leepowers

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by leepowers 3y ago
When you bill by the hour, what you’re really saying is “I have no idea if what I’m doing will have any value, and I honestly don’t care — all that matters is that I am not exposed to risk for even a single minute of my time working for yo
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by leepowers 3y ago
In this particular case the author is using a controversial headline to drum up attention for his business, which he plugs about 2/3rds of a way through the article. I think web developers in particular are more familiar with SEO and w
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by leepowers 3y ago
Jonathan Grey, a current US intelligence official at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (Nasic), confirmed the existence of “exotic materials” to the Debrief, adding: “We are not alone.” ... Grusch said it was dangerous for thi
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by leepowers 3y ago
> "But I Have No Choice!" > I see this argument pop-up frequently when taking to design leaders or developers. I call bullshit on this excuse. You absolutely have the choice to avoid implementing bad designs - that's yo
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by leepowers 3y ago
OP is working in a dysfunctional workplace and has conflated that with "developer estimates are bad": > 1. Give a very wide estimate with a lot of padding > 2. Get pressured to be more accurate and to bring the estimate down
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by leepowers 4y ago
The Big Bounce[1] hypothesis is a model that "suggests that we could be living at any point in an infinite sequence of universes". So while our current universe may not be infinite there may be some yet undiscovered infinite/
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by leepowers 4y ago
DoIT estimates the project will take at least 5 years to make the necessary changes resulting in a total state general fund cost of approximately $1.47 Billion .... Total Annual Cost $293,894,620 The Department states historically the co
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by leepowers 4y ago
It's possible the complaint is using a trivial example to illustrate the type of argument plaintiffs want to make during any trial. A 200-line example is too unwieldy for non-programmers to digest, especially given the formatting const
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by leepowers 4y ago
But ... the examples on the right are short, concise, and effectively communicate the problem. The left examples contain no actionable information, wasting the time and attention of everyone in the channel/thread. Maybe working in an a
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by leepowers 4y ago
> So, Middle Earth had coal, but did it need coal? I don’t think so. The author focuses on energy sources for machine power. But what about generating high heat for metallurgy? Coal burns longer and hotter than wood, and releases fewer p
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by leepowers 5y ago
On Firefox 97.0 (64-bit) macOS 10.15.7 (19H2) - pressing "/" opens up "Quick Find"
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by leepowers 5y ago
You'd have a point if it was just git. Issue tracker, PR interface, wiki / documentation tools, actions/webhooks, etc. - that's where Github demonstrates its utility.
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by leepowers 5y ago
Hmmm...Maybe I just tune out the business stuff, but I mostly see topics relating to programming, science, and technology, with a smattering of pure business stuff and product/startup announcements. I think this may be a taxonomic prob
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by leepowers 5y ago
Super Mario 64 and The Ocarina of Time elevated open-world 3D game play. So much of gaming to this point, even 3D gaming, was dungeon crawling, or traversing linear paths and story lines, or killing opponents in a closed arena. SM64 and Oca
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by leepowers 5y ago
> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth. 1) If they take false content down that will reinforce her beliefs. 2) If they leave false content up, she will keep consuming it, which will reinforce
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by leepowers 5y ago
> I was, again, technically stronger. A thousand-string pull request was littered with 200 comments, not leaving the person even a faint hope in his competency. Great. That's way too much feedback. It makes it very hard determine wh
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by leepowers 5y ago
Love the concept. My only blocker for adoption is being able to import bookmarks from Firefox into Bonsai. Feedback and ideas: 1) On macOS Catalina - can't Cmd+Tab out of full-screen. 2) Bookmarks import. 3) Search somewhere other than
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by leepowers 5y ago
Sharing freely and embracing open source has been an unalloyed good for encouraging the development of software; so there is some insight to your comment. But participation in open source is voluntary. And right now any artist or musician c
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by leepowers 5y ago
Does it though? It seems instead the incentive might be to create broad and accessible works that will appeal to the widest audience. Marvel movies are produced and performed with a high level of quality; yet the stories are simple, unchall
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by leepowers 5y ago
I've always been fascinated by people who spend huge chunks of time creating and maintaining Wikipedia articles. Are they driven by a simple love research and curating information? Or maybe knowing their articles could potentially info
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by leepowers 5y ago
Another possibility is that chances of advanced civilizations developing are extraordinarily rare. It could be so rare that even if anatomically modern humans exist for one to two million years, the species only establishes advanced civiliz
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by leepowers 5y ago
Note - this method requires the element have a height defined; or a height derived from a declaration like `aspect-ratio` That's because `inset: 0rem` is equivalent to `top: 0rem; right: 0rem; bottom: 0rem; left: 0rem;` - which is a we
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by leepowers 6y ago
Noticed no problems today, west coast, I have their web mail interface always running in an open tab
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by leepowers 6y ago
It's a false equivalence. Here's the AOC quote being referenced: > "The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy chang
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by leepowers 6y ago
For months Trump has asserted that mail-in voting is intrinsically insecure and fraudulent. He's also been parroting baseless lies and conspiracy theories about the election. Telling his supporters their vote is being suppressed by all
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by leepowers 6y ago
This is an extraordinary step for YouTube to take. But we live in extraordinary times; or a least, this is an extraordinary circumstance. The president is unwilling to concede his loss. He baselessly claims the election was stolen, alleging
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by leepowers 6y ago
Why bind a database to a local socket and not to a network port? Because it reduces the attack surface area. It doesn't mean the database is "secure": access permissions could be configured incorrectly; it could be missing se
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by leepowers 6y ago
Happens to me all the time with ads loading when reading an article on mobile. Very annoying!
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by leepowers 6y ago
I was just thinking this. It sort of gives you a home base to return to, regardless of how weird/spiffy the rest of application is. Additionally "Help" is always to the right of the other menu items. And there's a search
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by leepowers 6y ago
About that: Hosting a lecture in a university physics department [Oxford] without inviting any physicists is, at best, an unforgivable oversight. As my colleague Subir Sarkar put it, “It’s surprising that the organisers did not invite the

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