mtlguitarist

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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
Yup, they moved back when Somerville Theater did the most recent renovations I think. I kind of miss going to the bathroom down there and seeing the strange art while wandering.
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
This is an unfair framing of it. Addiction is a mental illness and these companies are preying on the mentally ill to make money. They rely on them ruining their own lives and others' to make a profit.
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
This is totally fair and I agree with that. What I was trying to say and didn't express particularly eloquently is that you need to consider both "abstract" measures of code quality (performance, test coverage, complexity, ra
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
Yes, but presumably we all work at businesses that are trying to make money. Code quality and product quality are inextricably linked in the business world.
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
I just realized that I always use my ring finger for underscores. I wonder if that changed how I feel about snake case.
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
Except coffee is associated with lower all cause mortality (likely due to the amount of fiber extracted in coffee drinks) [0]. Do you have any evidence of decreased all cause mortality associated with any nicotine product? https:/&#x2
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
Okay but the difference is that being a mediocre athlete or musician means that you're unemployed, whereas you can be a totally mediocre programmer and make well into the 6 figures. My friends who are professional musicians know far mo
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
I think there's a bif citation needed on whether social media influences anxiety and depression in younger people. It's a nice scapegoat, but the world is harder and more competitive than it's ever been. I can't work in
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by mtlguitarist 2y ago
Okay but is this a failure of the user or an unintuitive UX? We can't just expect to pass cognitive burden onto users in a million places. UI affordances and conventions exist for a reason.
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by mtlguitarist 3y ago
> And how do you get those tickets into the issue tracker in the first place? I mean depends on the team but approximately: 1. Discuss high level initiative 2. Write tickets with coarse descriptions 3. Have team refine tickets (define sc
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by mtlguitarist 3y ago
I really do not understand what could possibly be hard about it for the manager here. People have tickets in some issue tracker, they move them into whatever status they're in, and the manager just sends out some messages to check in o
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by mtlguitarist 3y ago
In what way is pedestrian safety political? I have no political interests in this topic other than not wanting to be run over while walking around my city. I literally cannot trust drivers to follow the laws and plan my walks accordingly be
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by mtlguitarist 3y ago
If you wanted to handle this scenario with the serverless AWS stack, my recommendation would be to push records to Dynamo with TTLs and then when they pop have a Lambda push them onto the queue. Would cost almost nothing to do this. If you
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by mtlguitarist 3y ago
The young people I know hate going into the office, it's all the older folks that want to go in. I've been almost entirely remote since I've graduated and haven't missed being in person at all. I've developed my ski
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by mtlguitarist 3y ago
I find personally that my math ability is set to approximately 2-3 levels "below" the highest level math I completed, and I've seen hold for others. I have an applied math bachelors so I've taken analysis, dynamical syst
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by mtlguitarist 4y ago
I wish I could agree. Every aspect of pytest that I like (fixtures, plugins, etc.) is marred by a boneheaded move to make them autoloaded by default. Loading should be explicit/opt-in. It's dumv that if you pip install something t
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by mtlguitarist 4y ago
Is this really a positive thing? It creates in-groups and decreases diversity. Sure, it makes hiring easier but this is exactly how you end up with old boys clubs.
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by mtlguitarist 5y ago
One funny incident I had on this topic was when I was TAing calculus one student proudly proclaimed that there's no gravity on Mars while doing velocity problems. This didn't stop them from using the gravitational constant provide
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by mtlguitarist 5y ago
Regarding your last two points, you're absolutely spot on. I don't have much in terms of data, but I want to at least offer my story so that people understand how fundamentally broken the system is and how it discourages you from