sparks1970

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by sparks1970 2y ago
Harsh, but fair.
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Or be in the business of selling .ai domain names.
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Funny, Telegraph readers also seem to believe that the BBC can harmfully influence people's minds.
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Golang? Pretty easy to pick up coming from Python and proper concurrency.
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Reminds me of https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/17/thailand.famil...
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by sparks1970 3y ago
I came across this yesterday for golang: https://sqlc.dev which is somewhat like what you want, maybe. Not sure it allows you to parameterize table names but the basic idea is codegen from sql queries so you are working with go
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Don't entirely disagree but the investigation of misgendering tweets most likely doesn't need anyone to actually leave a desk so a "thorough investigation" sounds like the police are doing a lot but really it's a bi
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by sparks1970 3y ago
In the UK this was normal for IT (and other) contractors because there were tax advantages to the employer and to the employee/contractor. The employer could avoid paying National Insurance (social security) taxes of 10% as well as pen
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Whenever a search leads me to a question/answer on Quora I'm inevitably hit with a Sign In popup that blocks the whole screen. Feels obnoxious and I just back button away.
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by sparks1970 3y ago
While I don't disagree with the overall premise, Rishi Sunak has only been an MP since 2015 and this scandal has been going since 1999 so I am not sure the relationships you present: Rishi Sunak -> Wife (Met 2004, Married 2009) -&gt
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by sparks1970 3y ago
What do you mean by "internal dialogue" here? To me a dialog would mean some back-and-forth, some difference of opinion or two individuals sharing ideas that one side doesn't have. Does your inner voice have autonomy, does it
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by sparks1970 3y ago
I can imagine these sounds but they don't have any audio texture - no volume, no tone. At the same time, if I imagine a large bell and a small bell ringing then there is a difference but its like reading "BONG!" and "tin
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Same here. This video was interesting to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNQyubd9ARc&t=60s in it you are asked to shout "I like crickets" <In your mind> and then to whisper "I like crickets&quot
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by sparks1970 3y ago
My Grandfather lost a leg to a motorcycle accident in 1944/1945. He was riding the while line past a military convoy in the UK as a dispatch rider when unfortunately he met someone doing the same in the opposite direction. He had a suc
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by sparks1970 3y ago
Maybe it's a small thing, but Wilson uses the adjective "wrecked" where the other translators use "sacked" or "plundered". If that kind of loss of fidelity/nuance is typical of the translation then it
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by sparks1970 3y ago
I also feel that generating HTML from string templates is wrong because its so fine-grained. We use a lot of boostrap and its verbose, repetitive and hard to keep standardized using string templating. Recently I did an experiment in python
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by sparks1970 4y ago
+1 for the additional information. Also, nice username, upvoted.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
A good book which addresses the perception that "possessions are a projection of my true self" but it lost me when the author describes limiting himself to a single towel to both dry himself out of the shower and to dry dishes...
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by sparks1970 4y ago
I think Jesus Mouse was onto something. I've been to the Vatican. I don't think Jesus would have been impressed.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Don't get involved in company Patent applications.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Thanks for the link that leads to: https://medium.com/@andrewjrogers/the-story-of-builtwith-e3b... Main thing that comes out of it is "focus". Focus starts to dissipate the larger the team. I don't think
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Thanks for clarification.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
But the rest of the quote is "....and unto God the things that are God's". Context is rather important. Jesus (reportedly) says this to avoid speaking out against the tax which would have got him in trouble with the authoriti
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by sparks1970 4y ago
I have used an old ipad as a streaming deck using UpDeck. Very useful for recording. I use it for training videos for our product and it's really handy for moving between OBS screen layouts (switch your recording headshot from left to
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by sparks1970 4y ago
My takeaway: Death is a feature not a bug. The alternatives are much worse.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Who are these productive outside entities who's capital is being violently extracted and why is this system (whatever it is) coming to an end? I'm genuinely interested but you don't support your assertion with any evidence.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Try breaking it up into small steps. I procrastinate about doing my tax return all year but I "tricked" myself into doing it earlier this year by telling myself "I'm not doing the tax return now, all I'm doing is fi
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Qooxdoo: https://qooxdoo.org/ It's a no-html, widget only web framework that's been going for at least 10 years.
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Likewise. I owe a lot to the BBC micro. A few years ago UK schools were flooded with BBC:Micro Bits - everyone in my son's year-group received one. I think the idea was similar, seed a new generation with technical know-how. I'm n
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by sparks1970 4y ago
You forgot the part where after 2 years they are shown the door but with a huge payout and glowing references ostensibly because "We don't want to ruin their careers" but actually: We don't want the market to know we hir

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