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by mgkimsal 8mo ago
> No, there is Github Copilot, the AI agent tool that also has autocomplete, and a chat UI. When it came out, Github Copilot was an autocomplete tool. That's it. That may be what the OP was originally using. That's what I u
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by mgkimsal 9mo ago
The 'comment becomes a lie' is because you've got magic number there in the comment. If the comment was // We match them by looking for equal-opposite amounts within an X-day window defined by BANK_TRANSFER_MATC
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
I doubt it was even under version control...
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
Can't edit but... an adult who grew up in the US their entire life who can't read out "acetaminophen" or "yosemite" is certainly under-literate.
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
Make Arial Great Again
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
Petty as in 'small and does not really matter' or petty as in 'vindictive'. All administrations do many small things that may not ultimately have much impact, but often those may be for benign reasons. Understanding th
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
> if a person is visually impaired, why wouldn't they have tools at their disposal to make things readable? If it's on a screen in a browser, probably. If it's printed, or on a display not under a reader's control,
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
But it's not a joke. We've had a decade of reports with insiders indicating he doesn't read daily briefings. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-looks-at-charts-in-int... Can he read? No doubt he can rea
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
Thought I'd missed something. Agreed.
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by mgkimsal 10mo ago
Pipe operator is probably the biggest visible addition, but there's been quite a few bits since 8.4, with some quality of life improvements.
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PHP 8.5 Released(php.net)
4 points by mgkimsal 10mo ago|1 comments
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by mgkimsal 11mo ago
Dorian Gray jokes never get old...
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by mgkimsal 11mo ago
SE, 12 mini and 13 mini user here. Yes, I bought them.
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by mgkimsal 11mo ago
i'm not sure i get the point here. at some point, i don't want to be carrying something by holding it in my hand. i might need to use my hand for something else. so I put the item down, or put it in a container that I bring wit
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by mgkimsal 11mo ago
I passed this on to some accessibility folks at a couple conferences in the last month - everyone was impressed :)
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by mgkimsal 11mo ago
My brother had an issue with Gusto, but I've not yet, after having used them for... probably at least 10 years now. Maybe longer. I was a refuge from quickbooks payroll which managed to screw up state filings such that I had 2 years
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
> Most Americans don’t choose their own insurance their _employers_ do. I don't have an employer, but I still only have one company selling health insurance in my county, so... that's all I can buy.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Youtube example of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Igevw8PRRY Amiga example with intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxciUa4YmeY
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
My brother was/is allergic to peanuts, and it was first noticed in ... 1978 I think, when he was 2. Horrible reaction, nearly died. I'm older, don't have it. A brother younger than both of us also has no allergy to peanuts
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I've been in projects where they're 'on the cloud' to be 'scalable', but I had to estimate my CPU needs up front for a year to get that in the budget, and there wasn't any defined process for "hey, we
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
Video of actual gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2skjTv1joA
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I'm one... I was introduced to JB by someone else who paid out of their own pocket 18 years ago. I thought he was crazy... then a couple years later I tried it in earnest and it was ... life (well career) changing.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
You're right... misread that. Does seem like you could namespace classes in to versions. Then it's much clearer which version of a class a caller is using.
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
similar. i guess i got a bargain cause I got 2.5 hours in ER with a couple tests for only $4k! Adjusted down to .. $2300 after 'insurance' (which I was paying $500/month for, with a $7k deductible).
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
API changes breaking BC feel like they should be using versioning. I don't see enough people putting versioning support in to their API stuff at the outset. I've been chastised for doing that with "YAGNI". And then..
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
petrol is one of the few things we buy that has tax built in. you pump $23.72, that's exactly what you pay. You prepay with cash - you're having to estimate what, say, $15 will get you. Delta of $2.80/gal vs $3.30/gal
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
I had this issue during a job interview exercise. Their "follow these steps exactly" were simply broken. The root cause was that they were having people re-use the same shared remote amazon desktop system. Each candidate got
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
A friend at my coworking spot had a stroke a month ago. I was coming in on a monday morning and he was being carted off in the ambulance right as I got there. As in... door was open and his coffee and laptop were there, lunch in the fridg
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
The disconnect comes from the difference between 'shut it off' and 'clear the account'. If I read an earlier poster correctly, the claim is "the only reasonable interpretation is to immediately delete the contents
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by mgkimsal 1y ago
A theme of many of the horror stories is something like "I set up something personal, costing a few dollars a month, and I was DDOSed or (in earlier terms) slashdotted out of the blue, and I now have a bill for $17k accumulated over 4

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