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by zumu 3y ago
15 years ago in Tokyo I was ordering via QR codes and tapping to pay with my phone. Seems pretty futuristic in retrospect.
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by zumu 3y ago
Programming is a means to an end. If kids could have just instantly downloaded any program they wanted, they wouldn't have been copying programs out of the back of magazines. Personally, I came a little later, but I also learned stuff
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by zumu 4y ago
If ChatGPT is trained on StackOverflow and people are using ChatGPT instead of StackOverflow, it seems pretty clear ChatGPT's use of StackOverflow's data is not protected under fair use.
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by zumu 4y ago
Nonetheless, very few people went in, even before the pandemic. They should have closed it years ago, tbh.
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by zumu 4y ago
> I'm interested in physics and engineering, I think I could enjoy a career in either, and I've still got time to pivot to either. > And yes, there's more to CS than programming, but not in a way that pays the bills I&#
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by zumu 4y ago
Variable/Parameter names are nicely aligned so there's less scanning to read them. Personally I usually read function arguments before return type, but I can see instances where I'd want to look at return type first. If you&#
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by zumu 4y ago
> French bulldogs are designed and bred to have health problems. They should be verboten to breed at all, but that's not possible. Well, to a certain extent all the AKC dogs have health problems. Even big dogs have stuff like hip d
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by zumu 4y ago
> the requirement to explicitly spell out the generic type params every time always catches me off guard and sorta craps up the code a bit I'm glad it's not just me! I was implementing Either<T, U> the other day, and foun
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by zumu 4y ago
Your question implies that knowing a specific stack/language is the key to employment opportunity. From experience, I don't think that's the case. For web stuff, I'd suggest learning JavaScript if you're interested
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by zumu 4y ago
Why should issues like homelessness be reducible to one 'primary' cause? Highlighting housing costs as a significant contributing factor is an important point to make, but there's no need to undermine the other contributing f
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by zumu 4y ago
I'm not sure if I'm enjoying this, but there's certainly a lot of passionate content out there!
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by zumu 4y ago
I've just recently tried to pick up Scala, by going through the excellent Hands-on Programming with Scala so I can provide a newcomer's perspective. Metals is great if a bit buggy. Being able to just install a VSCode plugin and st
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by zumu 4y ago
I'm also not a fan, but for bootstrap you have to understand how those semantic class names turn into CSS and presentation, whereas the bottom is directly telling you what it does. It also gives you a lot more flexibility out of the bo
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by zumu 4y ago
> the largest driver of unfairness in the admissions process is legacy admissions and donation quid pro quo arrangements From my personal experiences, I suspect the restriction of financial aid based on arbitrary cutoffs affects more peo
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by zumu 4y ago
A lot of people get by using lighter weight IDEs or just text-editors for other languages, where a heavyweight IDE is not as necessary. The only thing I miss from IntelliJ when using something else is the debugger. JetBrains debuggers are g
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by zumu 4y ago
By many metrics it's an excellent choice, but I kind of loathe working with it. However, if you don't mind living in IntelliJ it's significantly better. For example, there's a ton of stuff that doesn't exist, except
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by zumu 4y ago
> I feel like there aren't really any good options in software development any more. It's always one big compromise with lots of possible decision fatigue. Every direction has drawbacks. You just gotta pick something and go. I
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by zumu 4y ago
> Cycle to work. Cycle to work. Play with your kids. Start a hobby that doesn’t involve programming something in rust. Moving your body should not and cannot be viewed as something that happens only in a gym or in 30 minute increments. H
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by zumu 4y ago
Excuse the napkin math, but presuming a common candy bar such as a snickers is 215 calories and walking a mile burns 100 calories and you walk an average of 2.5-3 miles per hour, you will need to walk less than 1 hour to burn the calories o
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by zumu 4y ago
Looking forward, if we really do turn automotive transportation green, some of the negative effects like air quality will improve dramatically. Though I suppose the accompanying reduction in noise will be a detriment for your particular sle
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by zumu 4y ago
Rattlesnake is actually pretty good. I also like CrabML but I wouldn't expect that to be popular though. In general, I don't love Rust's choice of sigils (::, <>, etc), but the language reads well enough. That inner&#x2
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by zumu 4y ago
In my experience a california burrito has french fries _and_ guac (avacado).
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by zumu 4y ago
I always considered it ageist. Gen-X and above who have been using terms like "guys" since they were subversive are now targeted and made unwelcome. Younger "folks" meanwhile are fresh from the birth place of PC terminol
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by zumu 4y ago
Most proxies are crudely sharpied words over other cards, so the low-res 4-color greyscale is a huge improvement haha
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by zumu 4y ago
Can I load up whatever images I want? The dream would be proxying Magic cards for playtesting. If you could load net-decks and shuffle via an app over NFC somehow, that'd be amazing as well! Lots of possibilities here!
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by zumu 4y ago
So out of the 3 points, 1 is not an actual problem, but just learning curve, 2 is a mostly complete, but slightly limited mocking library, and 3 is an unoptimized local dev/build process. I actually think those are fair reasons to swit
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by zumu 4y ago
>Hitachi WOO Ketai H001 I remember that one! The aughts were a truly a golden era in Japanese phone design. The technology was also waaay ahead of the west. We're just now starting to actually use the QR code thing, which was everyw
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by zumu 4y ago
We need to be careful about this narrative as we risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Keeping pushing "recycling plastic" is useless and people are going to stop recycling all around. The real message here should be to f
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by zumu 4y ago
> But how about you start by no lobbying against climate rules The only lobbying I've heard of is against the narrow focus of BEV-only[1] policies and to include hybrid, HEV, etc. What other lobbying are you referring to? 1: https
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by zumu 4y ago
Is it not? I learned about the Holodomor in high school in Oklahoma of all places.

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