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by valbaca 2y ago
Yeah, that's fair, in this sense they obviously mean "internet/modern technology" but it's funny to me that the "take a break from tech" isn't to go for a walk or reflect, but instead it's "
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by valbaca 2y ago
> When I play Monopoly with my friends we like to put fees and fines on "Free Parking," then if you land there you can take the money. We all agreed it's more fun this way. Listen, your game, your rules 100% But I will say
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by valbaca 2y ago
> We're talking about playing a boardgame with friends, do we really need to have a trigger-warning session? First, it's not a "boardgame." It's a Role Playing Game. It's much more unbounded than a board gam
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by valbaca 2y ago
I'm playing a human warlock with a Genie patron...so yes, I always have a lamp ha
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by valbaca 2y ago
Ironic that they're claiming to take a break from technology but misunderstand what actually IS technology. > Technology is natural. A seed is technology. A seed is not (necessarily) technology. > like reading a book, watching a
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by valbaca 2y ago
n=1
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by valbaca 2y ago
They cannot provide information that is 100.0% accurate to the source where there is NO acceptable amount of hallucination; talking legal, compliance, etc. They’re so so bad at saying “I don’t know” or “no results”. They’re still sycophants
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by valbaca 2y ago
Sometimes a best-seller is selling for a good reason. sometimes.
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by valbaca 2y ago
Anyone else find the reporting of the location unnecessarily obfuscated? > in the Texas panhandle > in the sprawling rural district > in the west Texas district Only several paragraphs in do we find in a quote the actual location
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by valbaca 2y ago
tests
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by valbaca 2y ago
yes, it is
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by valbaca 2y ago
You cannot fire people you don't actually employ.
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by valbaca 2y ago
The special phrase you want is "chord" A stenographer's keyboard is a special kind of chord keyboard for spoken English. There are other kinds of chord keyboards, but look into those. For example: - https://www.cha
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by valbaca 2y ago
Even if things are not directly "listening" and then directly serving ads (and I don't even think it's a crackpot theory, we KNOW companies would LOVE to do this), then we can surmise that at least the following happens:
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by valbaca 2y ago
> or even Google > Last year, Google committed to invest $2 billion in Anthropic, after previously confirming it had taken a 10% stake in the startup alongside a large cloud contract between the two companies.
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by valbaca 2y ago
Read the law
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by valbaca 2y ago
I shudder to think the amount of thousands of engineering hours are spent in my FAANG to keep our Java services just running as-is with updates. And now we're moving more to Typescript on Node...UGH.
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by valbaca 2y ago
> i thought it was quite secure and stable generally It is, but security isn't a "given" anywhere. XSS, SQL Injection, Dependency etc can be done by any language, regardless of how "secure" it claims to be. The
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by valbaca 2y ago
nit: "Please take a momento to read them." Should say "Please take a moment to read them.
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by valbaca 2y ago
what's IIS?
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by valbaca 2y ago
"You lose weight in the kitchen; you gain health in the gym" is the adage that has served me well. Just like keeping one's house organized, the best thing is to reduce Junk In rather than trying to get Junk Out.
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by valbaca 2y ago
> If the machines are frequently broken, that damages the Macdonald's brand in the consumer's eyes. They are and it doesn't matter. You don't go to McD for the ice cream. It's been a running joke for decades how
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by valbaca 2y ago
soda is syrup and carbonated water, neither becomes a breeding pool at room temperature
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by valbaca 2y ago
you must not deal with compliance (and bless you for it)
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by valbaca 2y ago
usually the ORM generates the id, so it's None until saved (at least I'm assuming based on how other ORMs often (not always!) work)
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by valbaca 2y ago
> Was there a similar backlash against the rise of Java, Swift, Kotlin, or TypeScript? Absolutely and STILL TO THIS DAY.
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by valbaca 2y ago
Here's a similar list for Clojure short-name conventions, many are single-letter: https://gist.github.com/valbaca/a55cf9cdcb500e203cadc9ef3555...
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by valbaca 2y ago
The exact thing happened with the new Deadpool movie. I’d stayed away from spoilers about the movie, especially cameos, and the pre-movie basically gave a full recap of the movie BEFORE the movie. My wife and I were livid.
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by valbaca 2y ago
They're talking about Java's Checked Exceptions: https://www.baeldung.com/java-checked-unchecked-exceptions which are part of a method's declaration `void foo() throws KaboomException` The ironic thing is tha
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by valbaca 2y ago
Can someone explain the last bit: print(f"Unexpected error: {error}") sys.exit(1) How is that any different than just letting the exception throw all the way out? Is all this doing is making sure the exit code is

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