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by jtdev 5y ago
Yes, I also found the Django ORM to be absolutely horrendous. The need for using a serializer was also incredibly offputting and the default behavior of said serializers was almost always unhelpful and in fact caused more work than just cra
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by jtdev 5y ago
What you describe is a fallacy... it's more like: "I'm a heavy machinery operator, not a welder; if you need a weld, you'll need to requisition a welder."
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by jtdev 5y ago
> "corruption, bullying, and drive to have everyone do as little as possible" <-- this exact same verbiage could be used to describe the current state of affairs sans unionization.
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Warren Buffett Says He's Quitting Gates Foundation(wsj.com)
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by jtdev 5y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/google-tweaks-its-algorithm-...
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by jtdev 5y ago
Well I'd be interested in hearing how Brave search was able to surface results faster than Google yesterday... YouTube (another Alphabet echo chamber) was/is also removing video of the ambulance incident, so it was definitely on t
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by jtdev 5y ago
Do you believe that Google doesn't engage in censoring search results? Do you know that YouTube was taking down the video of said incident yesterday and continues to do so today? https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021
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by jtdev 5y ago
I’ve been using it. Seems like a solid search engine. Interestingly, Google appeared to be censoring results yesterday to hide reports about an unfortunate shooting at a Juneteenth event in Oakland and a subsequent situation where a crowd o
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by jtdev 5y ago
Define “intensive” in this context. Do you realize that much of American beef cattle actually graze on natural grasses for most of their lives… in largely natural settings that support complex natural ecosystem? That will not be the case fo
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by jtdev 5y ago
The primary ingredients in the fake meats being proselytized are plant proteins… meaning massive monocultures, pesticide and herbicide application, fertilizer application and manufacturing, and decimation of many thousands of acres of natur
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by jtdev 5y ago
Okay, how do you feel about monocultures of soybean doused in glyphosate and multi-annual applications of synthetic fertilizers (which create radioactive leachate as a manufacturing byproduct)?
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by jtdev 5y ago
The farms that grow the inputs to your lab goo will have permits to shoot wild animals on these properties… it’s called a “block permit” and farmers in my area are known to kill so many deer through these permits that bulldozers are needed
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by jtdev 5y ago
A good coder does not a good technical document writer make.
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by jtdev 5y ago
con•spir•a•cy kən-spîr′ə-sē► n. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. Like, maybe the Fed is conspiring with the gov. and big banks to fleece the American people of their real estate assets…? Have you no
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by jtdev 5y ago
Consider that you may be far too trusting if you’re not considering conspiracy as a possibility at this point…
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by jtdev 5y ago
Twitter only does that when it facilitates manipulation of important elections. They’ve moved on to protecting Fauci, Harris, Biden from the harsh reality of their own incompetence and rapidly vanishing facade of legitimacy.
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by jtdev 5y ago
Our political leaders and absolutely terrible media are the villains here… not the rich people protecting their wealth.
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by jtdev 5y ago
It also encourages liquidity in the residential real estate market… which seems to be a net good thing.
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by jtdev 5y ago
Our fathers and mothers put man on the moon… we build shitty software that helps the technocrats sell more junk to the masses.
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by jtdev 5y ago
I’d love to see a good primer on data models and scenarios that are well suited to FDB.
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by jtdev 5y ago
ML/AI is such an irresistible siren song for so many… the possibilities are seemingly endless. But the “sales and marketing” people are getting over their skis selling AI/ML to the point of smothering the tech. The next AI winter
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by jtdev 5y ago
FP = debating largely academic nuances that have almost zero material effect on software deliverables, purely for ego driven reasons.
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by jtdev 5y ago
From the Swift docs regarding closures (I would have used Haskell doc reference, but the Haskell docs are so esoteric and vague as to be nearly useless): “A closure can capture constants and variables from the surrounding context in which i
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by jtdev 5y ago
Explain why closures are allowed to mutate state in this “simple, well understood” framework.
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by jtdev 5y ago
FP is a cult.
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by jtdev 5y ago
Uhhh, you can stop using said services and software that abuse privacy, e.g., Facebook, Google, Twitter, TicToc, etc.
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by jtdev 5y ago
My next door neighbors just had a pesticide treatment sprayed on the entire exterior of their house... including patio furniture, outdoor cooking area, the yard that their young children play in... this just one week after a neighborhood wi
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by jtdev 5y ago
Support your local CSA and sustainable agriculture.
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by jtdev 5y ago
I'm all for GMOs that allow reduction of pesticides and more sustainable ag practices in general... but that's not what we've seen happen. Additionally, the IP issues raised when Monsanto's GMO plant pollen drifts onto m
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by jtdev 5y ago
> “They help fight off infection…” Yeah, that’s what the immune system does.

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