wfleming

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by wfleming 3mo ago
Custom furniture/cabinetry is already a pretty tough market, and woodworking is such a common programmer hobby that if a significant chunk of us decided to make a go of it the market would get heavily oversupplied pretty fast :). I’ve
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by wfleming 4mo ago
As I understand it, "to be trespassed" is a term of art that basically means "the cops were called, told that person was trespassing, the cops duly informed that person they are trespassing & had to leave the property, an
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by wfleming 4mo ago
I also use pass. Any forge you feel like is fine (I use gitlab). I backup my gpg key with `gpg —export-owner-trust` and store that backup elsewhere. Pass has a pretty good ecosystem of plugins/other clients, as well. There are open sou
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by wfleming 5mo ago
Not a blowout?
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by wfleming 5mo ago
Stores, no, but there are meetups of keyboard nerds where people bring a bunch of them. There’s one in NYC run by a former coworker of mine: https://nyckeyboardmeetup.com/ . Schedule is somewhat sporadic, and unfortunately y
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by wfleming 6mo ago
I'm with you, but I do think the situation can be characterized differently in a couple important ways: 1. IE was the default browser for many users (i.e. anybody using Windows who didn't know better). 2. IE had a lot of bugs and
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by wfleming 7mo ago
There is also a JS pkg with similar behavior: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs
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by wfleming 7mo ago
For folks who have never seen it, these are the referenced Top Gear segments: - part 1: https://youtu.be/xnWKz7Cthkk - part 2: https://youtu.be/xnWKz7Cthkk - part 3: https://youtu.be/kFnVZXQ
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by wfleming 11mo ago
We’re in very nitpicky terminology weeds here (and I’m not the person you’re replying to), but my understanding is “commutative” is specifically about reordering operands of one binary op (4+3 == 3+4), while “associative” is about reorder
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by wfleming 11mo ago
If a therapist helped 99/100 patients but tacitly encouraged the 100th to commit suicide* they would still lose their license. * ignoring the case of ethical assisted suicide for reasons of terminal illness and such, which doesn’t seem
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by wfleming 1y ago
What kind of mobile functionality were you looking for? The (unofficial) iOS app is pretty good IMHO and integrates with iOS’s OS-level password filling, and also supports the pass-otp plugin’s format for 2fa codes if you use that plugin. T
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by wfleming 1y ago
18 days is how long the first human-to-human heart transplant recipient lived post-op. The more recent first pig heart recipient made it two months.
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by wfleming 1y ago
> Adding non-primitive props you get passed into your component to internal dependency arrays is rarely right, because this component has no control over the referential stability of those props. I think this is wrong? If you memoize a c
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by wfleming 1y ago
The “stolen” one is a 1991 model according to the article, so not that new (just kept in immaculate condition as the photos show, I was surprised when I saw it was a ‘91), and only 6 years between the two vehicles involved. Given those age
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by wfleming 1y ago
I look forward to the Matt Levine's section on this in tomorrow's Money Stuff.
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by wfleming 1y ago
https://archive.ph/MF378
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by wfleming 2y ago
I can think of multiple “corner stores” that are the only business within a single-family home residential area within a few minutes drive of the house I grew up in in suburban NY. I’m pretty sure they all got grandfathered in and would not
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by wfleming 2y ago
Vlovich is describing the very last race only, where he did place the final bet. He takes her 4k and tells her he’s going to place the bet for her so how much she’ll win is a surprise. The horse he said he would bet on loses the race and
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by wfleming 2y ago
Our Django app was still 1.x when I joined, I’ve gotten us up to 3.2 and hope to be on 4.0 in January. It looks like this was added in 4.1, so this’ll be a nice QOL improvement to look forward to, thanks.
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by wfleming 2y ago
I believe `makemigrations` builds up its conception of "what the schema is" from the `CreateModel`, `AddField`, `AlterField`, etc. ops in the migrations files. But it doesn't incorporate `RunSQL` ops into building that model
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by wfleming 2y ago
I prefer null as a clear “no value” marker to handle rather than special-casing handling of an empty string vs other strings, and if “empty string” isn’t considered valid that should be validation logic and that should never get stored in t
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by wfleming 2y ago
> Migrations in Django > > The Django approach has noteworthy differences and a slightly different workflow My explanation of Django's approach to migrations would involve a lot more expletives. It is by far my least favorite
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by wfleming 2y ago
The trouble is the justification of a subscription is evaluated differently by businesses and customers, and both perspectives are rational. If you’ve got servers to pay for, subscriptions are a very appealing model since it makes the “is t
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by wfleming 2y ago
It seems appropriate that a company's own pensions should be senior claims over shareholders which might indirectly be responsible for part of other pensions or retirement funds somewhere down the line.
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by wfleming 2y ago
It is useful for the geography to be at least close-to-correct, because step 1 of navigating a transit map is deciding if transit is the best way to go . The tube map is well known for having spots that make this deceptive, e.g. tourists
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by wfleming 2y ago
Very much agree. I have built infra on ECS with terraform at two companies now, and we have zero manual steps for actions like this, beyond “add the env var to a terraform file, merge it and let CI deploy”. The majority of config changes we
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by wfleming 2y ago
That used to be the advice, but the W3C eventually agreed with you. The spec describes <b> as "a span of text to which attention is being drawn" ( https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semanti
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by wfleming 2y ago
Probably because that makes parsing much more complicated, and this being a half-joking hobbyist project they didn’t want to increase scope that much.
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by wfleming 2y ago
I think the takeaway of how to succeed with this kind of project is good, but a missing element for why so many kind of never take off that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that a lot of times the compatability of these alternative implement
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by wfleming 2y ago
Also, when ranked by that total the “best 4” aren’t really the best 4. They don’t report rape numbers, so they don’t get a total. And their numbers are all worse than NY on the other categories (murder, robbery, assault).

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