wlpu

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by wlpu 3y ago
I think you may have it wrong, I don't believe the people thought that the Tories were the solution (specifically in the last election), but rather that Labour was a worse choice than the Tories were at the time (rightly or wrongly). I
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by wlpu 3y ago
I don't really agree with your proposition, I think the base issue is more fundamental, simply put I think it comes down to the atomisation of the individual due to the structure of higher education and zeitgeist of fear of being accus
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by wlpu 3y ago
TBH I'm pretty excited for my twitter footprint to be deleted
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by wlpu 3y ago
Perhaps it's already here. In reference to a different thread about Japan's population decline, it is supposed there that advanced economies lead to population decline (via below replacement birthrates) and require immigration to
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by wlpu 4y ago
Poetry is one of the worst modern solutions to python packaging, either pick hatch or PDM, they both have more and better implemented features plus their codebases aren't a complete mess
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by wlpu 4y ago
Poetry was the best pragmatic tool for python at one point, but it certainly was the developers project. That is to say, it introduced different and unfamiliar version specifiers to python, these are common place in other ecosystems, but th
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by wlpu 4y ago
Tools like https://www.rufus.ltd/ offer you the option when writing the iso to usb
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by wlpu 4y ago
Not a fan of win 11 but for those who want to make it more tolerable, you can disable the start menu ads with a regedit
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by wlpu 4y ago
Fortunately if can't or don't want to meet the arbitrary requirements you can use tools like https://www.rufus.ltd/ to bypass all of them when writing the iso to a usb
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by wlpu 4y ago
Because you can use the same toolchains, APIs, libraries, and even progressively migrate with both languages in the same project. Honestly, people who whine about Java 8 in Android and refuse to consider Kotlin are suffering by choice.
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by wlpu 4y ago
>we You're an individual not a group
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by wlpu 4y ago
Someone has to be able to maintain it. What happens when the one person who understood it leaves and it needs to be modified or upgraded, if they're lucky they can hack it into working and even that's not a good thing as the build
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by wlpu 4y ago
Nix will never achieve any wide spread adoption, the issues are too glaring. The Nix language itself is half of the problem, difficult to search for because "nix" doesn't refer to something specific as it's overloaded, w
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Ask HN: Advice on Designing an Interview?
3 points by wlpu 5y ago|8 comments
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by wlpu 5y ago
I am about to do so. Truth be told I am angling for Kotlin over Java, but I wouldn't be unhappy if it went that way. Java has come a long way, 17 has a lot of nice language features and Amber, Panama, Loom, Valhalla are all doing great
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by wlpu 5y ago
Does Chrome?
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by wlpu 5y ago
Personally I'd rather the exception than a "simple" bool, which would make for noisy code and less simplicity. In reality and exception is just less bad, better than both would be a result type
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by wlpu 5y ago
I can't speak to iOS as I'm not a user of it, but an alternative for android users is VPN apps that enable you to block ads, however apps that have such a feature aren't allowed on the play store or offer a feature reduced ve
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by wlpu 5y ago
I hope one day people realise there is a place other than kubernetes and VMs to run containers, such as GCP's Cloud Run or AWS's ECS Fargate, these are essentially plug container and play services which avoid the baggage of kubern
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by wlpu 5y ago
> We're told Sonderman scoured the internet looking for interesting and desirable usernames on social networks, from Instagram to Twitter, and pressured people to hand over those accounts. > The goal was to obtain the usernames a
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by wlpu 5y ago
Would you be so kind as to share some of your top picks for build systems? As someone who wants to understand what makes a great build system, I'd very much appreciate it
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by wlpu 5y ago
It's easy to do immutability in python, just use NamedTuple for classes and tuple instead of list
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by wlpu 5y ago
While there is a want or whim, those with ability, real or apparent, will always be highly sought after. I doubt it's possible to solve without removing humans from the equation. That said, I would gladly be convinced otherwise.
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by wlpu 5y ago
I think what you're missing here is the alternative to progressive tax is all income is taxed at or close to the existing highest rates, as that is where by a very large margin most tax is collected. Ultimately this leads to those poor
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by wlpu 6y ago
I really would not consider Dataproc to provide the equivalent capability of AWS Batch. It's quite painful how many of GCP's services rely on GKE. Ultimately I'd like to see more services like Cloud Run from GCP.
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by wlpu 6y ago
Nice idea, but being vaccinated against something does not mean you can't carry and spread it. Given that's true, those older folk, at the most risk are the place to start.
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by wlpu 6y ago
So much anti nuclear absolutism I recommend watching this https://youtu.be/Jzfpyo-q-RM for a pragmatic lense Fossil fuels, even temporary, kills several magnitudes more people than nuclear