war1025

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by war1025 5y ago
If we're going down that road, I generally try to be productive from roughly 2pm to 4:30. The rest of the day is for waiting to see if something unexpected catches fire and figuring out what it is I should be working on for my two and
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by war1025 5y ago
> The reason why I prefer squash commits is not only the linear history but also the fact that I’m simply not interested in the sausage making process. I see this a lot and in my opinion squash on merge is just a very poor version of usi
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by war1025 6y ago
Mandatory lockdowns are like cancer surgery. They can be very effective if everything is still localized, but if the cancer has already metastasized, it really doesn't solve the problem.
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by war1025 6y ago
Every single person who "didn't do it for me" relied on an enormous network of people putting themselves at risk daily to keep the supply chains functioning. It's virtuization of fear and little else.
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by war1025 6y ago
> like New Zealand, You mean an island nation with strict control over their ports and borders?
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by war1025 6y ago
Probably that patience has worn thin for the extremely overly cautious people who have been hiding in their homes for a year when they are realistically at zero risk of severe illness. We have known since early summer of last year that bein
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by war1025 6y ago
I have a coworker that recently moved from near Boston to southern Massachusetts. Absolutely boggles my mind the amount of wildlife he comes across. I thought the East coast was basically fully urbanized.
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by war1025 6y ago
> The majority of “influencers” are young women, and only a minority would want to follow a 50 year old uncle. One interesting side effect of this is that some of the most popular male YouTube channels I follow never show the host's
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by war1025 6y ago
The difference between "Interfaces" as I have seen them used most of the time, and "Protocols" as mypy uses them, is that usually an Interface is generally part of the inheritance hierarchy. A Protocol is just the same s
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by war1025 6y ago
My biggest pain as far as Python3 typing / mypy goes has been interfacing with major libraries and trying to add types in a way that isn't just me tossing `Any` everywhere. If memory serves, Twisted hasn't been too bad. SqlAl
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by war1025 6y ago
Our Civic had some premium Michelin tires on it when we got it. They had zero traction in the winter. Slid through far too many intersections and was all too happy to see them go.
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by war1025 6y ago
Could be sugar beet, which is white.
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by war1025 6y ago
I don't think I've ever met a non-enthusiast who had both summer and winter tires. Is that actually a thing? Maybe in the mountains? Here in Iowa, everything is pretty straight and flat, so you just need to leave more room to slow
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by war1025 6y ago
We moved to the next town over four winters ago. We still do all our shopping in the original place because that's where all the stores are and where I work. Our ten year old car went from having no rust to having completely rusted ou
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by war1025 6y ago
Unrelated to the issue in the post, but a few years back we ran into an annoying oddity in the Python zipfile module [1]. By default, when you create a new zipfile object to create a .zip archive with, it stores the data uncompressed. Only
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by war1025 6y ago
I read the book "Never Home Alone" [1] a year or two ago, which is about all the different microbes and insects and such that are in the environment around us. One of the things the author mentioned a few times is to never assume
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by war1025 6y ago
Release cadence and performance issues are orthogonal. Frequent releases just mean you get updates as they become available. That doesn't mean they can't take on longer-term issues that need several release cycles to complete.
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by war1025 6y ago
If all you do is basic Netflix / Facebook / etc. you really don't need all that fat of a pipe. I did upgrade my router in the fall and was surprised how big of a difference it made for my speeds around the house, but we are s
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by war1025 6y ago
I have fiber to the home, and I'd have to say the cost structure is a great reason not to have gigabit service. We have the base package, which is advertised at 50/50 and is generally right on target. Plus no data caps. I am extre
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by war1025 6y ago
Just did a quick search, found this [1] article. The 25/3 definition was set in 2015 It had been set to 4/1 in 2010 In 1996 the original definition was 200k/200k. This seems to be a moving target and there is no reason to bel
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by war1025 6y ago
My understanding back in the mid 2000s when I first got into Linux was that OSS only let you play one audio stream at once, and the whole point of ALSA was that it let multiple applications access the sound card. I guess I could be remember
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by war1025 6y ago
> The more widely vegan "meat" is available, the more likely it is to be adopted by average people This argument always reminds me of Margarine, which was promoted for years as having great health benefits, and then we later f
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by war1025 6y ago
My opinion of the whole ordeal changed quite a lot once I realized that only reason this became a "big deal" is that Khashoggi was well connected. It was portrayed as "this is bad because they killed a journalist." In re
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by war1025 6y ago
> Of course, it’s recommended to let your internal combustion engine run a bit to warm up before highly stressing it to prevent damage. I don't have a reference handy, but I read a decade or so ago that the best way to warm up and
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by war1025 6y ago
> when one salary was enough for a family. One salary is still "enough" for many of the definitions of "enough" from back then. Hell, even now my wife stays home and I feel like we live like kings. Making enough money
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by war1025 6y ago
Via Wikipedia [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit_(bread)
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by war1025 6y ago
I may be off here, but I'm guessing based on the tea comment, that he may be British, which means a biscuit is actually a cookie in American terms.
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by war1025 6y ago
My mom grew up on a dairy farm and said you could always tell when the cows got into the wild onions. Diversity is good, but flavors do come through in the milk, so there are some things that you want to avoid.
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by war1025 6y ago
Yup that looks like the one I had in mind.
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by war1025 6y ago
Isn't water a ridiculously effective radiation shield? I thought I saw a web comic once claiming that you could swim in a pool with radioactive waste and be just fine as long as you stayed X feet away, where X was on the order of a cou

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