duncan-donuts

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by duncan-donuts 2mo ago
I don’t think anyone thinks gun control was passed to help school kids. People have been begging the govt to pass stricter gun control laws to protect kids for decades with very little success.
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by duncan-donuts 3mo ago
The article does say that he’s already given away this amount of money since the founding of Craigslist 30 years ago. From the sound of things he’s always actively doing philanthropic work, but I could be reading into it too much.
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by duncan-donuts 6mo ago
The key distinction here is that the temporary workers would presumably be people who are in federal custody and currently housed in ICE facilities. The temporary housing isn’t the issue.
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by duncan-donuts 1y ago
Serious question – what’s the grift?
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by duncan-donuts 1y ago
I think the terrifying part is just how fast software practitioners completely gave up trying to understand anything. As if these oracles actually know anything about our bespoke systems. It was almost overnight that SMEs were lost.
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by duncan-donuts 2y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
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by duncan-donuts 2y ago
Introducing “unknown” feels like another kind of hell like undefined in JavaScript.
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by duncan-donuts 2y ago
I think people are actually searching for Lisp far more than we are willing to admit.
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by duncan-donuts 2y ago
GNU is a good source for copyleft license info. Iirc they also address other open source licenses. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html . Also https://choosealicense.com/ is good for some tldr inf
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by duncan-donuts 2y ago
I think authentication is about proof of identity. Identity can mean a lot of things imo. Applications identify me all the time without me giving them any proof of who I am. This happens in meatspace all the time too. People project identit
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by duncan-donuts 2y ago
Second the room treatment. It should likely be prioritized over everything. Specifically you should look into getting bass traps and a gobo or three. There’s budget stuff out there but sound is fickle. Control those reflections. Expensive m
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
I’ve had limited success with the null object pattern but there is one case that it worked really well for me. I worked on a feature that was highly dynamic and users could compose reports selecting data points from tangentially related mod
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
Idk if I’d take that explanation at face value. I’m trying to recall a time in my career where I’ve heard this phrase and it was actually a technical problem. Most of the time this is a dismissive response that is more political than it is
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
> It’s not about the wisdom we glean. It’s about what wisdom we grow. I think the author does a good job of actually testing the original point—questioning if all but a handful of books are a worthless distraction. I think the entire pie
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
Do you have any sources on birders directly causing extinction? I think it’s absolutely wild that someone in that profession would drive a species to extinction just to draw it so I’m curious to read more.
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
I was in a meeting to talk about our logging strategy at an old company that was starting micro services and experiencing this problem. In the meeting I half heartedly suggested we write the main lib in C and write a couple wrapper libs for
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
But can it stand to an exceptional puddle? Pretty sure no one is contesting that they can drive their Tesla in the rain. The question is if you live in a place that has outlier weather from where it was tested is the manufacturer responsibl
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
I don’t mind code reviews so I’m not really defending who you’re replying to. There is another way to think about this tho and I actually have found this practice to be light years more effective than code reviews. Where I work we have a pr
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
This is the difference between a data processor and a data controller in the GDPR.
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
I'll admit I started skimming about half way but did the author actually make any real proposal on how to address poverty? As far as I can tell they just hand-waved away the poor by suggesting just start a business? I'm not sure i
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
Like all lisps it is niche. I don’t use scheme but have used Common Lisp and clojure for a few years. Racket has a thriving community as far as I can tell. You just don’t see lisp much in the wild but it’s there.
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
This is a pretty cool idea to add a social element to everything. I don't think I'm necessarily in the target demo but still this looks really cool
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
Nah I think the OP post still works here. You might have requirements of a car that only some niche manufacturer can meet because you have a very specific problem to solve. Let’s say you’re in a wheelchair and you need a vehicle that is acc
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
What's the problem with this exactly?
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
My wife couldn’t sleep after giving birth to our second kid and it spiraled quickly into full blown psychosis. My wife still can’t sleep right nearly 10 years later. There’s no shame in taking antidepressants. Some of us have brains that do
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
You used to be able to find them deep in search results but now it’s all blogspam. It’d be nice if this stuff was easier to find.
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
Another aspect is that you could actually find these sites in the past. I have vague recollections of spending hours going through a bunch of garbage to find some goldmine Web 1.0 site. I don’t remember the last time I found an old site lik
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
In this case there isn’t a lot you can do. If a bad actor is going to spend a lot of time gaining your trust and doing good before they do bad how do you vet that? You either have to maintain full control forever or you have accept this pos
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
I’d even add that LLMs not only give nothing back to content creators it’s also taking from them. Thieves had to do actual work to steal ideas from people in the past so the barrier to entry was high. Now I can have an LLM plagiarize people
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by duncan-donuts 3y ago
This is the absolute wildest take I’ve seen in a while. How can any sort of free market ideas apply? Fascists operate by force. A tiny minority of fascists can take control over a much larger population through violence. Source: history

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