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by dual_basis 7y ago
> do not wake up kids for school; if they cannot wake up in time, let them skip a class or two, or consider homeschooling That is a completely infeasible suggestion for most people.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I mean, that isolated example doesn't really demonstrate the benefit of a walrus operator does it? You could have just written "if re.match(x, y): do_something()". If you re-used the result of computation within the if statem
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I mean, that does seem like the optimal outcome, doesn't it? Not only is Nike not using sweatshop labor, but all their competitors are also not using sweatshop labor. Did you want Nike to stop just because they felt bad, but their comp
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I am an example which supports this notion. I've done some Python programming about 10 years ago but then took a break from programming altogether for the last 9 years. Last year I got back into it and have been using Python 3.7, and I
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by dual_basis 7y ago
To be fair, Guido stepped down because of the way the community reacted. "The straw that broke the camel’s back was a very contentious Python enhancement proposal, where after I had accepted it, people went to social media like Twitter
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Oh, $80/hr is still well above the top 10% of earners in the US, it's just not very much for web design.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
The Nike sweatshop situation is actually a counterexample to your point. People complained and, at least according to what I read, not only did Nike change but they lobbied for legislation to force their competitors to change as well.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Nothing comes up related to what you described, I just see a bunch of listings for Angie's list.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
If you're charging $80/hour but then work more hours than you charge your effective hourly wage is less than $80/hour. This is an incredibly low wage (less than half) for typical web design work in my area (New England).
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Many sites do. It's clearly always possible to detect whether an ad was seen. Often, the content owners do not bother putting such measures in place, but the advertisers definitely do. (It's even easier from their perspective to c
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Presumably if the expected number of bikes it contains is greater than N, where N is some number between 0 and 10 decided on by someone in control of such infrastructure.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I just found this channel and I'm amazed at how technical and well researched everything is: Tech Ingredients The best thing is that he repeats experiments to verify the concepts he is exploring. It seems to still be in its infancy, it
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Absolutely agree regarding metaprogramming
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Obligatory reference to Black Mirror season 1 episode 2, "Fifteen Million Merits".
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I don't understand your point. If an ad doesn't display, then the content owner doesn't get any money for it.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
So, to be clear, you don't like it when projects choose to use their preferred language, and so you will search for a project which uses your preferred language?
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by dual_basis 7y ago
How do avoid the incentive of sites who pad their content in ways to make you spend longer on the site? Ideally the market would take care of this, where people would be more likely to visit articles which were more concise because they wer
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by dual_basis 7y ago
How long would the average human survive if placed in an environment with no other humans?
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by dual_basis 7y ago
There is very little evidence for the efficacy of any of these compounds in humans.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I agree to some extent, however most people I have seen with password books still have very simple passwords and often reuse them or create them with simple rules (pet's name + year born + first three characters of the site I'm lo
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Lots of projects don't follow semver, unfortunately.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Significant whitespace a la Python. When I first started learning Python I hated the idea of significant whitespace, now I think it is the best thing ever.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Did you try contacting customer service? I'd bet dollars to donuts that you get a full refund, no need to even return it. The Google-esque experience you described only occurs if there's no customer service to even contact, Amazon
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Overleaf's documentation is quite good.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
It seems like you are missing the original point. People aren't working around bugs in Chromium, they are (either inadvertently or intentionally) developing apps which rely on the buggy functionality.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Tires, oil, brakes, belts, wheel bearings, transmission... With a mechanical system like a car there are lots of things which wear down with use. Instead of trying to figure out the actual difference yourself, you can simply look at what pe
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by dual_basis 7y ago
What about restic? https://restic.net/
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Not sure I understand your math here. A car depreciates faster if it is driven (more repairs, needs to be replaced sooner). Just because I already own a car doesn't mean it's only the cost of fuel to drive it.
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by dual_basis 7y ago
I don't see how it screws over experts. I can still install a different version if I want to in exactly the same number of steps as before, right?
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by dual_basis 7y ago
Three? Well then, case closed!

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