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Todd

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Software engineer living near Seattle. C#, C/C++, JS, TS, Rust, Go, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Lisp, etc. PostgreSQL and Redis.

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www.wsj.com 9mo ago

Seattle Tech Workers Are Fueling a Real-Estate Rush in the Cascade Mountains

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www.nytimes.com 10mo ago

Two Valuable Satellites Are in 'Perfect Health.' They May Be Scrapped

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www.cleverthinkingsoftware.com 1y ago

Programmers Will Be Replaced by People with Ideas

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected for Sacrifice

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

Stock Clearinghouse Leaked Sensitive Data, Trading Firm Says

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www.nature.com 4y ago

Long Covid risk falls only slightly after vaccination, study shows

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

More People Are Microdosing for Mental Health

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www.anu.edu.au 5y ago

Let there be light: New tech for night vision

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Stopping the next one: What could the next pandemic be?

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Covid: Genes hold clues to why some people get severely ill

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Live video dating: Finding love online with an audience

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Pete Carroll Wants to Change Your Life

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Vaughan Oliver, celebrated 4AD graphic designer, dies aged 62

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

What Does PewDiePie Believe?

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www.washingtonpost.com 7y ago

Horns are growing on young people’s skulls

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

I sold my wedding presents to set up my company

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

The cost of the Bridge between two nations

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

Why we can't give up this odd way of typing

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medium.com 8y ago

Cognitive bias cheat sheet, simplified

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

The great writers forgotten by history

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www.telegraph.co.uk 8y ago

Has the true identity of Jack the Ripper been revealed?

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www.bbc.com 9y ago

Portraits of the Great War

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q13fox.com 9y ago

Seattle Police Department under fire for social media surveillance

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www.bbc.com 9y ago

The genius who grows tiny brains in a lab

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www.businessinsider.com 9y ago

Many Kenyans refusing basic income experiment

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github.com 10y ago

Microsoft ASP.NET Core JavaScript Services

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www.skyandtelescope.com 10y ago

Dual Supernovae Light Up June Nights

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New Modern Greek 3 months ago

This would sever the connection to the ancient language, which is central to Greek identity. We would have a better chance of an English spelling reform—arguably more essential given its lingua franca status and absurd spelling. But we know that’s not going to happen.

Regardless, a fun exercise. I’ve thought a lot about the sound drift, case merging, loss of the infinitive and such. Good to see someone else’s ideas on the topic.

The two things I find unacceptable are no local accounts and non consensual reboots. The latter may need legislation. They don’t even notify you that it happened. They try to restart apps and put things back the way they were but you can still tell that your house was broken into by the missing data that wasn’t saved.

An alternative is graduated capital gains rates based on total assets owned (ideally skewed higher, like 10, 50, 100MM, …). Exemptions like QSBS could still be applied. This would allow shareholder control issues to remain unaffected, which wealth taxes never seem to address.

Not sure how to apply it on the corporate side. There are also multi entity workarounds to consider.

Just an idea.

A lot will depend on her aptitude and inclination. It sounds like you’re thinking that software is a likely direction. If she’s looking at college, a computer science degree will give her a lot of options. There are also two year and technical schools with similar curricula.

If she goes that route, there are many different types of work. Writing software is the obvious one, but there’s technical project management, engineering management, etc. Again, depends on where her interest lies.

One great thing about being a woman in tech is that it offers great job security and growth potential. For whatever reason there is a real dearth of women in the field, so if she’s good, she’ll be highly sought after.

I've been disappointed with DW for a long time. One of their ostensible goals is to promote the German language (see the Deutsche Welle Act, which governs it). Finding a live stream in German on their site is near impossible. I expect it's due to agreements with US cable companies, but I haven't been able to confirm that. I can't think of another reason for them to display "Es gab ein Problem Zugang zu dem geschützten Inhalt herzustellen" whenever I attempt to view live German content. Fortunately, some of it is available on YouTube.

I had the privilege of working for Eric at one of his startups. He had an outsized personality. He was the most gregarious person I've known. He could be very intimidating until you got to know him. He was also positive and generous, and his enthusiasm was contagious. We will miss him.

.NET 5.0 6 years ago

Constructor-defined properties of records are implemented using auto-implemented properties with the new init keyword, so:

    public int MyProp { get; init; }
instead of
    public int MyProp { get; set; }
Apparently those are implemented using readonly backing fields while still retaining property setters.

This originally aired on the PBS series Frontline in March. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/

Watching this made me very sad. I feel like I've been lied to my entire life. Of course, I'm also to blame for not spending more time seeking out the truth. Marketing is indeed very effective. This show changed my perspective and has made me want to redouble my efforts with regard to my impact on the environment.

This is good news for experienced .NET developers and newcomers alike. It marks the end of the journey from legacy .NET Framework to fully open source cross-platform .NET.

.NET Standard was confusing, and the ubiquitous TFMs in the early days were even more so. But all of those struggles where made to achieve a cross-runtime compatibility layer to make it easier to support both ecosystems. It was a Herculean effort by Microsoft, and they achieved it.

Now it's purpose has been served and as we move forward we can all just use the simple name of netX.Y, unless we're library authors that want to continue to support legacy .NET Framework as well.