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by larrik 6y ago
This happened to my grandmother. One week she was sharp as a tack. Next week, lit her house on fire to clear a paper jam... Doctor's claimed dementia, turned out to be a tooth infection.
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by larrik 6y ago
In my experience as a dev and now PM, there's a few issues with devs doing QA: 1) They are expensive. You can hire 3 or 4 QA people for every dev a lot of times. Why waste that money on devs? 2) They aren't that great at. They kno
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by larrik 6y ago
I'm pretty sure they are separate agreements and separate charges, and therefore separate transactions and contracts.
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by larrik 6y ago
They violated the rules of the iOS App Store, this is the Mac one. In fact, it effectively blocks them from releasing it as a direct download as well. This is likely going to be a significant mistake from Apple in hindsight.
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by larrik 6y ago
Same, I go months at a time forgetting I'm not using Google at all. The few times I've compared results I didn't notice an improvement.
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by larrik 6y ago
I'm getting downvoted, but the fact is that up until like 10 years ago I vastly preferred Calc over Excel. It had a lot less stupid built in causing me to lose my work. Excel would clear my undo history on save, or close ALL worksheets
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by larrik 6y ago
I did the "starter home" thing in 2006 and then the market crashed and I was under water until 2019... I would never recommend the idea of a "starter home" to anyone, ever. It only works when housing prices are on the ri
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by larrik 6y ago
That's kind of an elitist viewpoint, though. I imagine the "experts on the mailing lists" are largely contributors, and really only represent a certain class of users of the language at large. I'm not a Go user at all, b
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by larrik 6y ago
I can barely tell the difference between Excel and LibreOffice Calc with both of them open on the same computer...
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by larrik 6y ago
As someone not in the area, I had no idea this was a thing.
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by larrik 6y ago
What are winters normally like? You seem to be about as far from the equator as places like Miami, so I'm not sure what to expect.
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by larrik 6y ago
I mean, he was only 23 then, and proving his own negative.
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by larrik 6y ago
Juggling my work with my kids' schools, I've been monitoring bandwidth, and Zoom is a small fraction of the bandwidth of Google Meet, with better performance to boot.
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by larrik 6y ago
1) It's (likely) better for their eyes and motor development (turning pages is quite the skill to learn to do properly). 2) They outgrow them quickly, and you can move them down to their little cousin or a friend or whoever. 3) No dist
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by larrik 6y ago
I disagree. For fiction, at least, used bookstores let you find some obscure stuff for cheap, and a book can pass through many hands and develop its own story along the way. Some of this stuff isn't available digitally. I don't th
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by larrik 6y ago
This was quite a few years ago, and it'd likely be hard to make a case to switch back.
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by larrik 6y ago
That's a good question, since Stripe backed out at the VERY last minute for a customer of mine who sells alcohol over the internet, despite repeated assurances it would be fine.
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by larrik 6y ago
On the iOS app it all appears instantly-ish when I highlight, so I'm guessing it's just the same codebase.
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by larrik 6y ago
You can but I wouldn't
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by larrik 6y ago
Is this court arguing that it's legal to scrape a website regardless of theirs ToS? That copyright is the only law that matters on the web for this sort of thing?
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by larrik 6y ago
Unless they want to use the same PDF on the website that they send to the menu printing company. There's no way you are going to order menus from a printer and tell them to "print my webpage".
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by larrik 6y ago
> a lot of BigIron(TM) vendors advertised achieving five-9s by replacing hardware while the OS remained running and continuing service. AS/400's were capable of that in the 90's (possibly the 80's as well). Heck, they
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by larrik 6y ago
So last Saturday I got a brand new credit card from a brand new bank that I opened because my main credit card got compromised and I wanted a backup. Saturday evening I verify receipt of the card, and then put the card on the counter and le
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by larrik 6y ago
I honestly don't think the length of the albums matter. As bands get more successful, they tour more, and that eats up all of their time. Lots of bands will tour for 2 full years after an album release, and only then start to work on a
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by larrik 6y ago
> Rite Aid said it had quit using its facial recognition software. It later said all the cameras had been turned off.
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by larrik 6y ago
Except price. $10/month minimum is a steep cliff, and I just can't justify it.
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by larrik 6y ago
> The 228,000 ocean-dwelling species that we know about represents about ten percent of the estimated total aquatic species. I don't buy it. The idea that the deep ocean is full of all this life we haven't plundered yet seems l
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by larrik 6y ago
Counterpoint: 3D Realms. They made so much money off of Duke Nukem 3D that they never learned how to manage their business and burned all their money trying to make "the perfect sequel".
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by larrik 6y ago
PHP is very guilty of cramming hundreds of inconsistently named standard library functions into the default namespace, but I wasn't aware of Python doing this?
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by larrik 6y ago
Sure, Django/Python is a plenty good example. Python manages to be older than most of its competitors while still feeling like its cutting edge. Django is hard to beat in all but speed. What about newer stuff like Elixir/Phoenix,

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