TehPers

I always need to remind myself that scamming people with crypto, despite the returns, is an awful thing to do. It’s super easy to make money if you’re psychopathic enough to ruin someone’s life to do so. Sadly, that’s how most people end up getting rich.

Anyway, that a billionaire wouldn’t just give someone a million bucks is, in my opinion, more likely because the time it takes to pay the gift tax on that would be too inconvenient. Which, of course, says a lot about those billionaires, that turning someone’s life around is too inconvenient to be worth it.

As a former Catholic who would laugh at any funny joke about that religion, the Pope added nothing to this supposed joke.

This one was a swing and a miss.

Windows 11 also comes with some new, great features that you’ll miss by not upgrading! Your windows will sometimes decide not to repaint their surfaces, especially under load or while screen sharing. You’ll have a OneDrive ad in the main settings page. Copilot and Teams will randomly install themselves when installing your forced updates. And we can’t forget about all the work being done to ensure you have no choice but to link your account with a MS account!

Look, it used to be tolerable. The bugs made me install Linux, and I haven’t missed it at all.

Sounds like you just started the game! If you like the gameplay, keep going. There’s more to the story.

Right to repair does not match well with right wing politics (TL;DR AuthRight need control and in lib-right absolute capitalism having reparable stuff is a surefire to kill your company ) but it’s a murky and difficult subject so I understand why it’s not mentioned.

While I agree, especially around farming, right to repair is a massive topic and advocated for strongly. It’s weird that they’d then advocate against it with their other views, but logic hasn’t existed in politics for longer than I’ve been alive, so yeah.

I can say the same about my Framework 16. Best laptop I’ve owned, in terms of the features I care about anyway.

But also, I’d like to be able to advocate for it without worrying about the association.

The purpose of these communities isn’t to help people learn to not be assholes. A Framework community, for example, is a community centered around Framework’s products and ecosystems.

As far as responsibility, a community is built by its people, and it is not my responsibility to change someone’s views. I have no sympathy towards people who would harm or advocate/celebrate the harm of myself or anyone close to me. They can fuck off.

These views are harmful to communities because when acted on, they exclude entire groups from the community. They tear apart communities, turning it into a political “us vs them” rather than discussions about the original topic.

Nobody is saying people with these views can’t be members of the community, but that they are required to accept the presence of those they are prejudiced against in order to contrbute to it. But if they make the rules, they will forbid those they are prejudiced against from being members at all.

If someone’s actively interested in a discussion and wants to learn, then that’s one thing. But it’s still off topic for most communities.

Note that none of what I just said is specific to far-right views. It’s just most common with them.

It’s his good friend Everyone. They’ve been friends since they were kids, and Everyone has always been supportive of him.

That anyone would even imagine a Dyson Sphere being remotely possible to build is beyond me.

Even supposing you managed to build one somehow, the maintenance cost would scale with the size (and therefore be astronomical, in the literal sense).

I got a simple approach to comments: do whatever makes the most sense to you and your team and anyone else who is expected to read or maintain the code.

All these hard rules around comments, where they should live, whether they should exist, etc. exist only to be broken by edge cases. Personally I agree with this post in the given example, but eventually an edge case will come up when this no longer works well.

I think far too many people focus on comments, especially related to Clean Code. At the end of the day, what I want to see is:

• Does the code work? How do you know?
• What does the code do? How do you know? How do I know?
• Can I easily add to your code without breaking it?

Whether you use comments at all, where you place them, whether they are full sentences, fragments, lowercase, sentence case, etc makes no difference to me as long as I know what the code does when I see it (assuming sufficient domain knowledge).

I think anything that increases friction is bound to cause adoption issues.

If you’re fine with that, then I’d recommend making the price for individual licenses public so people know what they’re getting into, maybe with an asterisk that the price is negotiable (if it is).

Having used it, it is. Immich is awesome.

Same. I didn’t use RoR before it was cool.

(Honestly I just didn’t like the syntax of Ruby and there were tons of great alternatives already by the time I was looking)

This sounds to me like we need to move to Germany. It’s not uncommon for people in the US to apply to hundreds, or even thousands, of jobs and get a single-digit number of interviews (or offers, in industries where interviewing is uncommon) out of it, regardless of effort put into the application. Most applications are rejected before a human ever reads them.

The lenses would also need to be hot-swappable for changes in prescriptions. No point in glasses that don’t properly correct vision, at least for those who need it.

Also anything with a sensor on it or some kind of input-gathering mechanism from Meta is an immediate no-go for me.

It’s an author’s name, but I can’t figure out which one.

It doesn’t seem like Robert F. Young’s books match these covers. Francis Young’s books all have a solid color rectangle at the bottom of the binding with “Cambridge” written on it.

Now I’m curious lol. Probably first name starts with an “F” if I had to guess.

I don’t and won’t ever use these platforms, but to me this seems like a good thing? Option to not have ads is huge.

Edit: given of course that free users can still opt out of targeted ads

The medium (lol) is annoying, but it didn’t ask me to pay. Is the article not free for you?

The article goes into depth about what you should be using. Floats and doubles are not designed for use with base 10 fractions. They’re good at estimating them, but not accurate enough for real financial use.

There’s also not much reason to reinvent the wheel for an already solved problem. Many languages have this data type already built into the language, and the rest usually have it available through a package.

This to me seems like one of those “correlation ≠ causation” things. I know at least a couple of people who don’t have “lunar-synchronized” cycles (I don’t exactly ask people their cycles though so N is small here).

Would be interesting if there was a causation though.