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"...get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore." https://youtu…

How does "R language" compare to searching for one of the popular R packages? Searching for "tidyverse", "dplyr", or "ggplot" seems to get a good chunk of hits. That being said, ye…

How long did it take you to go from "making a new server / copying configs is fine" to "this is tedious enough I'd like to abstract it?" Like, was it a years-long journey or is thi…

I believe it is. See https://www.wired.com/story/battle-over-books3/

I'm not who you replied to, but yes, that's my main concern: Bluesky is still a company building a thing to pay back the money it owes investors. I worry that Bluesky becomes the d…

Hah! Thanks for the correction / info; I do appreciate it.

> Markets prevent monopolies and cartels. A lot of the optimism seems to rely on this statement and...I'm not convinced? But I also admit I'm not well informed on the topic. Does a…

I understand and even expect the lack of empathy from RTO executives, but the lack of empathy on the part of the 'remote work for everyone, always' camp saddens me. I've worked pri…

> some will learn, but most will fall for the cloud marketing depts and become infra renters for life Do you have any learning recommendations for someone looking to start down thi…

This "article" is a 10+ year-old website that's been tracking an ecosystem-wide migration from one style of preparing python code for distribution to another, more robust style of …

I'm cautiously optimistic here. I have a very specific idea that the Vision Pro might make real. There's a great urban park nearby and I so want to just...walk while I work. Not on…

For typical use cases, you're probably persisting the data, so I'll assume your use case is "Python with a database ORM like Django or SQLAlchemy". The really short version of "use…

This "suddenly requirements change" is why I get instantly wary whenever I see a boolean column like `completed` in a design. Sure, you start with two explicit states. But then you…

Yeah, having a nuanced vocabulary to talk about misophonia really helped me. Even just in the context of English, the vocabulary just wasn't there back in the early 2010s when I fi…

I can empathize with you; I do hope you're able to find some relief. My treatment was basically a targeted form of Cognitive behavioral therapy. The first big hurdle was to learn t…

Having gone through therapy for misophonia over the last year, I'm happy that research on the phenomenon has progressed quite a bit since I last gave up on treatment back in the ea…

The book "Stolen Focus" had an interesting point on this effect that resonated with me. While mind wandering -- letting your mind explore the past and future -- can be a gift and c…

> Mineable cryptocurrencies inject the new money to whoever mines them, which could be anyone While true in theory, is it true in practice? Those with the most resources to mine wi…