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by jawns 3y ago
My rule of thumb for commits is that they should be of a size and scope suitable for cherry-picking. So, maybe I'm working on a small feature that entails three changes, and each of those three changes is useful in and of itself and c
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I like how Atlassian puts it: > The golden rule of rebasing > Once you understand what rebasing is, the most important thing to learn is when not to do it. The golden rule of git rebase is to never use it on public branches. https:&#
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Last year, there were a number of high-profile lay-offs in the tech industry. Companies used those not only to get to "lean" staffing levels but also to get rid of underperformers en masse. If you happen to have survived those, b
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When to Shut Up: A Visual Guide (With Included Algorithm)(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, 'The Marvels' Reshoots(variety.com)
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The US Housing Market Has Become an Impossible Mess(bloomberg.com)
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I am a distributist, of the variety promulgated by G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. Their central tenet is that society works best when the ownership of productive property is widely distributed. And the converse is also true: Society
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Phew, I'm glad you hold this viewpoint, because I need a little help. My local prison has a lot of inmates who would be better off, and less likely to re-offend, if they just had more good influences in their lives. I mean, who thoug
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People talk about homeschooling as if it's one single concept, but it's actually a whole bunch of very dissimilar things. There are people who homeschool because they don't agree with the government's viewpoints, people
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This piece does not really touch on the many confounding variables that are found when examining the correlation between esoteric beliefs and social status. Level of education, for instance, is a biggie, even when accounting for the percei
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I've never confused the Swiss and the Swedes, but I sure have confused the Dutch and the Danes!
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Often when the news media says that the pope has endorsed something, they're actually talking about a Vatican spokesperson or one of its departments, or a mention in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. Because the Registe
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This is probably the stupidest question many of you will encounter today, but: If soap has an extraordinary ability to destroy viruses on our skin ... can eating soap give us some of those benefits for viruses that are already in our bodies
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I know the Internet cloak of anonymity makes us feel comfortable saying things we wouldn't feel comfortable saying face-to-face to a colleague, but HN tries to promote civility in our comments, and yours demonstrates a lack of it. htt
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You're right, my wording was imprecise. My point was that he could have continued to delve into the information without anyone hassling him, unless the city independently discovered their mistake. But you are right to point out that he
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The most interesting part of this story is the potential legal risk of holding onto the records that were improperly disclosed. Had the author not notified the city that they had royally screwed up by divulging far more sensitive informatio
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Just using the name "Marcel the Shell" probably isn't enough to be legally actionable. Plenty of books, films, and TV shows have the same titles, which indicates that titles alone typically don't enjoy the protection of
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I would wager that very few engineering managers have significant formal training in management. While software engineers can hold a wide variety of degrees, the most common is a CS degree, and few of those include significant coursework s
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by jawns 3y ago
Are you familiar with "The Wal-Mart Effect"? It describes the impact on local economies when a Wal-Mart opens. Spoiler: It isn't good. Far from being a net producer of good, decent-paying jobs, it tends to wreck the local
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by jawns 3y ago
Is it a stretch to think these police officers are trying to make things as painful as possible for this teen, even if they know a court is going to eventually throw them out, because he called them out on their outrageous behavior? Well ..
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I think this challenges us to consider two questions: 1) Does he deserve this money based on the things he did? 2) Should any one person, regardless of how much they deserve it, hold this much wealth? This comments section shows that people
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I bought a Pixel 3A phone shortly after it was released in 2019. Since then, there have been 5 additional Pixel releases, each with shiny new features, and about a year ago I received an offer to trade in my Pixel 3A for the latest model at
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I don't think any lawyer would take that route, because the town is not being sued for applying a constitutional policy incorrectly. It is being sued for applying an unconstitutional policy at all. Proving that he did, indeed, violate
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by jawns 3y ago
I could see some small organizations being able to get by on even the cheapest plan if only legit emails were counted. But if any spam or unsolicited emails are counted against the limits, it becomes much harder to plan against.
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Anybody know if this supports group email, where messages to one address go to multiple recipients?
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Coincidentally, we can also pry fingerprints from your cold, dead hands.
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The dark patterns around auto-pay are part of the problem. One that bit me a couple of times this year was my bank's offering the ability to set an auto-pay limit. Which you would think means "auto-pay the lesser of the account ba
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I agree that there was more that could have been done to signal correct orientation. But an additional wrinkle is that the orientation of the port itself was not static. On laptops and desktops, it was horizontal. On certain other devices,
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One thing I like to bring to these debates is the idea that people, in general, are really bad at understanding probabilities at the scale that is required here. And I'm not talking about probabilities that deal with how large the univ
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Philosophically, yes. But some photo-editing techniques rely on data that is not backfillable and must be recorded at capture time. And even in cases where there is no functional impediment to applying it against historical photos, sometime

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