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541.
by twodave 3y ago
I actually wanted to reply, but can't, so I'll thread here... > [ things lots of people do ] is disgusting, because [ my personal value system ]. I'm hoping by framing the quote this way it'll help demonstrate how sta
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by twodave 3y ago
I guess I wasn’t specifically trying to use 3 words but more just demonstrate that 10 decimal digits is about as simple as it gets in terms of clearly being able to communicate with that much precision over a low quality connection.
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by twodave 3y ago
I feel like we could just boil this down to a math problem? Classic lat long uses, what? 10 decimal digits? Grouped into 2 sets of 5? Switching to base 26 can only really eliminate 1 digit from each set. That alone should make it pretty cle
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by twodave 3y ago
Why an app, though? Could easily implement this via NFC
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by twodave 3y ago
Ah, Clojure, native tongue of the devil himself.
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by twodave 3y ago
I had a classmate that bit off his own tongue landing one of these. Crazy stuff.
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by twodave 3y ago
I have been down both roads. I’ve seen unwieldy abstractions reduce a codebase down to a giant pile of edge cases, and I’ve seen codebases where making a single change to the design has required editing dozens of files. Where I’ve ended up
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by twodave 3y ago
Our kids have all been diagnosed with FASD, but in our state at least that isn’t enough to qualify for specialized care. Not that it matters a ton, because we would still be fighting the other bullet points. We can get scholarships through
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by twodave 3y ago
I’ve found SSR is best when it’s just _one_ way data might be loaded in an app. If I use SSR at all it’s to initialize a page. You’re right that you need a separate API either way. I would think of the SSR host as a backend specifically for
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by twodave 3y ago
If my wife and I were to put our 4 special needs kids into public school it would result in them having a bunch of unbelievably negative experiences: - they would NOT receive a quality education or be taught to be self-learners. - they woul
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by twodave 3y ago
This is available in the US, but you make the choice based on the facility, typically. You can have the more medicalized experience at a hospital, or you can do home birth and hire a doula to assist, or you can go to a birthing center, whic
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by twodave 3y ago
Not at BJs. I can scan them in the cart without ever moving them.
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by twodave 3y ago
If done right, self check-out is awesome. When I shop at BJs I arrange everything in my cart with its barcode visible as I shop. Then I go use one of the “10 item or less” checkouts that had a handheld scanner and count my items, then scan
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by twodave 3y ago
Definitely. I’ve been working in the same general region building software for 15 years, so I have a lot of contacts.
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by twodave 3y ago
IME consulting is where you can really win in a market like this. Especially moonlighting. If you can find an extra 10 hours per week reliably to work on something you can easily supplement your income by $60k or more. It’s not guaranteed t
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by twodave 3y ago
It’s also out of range for most people outside of SV. There are definitely jobs paying $180k where I am (Southeast US), but they aren’t anywhere near entry-level and also aren’t abundant.
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by twodave 3y ago
The thing about parenting advice is it’s usually just tailored to whatever worked for some random person’s kids. What if you (as my wife and I have) adopted 4 kids over the course of 8 years, all with FASD who are all insane in different wa
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by twodave 3y ago
From an academic perspective, sure? I guess? But most things done in the name of academia are for the purpose of learning, so the goals are different. If your goal is to build a PRODUCT this is stupid advice. You really want to stop once yo
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by twodave 3y ago
First read this as “Tokenized Tolkiens”. What a let-down.
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by twodave 3y ago
Almost certainly not. It happened over 20 years ago so my memory is fuzzy, but I’d guess I still had to tell it which formula I wanted to integrate with. So to study I just had to be able to identify the correct formula. You might argue tha
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by twodave 3y ago
That’s how I got through calculus. I learned how to integrate/differentiate once, then programmed those operations into my TI-82 using whatever awful version of basic those things supported.
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by twodave 3y ago
To be clear, since it wasn’t to me: - safely managed water is 1) clean, 2) immediately available water 3) in the household - basic is if one of those above three criteria are missing but water can be accessible w/ a <30 minute round
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by twodave 3y ago
That’s an okay attitude from an interpersonal standpoint, but horrible advice from a mental health perspective.
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by twodave 3y ago
It’s interesting to me to see this comment, because “today” is very much the focus in recovery circles. If you’ve ever been to AA or any of the other 12-step programs you’ve probably heard someone say something akin to “one day at a time”.
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by twodave 3y ago
I don’t know what your point is, truthfully. If we are to be considerate of our fellow human then in my opinion we should be aware of the medium we communicate on. I think everyone is smart enough to understand that just because I’m in your
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by twodave 3y ago
Saying “hi” back implies that I have time to listen to you right now. Maybe I don’t, or maybe I’d like to wait to decide until I know what you want. And it’s not always “hi” anyway. I used to have one of our C-levels DM me on Slack almost d
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by twodave 3y ago
That’s the point—it’s ambiguous. It’s better to use more words to indicate what you’re saying hi for than to try and force me to acknowledge you by hiding your reasons up front. That is a form of manipulation.
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by twodave 3y ago
Article should have included some juicy examples. 4/10
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by twodave 3y ago
The best CS professor I ever had always said that the #1 language among programmers is profanity.
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by twodave 3y ago
For all the folks out there saying, "Wow this will enable so many more people to become proficient at programming!" Just stop. The last couple of decades the likes of Google and the rest of the FAANG/whatever acronym you want

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