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I can relate to this fear; it's closely related to imposter syndrome. But I think when we read established blogs we accept that they're probably accurate, and we readily forgive mistakes and slight inaccuracies. We don't affo
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> Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it. In the US, health care is tied to employment for most people. Many people are stuck in jobs they aren't particularly excited about be
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A protester tried to ID a police officer on Twitter. Now he faces a felony(washingtonpost.com)
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Stretch. When I maintain flexibility, I can always jump back into whatever physical activity I'm interested in (running, biking, hiking/climbing, kayaking, swimming). When I've lost my flexibility it's much harder to get
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In Defense of Our Teachers(theatlantic.com)
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Right. Even if one community comes up with a really good plan, we still have interstate travel in a nation with numerous states whose governors are actively against any mitigating actions on a local level. So no, we can't just "lo
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You can push for answers from those people, but there's probably no real answers to give. The federal response to the pandemic has been so ineffective, to put it kindly, that it leaves people at all levels with no meaningful responses.
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My father started his career as a software engineer in the 1970s. He worked at places like Raytheon and DEC and a few others. He started his career using punchcards, and ended his career building websites from a laptop. I am grateful that f
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I rarely write my own class and then use that as a parent of a new class. But I very frequently write a class that inherits from a parent class when I use a framework. When I teach inheritance to students, it’s not usually with the mindset
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This isn't entirely specific to the internet, but rather the development of UNIX. Brian Kernighan's UNIX: A History and a Memoir [0] is great. It covers a bit of the technical underpinnings of UNIX, but also covers the people an
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You don't need to be "assigned moral guilt" to recognize atrocities from the past, their influence on the present state, and reparations that should be made.
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Ask HN: Online Math Community for Kids?
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For those of us in the US, the range of symptoms of Covid infection combined with the very real possibility of having insurance denied because of pre-existing conditions sounds like a really bad combination. If insurers are allowed to not c
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Why 2 Crises May Finally Force NYC Schools to Integrate(nytimes.com)
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What's resonating? If the slats themselves are resonating, spacing them differently won't help much. Then again, if it is the slats would a horizontal brace running along the middle of the slats dampen or eliminate the resonance?
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I'm not sure if it affects your specific situation, but I'll share that mistakes in CLI demos have never bothered me. They always make me feel better about the everyday typos I make, and they make me feel like I'm watching a
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Anyone who's been around large helicopters knows exactly how much this is about a show of force, and has nothing to do with keeping the peace. The last thing you do with a large helicopter if you care about people's safety is hove
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If you're interested in the technical issues behind Python packaging, a recent Podcast.__init__ episode features three people working on improving Pip's dependency resolution algorithm. My use cases are simple enough that I'v
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> because that's actually not a thing he's legally able to do This has not helped a whole lot over the last 3.5 years. When something is illegal, but no one is willing to enforce it, the legality doesn't have much impact.
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Your comment was the first thing I thought of when reading today's email. I hav worked most of my life as a secondary math and science teacher, and one of the things we teach all students about communication is "I statements.&quot
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A tour of Django server setups(mattsegal.dev)
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The taut line hitch is a great knot to know for lots of situations; once you learn it, you'll find yourself using it in a number of different ways. It's great for adding guy lines to a tent fly, or hanging a tarp in the woods for
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As the backlogged IRS struggles, taxpayers face long delays(washingtonpost.com)
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I started disabling some of the css, and I was able to get the projects to start to appear. I have no idea what the root issue is, but I think you could probably sort out which css is problematic on safari, and either render the page differ
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> Earlier this year we did the mythic trek to Python3 and are enjoying the all the new Django goodies. Can you share anything about how that upgrade journey went? What are some of the newer features that have been helpful for you? Were t
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Built with Django is a really interesting project. It looks good for me on Chrome, but I don't see any projects on Safari. I'm on Mojave 10.14.6, Safari 13.1.
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Thousands Are Headed to Alaska's Fishing Towns. So Is the Virus(nytimes.com)
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> This is a living document and we encourage contributions in the form of pull requests. Who is "we"? I understand your use of "we" to speak from the perspective of us as a society through most of the article, but thi
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Totally Wired, by Andrew Smith, tells the story of the dot com boom and bust from the NYC perspective. There was a lot more happening in NYC than I ever imagined, and I lived there at the time. It was also a much more artistic scene than I
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If you're interested in Django, Django Chat by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson is great: https://djangochat.com

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