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> As they stood on her porch, the officers told Wallace that her son could have been kidnapped and sex trafficked. "'You don't see much sex trafficking where you are, but where I patrol in downtown Waco, we do,'"
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I only read on my kindle and yet I have a room full of shelves overflowing with physical books. Most of the justification for those books and shelves is so my kids have a place to wander into and browse around if they want something new to
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To follow up, the contents of read_socket.sh --- #!/bin/bash python3.8 read_one_socket.py $1 --- Use the python socket libraries if you must, but don't use python asynchronously.
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Some of it is here https://tryexceptpass.org/article/asyncio-in-37/ One of my ongoing frustrations is python isn't just the lack of backwards compatibility but that if you inherit a script there's no way
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> there are... hacks to make this sort of work of course. The python motto.
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Not mentioned: The behavior is different between python 3.6 and 3.8. That was fun to debug. Python is simply not the right language for asynchronous programming. Things that are easy in many other languages are hard and don't work a
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I agree, reddit is my most destructive addiction. I like some communities but I always end up on the front page doom-scrolling. I'm just surprised it always get a pass when it comes to the negative impacts of social media.
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> Do Stories and Reels not get in your way? Don't you miss content from school pagse, kids clubs, activities, and team pages because the algorithm decides that it would rather show you yet-another-meme-post? Oh Christ yes, but if I
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> Who are these people who are still using Facebook every day? Me. Most everyone I know. Move from the tech bubble to the suburban parent bubble and I think you'll that nothing is replacing FB anytime soon. The school pages are
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Spend any amount of time among ( let's be honest ) men and you see this attitude over and over again. They "let" their spouse stay at home. The SAH spouse spends all "their" money. The working spouse "suppor
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I'm not coaching but I've taking kids to practice, turned on tethering, and gotten an hour of work done sitting peacefully at the park with no impact on productivity. When I was WIO I had to make deals with the boss - come it at
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>"why you want a career?" Financial independence. Anyone who thinks SAH parents can free themselves of this worry is naive. You never get the time back, you never get the experience back, you never get the training or the rais
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I can understand that it's probably easier to track the numbers of children born to 'women' instead of 'parents', but my observation has been that remote work has resulted in a sea change as to what it means to be a
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My first boss was your classic unix-beard, I hear his echo in some of the things I say. Nobody liked him either, but it's easier to get away with it at a 5 engineer company where you're the only one who dares touch the 10 year ol
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I had a great job. Great pay, stock grants that are still going up, good work/life balance, and co-workers who were friends, co-workers who wanted me on their teams. I'd spearheaded an initiative which ultimately failed but had ea
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There's nothing particularly original about this article and it's mostly preaching to the choir. According to the author, the pandemic will not end _in the US_ because of -- "rugged individualim" -- the lousy healthcare
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Pragmatic answer: It's really hard to figure out how much food is needed without creating huge amounts of waste. Our school district had free-for-all lunches and dinners for the last couple of years due to covid. Take as much as you
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I hate to make everything gendered but I have to wonder if a sports reporter who wrote about the impact of 9/11 on the baseball and football seasons would have received the same level of derision. This twitter thread boils down to &qu
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You've mentioned two extremes - 7 year olds should be completely supervised, 14/15 year olds can make their own decisions. Do you think there ages between 7 and 14 when kids should be allowed to watch videos unsupervised and kids
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You watch everything she watches and then discuss everything she watches? Sheesh, if I was your kid I'd find that pretty overbearing. How about letting her have her own headspace? I'd be more motivated to sneak around my interne
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No one in the history of the internet has ever gotten downvoted for criticizing modern parenting. I do not, in any way, support this bill. It's idiotic. I do, however, have some sympathy for parent who are not technically savvy, do n
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Talking about sex is taboo because having sex is taboo. Having sex is taboo because if women have sex with more than one man, none of men can be sure whose child she is carrying. Men, in general, really like having their genes carried on.
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"Stanford Solar Car Project was ‘key’ to Tesla’s inception", says Tesla co-founder JB Straubel https://electrek.co/2016/05/12/tesla-motors-stanford-solar-c...
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> Homeowners that own an extra unit or two on the same site as where they live is about the most ethical form of supply private rentals I'd never build or buy a MFD at least partly because I don't trust that the current vilific
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There are no magic wands here. Property is a limited commodity, it can't be expanded to fit demand. > then there needs to be a change No there doesn't > Having all the low paying workers commute 2 hours to work every day to
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Housing values in and around Silicon Valley have gone up extraordinarily since I was young for reasons that were not easily predictable. It's not a good model for housing costs in the rest of the US. I grew up in uninteresting towns i
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I'm with you friend. Posters throw out lines like "property shouldn't be an investment" as though the idea that property has intrinsic value is something invented in the last 50 years or so, not something that has been
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Your wife would prefer to live in blissful ignorance? That's extraordinary.
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> Woman works hard at home, gets to not be exposed to 101 harsh realities of life, feels fulfilled, seeing her children grow up. 'harsh realities of life' is - working at an office? Sitting at your computer reading HN? Your
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I have to wonder if maternal stress is on the rise in any significant way. We can iterate though the list of stressors we all have today, but for millennial mothers have given birth in times war and famine and high infant mortality. Why w

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