larrik

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by larrik 1y ago
And then, somehow, the desktop Outlook is better on mac than on Windows. On Windows I can't even easily copy/paste from one email to another. It strips out half the formatting and any colors that were there. Nor can I copy email r
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by larrik 1y ago
I'm surprised at the negative comments about Python here. Python has been my favorite language since I learned it, and nothing else has come close to it. I'm currently on pure JS project (node and vue) and I'm constantly figh
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by larrik 1y ago
Definitely. I get scammers calling me from a caller id that claims to be my bank asking about suspicious charges, and they know my name and have my account info, but they ask for my full credit card number to "verify" it. Yet, the
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by larrik 1y ago
You can probably just use the UPS/FedEx/Amazon apps to get those notifications instead anyway.
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by larrik 1y ago
The Roku app is actually really good at determining where everything ever is currently streaming (or purchasable). It's not 100% perfect, but it's generally correct. I go there first for basically everything. For example, it tells
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by larrik 1y ago
That sounds more like a linked list than an array. In C, an array is just contiguous bytes, and you reach an index through math (starting location + (index * size)). Pretty sure lots of languages still do this to some degree, as your lookup
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by larrik 1y ago
Mine was a bit more specific. I had a JSON object of data exported per account I was importing, and then a complex mapping (also JSON) of where to put each piece of data. Therefore, I really wanted to know that I was actually pulling in all
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by larrik 1y ago
I actually wrote something similar in nodejs for a data import system. Was very handy.
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by larrik 1y ago
yeah, I shouldn't have said "bytes" either, especially as I had AS/400's in mind when I wrote it.
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by larrik 1y ago
> Readers of a certain vintage will remember well the "Y2K problem," caused by retrospectively shortsighted attempts to save a couple of bytes by using two-digit years – meaning that "2000" is represented as "00&
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by larrik 1y ago
Well, mother-in-law's developer collapsed in the middle of building their development, and managed to empty the escrow accounts using forgery and fraud on the way out the door. That's not really the same scale as what we're t
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by larrik 1y ago
More data: I once lost 80 pounds purely through dieting. I really didn't change my exercise habits at all throughout (vs before I dieted). I was partially testing this theory, in fact. This was a decade ago, but I was aware of this lin
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by larrik 1y ago
"Here's what people said:" before the actual list was super annoying. > Allow single‑stair buildings up to 6 stories This seemed like a terrible suggestion, but it caused me to google it and now I see it's not that
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by larrik 1y ago
Yeah, I was surprised to learn that camera technology was calibrated primarily towards making white people look normal on film. Everything else was secondary. This is why cameras often have a hard time with darker skin tones: a century of t
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by larrik 1y ago
Probably if not you are trying to build a business. But! That's just one reason to code anything, and you are probably "doing this" well enough for the other reasons (education, experience, job hunting, and the best one: fun)
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by larrik 1y ago
It's not really even about the hosting. Apple devices are US-based. Windows, MacOS, and even Linux are primarily US-based (Linus wrote Linux in the USA, even if he wasn't originally from here). All of the major web browsers are bu
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by larrik 1y ago
It's worse than that. I got a call with the caller id of my (credit union) credit card company. They had my name and address, knew I had a card, and were claiming they were investigating fraudulent charges. It sounded more official tha
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by larrik 2y ago
The visible spectrum is the range of wavelengths of light our eyes can detect. I mean, that sounds nice, but pink, brown, white, and black clearly aren't on that spectrum, so it's a ton more complicated than that, eh? Of t
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by larrik 2y ago
“JavaScript sucks because '0' == 0!” - literally everyone ever I never really understood the hate for this, given that everything is a string in HTTP, and that SQL does the same damn thing. There are far more annoying th
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by larrik 2y ago
Meanwhile, my team has been trying to upgrade a large app from vue2/nuxt2 to vue3/nuxt3, which has no real upgrade path at all. Oh, and the time between nuxt3's prod release and vue2's EOL was like 9 months. Vue 3 IS bet
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by larrik 2y ago
I battled sleep issues on my laptop for months, and had very different results than most people with my model. I think the behavior is a total crapshoot from machine to machine. In fact, it turned out that a BIOS update that happened in the
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by larrik 2y ago
That seems like a good way to cook your laptop when you throw it into a bag with the CPU pegged.
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by larrik 2y ago
It's not just cosmetic, though, as now in order to add a new entry at the end you need to change two lines of code, which means your git blame is no longer accurate.
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by larrik 2y ago
I caught that too, though I believe the California warnings are generally of the form "if you can't prove nothing in there causes cancer, then it might cause cancer."
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by larrik 2y ago
I dunno, if you need one of these companies, it's often better to just let the insurance company send who they want. I wouldn't call pre-emptively though, no.
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by larrik 2y ago
On the one hand, people put a lot of meaning behind things that may not have it. On the other hand, I can tell one of my dogs which room my wife is in and he'll go directly to that room to get her. My house isn't small, either.
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by larrik 2y ago
I recognize this is an extract from a larger book I haven't read, but my main reaction is: prove it. All of this reads to me like a software developer complaining at the pub. The wording is strong and the premise that "employee ch
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by larrik 2y ago
it didn't send, or it didn't linkify?
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by larrik 2y ago
What's the advantages of using FastAPI over Django Ninja? But to answer your question more realistically: * Familiarity * Easy/built-in admin * Longevity I would also never consider switching an existing app from one to the othe
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by larrik 2y ago
On the one hand, yes. On the other, why does Ubuntu always do their craziest changes in the LTS? The LTS should boring, and the one after it should be the wild one. (That may not be what the plan is here, but it does sound like it)

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