well_actulily

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by well_actulily 15d ago
Location: Greater Los Angeles area Remote: Yes (open to hybrid in the LA area) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node/NestJS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, PHP/Laravel, Eloquent, C#/.NET, Python, GraphQL, V
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by well_actulily 3mo ago
The double-encoding path gets you there too: the original UTF-8 \xE2 \x80 \x99 mis-decoded as iso-8859-1 or Windows-1252 and saved back as UTF-8 gives \xC3 \xA2 \xC2 \x80 \xC2 \x99, which in Windows-1252 renders as Ã¢Â€Â™. A WYSIWYG cleanup
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by well_actulily 7mo ago
Anecdata, but I took Spanish all four years in high school in Southern California—I knew of vosotros, but was never really taught it
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by well_actulily 8mo ago
Their practice of comingling SKUs eroded so much trust I had over the years.
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by well_actulily 8mo ago
I never connect my TVs to WiFi, and I loathe the day they start slipping cell antennas into these things.
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by well_actulily 9mo ago
I'll never install Windows on another machine.
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by well_actulily 9mo ago
All content is political. Some gets removed.
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by well_actulily 1y ago
Those in the United States who choose to contribute to a collaborative encyclopedia likely don't mirror the population as a whole; it's reasonable to assume they're more formally educated and more technically oriented, traits
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by well_actulily 1y ago
With heavy use of SVG <symbol>, one would hope! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...
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by well_actulily 1y ago
This is essentially the adversarial generator/discriminator set-up that GANs use.
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by well_actulily 1y ago
Notably the litigation-induced bankruptcy of Gawker Media (of which Jalopnik was a part) in 2016 is the reason why Jalopnik wound up owned by these private equity groups. Most of these publications are shells of their former selves, but I s
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by well_actulily 2y ago
We used it for a two week trip to Singapore and Japan last year, and yeah, I agree the app performance for packed trips is pretty rough.
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by well_actulily 2y ago
Anecdotally, but it seems like a lot of these sites that once hosted these department or big box stores don't wind up getting redeveloped. At best, they might be home to a Spirit Halloween for a couple months out of a year. Having to c
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by well_actulily 2y ago
Sure, but if Versailles is 30-45 minutes outside of central Paris by train, and Bletchley Park is about an hour or so outside of London, I'd venture that the extra ~hour round trip of travel time isn't that meaningful to most tour
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by well_actulily 2y ago
And similarly for Los Angeles, the current proposal is to have swimming events at SoFi, a ~70,000 seat NFL stadium.
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by well_actulily 2y ago
This phenomena also occurs in the transgender community; people put a lot of thought and intention choosing their new names only to wind up surrounded by other people who also landed on the same name, often for similar reasons. There&#x27
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by well_actulily 2y ago
You still have the potential to fuck up marine and littoral ecosystems if you're discharging concentrated brine back into the ocean willy-nilly, though.
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by well_actulily 2y ago
Believe it or not, jail.
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by well_actulily 2y ago
Highlights include: - "In Search of a Flat Earth" (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44 - "Line Goes Up" (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g - "The Fut
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Sure, it's "legal"—but so is them banning you from playing blackjack or tresspassing you from their property.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
A broken clock is right twice a day.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Some states in the US have laws on the books so that if you can sign up to a service online, you need to be able to cancel online—at least.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Lessig isn't saying we should keep children away from morals. He's criticizing how Disney adapted the Brothers Grimm's stories, which often preached heavy-handed and regressive moral lessons in a moralizing manner.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
I always hated the biocular NVGs when I was in, but that was back when the conversation was between PVS-14s and PVS-7s. Hopefully the dual tube design helps with the nausea I had trying to drive with PVS-7s in Grafenwöhr back in the day.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
I'd suggest that anyone coming into a comment section with vague anti-democratic platitudes is not worthy of a good faith discussion over their precise meaning. If they're unwilling to state their position outright, I think it&#x2
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by well_actulily 3y ago
They're not joking, the thread that is linked is literally from 2010.
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Is there much utility to be derived from a locked thread from over a decade ago, aside from as a historical snapshot? What might a modern answer to this question look like?
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by well_actulily 3y ago
I completely understand where you're coming from, and I agree that the appeal of fancy restaurants can wane over time. I've definitely been burned by the odd over-hyped spot or two. However, for me, a lot of these restaurants are
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by well_actulily 3y ago
But they increase FUD and get clicks, so they're fit to print!
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by well_actulily 3y ago
Jesus. Dorsia? On a Friday night?

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