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by proamdev123 3y ago
I haven’t seen any non-networked baby monitors anywhere, but perhaps I’m looking in the wrong places. Can you suggest any monitor brands/models or places I could find them? (Genuinely asking)
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Thanks for the list of alternatives! Have you experienced any unexpected pros and/or cons from using those vendors instead of Amazon?
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by proamdev123 3y ago
This is an excellent point. I’m extremely curious to see if the evidence shows that Amazon’s practices actually drive up prices in the market or whether there’s not much impact. I suspect the answer may vary drastically depending on the pro
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Where do you shop online now for things that you used to buy on Amazon? Have you found any unexpected pros or cons from going to alternative online stores? I’m not planning to leave Amazon, but I’d love to find good alternatives.
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> It is none of Amazons business what prices they put when they list their wares on other services… It is literally Amazon’s business to offer pricing at equal to or better than their competitors. > …the only reason they care is tha
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Fantastic insights here. I’d add that another invisible cost(?) is that business users are going to develop their own tools no matter what. Why? Because they need them to do their jobs! So development is happening, whether it’s done by peop
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> Just bill for it, support and all. Make the customer say no. Or if they're willing to pay then great. This is probably the best solution. The organization still has to be prepared that business users will make their own tools, tho
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> As another commenter said, it was an incentives problem. Right or wrong, good or bad, helping people with small scripts was not something that would ever be rewarded. I agree with you here. The long queues for internal dev support is i
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> The counter was "If we fix it, they'll keep coming back to us and in the long run more money would be lost." And this is why people develop their own tools. Then the same people that wouldn’t help say, “Why did you build
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by proamdev123 3y ago
That’s a fantastic point. The unstated underlying request isn’t to see the same chart, the same way, every week/month/quarter. It’s actually: “Find any abnormalities in the data that could be threats or opportunities, and show me
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by proamdev123 3y ago
As a business user myself, often times we are simply responding to an edict from Leadership that amounts to: “You guys should have some dashboards!” Other times it’s because a supervisor or internal customer likes to see certain things on a
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Can you recommend a good online Excel modeling course? I see tons of courses that teach “Excel skills”, but can’t find any that teach modeling using Excel.
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Physics doesn’t obey mathematical laws. Mankind studied physics until we found mathematical formulas that describe nature reliably. There are countless math formulas that were discarded over the millennia after they were discovered to not a
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> One imagines two intelligent alien races would be able to communicate that pi is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle without coming to any real agreements over postulates or axioms. Except circles don’t exist in
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by proamdev123 3y ago
This link says OpenAI makes $80 million per month and is projected to make $1 billion this year. Google (Alphabet) made $5.4 billion per WEEK in revenue last year. ignoramous was right 5 times over!
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by proamdev123 3y ago
I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. We were talking about searching for signs of extraterrestrial life by looking for electromagnetic signals that they may have sent through space. Are you asking why I’d assume that they don’t have the
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Following that thought even further, if dolphins or whales were as intelligent as humans would they even be capable of developing the ability to make instruments that can transmit electromagnetic signals? Given the limitations of their ph
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by proamdev123 3y ago
I’m interested in using privacy.com, but I’m concerned that providing THEM access access to my accounts creates even more vulnerability. Fo they have any security protections that prevent them from draining my accounts (either accidentally
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Makes sense. > was writing code where I couldn’t be bothered to put together ideas from several distinct tutorials. It’s fantastic for writing code that you can basically google for, even if you have to read several disperate pages to ge
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> OOP remains the most popular and requested programming paradigm even though it has gradually slid into functional obsolescence more than a decade ago… I read your link. It was an interesting essay. But how is OOP functionally obsolete?
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> I'm quite keen to use it more in my side projects, I just don't really see the time pay off to invest learning it… I think using it for side projects is where it shines, especially if you’re talking about coding side projects
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by proamdev123 3y ago
It did used to be free. I used the site years ago for awhile before he announced that he was putting it behind a paywall (except for a few free chapters).
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Got it. Thanks!
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Lol. Hilarious! Thanks for elaborating.
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by proamdev123 3y ago
This sounds interesting, but I’m not following. Do you mind expanding? Specifically, how does nesting details/summary tags relate to 5 MB of HTML, and how does that relate to breaking a lot of browsers? Sounds like a great story, and I
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Why do you hate Jupyter notebooks so much that it reaches “worst thing to ever have happened“ status? Why do you love R Studio so much? (I’ve never used it, so no judgment)
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> it gets people socially in trouble if they’re picky. What does it look like when somebody gets “socially in trouble” for being picky? What actually happens to them (socially) in this instance? I’ve never seen or heard of anything like
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by proamdev123 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why would people have “horror” at the idea of going to a chain restaurant, as opposed to, say, “disinterest”?
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by proamdev123 3y ago
I refactor my code into functions as I go. Then I can easily put them into a Python file and import them from the notebook. Easy peasy and very nice for iterative development.
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by proamdev123 3y ago
> …the moon does not have an atmosphere > …would remain suspended in mid-air Aside from the no-gravity hallucination, this is also funny.

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