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by jghn 10mo ago
I do almost everything git manually at the CLI. But the Jetbrains IDEs have a fantastic GUI git merge tool, and I also like the local git diff UI. Add in integrated blame mode, ability to pull up version-diff files, and that sort of thing.
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by jghn 10mo ago
They have a plugin for the old behavior
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by jghn 10mo ago
The important thing here is for people to understand that at best titles only indicate relative rank within a company. And even then that's tenuous. Titles are effectively meaningless when comparing outside of a company.
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by jghn 10mo ago
Am old enough that this was status quo for part of my career, and have also been in some groups that did this as a rejection of modern code review techniques. There are pros & cons to both sides. As you point out it's quite expensi
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by jghn 10mo ago
There's nuance here. Is it not being maintained because it does what it is supposed to do and there aren't any issues with it? Or is there a growing pile of issues being opened with no activity around them?
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by jghn 10mo ago
I can't recall a single time that type-checker speed was the limiting factor for me.
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by jghn 10mo ago
we had this in college. It failed to work more often than it worked, but when it worked it was awesome and way ahead of its time.
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by jghn 11mo ago
Not only this, but depending on which season of which show of his, there may have been other reasons for why spots were chosen. For instance there was at least one season of No Reservations where episodes were themed with the location as a
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by jghn 11mo ago
R followed the long standing tradition of being one letter off as it was derived from S. And its creators were Robert & Ross.
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by jghn 11mo ago
Biology, not chemistry but there's also the Sonic Hedgehog pathway [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_signaling_pathway
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by jghn 11mo ago
Open source developers have no such obligation. They’re doing things on their own time. But hey, I’m sure they’d be willing to give you a full refund for the amount you paid them to use their work
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by jghn 11mo ago
> The US and the upper class needs numbers go up, the numbers will go up. You don't think anyone had ever tried that prior to past crashes?
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by jghn 11mo ago
> The strange loop maybe was the last bastion of tech conference where I could check in those kinds if speakers. Strange Loop was amazing. The vibes were perfect. And I've never been to another tech conference that I found to be so
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by jghn 11mo ago
Same as it always was. Privatize gains, Socialize losses.
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by jghn 11mo ago
This also comes up with rankings of cancer centers. As the rankings get based on metrics that include things like survival, taking on the hard patients can have a negative impact on their rank. I've seen this cause internal debates on
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by jghn 11mo ago
I remember minidiscs, but never had my own player. But I don't want any sort of physical media.
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by jghn 11mo ago
I buy music either on bandcamp or iTunes, both of which gives me DRM free audio files. I then store them locally.
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by jghn 11mo ago
8-track is lower than cassette in my book, but they share a common factor!
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by jghn 11mo ago
I lived through vinyl, 8-track, cassettes, and CDs. I digitized all of my music over 20 years ago and no longer even own a physical media playback device. I can't fathom going back. Digital or bust.
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by jghn 11mo ago
My PCP told me to hold off until late 50s on the argument that there's no indication for boosters, and if I were to live a long, full life that the protection would be waning as I enter my more vulnerable years. I understand the argume
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by jghn 11mo ago
This is what removed any lingering thoughts I had about moving up the corporate ladder. If in order to succeed I either need to do certain things or at least get other groups to do those things, and if I'm not allowed to do those thing
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by jghn 11mo ago
This is a good point. "Hey Google, my account was created back when your service was invite only" should be enough.
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by jghn 11mo ago
> I almost wish Hadley had forked R to make the tidyverse I am pretty sure there are R-core members who also wish this is what happened.
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by jghn 11mo ago
> If I'd ever answered "I don't know," I would've been mortified. I'm approaching 30 years of professional work and still feel this way. I've found some people are like this, and others aren't. Tho
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by jghn 11mo ago
We should be using medians, not means for bot hate income and house prices.
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by jghn 11mo ago
oh my sweet summer child. Harvard was one of the leaders of the charge in terms of grade inflation back 20ish years ago
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by jghn 11mo ago
> The problem is that a BS now is like a high school diploma when they grew up > gen X / boomer Those 2 generations aren't even remotely close in terms of shared experience of what high school diploma was like when they grew
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by jghn 11mo ago
There is no way that you got that degree recent enough such that the years matter. An undergrad/master degree really only matters for the first, perhaps second job. After that, your experience and ability is what matters.
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by jghn 11mo ago
On paper, yes. But just like the tea party, and how "libertarian" has been completely coopted, they're really just tools for the same corporate interests as before.
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by jghn 11mo ago
As someone who is of the appropriate age & resonates with what you say: this doesn't account for the fact that Gen-X is the most MAGA generation.

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