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by wittekm 2y ago
Anecdotally, I see a lot more “normal” human to human engagement than the addressed-to-millions engagement bait I see on Threads.
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by wittekm 3y ago
Shellcheck is great, but dealing with source/imports is suuuch a pain. Not their fault sh is a nightmare.
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by wittekm 3y ago
Genuinely surprised anybody would acquire Splunk in 2023. Whenever you hear about Splunk from security engineers, they're actively trying to get off it (edit: yes, primarily because of cost). Better, next-gen SIEMs are either here or a
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by wittekm 3y ago
I do wonder if something like the MagSafe (laptop) adaptor would strike a happy medium. Also - I don't know if Apple's 15w Qi is strong enough for a tablet.
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by wittekm 3y ago
Having worked at a company with a million-lines-plus of Python monolith, gradual typing annotations made all the difference. Why do you need it enforced at runtime? It's static types!
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by wittekm 3y ago
Drew Houston needs to step down. The company has been aimless for a decade. The 'collaborative workspace' was an obviously bad idea that they sunk years of company-wide resources on (ask me how I know!)
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by wittekm 5y ago
Agreed - the common rental ones really have no power. I think Lime and its ilk are usually in the 300w range. I bought my own scooter on a whim; it can toggle between 500w and 1000w of power, and I rarely need the 1000w except for the crazi
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by wittekm 6y ago
(I was at Dropbox from 2015-2020) The legacy framework was Pylons, which eventually evolved into Pyramid. The tldr is there were hundreds of unowned endpoints that, yes, were allowed to fester. They eventually got ownership on all endpoints
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by wittekm 6y ago
plus one, also having twitter issues besides this tweet
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by wittekm 7y ago
Some projects need performant regexes, and some honestly just don't. I agree that keeping the base regex library linear is admirable, but it's be nice if they offered a well-marked thing like regex.slow_and_perl_like in the stdlib
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by wittekm 8y ago
(Note: my knowledge here is out of date as of 2015.) Sable is relatively ancient and badly in need of deprecation. (If I remember correctly, as of 2011 it was sort of in a "please consider alternate storage solutions" mode.) It is
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by wittekm 8y ago
Skype for Android is unbelievably bad. I uninstalled it after the following: - a spam bot texts me asking to connect - which, whatever. - my locked phone wakes up from sleep and /launches into Skype/ to show me this exciting infor
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by wittekm 10y ago
So, when is somebody going to do an assistant abstraction layer so you can plug your service into all N of these things?
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by wittekm 10y ago
I'd just like to give a shout-out to Jetbrains for being really responsive on their bug tracker! I've reported a couple bugs about PEP 484 type comments and they've acknowledged or fixed them usually within a week.
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by wittekm 10y ago
'bo*' is pretty common for cows in european languages - they are the genus 'bos' after all (see: english 'bovine'). As for the Vietnamese roots, I thought it might have been a French loanword but it looks like
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by wittekm 10y ago
Most likely, they A/B tested it and liked what they saw. Interesting development considering Nordstrom's failure with the same experiment.
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by wittekm 10y ago
While I agree that the article is all business-speak ("we're just like Apple!" said every auto exec ever), the Mazda/Ford partnership is basically done as of the market crash. Ford at one point owned 33% of it in the 90s
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by wittekm 10y ago
A unique ode to the biggest changes between 2->3
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by wittekm 10y ago
The article says that the modern peanut has 20 chromosomes, whereas its ancestors each had 10. At least in animal hybridization, the hybrid chromosome amount lies between that of the two parents. So what's up with that? Wikipedia menti
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by wittekm 11y ago
My favorite is that Jeb Bush's website used a capitalized I instead of a pipe symbol, assuming it'd be sans-serifs. http://imgur.com/hc3LVwI
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by wittekm 11y ago
We've been using the Python 2 support at work for the past ~month and it's a gamechanger for me personally. I like that it's easy to incrementally add types, and silo it to one piece of the codebase at a time. Thanks Jukka!
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by wittekm 11y ago
They want to add hooks for it, noting Opera already has a sidebar API. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Future I've seen similar sentiments echoed by Mozilla devs in a reddit AMA a few weeks ago.
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by wittekm 11y ago
Can somebody wrap this in a Slackbot and call it SmarterManchild?
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by wittekm 11y ago
His poor kids - their mother died 4 to 5 months ago. :(
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by wittekm 11y ago
Seriously, that's ridiculous. Alphabet's Nest, for instance, would make sense - it's not a household name.
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by wittekm 11y ago
Interesting note: the hiring of Jay Carney (Feb 26, 2015) coincides exactly with this article ("We were in regular communication with Ms. Kantor from February through the publication date in mid-August"). I wonder if such a high-v
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by wittekm 11y ago
A number have tried, and failed. Interestingly, the following three failed as a function of being based in transit-legislation-heavy San Francisco: * Loup * Leap * Night School My understanding is that Chariot is still operating and doing w
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by wittekm 11y ago
This article is confusing - what defines a gigacoaster? Why isn't the Kingda Ka (tallest North American roller coaster), for example, among them?
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by wittekm 12y ago
I would have originally agreed, but the emails and employee info leaked are pretty damaging; and how exactly would they have roped the FBI in on it?
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by wittekm 12y ago
I realize this is off topic, but I take serious issue with the statement that "Nevada is the entertainment capital of the world."

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