mcdonje

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by mcdonje 3y ago
Getting a high score requires good algorithms. However, it's a good language learning game.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
There are also lobbies where you choose an elevator for a specific range of floors. I wonder if that's a legacy solution and what you're describing has become the new standard.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I do the daily crossword and wordle is one of the games in the app, so I often end up doing it.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Nice concept. Flag pages are pretty useful. Search doesn't work for me on firefox android.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
See these sites: - https://xkcd.com/1732/ - https://climate.nasa.gov/
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Classic Carl Sagan clip relaying this story: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hZl3arO7SY
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by mcdonje 3y ago
It doesn't prevent them from benefiting from the community. They're deciding they don't want to be beholden to a license that requires them to contribute back, and they're blaming the license itself for their selfishness
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by mcdonje 3y ago
>The drawback of building commercially on top of open source software using GPL is that the copyleft aspect can put some people off. Not every person or business wants to have to expose their code for every minor change or bug fix they m
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I think duckdb is more of a columnar sqlite.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Not sure about that distance, but it's possible. Most flights are short to medium hops, and pretty much everything at those distances would be more efficient with trains.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Android apps are fine in general. It's just what you're used to. It's like when people complain about linux Adobe alternatives being hard to use. That's just an opinion. These types of complaints usually have a telling l
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by mcdonje 3y ago
We'd be better served by trains. Airplanes are not efficient, and the security theater is annoying.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
"It's not a data breach if you collect money from the criminals for the data. Then it's a service offering." - Credit bureaus
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Conway's law. Unless those people have devs or data engineers embedded in their group, they're going to keep on with less than ideal solutions. Management will accept those inefficient solutions because they don't come with d
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I hope this is the start of a wholesale python replacement for VBA. Python has turned into what VBA always tried to be: A ubiquitous language for data and scripting (among other things). Excel would be well served by replacing VBA with eith
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Anyone using nix as a daily driver? Where does it fit on the LFS -> gentoo -> arch -> debian -> mint spectrum in terms of ease of use, ecosystem, and looks?
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I've been in some really bad situations related to low-code products. A. If the product isn't powerful enough, then users can't easily handle situations outside of the normal workflow or quickly change processes to accommodat
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Not sure it logically follows that they're able to reliably detect something simply because they have it categorized in a service level offering. Their model could still be reactive, relying on reports from users or even from those sam
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Can't promise I'll give it a try, but I like the idea of a static site generator that's little more than a markdown to html converter. BTW, I love the word 'lagniappe'. It really should be more widely used.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I don't have it backwards. Free as in beer (gratis): Given away at no cost to the recipient. For instance, a closed source program with a highly restrictive license that isn't allowed to be taken apart, repaired, moved to another
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I always thought it was an excuse. Like, 'Check out my cool bike. It's matte black because that looks cool. I got a pretty rad old-school matte black helmet to match. And of course a black riding jacket. Oh yeah, and I set the car
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Your argument is that nothing should be done about the absurd gains of the vertical part of a parieto distribution because differences in the long tail of the horizontal part exist.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
>selling free software is totally viable if you don't open source it If you're selling it then it's not free as in beer, and if it's not open source then it's not free as in freedom. The little loophole you descr
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Sometimes the answer is "so our sales team can tell people our security is better than our competitors."
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Love this. Clever, practical, low-tech, no need for a network connection, no batteries. I wonder why that setup isn't already the norm.
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Twitter's stupid rules are an institutional problem. It's not fair to blame individuals for acting in their best interest because if they don't, someone else will. Shame or other cultural tools are not effective for combating
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Spreadsheets are definitely already the greatest low-code tool of all time. Not sure what innovations you're looking for. There have been all sorts of advanced features added to excel over the years, some requiring more code to work wi
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by mcdonje 3y ago
I'm using FF on android and had no issues scrolling.
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I can see arguments either way. Some people certainly do development work with spreadsheets in order to solve problems in extremely locked down environments where they don't have the option of using Python. However, many people don&#x2
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by mcdonje 3y ago
Then how do they report back to the advertisers that the ads weren't skipped? Edit: Or make them unskippable?

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