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At least with pip and env, you'd have a hard time doing general tasks in python without getting to know them anyway.

You can also shortcut a lot of that with a hosting service like Heroku, which takes on a lot of the mental overhead for you.

You've made me curious to ask, what programming environments don't have a significant learning curve when you get to the hosting portion, short of a "no-code" hosting solution?

Just to clarify. The concept of words having an origin and evolving over time is nonsense?

I have so many more questions if that's what you're trying to say here.

Geocities, Angelfire, and Maxpages. GIFs everywhere. Backgrounds tiled with GIFs. If it didn't sparkle in some way that distracted from the content of the page, you weren't doing it right.

What a time to be alive.

I have no experience with modern variants of Latin, but wouldn't that be akin to trying to read Portugese when you know Spanish? You might get the general gist, but you wouldn't really get the full underlying meaning. You'd certainly miss more complex ideas like idioms.

I'd imagine it would depend on your goal. Do you want to be able to work your way through a text, or do you want to be able to appreciate poetry in the language? I'd say it might work for the former, it almost certainly wouldn't for the latter.

And focuses most of their time and energy into brown nosing. Zero respect in either direction and an adversarial relationship by design any time you need resources from the company/higher-ups. /shudder

I said it was an easy thing to have happen, not that it would happen. I'd argue that you took my statement in bad faith, looking for a flaw in it, and generalized more aggressively than I did.

As many people learned last year, it's easy to gloss over the parts of someone you don't like when you're both actively working towards a goal. When you start spending too much time together, it's easy to have the relationship die from a thousand cuts.

I agree. I did it towards the end of 2019 and completely torpedoed my life.

Because of COVID I didn't even get to do much actual hiking or backpacking as I planned; I went out to the west coast and everything shut down basically as soon as I got settled in.

Then I had a couple of deaths in the family due to COVID. The nest egg I had built up for the trip would have been really helpful, but I essentially wasted it to sit in an apartment. Now I'm searching for jobs nowhere close to where I was at because my industry took a massive hit.

Life's a dice roll. Hedge your bets.

I've been voicing this for years since I found out about it working for the company that manufactures leaded fuels in the UK.

Even here, I got quite a bit of dismissal. It was jarring, really reminded me how little most people understand outside of their area of expertise.

I'd look into more project based "classes" instead of a rigidly taught curriculum. As more of a guided process than explicit steps, with the student getting to pick the direction they'll go in.

That's what taught me the most. It's a shame there aren't more opportunities like that in classes in general. Could be a question of teacher hours available, or because we can't effectively measure progress between wildly different projects. Still, I think it's more in-line with the way a workplace functions now.

How's the latency on BT?

I've always avoided using it because of the horror story from early models, but I might pick up a used PS4 controller for PC gaming if BT works well.

Wouldn't that mean going through the inventory system every time I want to throw more than a knife or two? That seems irrationally clunky. Like making someone use a menu for cut and paste.

Where are you getting 8 from? Even being generous about what counts as a difference I'm counting 6.

I was already counting the "secret" ending. Two of the "choices" you can make without meeting the criteria are really the same ending with slightly different dialogue options. Mass Effect did not have multiple endings.

Side missions may have subtle differences but the entirety of the mission is in a vacuum; there's no difference between whether or not that trigger exists outside of that single event.

It led me to feel like a county fair more than a living world. "Next up, head to the torture booth! Ignore the wood scaffolding along the way".

I remember that moment. I turned to my girlfriend and said "Whelp, guess we're not playing a stealth build".

Looking back at the moments when I thought there were no bugs on my linux desktop supports his theory. It wasn't a lack of bugs, it was a lack of my ability to spot them.

Agreed. It felt like a 2010 remake to me, even on a rig with all the bells and whistles.

Stunningly beautiful when you went looking for a shot, but otherwise, there wasn't much to invest into. Especially once I realized there wasn't any consequence for the way I completed an objective, the illusion really fell apart.

No, you can't. That was a feature that got cut. The entirety of the "branching path" system is a series of 3 questions at the end of the game.

Might already know this, but your phone's hotspot should pass through the location data. We used my laptop on a couple of roadtrips where we wanted to pull the map up larger.

Agreed. Those little Lack tables are sturdy enough that they're often used as a cheap rack mounts by guitarists. Iirc they're almost perfectly a 1U width and depth, for anyone looking into a home lab. Add a couple of corner brackets and a layer of sealer and they'll take an outrageous beating.

