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by wmoxam 2y ago
Ok
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by wmoxam 2y ago
All of that extra stuff can still use Python and integrate easily with an RoR app. Typically your astronomy/biology/ata science stuff isn't needed in the context of a request and is done asynchronously
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by wmoxam 2y ago
Your assuming a motive in that case when none is known of.
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by wmoxam 2y ago
How are they counting deactivation's? My account got nuked because I changed my birthday date for jokes and it locked me out for being 'too young' when I signed up way back in 2007. I would have needed to provide photos of go
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by wmoxam 2y ago
It's a grifting method. Provoke outrage among the less informed and watch the money roll in
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by wmoxam 2y ago
Canada and the US have some disagreements about the arctic, particularly about the Northwest Passage: https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2020/04/the-u-s-canada-nort... That's got to be a factor here
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by wmoxam 2y ago
I’m a software developer and I barely care about the new features. I’m on a 13 and the only ‘recent’ change I’m interested in upgrading for is usb-c.
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by wmoxam 2y ago
> Shopify outsources their payment stuff to Stripe I thought they used active_merchant
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by wmoxam 2y ago
More like garden bot
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by wmoxam 3y ago
I have Starlink. I'm 12km away from a town that has cable internet, but the only wired connection I can get is dial-up (fibre should be available in about 2 years: https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-connects-makin
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by wmoxam 3y ago
AI is hot. Its seems like every company wants to sprinkle some 'AI magic' to pump their valuations. Cheap money fueled SASS startup are dying, leading to reductions in demand for other roles. Larger more established SASS companies
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by wmoxam 3y ago
Use gpt-X as a tool to do your job even better and take on more responsibilities. "AI" tools are at their heart productivity tools. Use them to be more productive so you can focus on higher value activities.
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by wmoxam 3y ago
Game has always been the same, provide value and you'll do well.
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by wmoxam 3y ago
I've done that with Liquid ( https://github.com/wmoxam/liquid-crystal ), and it's roughly 2X faster than Ruby 3.2 w/yjit
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by wmoxam 3y ago
47.6% of statistics mentioned in comments are completely made up
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by wmoxam 3y ago
Punk rock died when the first kid said "Punk's not dead, punk's not dead" You know Louisville is death, we've got to up and move Because the dead do not improve.
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by wmoxam 3y ago
Why?
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by wmoxam 3y ago
IMO all LMS's are complicated with a lot of customization knobs and poor UX/workflows. These days I like Brightspace (aka D2L) the best, but that could be just because the way I interact with it. (I write LMS integrations for a li
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by wmoxam 3y ago
The two aren't equivalent (you're using a catchall exception handler in Ruby but not in Java, and are printing a stack trace in java but not in Ruby). Here's the equivalent Ruby: begin File.readlines('/p
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by wmoxam 3y ago
For programming I find ChatGPT to be a great rubber duck
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by wmoxam 5y ago
> never going to be useful in the real world, other than for buying drugs online I've heard it's great for ransomware too
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by wmoxam 5y ago
You made claims without evidence first pal
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by wmoxam 5y ago
> If only jokes were made the genocide wouldn't have happened Well no shit. But it did happen, and there's plenty of proof that 'jokes' contributed to the culture that made genocide possible > A joke about "ni
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by wmoxam 5y ago
> The Hutus and Tutsis didn’t start with some off-color ribbing and escalate from there Perhaps it didn't "start" with "off-color ribbing" but the usage of 'jokes' (see: Radio Télévision Libre des Mill
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by wmoxam 6y ago
No, not for grapes
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by wmoxam 6y ago
Exactly. Every seed would result in a different tasting grape. Some of the plants grown from seed would be susceptible to phylloxera too. A better method would be to try to get the stem to grow. Basically dip the cut end in a rooting hormon
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by wmoxam 10y ago
> the middle class drive over the border and get major surgery done AFAICT it's pretty rare, and usually done to receive a 'experimental' treatment not approved in Canada. > The waiting lines are pretty long for most ma
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by wmoxam 10y ago
It's somewhat similar, but in Crystal you need to be explicit with types, and you'll likely miss 'send'. Also Crystal has macros
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by wmoxam 10y ago
At that price it'll be a 2 bedroom condo. 3 bedroom condos in the core are rare, and generally start around $800k CAD
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by wmoxam 10y ago
> many countries with colder climates, where suburbia would be unsustainable due to heating costs Which countries are these?

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