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by macNchz 5y ago
I’ve been writing Python professional full time for 8 years and still occasionally make the trailing-comma-tuple mistake. These days at least I’ll recognize and be able to find it quickly rather than wasting time. Can be caught with a linte
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by macNchz 5y ago
For people prone to migraines it is also common that attacks will coincide with time off: weekends or the beginning of vacations. https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/news/2001030...
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by macNchz 5y ago
There's another QR-swapping scam running in NYC these days after the Citibike bike sharing system switched from typing a code at the dock to scanning a QR on the bike itself. People will take the barcode from one bike and put it on oth
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by macNchz 5y ago
I imagine it does work decently in Windows…it’s pretty standard to have to flip a few setting in the BIOS when installing Linux on a machine that came with Windows, best case is to have clear instructions on what settings need to be changed
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by macNchz 5y ago
I’ve encountered many of these as well and have always assumed this was somehow the result of trying to make everything “just work”, wherein providing detailed user feedback or error messages would be some kind of admission that it hadn’t “
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by macNchz 5y ago
This is definitely the case for me at least. I spent a lot of time in the New England woods as a kid and had lots of tick bites. Nowadays I am more cautious, but when I occasionally do get a bite I have a strong reaction at the site and usu
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by macNchz 5y ago
It's funny you have concerns with Windows using too much memory at idle, I actually have no idea how much memory my daily-driver Ubuntu install uses at baseline, but my #1 issue with desktop Linux is how badly it behaves when low on fr
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by macNchz 5y ago
This was really what made the decision easy for me back however many years ago when I started using an adblocker. Internet ads can be irritating and the pervasive cross site tracking and profiling bothers me, but I don’t have fundamental is
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by macNchz 5y ago
Studies of psychedelic therapy for terminally ill patients have had some super interesting results, there’s a section on the topic in Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind which I found fascinating. Seems there is a lot of potent
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by macNchz 5y ago
Sure once you have solid revenue and a repeatable business model, but it certainly costs enough to have an impact on people just starting out. When I quit my job to work for myself in 2019 I was choosing between $600/mo COBRA or nomina
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yeah I have a relative who renovated their kitchen recently and got a fairly high end induction range with touch controls...it was quite expensive and has possibly the worst user experience of any appliance I've ever used. As the touch
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by macNchz 5y ago
>about building complex personality and interest profiles on users based around their engagement patterns across sites and services Twitter very clearly thinks I'm a doctor. I am not a doctor. They show me lots of ads that are obvio
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by macNchz 5y ago
A good waiter certainly has great "menu knowledge", however this is actually a situation where the waiter shouldn't be trying to impress the customer with how well they remember ingredients. A customer informing a waiter of a
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by macNchz 5y ago
I'm with you about corporate drivel generally, but I'm not really seeing it here... this post is much more human and expresses seemingly genuine gratitude towards team members in a way that's absent from the utter tripe I fin
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by macNchz 5y ago
Yes, per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK304321/ > There is sufficient evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of ciclosporin. Ciclosporin causes cancer of the skin (squamous cell carcinoma), cancer at
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by macNchz 5y ago
I always felt it was a good demonstration of staying disciplined and focusing on making a great consumer product first–looking too closely at the competition and building in a bunch of enterprise-friendly features from the start could have
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by macNchz 5y ago
I think Firewire was a smart choice when launching to Mac users first, since USB1 was so slow, USB2 was still very new, and all new Macs had Firewire ports. That said, opening the door to Windows later on was absolutely the key to the popul
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by macNchz 5y ago
Replying to myself as I reread the thread: I found a comment a few pages in about Apple's stock being down $1 on the day. So what if you'd skipped the iPod and just bought $399 worth of AAPL? According to this site which seems to
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by macNchz 5y ago
Hard to believe it has been 20 years. When talking about the impact of the original iPod on the last two decades of Apple's extraordinary success, I like to jump back to this forum thread from October 23rd 2001 (it is always easy to fi
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by macNchz 5y ago
This makes a lot of sense and totally jives with my brief experience of working on a single App Engine app years ago. It felt like an easy platform to spin up a simple web app at first blush, but was actually such a frustrating experience w
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by macNchz 5y ago
I’ve been running Sentry (cloud and self hosted) for various Python apps since 2014 and haven’t had any issues with the fingerprinting. Maybe a language or project specific issue?
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by macNchz 5y ago
I installed Ubuntu and Windows, and set up a Mac VM in case I needed it, but haven't really used Windows or the Mac VM. I do use a lot more VMs than I used to–having lots of cores, RAM, and fast NVMe drives it has opened my eyes to a d
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by macNchz 5y ago
Supply chain issues complicate things a bit, but if I'm searching correctly the list price for Micron modules is ~$50 or less per 16GB. Ultimately, though, my beef with their pricing is not really about this specific release which obvi
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by macNchz 5y ago
I've been a Mac user since the 90s and a long time apologist for the Apple premium... I understand and have generally been totally fine paying for design, fit and finish, longevity, and attention to detail that's hard to come by e
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by macNchz 5y ago
One would hope, but I think it’s not uncommon to have them installed incorrectly. It happened to a friend of mine a few years ago, and a search turns up plenty of other instances: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kitchen+cabinets+f
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by macNchz 5y ago
Thanks for the link, super interesting to watch. Over the years as a programmer I've picked up knowledge about web accessibility from a mechanical, standards/implementation focused point of view, but this video is helping me reali
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by macNchz 5y ago
I test drove a Model 3 yesterday and this was something that really jumped out at me. I didn't try any of the automatic driving features, but driving around Brooklyn watching the way the car was perceiving the world around it did not i
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If Your CEO Talks Like Kant, Think Twice Before Investing(bloomberg.com)
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by macNchz 5y ago
Generally with this sort of thing it’s up to the bank to file reports to comply with the regulation. I don’t know the specifics for how the current $10k+ transaction reports work, but usually I think the government doesn’t bother trying to
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by macNchz 5y ago
I built a pretty beefy workstation last year, mostly for software dev but with a high end GPU so I could check out new games. I installed Ubuntu and Windows 10 on it from the start and figured I’d boot into Windows to play games, but so far

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