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> I'm also pretty excited about the next generation Google Glass with real time language translation. That seems like it would be awesome for international travel. This should be the first entry in How To Get Mugged 101
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I have found the Serverless framework to be great. Never really had to deal with AWS console at any point https://www.serverless.com/
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These days for me React === Next. I wonder if Vercel will take over React at some point as they seem to be capable of GSD very rapidly with a great hit rate. It sometimes feels like any improvements these days in the React ecosystem are bec
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> They were hungry to participate in startupism. I’ve met a few people who have fallen into this. They spend most of their time hanging around at coworking spaces chatting to other “founders” trying to come up with startup ideas. Never s
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Excuse my ignorance but what can a layman do with this?
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React Router devs have a history of breaking changes and some spikey behaviour so this doesn’t surprise.
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My partner and I moved to Lisbon about 6 years ago. We lasted 3 months after it became clear that the rent was more expensive than what we had just been paying in Sydney.
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This is some great insight that should be highlighted in the RN docs.
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Airbnb probably https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...
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That’s from almost 3 years ago. RN had changed a lot since then (and Hermes is included by default now) https://reactnative.dev/architecture/bundled-hermes
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> But for now, if you see a person on the screen you can be reasonably confident you're watching an actual human. Who is reciting AI generated content - basically a bad version of a TV anchor person
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What were you doing underwater for long periods of time?
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Let’s not pretend that both sides of the coin don’t do exactly the same thing.
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I used to read The Guardian religiously for years. My mental health improved dramatically the day I stopped reading it. They are probably the “best” newspaper out there but it’s the media equivalent of high intensity doom scrolling.
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Worth noting that shortly after publishing this article the author worked at Uber in a prominent growth role.
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Shout out to Marrickville library in Sydney. The best community centre we could have asked for.
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You are living in a wealthy bubble if you don’t think a Tesla is a luxury car.
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I’d love to play more board games but only know one, maybe two people who would be interested. Can anyone give some good two player games?
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I had a ride in a Tesla for the first time the other day. Apart from the huge screen in the centre panel, it really did not feel like the luxury car it is portrayed as. Once the other big manufacturers are fully up to speed with production
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I didn’t even know you could pay for it
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> Umpteenth reminder that England is the only place on planet Earth where people earning a top 10% salary, that is 70K£ pa, are at constant risk of eviction Reminder that London is not England. Top 10% earners in most other parts of the
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Example: - Get a list of your 10 most listened artists - For each artist get 5 similar artists - Now make an new playlists, and for the 50 similar artists, get their most popular song and insert it into the playlist
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Spotify API - well documented, straight foward to use, and has made it easier for manage my library and make playlists for myself.
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I don’t think OP is necessarily asking for less cars, just less big, dangerous cars.
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I can think of 4 people off the top of my head who have no kids but have an SUV. Maybe it’s an Australian issue more than other countries. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/07/a-deadly-prob...
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One reason to introduce self driving cars is to hopefully remove the number of SUVs from city roads, which are only driven by people because they’re “safer and protect me”. At best they’re an absolute nuisance to every other car and pedestr
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If those are the only complaints you have about Next then they’re doing great.
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Depends on your definition of success? I moved to the other side of the world from where I grew up in my early 30s, and I grew up at the other end of the country from where I was born and lived my early years. I have a great group of mates
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Circle was the first CI/CD tool I used and opened my eyes up to a whole new way of deploying. I haven’t used it for a few years but hope they can find a space.
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It’s not as clear cut as you make out. There are some specific verbs that should always take the ‘s’ in British English – for example, analyse (in American English, analyze). And then there are verbs that even in American English should alw

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