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by japhyr 7mo ago
I think you are right. I'll edit my comment to point to this.
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by japhyr 7mo ago
You're absolutely right that some individuals will be able to sign up for this program, and remember to cancel at the end of the six months. However, when companies choose to implement a policy like this they're acting on well-est
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by japhyr 7mo ago
At first I thought people here were being pretty unsympathetic to an early version of a beneficial program. I could see a company setting a 6-month timeline initially, so they can reevaluate the program and choose how to evolve their suppor
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by japhyr 8mo ago
As someone who earned "passion" money for a long time before ever earning anything remotely close to tech-adjacent money, passion does not pay bills anywhere near as well as money does. And struggling to pay bills, such as paying
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by japhyr 8mo ago
> the real culprit could simply be boiled down to a failure in classroom management and lack of enforcement against cell phones in class I was a middle school and high school math and science teacher from 1994 through 2019. I watched the
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by japhyr 8mo ago
I'm a firm believer that taking on something new every decade or so of life is an entirely good thing. I've watched so many people stop living in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. My heroes are people who keep doing what they love into the
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A wooden laser-cut topo map of Portland, ME (2015)(theshamblog.com)
6 points by japhyr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 8mo ago
Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get at.
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by japhyr 8mo ago
I don't get any sense that he's going to put that kind of effort into responding to abusive agents on a regular basis. I read that as him recognizing that this was getting some attention, and choosing to write out some thoughts on
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by japhyr 8mo ago
Wow, there are some interesting things going on here. I appreciate Scott for the way he handled the conflict in the original PR thread, and the larger conversation happening around this incident. > This represents a first-of-its-kind cas
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by japhyr 8mo ago
If they're able to communicate with each other. But I'm pretty sure we could keep that from happening. I don't take your comment as dismissive, but I think a lot of people are dismissing interesting and possibly effective a
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by japhyr 8mo ago
> That idea of treating scenarios as holdout sets—used to evaluate the software but not stored where the coding agents can see them—is fascinating. It imitates aggressive testing by an external QA team—an expensive but highly effective w
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by japhyr 8mo ago
> A large part of me thinks I should have written five novels instead. I don't know, you have 10 years in this writing, I have 15 years. I've gained so much from 15 years of conversations with people about the topics that come
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by japhyr 8mo ago
Can you expand a bit on how you feel about it? :)
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by japhyr 8mo ago
Holy heck. The first person I looked up was tptacek, who happens to be #2 in the global rank. 4.3 million words! I'm nowhere near that (~125k words), but for many of us, it's a good part of our life's corpus. :)
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Are there any open APIs left?(shkspr.mobi)
5 points by japhyr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by japhyr 9mo ago
Like so many others, I've gotten into birding in the last few years. I've known so many people who choose eBird over iNaturalist because it's "easier to use". But that's exactly why I don't really enjoy eB
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by japhyr 9mo ago
I'm a teacher, so I help people get started setting up a programming environment on a regular basis. If you take a new system that hasn't been configured for programming work at all, and install a fresh copy of VS Code, you'l
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by japhyr 9mo ago
The clearest explanation I've seen is on VSCodium's Why page: https://vscodium.com/#why
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by japhyr 9mo ago
I've been frustrated by the constant nudges to use specific AI tools from within VS Code, but I made a different change. Rather than moving to a different editor altogether, I started using VS Codium. If you're unfamiliar, it&#x27
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by japhyr 9mo ago
I've been trying to learn piano and guitar. I have both set up near my desk, and they're intentionally set up without any equipment that has a screen. If I have a few minutes between work sessions, playing a few scales is a fantas
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by japhyr 9mo ago
I live just south of Asheville in NC, and we were completely isolated after the storm for a few days. The only reason we were able to get out after a few days was that a fire truck had been abandoned at the bottom of our driveway as trees f
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by japhyr 9mo ago
> Previous industrial revolutions externalised their costs onto environments that seemed infinite until they weren't. Software ecosystems are no different: dependency chains, maintenance burdens, security surfaces that compound as o
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by japhyr 10mo ago
:facepalm:
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by japhyr 10mo ago
Wouldn't this be a little cleaner? data = collection.get("key") if data: ... else: ...
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by japhyr 10mo ago
> I copy from Stack Overflow constantly. I'm so tired of this kind of reference to Stack Overflow. I used SO for about 15 years, and still visit plenty these days. I rarely, if ever, copied from Stack Overflow. But I sure learned
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by japhyr 10mo ago
I believe the've been looking for two-letter names that aren't already taken, and are easy to type. I think I heard that from one of the podcasts that Charlie Marsh was on.
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by japhyr 10mo ago
I think they got married in New Orleans, before they started the rest of the walk together. Peter and Barbara didn't do so well after that trip. One of their kids took a road trip with his mom recently, retracing their route from New O
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by japhyr 10mo ago
I read a book called A Walk Across America in college, by Peter Jenkins. I liked the idea of traveling under my own power, but I didn't want to spend years walking. I kept when I got my driver's license, and I was bike commuting
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by japhyr 10mo ago
When was he in Fairbanks? I bicycled around North America for a year in 1998-1999, and finished in Alaska. It was wild to live on a bike for a full year, and then meet people who had been living that way (on bikes and on foot) for years at

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