Zach_the_Lizard

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by Zach_the_Lizard 4mo ago
Teachers can weaponize CPS reports and absolutely cause legal problems. I know someone who dealt with that. Their kid's doctor put the kid on an ADHD medicine, he had a bad reaction to it, and then the doctor told the mother to immedia
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4mo ago
I agree with this. I've been writing a new internal framework at work and migrating consumers of the old framework to the new one. I had strong principles at the outset of the project and migrated a few consumers by hand, which gave me
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4mo ago
Some of them rocket scientists double down on the accent in Hunts-vuhl. Sadly, the You Must Be Ignorant lot is as ignorant of that conclave of cosmic capsule constructors as it is of the proper pronunciation of y'all
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4mo ago
As one of those supposedly higher level ICs, I agree entirely with the assessment. A decade or so ago, the high level ICs I interacted with were much more technical. They were the kind who would perhaps not invent truly novel things--but pl
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by Zach_the_Lizard 4mo ago
I had a Southern accent and had to train it out because my northern colleagues kept making fun of it. I noticed that I was perceived as "smarter" without it. My story is not exactly uncommon and there are a bunch of famous people
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by Zach_the_Lizard 10mo ago
Pulling weeds by hand works for a lot of weeds and is the most environmentally friendly solution where possible. It's what I've done, for the most part. I will say for some weed species that can be ineffective or counterproductive
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by Zach_the_Lizard 10mo ago
Can't do that in cracks in a sidewalk, between pavers, on a wall, etc. where plant growth can damage them.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 10mo ago
Some weeds are quite unpleasant, such as sticker burrs. I'd rather not have a dog and children covered in those. Some weeds can be damaging to property, trees, sidewalks, etc. or are poisonous. It's not always about being annoyed
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
The problem with that "decipherment", from what I've been told by others who are far more educated than I am, is that it does the equivalent of deciphering Anglo-Saxon runnic texts by using modern slang like "yo" in
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
There have been attempts to recreate (vulgar) Latin from modern day Romance languages, as well as using older forms of these languages to reconstrct what's known as Proto-Romance. My recollection is that the complexity went the other w
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
>...farming those risks out to institutions seems to be the current way most societies have decided to mitigate those risks Unfortunately, those institutions --be they governments, insurance companies, UL Labs, banks, venture capitalists
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
On the other hand, avoiding peanut exposure can cause an increase in allergies, so there's a feedback loop at play. The children who now have allergies, but wouldn't with past exposure levels, are more inconvenienced than the kid
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
It's a bunch of small things: command line flags, whether a command line tool is even present at all, compiler built-ins / differences in behavior, headers possibly being in different places, compiler support for various language
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
MacOS is only licensed for use in Apple branded hardware, as I understand it. Even running it in a VM could be problematic if that host isn't running MacOS.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
I'm guessing "the edge" is doing inference work in the browser, etc. as opposed to somewhere in the backend of the web app. Maybe your local machine can run, I don't know, a model to make suggestions as you're editi
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
We used to, until they canceled that trust
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by Zach_the_Lizard 2y ago
The story of humanity can be summed up as: "what if we changed our environment without understanding it?" with both wonderful and wretched consequences. The same fires that poison the air we breathe also power life saving medical
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Considering that Houston is significantly bigger than Austin--metro area of 6.6 million vs 2.2 million--one could argue it _is_ handling a significant influx of people better than Austin.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Part of the issue is that Go has a variety of design choices / limitations that conspire to produce different design patterns in this area than what you might see with e.g. Java. For example: let's say we want to implement somethi
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I strongly agree. Map / filter isn't included, but a fair number of the various utilities are included in the standard library in the `slices` and `maps` packages. `context` also helps solve a bunch of the channel related use case
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
It's difficult to explain, but having children triggers something deep--primitive, even--inside of you that unlocks another level of fulfillment. And self growth, for that matter. I too have had a rewarding career that has afforded me
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Feelings are part of what makes us human. We love our parents, enjoy the company of our friends, like listening to music and so much more. Not everything in life is logical.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
From an outsider's perspective, it seems "move fast and break things" worked well enough for SpaceX. Boeing et al seem to be following the "move slow and hide problems so we don't fix anything" mantra.
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
To this American, "half six" sounds like a roundabout way to describe the number three and not a way to says it's 6:30 (or 5:30 for that matter). I've never heard anyone say that
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Algebra, from Arabic
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Sum types with pattern matching would likely take the place of (foo, error) in a lot of codebases. This is especially true in cases where a function returns a collection of results where each result is independent from other results and a r
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
This is relatively common with naive int / string to enum type conversions, especially if the int or string are given as input from an RPC mechanism of some sort. This type of pattern can be used to force other developers to check if t
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
Here in Texas, it's been 80 degrees by about 8 or 9am for most of the summer. Sometimes earlier or for days. Apparently it currently feels like 110 degrees (air temperature is 101).
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
I'm guessing New York farmers don't have as much power as their Montana cousins. Rural and low population _states_ have a fair amount of power due to having a fixed number of senators per state, but rural areas in an otherwise non
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by Zach_the_Lizard 3y ago
As a military brat who doesn't really have a hometown, or even a clear regional identity, I like that this system lets you choose a town to donate to without forcing it to be connected to your birthplace or life history. It'd be n

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