jasonboyd

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by jasonboyd 4y ago
Atrociously bad by what metric? I was born and raised in Florida, as was my wife. We are both frequently impressed by how advanced our kids are, scholastically speaking, compared to where we were at that age in Florida. Edit: We now live in
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
This is fantastic. Thanks so much to your son for curating this list and creating the site. We will start working our way through these recommendations.
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
Why? Something about this specific implementation or do you mean in general? I've never created software that requires a license like this but it seems like it would add enough friction to prevent casual piracy.
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
I've seen goats eat trash so...
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
Are goats everywhere? The handful of places I've lived (Central Florida and SF bay area) I've never seen a "wild" goat. Deer, sure. But deer seem to be much pickier than goats when it comes to their diets
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
I'm a _huge_ fan of leafy green vegetables. Unusual, I know, but I think of myself as something of an aficionado. Dandelion greens are among the most bitter I have eaten. I find it difficult to incorporate them. Edit: I had to look up
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
Interesting idea. They may very well see that as an added benefit but I suspect the reason for the big push now is due to the conservative supermajority in the supreme court.
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
Claiming survivorship bias really makes it sound like we are talking about something much riskier than getting a college degree. I didn't survive, I planned. I got a two year degree from a local community college for a fraction of the
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
Wut? Are those the only choices? Is there nothing in between? Lay off the drama. I don't feel like my degree was useless (and I'm not even working in the field I got a degree in) and I certainly didn't graduate with crippling
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
That's silly. Let's assume for a moment that it is possible to teach _only_ objective truths (goodbye arts, literature, philosophy, social sciences, etc) how will the little robots produced by such an environment succeed in life?
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
How in the world would something like this realistically work? Start with the assigned flat. If this is truly a universal benefit then everybody gets one whether they use it or not. What if I have a house, what do I do with my flat provided
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
It doesn't make sense, but yes, it was a thing people did say and continue to say. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and health reporter for the NYT just yesterday (May 26) tweeted "Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theo
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by jasonboyd 5y ago
We who? I've lived in mixed use buildings with bars, restaurants, and other small businesses on the first floor and apartments above. It was quite nice, I really enjoyed it.
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by jasonboyd 6y ago
> "I can count on zero fingers the number of times I've used an exclamation mark professionally." I feel self conscious now.
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by jasonboyd 6y ago
My wife works in home building in the bay area. I can assure you that home builders want to build homes. The inability to construct new homes in the bay area is almost entirely due to objections from local commissioners and planning council
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by jasonboyd 6y ago
I rather like extension methods. I was not aware there was any controversy around them. Edit This wikipedia article suggests Java has extension methods, or maybe something functionally equivalent (I'm not a Java programmer): https:&#x
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by jasonboyd 6y ago
> One of the slowest things I found out about C# was floats being objects Floats are value types not objects: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe... Maybe you we're dealing wi
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by jasonboyd 6y ago
Do you have a link for this $49 one time payment option? The cheapest option I can find on the site is $59 per month.
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by jasonboyd 7y ago
That's all well and good but it begs the question, who is going to draw a heart in the foam on my latte? Certainly not me, I'm a backend engineer.
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by jasonboyd 7y ago
If RSS is dead then I am reading this from the great beyond.
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by jasonboyd 7y ago
I agree. I have frequently had packages marked as delivered that were not delivered. When I contacted Amazon they would say if it does not show up in a day or two contact us again and they would also give me a $5 gift card. The package woul
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by jasonboyd 7y ago
That was my first thought. And then my second thought was I do not like uni so what do I care what the price is.
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by jasonboyd 7y ago
In 2007 I visited Boulder with a friend and spent a night or two at his cousin's place. His cousin was a trainer for a cycling team. My memory is a bit faulty after 12 years but as I recall he had been Floyd Landis's cycling train
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by jasonboyd 7y ago
I don't know anything about canned mackerel, I'll give it a try the next time I'm at the grocery store. But as far as sushi goes, mackerel is one of my least favorite. I can't quite say way. I eat plenty of "fishy&q
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by jasonboyd 8y ago
A mess in what way?
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by jasonboyd 8y ago
I developed a... not quite an obsession, maybe a strong interest, in olive oil six or seven years ago. My interest was initially piqued by a report I heard on NPR about the health benefits. I learned the importance of the date the olives we
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by jasonboyd 8y ago
I saw a car with the club the other day - this first I have seen in I can't even remember how long. The car was in rough shape. Real rough. I mused to my wife that perhaps the car was there to protect the club.