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Recently downloaded Moby Dick from here:) very easy to use

I think it's a bit of a joke and nothing else

However it was written, it’s a useful and well structured article. I thought it was a good read

Haha, was a great read, loved the picture of the dog at the keyboard!

Cool story! The domain name is quite cool as well, happy that some people still hold onto their silly whims instead of cashing out

Looks super useful! Especially on older macs where space tends to be a limiting issue

I've participated in the past, and felt like I always drop off around day 18+ because of holidays etc.

I personally also didn't like when part II of a question felt like a completely new question, instead of a neat extension of the previous one.

I am very happy that this is something that's available to do, for free though. I see advent of code as a good excuse to dabble with a new language, usually with a few people from work.

Igen!

I’m not as extreme, but I “collect” license plates by taking pictures. Whenever I see 3+ numbers or letters, and I’m walking, I take a picture

Obviously there’s custom license plates that are cheating (I found a Porsche with just the number 1), but fun to see anyway.

It makes walking more fun because you’re spotting stuff all the time!

I randomly got 4 line pieces at the start, thought this was going to be a line piece only Tetris variant :D

Recommend this to people that are curious and have time!! I really enjoyed doing it years ago

Awesome! Really liked the animations!! The charged stuff confused me a bit. I played on mobile so the popup is different from the desktop one, maybe a testing area.

Perhaps consider having the HP as HP bars, as other games do!

Well done

Cool that you managed to get it running after just 2 hours. Same thing applies to python projects, a little note in README saves so much time in the future, I always try and use virtual environments and specify a specific python version so I can just nuke and reinstall everything

Good write up! Well done!

TLDR: I think there should be a compromise between strict 9-5 schedule, and “WFH 100%, do whatever”

I don’t have any experience of being a parent but here’s my 2 cents on WFH in cases where you’re basically in front of a laptop for work: I think it sucks that big offices are in these huge cities centrally where the only reason people live there is for the work, it becomes a bit of a loop at times, you could have the company a bit more on the edge of a large city. I DO prefer when people are all in office. It’s much easier to have small work conversations without the hassle of calling them up. I think there’s a happy medium where you have 1-2 hours flexibility in start/end times of when you work to allow parents to pick up kids etc. especially where there’s adequate work that you can do by yourself If a team has say 2 days WFH policy, I think it’s best if it’s always the same days, otherwise you just have the same problems as before I think software engineers are WAY WAY WAYYYY too picky and delicate about their work environment and how meetings are scheduled. For example, “if we have standup at 11am I won’t be able to have a block of uninterrupted work time”, as if software engineering required you to constantly be in an elevated state of consciousness and clarity that a 15 minute block of talking about work would destroy… so I think teams should just change regular meetings around when best suits people with the weird schedules.

Covid to me proved that people WFH does work, I would see a company that required 5 days in office for a software engineering job in a different light. I agree with the article that you can’t put toothpaste back in the bottle. We know that hybrid doesn’t tank productivity If I have coworkers that are parents/have to look after relatives then I don’t mind if they work until 3, log off until 6, come back on for a few hours etc. I look at allowing that as a very positive thing in a company. I’m going to be starting a job soon that’s remote, but I still plan on travelling (across EU) to the main office at some point because it definitely makes a difference if you’ve hung out with your co-workers in real life vs on slack and meetings where everyone’s camera is off.

This is my opinion. My preferences are my own and they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. Just my opinion in a comments section :)

Was a really fun article to read/podcast to listen to.

Favorite fact is that 127 is the DEL because for hole punching it removes all the info. I love those little nuggets of history

As an aside, Chat GPT is very good at giving you a baseline for mermaid diagrams given a technical spec/ hand drawn image

This came up on an interview test where I had to implement this from scratch! Fun to read

huh, TIL that regex wasn't a thing in vanilla excel. Thought that'd be a basic thing that's included.

That’s super cool!!! Looks like quite a niche/technical hobby with amazing output. Do you mind sharing how much equipment costs to get similar results?

Reminds me of this project: https://github.com/trichner/gitc0ffee which is used to take a commit, append some header to it to force the hash to collide with some prefix, such as `c0ffee`

6 character prefix: less than a second

8 character prefix: in the order of one or more minutes

No affiliation with this, but I tested it, and it was fast!

what's the website? Sounds cool

Recommend the book "Why we sleep" for people who want to learn a bit more about effects of sleep deprivation

I liked how easy the demo was to play around with! I don't have the most amount of use for this product, but kudos to making something that clearly works very well!

I like how it looks! Would prefer 2 textboxes for the inputs rather than inputs/some stats about how many unique points it's visited before.

reminds me of the pipes animation in old microsoft screensavers!

My takeaway is that csv has some undefined behaviours, and it takes up space.

I like that everyone knows about .csv files, and it's also completely human readable.

So for <100mb I would still use csv.

Cool site!

that's a good example!

Some good points. I always saw homework as practicing what was taught. The maths teaxher explains how to do fraction addition say and the hour of the class is taken up with explaining and some examples. Then homework is just using the fact that solving problems in silence seems like a waste of being in a classroom with a teacher

If it’s just busywork then sure, it has no point besides drilling in some sense of “you will have to organise your time and do this or else”

I also don't understand why a parking meter needs an app, it should have a QR code>web>stripe payment (or a text to pay), rather than 2 buggy apps on iPhone and Android, which require data to download