john-radio

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by john-radio 3y ago
I like it too!
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by john-radio 3y ago
What does poetry deliver beyond what pyenv gets you? I haven't used either tool super extensively.
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by john-radio 3y ago
> hackintosh is likely in the rear view mirror for the next generation of tinkerers. Part of this might be that making Hackintoshes is so much harder now, but part of it might also be that OOTB desktop Linux is luxuriously good these day
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by john-radio 3y ago
It's the long con!
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by john-radio 3y ago
It's just like pickpocketing in Skyrim; it's legal if you just withdraw.
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by john-radio 3y ago
Well, you could throw in something like this - https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs/compare/master...... You can also go further by writing code that prompts the user for these values, one by one, and s
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by john-radio 3y ago
I hope so! Unfortunately it will definitely be massively increasing the ratio of documentation to intentional documentation, so we'll have to see whether it increases documentation usability or not.
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by john-radio 3y ago
And while we're being pedantic: > The dispute came down to some of Wikipedia’s most sacred tenants. Anyone can edit Wikipedia... Tenets!
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by john-radio 3y ago
It's that the poster didn't give any supporting comment to their claim that a lot of [the idealogy that is being foisted on the minds?] is "even anti-American". Claiming something is un-American is fine. We're (most
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by john-radio 3y ago
This is not a deepfake, though, to be clear; it's a YouTube video of a real GitLab data science staff meeting.
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by john-radio 3y ago
> But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all. Of course not, but that's the sales pitch, isn't it?
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by john-radio 3y ago
If you took away the dark patterns from TurboTax.com, there would be nothing left but the brand name and typeface.
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by john-radio 3y ago
If you do a job search for "Django", "flask" or "fastapi" you'll see that there are a lot of web dev jobs using it.
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by john-radio 3y ago
Excellent! Small bug: null responses are considered "correct" in the right/wrong counter. I've skipped 3 and gotten 3 wrong, and it's showing 3/6 correct.
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by john-radio 3y ago
VERY cool product. I have a quibble. I searched for "cool pokemon to use" and the top result was "How to use Paypal on Amazon" from "online-tech-tips.com". Understandable that the search results are not perfect
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by john-radio 3y ago
> This implies that only egg-based pasta can be made at home, which is not the case. If there are eggs then weigh the eggs, etc. Programmers!
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by john-radio 3y ago
You're right and you should say it!
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by john-radio 3y ago
I think Dropbox has all the features you mentioned from Google Photos, except possibly for tag-style albums instead of directory-style, and photo-focused tooling such as cropping and so on.
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by john-radio 3y ago
Part of your point seems to be that the OP, being a software engineer, should not have to pirate Spotify since presumably they have access to money. But that's not really the case for all devs, and moreover, nobody who isn't a dev
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by john-radio 3y ago
Yes, my (lay) understanding is that MasterYoda has it backwards and your explanation is correct.
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by john-radio 3y ago
I think the biggest difference here is that Portugal abolished prohibition, acting with unity as an entire country. That's very different than when cities or states do away with it, but there's unrestricted travel between there an
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by john-radio 3y ago
Yes, I got the sense from reading this that the author has neither spent a lot of time contributing to a wiki, nor writing software, because both tasks are scarily complex in a way that the blog entry skates over. But then I clicked "A
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by john-radio 3y ago
Once I adopted doom emacs, I found that I started using vi much more situationally; I dropped (my beloved) YouCompleteMe and the other heavier plugins from my configuration, using it as a much more bare-bones and general-purpose editor, lik
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by john-radio 3y ago
`vimtutor` from the CLI (on a computer with vim installed) is the best way I know of to pick up vim.
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by john-radio 3y ago
How would I go about lifting the damper on a piano key?
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by john-radio 3y ago
Yes, it's actually Ahab speaking, lol. He goes on to muse that thinking is probably the exclusive domain of God, since thinking requires "a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for
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by john-radio 3y ago
"Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels."
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by john-radio 3y ago
When does James Bond live in a tent house?
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by john-radio 3y ago
Actually the trending posts I saw when I clicked through to social.lol (omg.lol's Mastodon instance) are most of the same posts from my Explore page (the # icon) on urbanists.social, and most of these posts are not from either of these
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by john-radio 3y ago
Take a look, for example, at the timeline in https://xkcd.com/1732/ . It contains (almost) no prediction, but once you have internalized the information in it your own predictions on the climate topic are likely to beco

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