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by docandrew 3y ago
It’s still illegal for federal/military employees or anyone with a security clearance - at some point the government will have to reconcile this discontinuity. Even off-the-shelf hand lotion and soaps have CBD now and might be risky fo
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by docandrew 3y ago
I think D is a victim of being too early - when it was announced the open source community was still obsessed with C, and D’s garbage collection was seen as an absolute show-stopper (even if the people knocking it largely didn’t try it). By
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by docandrew 3y ago
Wish I had more upvotes for this sentiment.
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by docandrew 3y ago
I came here to say this. What’s funny to 13-year olds stops being funny at some point, but it seems like everything in our culture is being targeted towards that demographic.
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by docandrew 3y ago
It’s easy to get in a mindset that the church isn’t something I’m a part of, but something that’s a service to be consumed and subscribed to. If I’m not happy with the “content” I find a different service. This is absolutely the wrong menta
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by docandrew 3y ago
I can’t confirm it, but read that in China, TikTok feeds are much different - its all stuff like Khan Academy videos and videos about becoming an astronaut, etc.
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by docandrew 3y ago
Don’t abortion clinics do the same thing? Planned Parenthood isn’t called Planned Unparenthood. The whole abortion industry is based on euphemisms like your use of “choice” to avoid describing what’s really taking place.
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by docandrew 3y ago
Colorado, for one: https://www.cpr.org/2021/02/18/arkansas-river-basin-water-ri...
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by docandrew 3y ago
Unfortunately it’s illegal to dig ponds on your property without a permit and the appropriate water rights in some areas. There’s a whole field of law around water rights and these sorts of permits, it’s really wild. You need an engineering
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by docandrew 3y ago
I don’t know why cloud providers haven’t jumped on RAD technologies. They could give devs a stack where all the engineers need to worry about is front-end presentation and business logic. Everything else from persistent storage, deployment,
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by docandrew 3y ago
I don’t know, if it’s a normal person doing “finders keepers” vs an actual thief, I think a normal person would be happy to return it to its rightful owner.
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by docandrew 3y ago
I don’t get this argument - every other type of software, whether bare servers, Office 365 or Google docs, image editing, etc. is moving to SaaS or cloud-hosted but LLMs are going to go the opposite direction and be more desirable to run lo
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by docandrew 3y ago
Why not? I think it was Jeff Bezos who said “When data and anecdotes disagree, it’s usually the anecdote that’s right. Something is wrong with the way you’re measuring your data.” If there’s a debate at all then the data are probably ambigu
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by docandrew 3y ago
I don’t get all the hate for Duo. It’s fun, a better use of my screen time than a lot of other things I could be doing, and even if it doesn’t get me fluency, it has given me enough exposure in less than a year of training to speak with nat
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by docandrew 3y ago
For CAFE purposes SUVs and minivans are both considered “light trucks.”
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by docandrew 3y ago
A custom $1500 set of car seats for a small compact is unreasonable. Good luck fitting three normal car seats in any of the sedans in that first link. It’s difficult enough in a _full size truck_.
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by docandrew 3y ago
Not discussed here is car seat and seatbelt requirements. If you have multiple children in car seats or boosters, you’re going to have a hard time getting more than one in the backseat of a sedan.
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by docandrew 3y ago
It’s “engineering” the same way we joke about “social engineering.” Both are ways of using language to subtly manipulate another. But the term should be understood as tongue-in-cheek and I’d run from anyone trying to sell you something to d
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by docandrew 3y ago
It’s great too when you don’t know exactly what to search for, especially for acronyms.
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by docandrew 3y ago
Fresh fruit is usually subject to customs restrictions for international travel due to concerns about agricultural pests, I don’t think this particular case was collusion with the airport vendors (but these days you never know).
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by docandrew 3y ago
Rent-seeking?
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by docandrew 3y ago
I was impressed that Copilot even works well on languages not advertised as supported.
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by docandrew 3y ago
Ah yes, those famously utopian atheistic societies… like Soviet Russia and Mao’s China. Good thing they kept Christianity bloody clear of politics or things might have gotten ugly!
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by docandrew 3y ago
Please don’t denigrate others’ faith here.
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by docandrew 3y ago
I wanted to be an architect, but now I’m really thinking I’d rather be a city planner.
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by docandrew 4y ago
I’ve read that a lot of people, especially men, are deficient in magnesium. It’s an essential mineral so I wouldn’t call your use of it pseudoscience by any stretch.
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by docandrew 4y ago
Could be a hormone deficiency/imbalance or any number of other things. I’d start with a blood test and go from there. If your doctor doesn’t want to order it, you can order your own labs online and take them to a local lab draw facilit
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by docandrew 4y ago
The tools are similar too. There’s a very thin line between defensive cyber tools and malware sometimes.
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by docandrew 4y ago
I’ve used ChatGPT to give me script templates, write a README in markdown (it even came up with appropriate build commands), write an annual performance report, and answer questions on topics from FAA regulations to Kubernetes. Copilot does
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by docandrew 4y ago
I wish! https://www.cmmiinstitute.com/cmmi/intro

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