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The episode was parodying the hype around a product code named "ginger": https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/dean-kamen-viral-my... Personally, I'm offended they omitted the C…

I use yarl as my default for this as well, it's been great to work with.

Nicotine is a stimulant: ADHD'ers are self-medicating and probably before they even know they have ADHD. It's not (primarily) because of a lack of impulse control.

If you refuse their tracking and marketing cookies it redirects you to google.com. Classy.

I tested right now and it's 5: Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio/Visual -> Background Sounds -> on/off/sounds/etc. It may be the number of items that are part of why people consid…

Hard disagree; companies should be responsible for harm caused by their products regardless of whether it's "legal". This is "loophole thinking" and it only benefits bad actors.

I consider the Mac base models quite affordable for the quality and performance. But for my use I need more RAM and would prefer more storage, and these prices are absolutely beyon…

This is very interesting thank you. I always said to myself if I was writing anything telecom-y I would use Erlang but seems its days are behind us. I wonder if it's just too expen…

Yes, it is a genetic neurological condition related to dopamine and not due to iPads.

I use random strings and store them in a Passwordsafe db. Ever since the Sony PSN hack which IIRC did include secret questions and answers. (I may be mistaken, but I do know it was…

Gentle parenting works, no you won't make wimps, you will make emotionally healthy people.

Whatever tool I use to get Python onto a system I never call it directly except when running python -m venv to set up the environment my code will run from.

Facebook allegedly buys transaction data (you know like banks and payment processors etc. sell). So they have a browser fingerprint for you via cookies (you know that like and shar…

The wife's article would be called "I told him everything I needed but he still thinks it's about the dishes".

There is often an overlap with this issue and undiagnosed ND conditions such as ASD or ADHD. It may be worth investigating.

This is the thing exactly! They built a system that allows infinite uploads but did not build a system to handle the workload of dealing with infinite uploads. Some people just wan…

I hate it without realizing how much I hate it, and now that you've pointed it out in such simple, concrete terms I'm not going to be able to stop seeing it everywhere.

I don't understand the confusion. Doubleclick ate Google from the inside. How can you possibly expect them to do anything else? Anything that favors your privacy, ever? They are in…

A modern IDE (I use PyCharm) also makes use of it for both warnings and autocompletion.

This is such an interesting problem. I do think that new music that is competing with old music has an advantage in its newness, which humans tend to prefer. But it needs to be as …

Yeaaaahhhh no. People leave because of money. People are leaving for money. And they would be stupid not to. Because companies have no loyalty. You are a human resource to be used …

I use Firefox / Safari built-in password management. I do not know how secure they are but no issues in 10+ years and I certainly have access to all passwords in my keychain/accoun…

When I was very young I worked a tough job that had a mandatory union and it was quite terrible / weak. Working conditions were pretty bad, physical labor, etc. But it was not unti…

Python's STL is such that using it is a code smell. It's better to just use the right tool for the job: you are almost guaranteed to need at least one external library/module for a…

I started a project with dataclasses and quickly ran into their limitations (which are by design) and migrated to attrs. It's quite a bit better. If you take 10 seconds to read att…