fernandotakai

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by fernandotakai 2y ago
atlas intel has got so many elections correctly that i really don't understand why other pollsters are not copying their methodologies. even nate silver called then the most accurate pollster during the 2020 race.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
uv actually talks about this in their resolver docs https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/resolver-internals/
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
veritasium made a video about airplanes and he specifically talks about tomato juice in planes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDYfvPW4mA&t=908s
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
i listen to audiobooks -- because i can get some "book time" to myself without having to strain my eyes.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
i find quite ironic whenever i see a highly upvoted comment here complaining about capitalism because for sure i don't see yc existing in any other type of economy.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
i mean, i never said jira was good. i said that it was not as bad as azdo. after 17 years working as a dev, i came to the conclusion there's no good ticketing system, there's only less-bad-ones. and i honestly think a well configu
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
oh wow, redmine! i worked at a place back in 2008 and we used redmine -- i even wrote a plugin to track worked hours so we could properly bill clients (i ended up learning rails because of this).
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
>JIRA sucks. i used to think the same until i had to use azure devops. i legitimately miss JIRA nowadays.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
funny enough, grok was able to generate one https://i.imgur.com/qt89arC.png
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
it was not the mossad, it was the shin bet.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
i'm a visa worker and i've seen people in my country say that visa workers are prejudicial to the country's work environment. what if this kind of person gets to union leadership and just accepts a bad deal to visa workers? w
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
the "daily" part is what kills me, specially because saying "no updates" feels super bad, like you are slacking-off. i would be totally fine with twice a week (mondays so we can sync up and see what's being done thr
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
not working properly with firefox (131.0b3, raises a javascript + CORS error) -- https://i.imgur.com/k5CvHKt.png works properly on chrome.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
i got a pixel 9 and i've been trying gemini -- it's still not good (specially compared to claude).
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
>the word "cisgender", which is banned on Twitter while the n-word is not https://x.com/search?q=cisgender&src=typed_query&f=live i see tons of posts with cisgender.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
that's because on book five? (sorry i haven't read harry potter in a long time) all the time turners get destroyed (actually, they get into a time loop)! https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Time-Turner#1996
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
if you go to something like https://beta.maps.apple.com/asd you bypass the browser check. works on firefox, but it's a big sluggish.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
totally. i have a macbook air m2 and it performs better than my work m1 pro because of the bloatware. my zsh config spawns in ~90ms on my macbook air m2 while it takes 600ms in the m1 pro.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
yup. i worked at a company that used crowdstrike's falcon agent and it was an incredible cpu hog. nowadays i work at a place that uses a different solution and guess what: it's also a f-ing cpu (and i/o) hog -- it makes my m1
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
you can force named arguments in python by using * after any non-named args. example: In [1]: def my_func(first, *, second, third): ...: print(first, second, third) ...: In [2]: my_func(1, second=2, third=3)
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
same. happy this is not another _why situation.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
in my case, writing with a pen for long periods of time makes my hand cramp/hurt real bad (i still write on my journal daily but it's not pleasant). (i don't have a typewriter, but i prefer to type anything because of this).
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
they do advertise, but they try to keep traditional (instead of influencers) https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-a...
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
you realize this has happened before right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindr#Divesture_and_public_li...
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
i would recommend reading on censorship inside china https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China they literally block any discussion on things like... you know, democracy movements.
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by fernandotakai 2y ago
you should try phoenix channels https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html they scale really really easily for millions of users.
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by fernandotakai 3y ago
same. in fact, with python3.11, stacktraces are absolutely amazing. in his python example, it shows exactly where the error is (down to pointing the function), and the error is quite explicit.
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by fernandotakai 3y ago
ultrech is really nice. we (my family and i) are thinking about moving to either there or hague in a few years (we are currently in ams, but we are not staying since property values are way too high).
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by fernandotakai 3y ago
ah same! i learned logo in my native language (ptbr) when i was in middle school. it absolutely blew my mind that i could "automatically" draw things. first thing i did when i got home was ask my dad for it -- it took him to find
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by fernandotakai 3y ago
those plasma views when starship was coming into atmosphere were absolutely mind blowing. it makes a lot of sense to use starlink for this, but it never ever crossed my mind.

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