kd5bjo

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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Without goals, how do you decide what you do and don’t need to get done?
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
What's being described is an X-Y scatter plot: Necessary ^ | Simple <---+---> Complex | V Nice to have
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
No, but dice that roll sixes more often are contributing more offspring to the next generation. If the selection pressure keeps up, you will have most dice consistently rolling 6s.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
You may want to consider writing one additional post that speeds through the rest of the development process. It would be a great opportunity to pull everything together, reinforce the lessons from the series, and leave students with somet
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Robots wash my dishes and my clothes for me, keep my household boiler stoked, and manage the ambient temperature. I also don't ever have to refill lamps, or go around with a match each evening to light them.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
In many stateside jurisdictions, remodeling a building makes you exempt from many zoning requirements that were instated after the original building was constructed. To qualify as a remodel rather than new construction, you can keep as lit
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Also, make sure to not burn yourself out -- management laying off everyone else isn't justification for you working double shifts. It was their decision, so the consequences should fall on them, not you.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Start with double-entry accounting on paper, until you don't learn anything new going through the process. Then you'll be in a position to pick an automation system that works with your process. You'll need two notebooks: St
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Some companies that make copyright claims against YouTube videos request a cut of the ad revenue instead of having the videos taken down. I'm pretty sure that "monetized content" is Google's term for these videos that y
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Historically, this is pretty much what happened with Texas. A bunch of Americans moved there, fought their own war of independence, and then immediately asked to join the US.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
This is where a retainer agreement can come in handy. The company is explicitly paying you to keep time free in case they need the extra workforce, but you aren't expected to even show up unless there's work to do.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Put yourself in a situation where you see the same people regularly. I show up to a weekly tennis clinic and hold season tickets to one of the local sports teams, for example.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Avoiding stressful situations is a mistake; it means you stagnate and never get the joy that comes when the situation is resolved.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
If there's another real estate crash, property values could fall below the accumulated property tax debt, leaving people who thought they owned their home outright underwater and unable to sell.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Whenever I'm trying to understand a complex if statement that someone else (or past me) wrote, transforming the conditional to contain only 'or' or 'and' but not both often makes the logic clearer. I also find myse
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan's_laws are incredibly useful when trying to analyze or simplify conditionals.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
The real question isn't how much caffeine do the tea leaves contain, but how much of it migrates into the water during steeping. My understanding is that the preparation of the tea (drying process, water temperature, steeping time, fi
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I've had some thoughts along the same lines, but haven't taken the opportunity to flesh them out nearly as far. A git repository is nearly a CRDT that represents a file system hierarchy -- the only thing that's missing is a d
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
The low-effort part is your sticking point. In my experience, most people are best served treating money conservatively and taking large risks with their time investments -- learn a rare craft, start a business, etc.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
As this is an Internet forum, it's kind of hard to evaluate how much risk commenters take in their lives; don't assume that all of the boring advice comes from boring people.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
After letting it steep overnight, I came up with this variant which addresses most of the issues that have come up in this thread: try: result = '' while (b = next(file_bytes_iterator)) != '\0': result
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
It's a syntax sugar feature, so its presence or absence will make little difference in the grand scheme of things -- there will always be a relatively easy way to rewrite code without it. Personally, I would prefer the loop iteration v
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
> However I'm struggling to find a use case for the python for-else definition where you don't end up doing something like 'result=something; break' anyway. What would be the point of breaking if you don't have a
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
> But as a thought experiment, if you were a lawyer tasked to argue this was publicly good, what could you even say? The primary economic value of many news articles is provided by timeliness and one or two key facts, even if they appear
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
It's not the link that's being taxed, but the short excerpt that's being displayed. If a website writes its own summary instead of taking a snippet directly from the article, there shouldn't be any fee.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
I never claimed it was a good feature, only that the language maintainers should either support code written with it or formally remove it instead of letting it rot with subtle breakage.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
If you aren't supposed to override the builtins, why does the language allow it at all? Lots of others don't. The answer, of course, is that we didn't realize it was a bad practice at the time and there's a bunch of leg
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
They’re paying extra to not have their routine interrupted; depending on what else is going on in their life, it may be the right decision. Money is a tool to do things you want, not a scorecard.
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Lots of stuff [1] is passed in a batched consensus process, where any member can have one of the consensus items separated into a separate vote. You could extend this idea by letting a sub majority (1/3 maybe) split bills apart to be
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by kd5bjo 8y ago
Back when Twitch was Justin.tv, we put in a lot of effort to make sure we only sent video to a copy of our player that was successfully showing our ad placements. I imagine that similar protections are still in place, but it's been al

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