That said, a benefit to the lack(heh) of quality is how light everything is. I do a lot of projects that require using my entire living space. If it wasn't so easy to just shove the furniture out of the way, I'd have that much more inertia between me and doing what I want.

Sure, but those lists exist as well, and are curated by much more qualified people than the Rolling Stones editors.

/block of unsubstantiated opinions/ I don't think Rolling Stones claims to be a full list of all music of all time, nor do I think their editors would claim to be experts in all music. I dare say they hardly claim to be experts. I'd imagine they'd say they were more interested in being entertaining.

/going off the rails a bit/ Now that I think about it, it would honestly be pretty disgusting if they did try to make a list encompassing all of music. Either it's strictly analytical, at which point you're really asking "What's the best selling of all time", or it's saying "our opinion is a proxy for every other opinion". The hubris of that kind of project would outweigh any good it could do.

Which is pretty much a given with integrated graphics. The Vega series iGPUs are worlds faster than Intel's, even going back to the 3000 series laptops.

In tech-world speak, he's basically saying innovate or die.

On a long enough timeline, the entities that do the work to understand the problem and respond to it are rewarded, the entities which try to coast by on their past success and "brand" will be punished.

It's either (near) universal or communal. Anything in between gives elites so much power over the less advantaged that you see a stratification of society similar to, well, what we're seeing now. Here's a quarantine project for you: build a model that lets you push around the %age of renters vs land owners. Virtually any model that contains a significant number of renters will eventually have one land owner and many renters, unless you see significant economic disasters in the model.

Most people shouldn't be able to afford a car - they should be taking public transit - but they can obtain one because they take out loans.

A car isn't a "want" for most people outside of major US cities. It's a need. Public transport has never been effective in most of the US. Hell, I'd have to cross an interstate on foot in order to reach work. How many weeks do you estimate it'd take me to get killed? Should I be taking that risk because some politician decided my life was less valuable than their golfing buddy getting to work 5 minutes quicker?

I had completely forgotten about that bottle. You just gave me flashbacks to a house party in 2010. Complete with nausea and regret. Well done.

I built a few apps with it. It starts to feel more streamlined once you work in it for a couple days, but whenever I go to make an edit it takes me about an hour of saying "what in the..." before it starts to click.

What I always wish I had was a better way to create functions that build smaller units so I didn't have be so many tabs deep. It can be done, but it's not fun or straightforward.

My partner really picked up cooking in the last couple of years. We hardly ever go out anymore. Every time we get a craving she says "Yeah, we could go to a crowded restaurant... or I could make it better". Without fail, she does.

I think the secret is, one of the most important aspects of good food is time to table. When you make it at home, you can eat as soon as it's done or rested. Along with the anticipation factor of having worked on it yourself and having the smells fill your home for a while beforehand.

Plus, if you're an introvert who's already burnt out for the day, you don't have to wear pants. Huge points for not having to wear pants.

Except you have no reason to use those things, unless you specifically go out of your way. In Woz's day, you HAD to work on that level to work with budget systems.

The same opportunity may exist, but the same motivation does not.

It's still a legal grey area with the way the analogue act is written. Technically, just about any psychedelic COULD be treated as schedule 1 if it's intended for human consumption, because they all have fairly similar chemical structures and activity profiles. Best not to give prosecutors an easy list to run down if you're interested in furthering the cause.

I go back and forth on the value of a "devil's advocate". I hope someone else will chime in to help me out if I don't explain this eloquently.

This is a case where I believe the topic won't be properly discussed unless someone is willing to take a hard stance on the negative side. Someone has to point out all the potential failings of the system that so many people are pouring their lives into building. Even if that person ends up taking a much harder stance than they actually believe in, and becoming a little too disconnected from reality.

The situations being described in the article are horrifying, and sound an awful lot like what you might expect from software bugs in their early stages. That wouldn't be a problem if there was an appropriate human force behind the systems going online, but we've all seen stakeholders push systems into production before they're ready without adequate support.

You're probably on the right track to call it a "badly designed government process", but I'd wager the human element is what softened the blow from that bureaucracy. It shifts the burden of proof from the case worker to the support seeker. It changes the conversation from "You think you deserve benefits? Let's look over your evidence" to "You've already been rejected, why should we support you?". When you're talking about people surviving, that's a significant difference.