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by swat535 1y ago
By the way, if you are skinny (or worse, skinny + fat), you have to gain weight by eating healthy food, otherwise you will just gain more fat. The best approach I've been able to follow has been protein shakes with body building diets.
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What you're missing here is that companies happily pay the premium to Heroku because it lets them focus on building the product and generating business rather than wasting precious engineering time managing infra. By the time the produ
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I mean they don't care about bugs because it doesn't affect sales or bottom line.. Everyone is used to terribly software with awful security holes and performance so why rock the boat? It's not like average normies will compl
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This applies to literally half of random "feature requests" and "tasks" that are urgent and needed to get done yesterday incoming from the business team..
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Sure but to their point, you're off the hook if half of the internet is down.. it's sort of like: "No one gets fired for picking IBM".
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> Jobs aren't just business. Humans derive a lot of meaning from being useful and valued. No one is feeling useful or valued working a double shift at Walmart in order to put food on the table. Feeling useful and valued can come fro
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This is the same argument that people used for video games, "rock music" and violent movies. I would argue that AI generated porn might be more ethical than traditional porn because the risk of the models being abused or trafficke
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> They really have Monday morning and Monday afternoon mass? Friday afternoon? This seems like a lot more activity than the Catholic churches that I know. Yes! For Catholics, there are daily Masses (and the Priest performs them, even if
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This is a heartbreaking story to read. But I think that pushing for assisted suicide as a "fix" like you're suggesting misses the bigger picture. We have a responsibility as a society to support people through these diseases,
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I don't know about parent's prediction regarding China but a major war between Israel and Iran is upcoming this year or early next year, which will involve United States by definition. We are likely in pre-war era right now, dismi
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> They've neutered Iran and become the de facto regional security power How did they "neuter" Iran? Iran responded quickly and managed to heavily damage TelAviv and is now rushing to accelerate rebuilding their nuclear cap
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While you make good points, I wanted to quickly counter this narrative with the fact that majority of people are chasing money because it provides them the basic necessities. Money gives you food, shelter, healthcare and relationships; all
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You'll still need a Microsoft account for Windows 10 ESU in Europe(windowslatest.com)
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Comments like that reminds of people asserting blanket statements like: majority of Iranians support the regime and hate Jews! Like do people not realize Iranian Jews also exist? Anyway I digress..
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> but I have zero power to change it. I was under the assumption that in Western democracies, citizens have a say their government and its enacted laws. We can't unfortunately assert the same for people of Iran since they don't
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At that point, you might as well write it yourself. Instead of writing 300 lines of code, you are writing 300 lines of prompts. What benefit would you get?
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Also notable reply from DHH: "Ruby Central has been the RubyGems maintainer and operator since the beginning. They paid people to work on it (including this now disgruntled former contractor). They're improving their practices and
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I feel like the gym example isn’t really applicable because your body releases dopamines after working out. So while the exercise can be painful there is joy to be gained from it. This doesnt happen for all tasks. Another thing is that we m
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by swat535 1y ago
There are at least 2 ancient pagan flood stories: The Gilgamesh Epic and the Atrathasis Epic, both originating in ancient Mesopotamia. Because both sources predate the source of Noah's story, many scholars have concluded that Noah&#x27
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Many creators offer patron or other services, I think you would be hard press to find any creator who only publishes their content on YouTube. You can subscribe to their services elsewhere.
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> Google can suck it. I won't pay or turn my ad-blocker off I'm not sure what you want.. You want access to their service, they offer a premium. You don't want to pay, at the same time you are not will to boycott them for
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"Suicide in an acceptable manner" sounds as like an oxymoron. Why would you care that it's "acceptable" by society which you will no longer take part of ? If your concern is pain, then perhaps that is your mind tell
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I've long given up on trying to find the perfect solution for Software. I don't think anyone has really "cracked the code" per se. The best we have is people's wisdom and experiences. Ultimately, context, industries
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Why Feminism? Isn't Feminism encouraging women to have more sex i.e sexual liberation, nudity is no longer a taboo, women are no longer constrained to a single man, all that jazz? My understanding is that Conservatism encourages family
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I don't know about you but the older I get, the less I take anything in life personal. I've come to realize that there are so many aspects of life that are not under one's control and shaking your fist gravity doesn't ac
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Nope, it has been removed. Also God help you if want to run something that needs system extensions.. You will need to boot to recovery mode, go through utility and enable it: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/m
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Seriously? You can't budget an extra 10-20k for hardware upgrades for the Software Engineer that you are paying 300k a year for ? Plus, not to mention the return on investment you get from retaining the talent and the value they add to
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Yes, also exercising with lack of sleep has the opposite effect, especially if you are doing heavy lifting or anything like that.
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How do you manage your life by being in bed at 8-9pm (latest) every day? What does your schedule look like?
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Yes you can get surpsingly far with Claude if you’re persistent enough and don’t care about bugs, security issues or code quality. Eventually it will spit out something that works. Sometimes it gets very stuck and you have to delete everyth

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