Balladeer

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by Balladeer 2y ago
"...get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore." https://youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgv
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by Balladeer 2y ago
How does "R language" compare to searching for one of the popular R packages? Searching for "tidyverse", "dplyr", or "ggplot" seems to get a good chunk of hits. That being said, yeah, there does seem
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by Balladeer 2y ago
How long did it take you to go from "making a new server / copying configs is fine" to "this is tedious enough I'd like to abstract it?" Like, was it a years-long journey or is this the type of thing that becom
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by Balladeer 3y ago
I believe it is. See https://www.wired.com/story/battle-over-books3/
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by Balladeer 3y ago
I'm not who you replied to, but yes, that's my main concern: Bluesky is still a company building a thing to pay back the money it owes investors. I worry that Bluesky becomes the de facto central actor and, due to having no stated
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by Balladeer 3y ago
Hah! Thanks for the correction / info; I do appreciate it.
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by Balladeer 3y ago
> Markets prevent monopolies and cartels. A lot of the optimism seems to rely on this statement and...I'm not convinced? But I also admit I'm not well informed on the topic. Does anyone have suggested reading on 'market di
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by Balladeer 3y ago
I understand and even expect the lack of empathy from RTO executives, but the lack of empathy on the part of the 'remote work for everyone, always' camp saddens me. I've worked primarily remote since 2016; but I have the opti
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by Balladeer 3y ago
> some will learn, but most will fall for the cloud marketing depts and become infra renters for life Do you have any learning recommendations for someone looking to start down this path? I've only ever worked in an infra-renter con
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by Balladeer 3y ago
This "article" is a 10+ year-old website that's been tracking an ecosystem-wide migration from one style of preparing python code for distribution to another, more robust style of preparation.
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by Balladeer 3y ago
I'm cautiously optimistic here. I have a very specific idea that the Vision Pro might make real. There's a great urban park nearby and I so want to just...walk while I work. Not on a treadmill and not 'to get away from my wor
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by Balladeer 3y ago
For typical use cases, you're probably persisting the data, so I'll assume your use case is "Python with a database ORM like Django or SQLAlchemy". The really short version of "use statemachine" is: store a sin
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by Balladeer 3y ago
This "suddenly requirements change" is why I get instantly wary whenever I see a boolean column like `completed` in a design. Sure, you start with two explicit states. But then you add `deleted` and now you have four states, wheth
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by Balladeer 3y ago
Yeah, having a nuanced vocabulary to talk about misophonia really helped me. Even just in the context of English, the vocabulary just wasn't there back in the early 2010s when I first sought out treatment; basically all you could find
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by Balladeer 3y ago
I can empathize with you; I do hope you're able to find some relief. My treatment was basically a targeted form of Cognitive behavioral therapy. The first big hurdle was to learn that I had developed 'toxic hopefulness' regar
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by Balladeer 3y ago
Having gone through therapy for misophonia over the last year, I'm happy that research on the phenomenon has progressed quite a bit since I last gave up on treatment back in the early 2010s. While not 100% gone, I find my misophonia re
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by Balladeer 4y ago
The book "Stolen Focus" had an interesting point on this effect that resonated with me. While mind wandering -- letting your mind explore the past and future -- can be a gift and creative boon, it can only do so in a low-stress en
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by Balladeer 4y ago
> Mineable cryptocurrencies inject the new money to whoever mines them, which could be anyone While true in theory, is it true in practice? Those with the most resources to mine will mine the most and thus receive the most, allowing them