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by eropple 4y ago
> I wouldn't say it is the government's fault, but is it that unreasonable to expect this basic safety net as a benefit for being a subject/customer of this government? Up to $250,000, which covers almost every individu
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by eropple 4y ago
I agree with you entirely on all points. It is a bad situation.
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by eropple 4y ago
TBH, if you're knowledgeable enough to be playing with puts, you should know that banks don't act like other equities in cases of extremity. It may be a bummer in the individual case, but it keeps the money machine working for soc
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by eropple 4y ago
I can still get into "life stuff" without my Yubikey. There are increases in risk to doing so (TOTP requests have decreased resistance to phishing attacks versus webauthn, for example), which is why I don't do that generally,
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by eropple 4y ago
I tend to agree, but I feel like there should be a way to come up with a good Pencil interface.
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by eropple 4y ago
What CAD tools work well on an iPad? I'd love to try it. Fusion 360 is okay on Windows, but it's pretty bad on a Mac.
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by eropple 4y ago
Your attempt to dichotomize the world is insulting to people who have been, and are, both--sometimes at the same time. That's why you got the reaction you did, and your doubling down is, to someone on the receiving end, no less unkind
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by eropple 4y ago
They might be a mistake for you. Your needs are different from somebody needing to sound clear and pleasant in a Zoom call. So are mine. I understand that mine are different, though, and that's where we diverge.
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by eropple 4y ago
Can you explain why you posted this link-and-run? Because this is not a responsive criticism to what I wrote. And, if one reads the document you linked, the authors of that document expressly do not intend it to be responsive. > If you
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by eropple 4y ago
Cars absolutely are more dangerous when pedestrians and cars intersect. They're also not on the sidewalk, where pedestrians usually are , while bicycles (and, in my experience, especially e-bikes) tend to be. I've never gotten
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by eropple 4y ago
Sure. That's a tradeoff you consciously make to get the thing out the door. That's what technical debt is. You pay it down later. (Or you go bankrupt and it doesn't matter anymore.)
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by eropple 4y ago
> If a biker has a choice between possibly getting hit by a car or possibly hitting a pedestrian, the choice is kind of obvious. I don't think that's true, though. The alternative is not "endanger pedestrians", the
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by eropple 4y ago
E-bikes are absolutely dangerous to the pedestrians they hit. I don't much like cars, but cars aren't driving on the sidewalks where I am.
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by eropple 4y ago
I am not a musician, but I am a live events operator, and since almost everybody has a Zoom setup now I want to asterisk something for folks who are reading: the interfaces recommended in other comments are great interfaces if you are a m
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by eropple 4y ago
Yeah, but it's the one we've got. As much as people want to sniff about it, that bell isn't getting un-rung for more, perhaps most, use cases--on balance things are better where we're at now.
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by eropple 4y ago
I look forward to returning to the days where everybody wrote their own slightly-to-significantly-wrong state management tooling while being distracted by the minutiae of DOM wrangling. That was a good time. (It was not. It was why I stoppe
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by eropple 4y ago
In my experience: a profiler, usually. Just because I can throw down a lot of code quickly doesn't mean I don't have the tools to analyze code when I go "hmm, that seems slow".
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by eropple 4y ago
You're assuming you only have to define it in one language. JSON is an interchange format. The canonical way to express it is JSON Schema, and the tools are unpleasant in Java. So is dealing with structural typing of polymorphic respon
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by eropple 4y ago
Yeah, I assumed as much. I've only looked at Pydantic in the context of FastAPI, as Python's not really my thing, but it looks really well-thought-out.
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by eropple 4y ago
It's the "defining some records" part that's slow and gritty. JSON is usually an interchange format, and Java class construction is either slow, tedious, and manual, or involves massaging a code generator (which, at leas
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by eropple 4y ago
I've written a lot of code using Jackson and I strongly disagree that it's a solved problem. If you're Java on both ends, it's probably fine, but then your serde style is an implementation detail. And that's great,
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by eropple 4y ago
"Discrete simulations" are things like turn-based strategy games, roguelikes, and so on. You can think of it as "automated board games" in a lot of ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_
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by eropple 4y ago
Serialization/deserialization can be really gross in something like Java, but TypeScript gives you some really good tools (zod, typebox, etc.) to validate and type-guard your inputs that I'm sure could be implemented in Python--if
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by eropple 4y ago
I've had really good luck with asdf ( https://asdf-vm.com ) to manage per-project versions to avoid this sort of thing.
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by eropple 4y ago
> so why not use a better language to start with? Perhaps consider that for many programmers, TypeScript is JavaScript, and TypeScript is that better language. I've put a decent amount of thought into using TypeScript for game
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by eropple 4y ago
I have bad news for you about the performance of flagship Android devices from 2017, man.
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by eropple 4y ago
I bought mine at release, to replace an iPhone 6 (which itself replaced an Android device of higher spec because I was tired of the treadmill and a friend sold it to me used). So mine's closer to 3.5 years old than to 2.5. And when you
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by eropple 4y ago
It's also six years old and where it's pokey tends to be apps , not the OS. The browser, mostly. Turns out we all like to write a lot of JavaScript, I guess? Even if that weren't the case, a six-year-old iPhone 8 has out-s
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by eropple 4y ago
> iPhones drag to a crawl after a couple of OS updates when the hardware is no longer up to the stuff of the latest iOS versions. Not really, and definitely not with more modern ones. I have an iPhone 11 from 2019. It was released wit
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by eropple 4y ago
This is great advice, thanks. :) The DIY route is immediately tempting, and I have a wood shop so I'm not afraid of hacking problems away in a medium-density fiberboard fashion, but I am looking to avoid new projects! I hear you on the

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