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by house9-2 6y ago
This is a good article which answers most of your doubts: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/are-electric-cars-worse-for-the... Spoiler alert: EV pollutes less than ICE
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by house9-2 6y ago
Emission from brake pads is way less than ICE cars due to regenerative braking of the EV motors; one pedal driving is awesome.
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by house9-2 6y ago
> plumbers, electricians, civil engineers, architects, structural engineers, etc. All these occupations have licensing requirements. Why is software different? There are plenty of journeyman carpenters that do not have a license, this is
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by house9-2 6y ago
Not a built in feature: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/211954/how-can-i-n... Some people on this post are using ‘Stickies’ app to put a label on each one? Otherwise, there are 3rd party apps that do it.
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by house9-2 6y ago
cmd + shift + h = home directory cmd + shift + a = applications directory cmd + shift + d = desktop directory Semi-related, type `open .` in terminal to open that directory in Finder
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by house9-2 6y ago
Thank you!
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by house9-2 7y ago
Would a product like browserstack help you test all the required versions? https://www.browserstack.com/
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by house9-2 7y ago
> is anger useless? Far from it. The way it has been explained to me the core emotions are: Anger, Fear, Joy and Sorrow You also have feelings: depressed, happy, excited, anxious, etc… The core emotions are just tools that you have in yo
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by house9-2 7y ago
> so much so that they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits. Just bite the bullet and convert the repo from SVN to Git? Guessing the primary issue is the ti
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by house9-2 7y ago
It depends on how you measure 'productivity' I guess.
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by house9-2 7y ago
> We don't force socialize people That's good. I prefer to keep work and normal life separate. Of course you can develop great friendship through work, no need to force it. > We don't force video on people Once you are
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by house9-2 7y ago
Right, standard _agile_ daily stand up should help. My team does daily video stand up (it is good to see the team face to face each day) but if too many timezones involved slack channel updates can work just fine. Remote teams are ideally c
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by house9-2 7y ago
Pair programming is probably the best way to bring on junior developers. It isn't that difficult to do remotely. But some people just don't like it in general.
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by house9-2 7y ago
Get a desk that is adjustable, you don't want to be standing all of the time. I try to switch between standing and sitting each hour. Been using 'Geek Desk' for 8+ years, I think there are other less expensive options availa
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by house9-2 7y ago
> Code duplication should be avoided, but not if the alternative is complicated or highly-coupled code. 100% agree. Along these lines, avoid applying DRY principles to "incidental duplication"; You can end up coupling completel
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by house9-2 7y ago
Insomnia is great!
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by house9-2 7y ago
"Don't make the code so DRY it chafes"
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by house9-2 7y ago
> The question we should ask is whether or A should change whenever B changes. Spot on. Avoid applying DRY principles to incidental duplication.
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by house9-2 7y ago
'hard workers' - also technically true
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by house9-2 7y ago
I guess I should have been paying better attention then
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by house9-2 7y ago
> The big difference is that "illegal alien" really does refer to a person simply existing in a country they are not supposed to be in Correct, I have no issue with the term: "illegal alien" > shortening it to just
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by house9-2 7y ago
> whether you consider something racist or not has no actual impact on the usage of the term Thats true > for using common terminology in a way you don’t like. When did it become common terminology? I am 47 years old and don't re
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by house9-2 7y ago
I wonder if their problem was with branding? I have never owned a PlayStation so when I first heard about it I didn't realize I could use it on other devices. This is the main way I currently watch sports. Now time to look for alternat
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by house9-2 7y ago
> Instead of simply letting people order a pizza, why not let them design it as well? Isn't this a Seinfeld episode.
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by house9-2 7y ago
> Err, have you ever bought a first-gen Apple product? I have 1st gen iMac retina, I have had zero issues and have been using it daily since I bought it new in 2014. I did get SSD and upgraded cpu and graphics card; I believe the base mo
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by house9-2 7y ago
> San Francisco is famously non-sunny (all that cloud). San Francisco is on a peninsula, so it gets lots of fog. Its weather pattern does not represent the area in general. San Jose is further inland and very sunny most of the year. Toda
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by house9-2 7y ago
I don't think Car Talk was canceled. Didn't they stop doing the show after one of the brothers passed away?
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by house9-2 7y ago
LOL, yes nail guns are the more efficient tool these days, however I bet these carpenters still have a hammer on their tool belt and use it at least once a day.
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by house9-2 7y ago
> If you accidentally leave personally identifiable healthcare information on some random stage server and that server gets hacked, that is a federal crime. Not sure how that relates to Version Control? I personally don't put produc
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by house9-2 7y ago
> working on non-version-controlled code, having been expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO Version Control is a basic requirement of professional software development in this day and age. You could try explaining to your CEO

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