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by jrumbut 3y ago
There is a unique satisfaction to solving a problem with XSLT. That said, it's a lot like that old joke about regular expressions, "now you have two problems."
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by jrumbut 3y ago
And also imagine that in a time where a new set of clothes cost a considerable share of your income.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
> I'm sure a lot of that attitude was just posturing I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with the differences in transportation and communication at the time. You had to leave your house and your fields and possibly your famil
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by jrumbut 3y ago
After this started no one would ever have me pitch (though I did before)! This is just throwing it as a fielder, and basically always first base (or the vestigial catcher position in slowpitch softball) to hide the heinous throws that I wou
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by jrumbut 3y ago
What he actually expected was wireless, if you check the link.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
You insensitive clod!
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by jrumbut 3y ago
What is missing is innovation in the space traditionally occupied by textbooks. We need new forms for digesting recent results and making them useful for answering the kinds of questions asked by people with different levels of training in
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by jrumbut 3y ago
I had the same thing with throwing a baseball (now a softball in my dotage). Interestingly I never had a problem with batting or fielding, just throwing.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
> Open source was originally coined to be palatable to corporations, so we should write Free software instead. I wish he had addressed this one in the article, because this is a situation where the history is really relevant. There is an
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Selecting NULL to signify something exists breaks my brain a little bit. I really prefer 1 stylistically, even if there is no technical difference.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
This is very true! 8% is not that high historically: https://money.usnews.com/loans/mortgages/articles/historical... It's the past several years that were the anomaly. There's a legitimate chance we
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by jrumbut 3y ago
I've noticed that for a lot of quick/common stuff ("how do I change font color with JavaScript?") the question that comes up is old and talks about jQueryUI, but there are 400 answers that cover every library and framewo
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by jrumbut 3y ago
This is a scary scenario and certainly possible, but on the other hand you can find people saying this was about to happen in the 90s and it really didn't. Some jobs can be done the way you describe, some can't and it's hard
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by jrumbut 3y ago
> in a control group The control group gets the current standard treatment, not nothing (in case that was a source of confusion). Plus they typically don't have to pay for it which is a benefit for them. Large trials today will typi
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Open offices are a non-starter for me after I've seen the alternatives. Going from an open office to a private office was really life changing for me. All of a sudden I had energy and focus left over after work to do things like exerci
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by jrumbut 3y ago
I think this will happen, will be as inconvenient as you envision, but I think it will be for the best. We're not socially ready for one AI winner. The resulting giant would be too powerful and too influential.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
SimAnt! Now that brings back some memories! > and then deny the ability to provide ant care unless users engage in a breathwork/meditation exercise Little surprise twist there!
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by jrumbut 3y ago
This is really an excellent programming technique article. I think what makes it so great is that your examples hit a sweet spot of simplicity while still being motivating and you show how to get a "good enough" solution very quic
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by jrumbut 3y ago
That's why it matters in that situation, because it changes what actually happens (not just the performance).
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by jrumbut 3y ago
I don't know enough to comment on long Covid, but I think an element of it is that for a long time we've denied that sometimes illnesses require substantial recovery time. I remember reading a lot of old stories as a kid where som
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Just that it's set up in a particular way, I suspect. A long running project/organization will accrete plenty of tools, scripts, configurations, etc that make their environment different than another using a similar stack.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
You were the smartest of us all.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Oh of course, it was an emergency! Nothing could be more important than answering the phone.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
One of the best changes of the last 20 years is the quiet you can have in your home because of the lack of landlines. It was collective insanity to have such a loud device constantly interrupting us. I'm surprised that my older relativ
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by jrumbut 3y ago
There are about 180,000 athletic scholarships too. There is certainly a lot of competition to win one, but it's not an unreasonable dream for a talented/hardworking youth.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
> Still, on average, people are spending about 40% of their paychecks on renting a place to live. I think it's fair to say they've made progress in slowing the growth of the housing problem, but it is a big stretch to say they
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by jrumbut 3y ago
It was pretty easy ten years ago too, but somehow it remains a problem.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
> 50$ will make our investors very happy but then customers might complain. I definitely am suggesting a higher touch service, so you're providing real value for that higher price and can keep the $10 service for the budget traveler
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Yeah this appears to be a US specific thing. No American stuff worked, people from countries that were not the US were fine.
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by jrumbut 3y ago
Oh it very much did not just work (this was a little over a year ago so maybe things have changed?). Neither did anyone else's in my group. Eventually I tried adding an Indian friend's payment card and I got an email saying I had

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