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by twodave 3y ago
I’m with you, having quit social media some 10 years ago. That said, not everybody has the ability to exercise their agency. In this social media addiction isn’t much different from any other addiction. Many folks find themselves incapable
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by twodave 3y ago
I mostly agree, though if I could only have “what” or “why” I would choose “why” every time. To me this is similar to describing the problem in product design. I wish the “why” was more often concise enough to be the prominent feature in a
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by twodave 3y ago
I look at commit messages every day. I actually don't love a message that just describes the code change (I can figure that out on my own if I look at it long enough). That's fine for bigger or more misleading changes, but when I&
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by twodave 3y ago
I had to do a final project in ColdFusion in a web dev class in college (2006 I think?). It was a class where we had also used Perl, PHP and classic ASP. After that class I spent a lot more time with PHP and eventually ASP.NET, never touche
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by twodave 3y ago
A few examples come to mind: geographic regions that already have codes or abbreviations associated with them (e.g. a FIPS code or state abbreviation in the US), simple enums (though I really only bother putting these in a table if they’re
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by twodave 3y ago
I’m with you. Docs need to provide 2 things: the reference and specific examples. That’s it. Tell me what all the options are and what they do, then show me usage of as much realistic possibilities as possible.
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by twodave 3y ago
Obviously that’s the ideal situation. But in cases where you’ve already deposited funds you can’t pretend you didn’t.
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by twodave 3y ago
In some situations this is ok. But if money actually changed hands then you can’t pretend you didn’t pay someone, so you’ve got to essentially create a debt or a new check, depending on whether the new total is negative or not. And that mea
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by twodave 3y ago
Thanks for the advice! I can probably handle that kind of an upgrade. I just don’t know enough about electrical to diagnose/fix those kinds of issues
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by twodave 3y ago
At least as far as coffee grinders go, find a reputable company that will repair them. My Baratza Encore stopped working after about a year or two of operation, and I sent it in for repairs. It was probably just a small short somewhere, but
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by twodave 3y ago
The most useful part of writing docs for me is that they shine a spotlight the sharp edges of your product. Why is this feature so hard to document? Oh, because it sucks! Let's make it better, and then the docs will make sense too. At
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by twodave 3y ago
Yeah, I agree over all. I credit his C# 3.0 reference in giving me a huge head start after I graduated from college.
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by twodave 3y ago
I suspect a lot is determined by presentation. Explaining arrays using physical dimensions breaks down after the 3rd dimension (and even the “cube of elements” examples tend to be a bit contrived). Expressing them as categories/levels
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by twodave 3y ago
Yeah, it ended up being one of those things you look at a second time and wonder why it seemed so hard the first time. It was a good lesson for me, though. Now when I hit something particularly dense I have a lot more patience with it.
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by twodave 3y ago
I wish that were true. As the only teenager in my rural school even remotely interested in programming, the closest thing I had to advice came from my dad, who didn’t finish college and liked to build computers as a hobby, but who didn’t kn
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by twodave 3y ago
When I was 16 (2001), I bought "Teach Yourself C" by Herbert Schildt, a video card and a Sony Trinitron with my summer job savings. I got to the end of chapter 5 where Herb starts talking crazy about multi-dimensional arrays, saw
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by twodave 3y ago
My 2c—I went ahead and took the pay increase and added responsibility, then used it as an excuse to only do the most impactful thing possible at any given time. Leads to telling people “no” a lot, but also less stress.
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by twodave 3y ago
Obviously.
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by twodave 3y ago
The point I was attempting to make is I don't care what the thief does. I want the option to disable it if I've determined (on my own, with no help from anyone else!) that I'm not at a high risk of theft in the first place.
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by twodave 3y ago
This line of argument just _irks_ me. I don't care enough about thieves for this to even matter to me. And I think this is zero-sum for the consumer. Maybe more devices get stolen (probably not, if I'm a thief I'm still snatc
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by twodave 3y ago
They can argue about it on the disambiguation page.
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by twodave 3y ago
Yeah, I feel that. Usually I have like a 2 hour coding block planned with something new/interesting, so it would end up being more of a workshop, like e.g. here’s how to build a really quick cron job for our k8s cluster or whatever. I
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by twodave 3y ago
I ran into this problem after a promotion and some company growth left me over a much larger footprint of our engineering department than I was used to. I ended up making a couple rules for myself and establishing a couple new routines, whi
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by twodave 3y ago
I don’t know about you, but I’ve worked with plenty of “engineers” who can’t even properly read a stack trace. Not meaning to offend, most software developers are unable to reason about a system even as straightforward as a messaging clien
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by twodave 3y ago
$1000/day is $125/hr. That’s a lot less than $200/hr. That’s the difference between being a top 10% earner and a top 5% earner.
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by twodave 3y ago
You say that, but there’s literally a line on my policy that states a coverage amount for mold remediation…
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by twodave 3y ago
That isn’t what I meant to imply, but you’re not wrong. We use the peroxide as a general cleaner, which both sanitizes and also kills mold on surfaces.
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by twodave 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I’m mostly repeating from (sometimes bad) memory my conversation with a mold inspector from a few weeks ago.
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by twodave 3y ago
As another pointed out, from the fact sheet: > 2. There is no practical way to eliminate all mold and mold spores in the indoor environment; the way to control indoor mold growth is to control moisture. > 10. Molds can be found almost
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by twodave 3y ago
People keep saying this is true, but I haven’t seen it well-explained. So what? Maybe they have a good reason to go with this company he’s got a tiny stake in. Actually, having an inside track on how that other company operates could be a c

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