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by mynameisash 6y ago
Amazon notes[0] that they "will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases". Looking at my purchase history over the last six years, that number is closer to 0.25% (presumably because many purchases
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by mynameisash 6y ago
My most recent professional project involves - among other things - a Python API deployed to AKS. I'd used Python here and there for fun and on the periphery of work, but this was the first time I had to dive into it full-on. While I
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by mynameisash 6y ago
> the simplicity of Go As someone who's not written any Go, I found fasterthanlime's critique of the language[0] damning enough that I likely won't ever touch the thing. Maybe he's cherry-picked examples, but his arti
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by mynameisash 6y ago
I used to work with a guy that liked to talk about how much porn has helped technology - primarily that the desire for privacy (in viewing and purchasing) helped drive SSL adoption. I'm sure he was being facetious, but the idea that an
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by mynameisash 6y ago
Link to their GitHub repo is buried in the PDF: https://github.com/anchorhash/cpp-anchorhash
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by mynameisash 6y ago
I use Signal as my primary SMS, and more and more of my contacts are using it. As such, I'm doing a lot more Signal voice and video calls. On my several year old, cheapy Moto G6, I've never had an issue with the battery draining n
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by mynameisash 6y ago
I bought a cheapy pair of heyday headphones ([0] but w/o active noise cancellation) a few years back because I wanted over-the-ear headphones with both Bluetooth and 3.5mm stereo jack. I used these in the office for music, on the bus f
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by mynameisash 6y ago
I remember back in ~93, my dad told me that the Mac we had just bought had voice recognition. He warned me -- quite jokingly -- that he had to be careful not to say something like, "mynameisash, please empty the trash" because the
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by mynameisash 6y ago
> The model model not only makes memory safe, it prevents different types of concurrency bugs. While rust won't prevent ALL classes of concurrency issues, it will prevent several of them. That makes it easier to write parallel app
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by mynameisash 6y ago
> As a big data engineer, Rust does not provide any advantage to me I assume that this is meant to imply that Rust doesn't provide advantages in the data engineering space. So I'll add in here -- as a data engineer myself -- th
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by mynameisash 6y ago
I read Gabriel Wyner's book, _Fluent Forever_, which was pretty decent for giving ideas on how to effectively use SRS for language learning. That would probably be a good place to start. I disagree with his approach (which I haven&#x27
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by mynameisash 6y ago
> impossible to create a local user account on Windows 10, unless you disconnect from the internet This isn't at all true. Accounts > Family & other users > Add someone else to this PC. Took me 20 seconds to find this sett