dfinninger 4y ago
Yeah that Python would not pass my code review. Rule of thumb is don’t nest list comprehensions, and if you have to try to keep it to two. Checkpoint the results info a variable. You aren’t supposed to chain like that in Python. From https
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by dfinninger 4y ago
I wind up pausing my subscription when I get too many credits. It’s not a full cancellation, but I don’t have to pay.

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