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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
> Based on analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics data by Janco, news that the IT industry added just 700 jobs following an estimated 262,242 jobs lost amid mass layoffs is shocking, but not surprising. So it isn't that only 700
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> But there are plenty of people who do believe that AI either will or might kill all of humanity, and they take this idea very seriously. They don’t just think “AI could take our jobs” or “AI could accidentally cause a big disaster” or
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
All weight loss is because of a calorie deficit; that isn't (or shouldn't be) controversial. The interesting questions are why a diet produces a caloric deficit, and how difficult that deficit is to maintain. The "don'
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
This can't be real ...
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I smile a little bit every time someone links to Red Blob. This is just a wonderful, fascinating resource, the kind of thing the Internet was supposed to be for. I also love that this isn't just theory; there's an entire implement
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
> There's no need to treat the legislator like an idiot. But the legislator is an idiot, and should be treated like one. They aren't identifying a problem and trying to solve it, they are engaging in performative legislation
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
The issue isn't that Unity wants to be paid. The issue is that they are trying to retroactively change a license agreement, and doing so in a way that will bankrupt many of their current users. Charging per install is absolutely insa
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I wish home solar was more ... trustworthy? I've looked into having rooftop solar installed a number of times, and every time I've walked away with the feeling that I don't know enough to know what to watch out for, and that
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
My team switched from React to Svelte a couple of years ago. We were working on new app, not refactoring or rewriting an old one, so we had the opportunity to choose whatever tooling we wanted. The whole team loved Svelte. It did the stuff
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
Headline writers are incapable of simply presenting facts anymore. Stocks don't go up or down a couple of percentage points, the "rocket" or "tumble." Judges don't issue rulings, they "excoriate" one
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I think television has had a massive effect on the overall, "average" American accent. The stereotypical Boston accent can still be found in Massachusetts, but it isn't nearly as common as you might think. Similarly, the thic
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
AI is at least as helpful to me as StackOverflow, and significantly less hostile. Neither provides a 100% working solution out of the box, but I'd rather argue with ChatGPT about a library it hallucinated than dal with the egomaniacs t
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I have also moved towards "dumb data objects", immutable if possible, and a library of functions that operate on them. Exactly what this looks like will obviously depend on the language, though. In Java, I might have a Foo object
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I despise websites that add useless interactivity like this. We already have scrollbars that work perfectly well.
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
That does make more sense, but I refuse to let go of the image of a duck with a vendetta tracking some poor bastard down, and the stalwart medical coding technician who is dutifully documenting it all.
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
There are separate charge codes for everything , and all of those codes need to be reflected in the pricing data. There's a price to slap on a bandaid. There's a price to give someone a Tylenol. Hell, W61.61XA is the medical code
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
Some people will add things to their cart and then wait a few hours (or days) to see if they really want it. If they do, it's in their cart, and there's no reason to go find it again. If they don't, they just remove it. I can
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
ArgoCD also requires you to type in the name before you delete something. I've found that this has the added benefit of pushing people towards shorter names. I have seen instances where the wrong pod or whatever was deleted, because
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I flew from Providence to Orlando last week. The airline's website said (paraphrasing) "we don't oversell flights; this ticket guarantees you a seat." As we were boarding, the gate agent made an announcement (again parap
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
Generally speaking, when writing code you should: 1. Make it work, 2. Make it right, and 3. Make it fast In that order. I have to assume JetBrains is quite a ways away from any significant performance optimizations on this project.
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
No value to the shareholders .
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Google Domains is yet another useful service to get the ax in favor of “focus”(arstechnica.com)
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
People on Reddit vastly overestimate how closely Reddit's opinion lines up with that of the general public. If the last US Presidential election was held on Reddit, Bernie Sanders would have won in a landslide. He obviously did not. Wh
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
My wife and I went out for mediocre fish fry last weekend. Dinner and drinks for two people was $125, and the default tip was 25%. That is utterly insane. I'm in the same boat. If a so-so experience is going to be that expensive, I&#x2
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
Go# or bust!
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For your inverse example, isn't that how Flutter renders?
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
> A drug that promotes weight loss, lessens the desire to smoke, drink, etc...sounds too good to be true? It does sound too good to be true. However, it's possible that the drug is working on all of these through the same mechanism:
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
I knew a guy who flew from Boston to London every weekend, to see his wife. They were both being paid dumptrucks of cash, though.
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
A few years ago, I moved to Boston for a tech job. The cost of living was like 25% higher, but my salary almost doubled, so I came out for the better. This job was on-site, so there was no choice but to live here. And by "here" I
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by thomascgalvin 3y ago
From CBS News[1] : > El Niño is a climate pattern that naturally occurs every two to seven years when ocean surface temperatures warm in the eastern Pacific. From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)[2]: > El Niñ

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