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by ryangittins 4y ago
Thanks, I'm glad you're liking it!
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by ryangittins 4y ago
Great idea! I've submitted my side project, https://siftrss.com/ . It lets you add filters to any RSS feed for free in a few seconds. It's great for filtering news, podcasts, and anything else you get via RSS dow
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by ryangittins 4y ago
This has been my experience as well. I was very excited to turn on the learning mode when I got it, only to turn it off a few weeks later in favor of scheduling. I've tried turning it on a couple times since then, and I always revert
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I really love seeing the ethos of the old internet shine through with new ideas.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I once had these in a speakeasy in downtown Louisville, KY with a cocktail called "Acid Cat Spirit Guide." We ordered a round of them and all the guy said was, "eat the flower and drink the drink." It was a pretty fun e
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I've long pondered building exactly this, an anti-recommendation engine. You'd go through and mark some favorite films or genres, and it'd come back with something great but totally unlike your usual picks. Foreign flicks no
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by ryangittins 4y ago
This joke is kind of derivative.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
I wasn't able to smell it at all from a few feet away, but the one I saw recently wasn't roped off so I was pretty much able to stick my head right in the bloom.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
If one of these blooms near you, it's worth checking out! I can't speak to whether or not it stinks like a corpse, but I stuck my head down in there and it was certainly reminiscent of a juicy dumpster on a hot day.
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by ryangittins 4y ago
In my opinion, "staying informed" is a high-brow excuse for a low-brow activity. Unless you're actually using the information you're getting for something positive, you're probably just feeding the irrational tribal
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by ryangittins 5y ago
An important tool to find or write is one which will automatically sync your changes made locally (from the comfort of your IDE of choice) to the remote machine every time you save it. You want to be able to iterate quickly and not have to
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by ryangittins 5y ago
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."
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by ryangittins 5y ago
Welp, I guess I am now old enough that 5 years ago "relatively recently." :/
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by ryangittins 5y ago
NIST actually changed their recommendation relatively recently and no longer suggests periodic password changes without reason. > Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, ver
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by ryangittins 5y ago
https://siftrss.com/ I've been running siftrss for about five years now. It lets you enter an RSS feed, add a filter, and get a new RSS feed excluding the stuff you specify. I made it to scratch my own itch. Original
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by ryangittins 5y ago
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you
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by ryangittins 5y ago
On an adjacent note, my mother is someone who doesn't do any streaming—just regular old cable TV with constant commercials. I've asked her why she puts up with it and she just says the commercials give her a nice break to get up
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by ryangittins 5y ago
> Maybe I don't hang out with the trust fund crowd enough I'm not sure that's a fair characterization of people taking a gap year, especially people in tech. The industry pays well relatively early and there is a surplus
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by ryangittins 5y ago
I was talking about the NYT analysis linked in the comment I was replying to, but I'd be curious to see your numbers as well if this is something you've worked out!
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by ryangittins 5y ago
This is an interesting visualization, but if I'm understanding it correctly it does oversimplify in a big (and potentially misleading) way: This is what happens if you do all your investing in one big lump sum, e.g. putting one dollar
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by ryangittins 5y ago
echo adds a trailing newline by default. You'll need to add the -n flag or use printf instead.
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by ryangittins 6y ago
Thanks, that's exactly how I read it.
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by ryangittins 6y ago
Agreed. Some of them can be simplified quite a bit, which leads to a lot of clutter. For instance, (XHH|[^XH])* is equivalent to just .* EDIT: It looks like I read the regex wrong. I guess I need to do the puzzle after all!
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by ryangittins 6y ago
> I am skeptical that there is caste baste discrimination in workplaces though. But there might still be subconscious bias. Planet Money has an excellent episode[1] on caste-based discrimination in the workplace—in Silicon Valley specifi
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by ryangittins 6y ago
The "got called out in a meeting with many others present" part is something which I don't think should have happened at all—regardless of whether or not the developer in question felt shame. No good can come from publicly c
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by ryangittins 6y ago
I don't disagree that someone not reading the user guide is annoying, but I vehemently disagree than penalizing or shaming is appropriate in any professional workplace. I would not want to work with anyone who thinks public shaming is
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by ryangittins 6y ago
It's very true. I think in reality it tends to be a mix—sometimes documentation goes stale, and sometimes people don't even bother reading it regardless of whether or not it's stale. Another large problem is developers not k
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by ryangittins 6y ago
This is an interesting point! I do think there's another factor at play here, though: documentation goes stale. When you've been burned by stale documentation (or any tool) enough times, you can start to lose trust in it. When y
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by ryangittins 6y ago
This is a prime example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by ryangittins 6y ago
This is demonstrably false. Why don't landlords own all of Detroit, where housing prices have cratered? Housing is a market like any other. The going rate can change.

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