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You clearly didn't read this. It's about rowing. Not being on a playground.

I had updated a GQL schema and wanted my agent to update the frontend to suit. I told it the server was running, that it could run specific commands to regen types, etc. It got its…

I'd also recommend having a look at the Zig library for Elixir. For simple stuff, you can just inline, but support for pretty complex setups too. Also comes with a built-in BEAM al…

I don't think it's fair to assume that votes are representative of performance. Politics are a popularity contest first and unfortunately that means image is more important than ac…

https://codecodeship.com/ They do exist.

I lie to my children when I say that the TV needs to recharge after their morning shows. A way to divert their attention elsewhere, but not out of malice.

The business transaction between me and a restaurant is for the food and service they provide. I pay the restaurant, the restaurant pays the labour. Refusing to tip isn't refusing …

New York City already has a significantly higher population density than Tokyo (~11,300/km2 vs ~6,300/km). It's easier to develop more housing when you have more land.

Which OS prevents you from installing another python runtime? I install python using asdf on both MacOS and various flavours of Linux. https://asdf-vm.com/

The intent of the policy doesn't match the real-world implementation of users. Users are lazy. Users will alter a single character or digit in the password and call it changed. Mos…

To add to this, you don't need to come up with the game mechanics. I'm taking this approach with making a LiveView-based version of the board game Azul.

Time is a consumable. It is not infinite, and it is unique to each individual. We do not "trade" time in jail between society and an individual. We deny certain freedoms for a peri…

Why is B much better here? It enables the officer to claim they felt threatened when no valid threat existed and then exercise lethal force in self defense (whether or not the thre…

Correction: while minimizing the risk of death. Tasers can still kill people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser...

There have been many studies that show bias in the a screening process when gender or ethnicity are known. Ideally, the hiring manager should be given anonymized resumes so they ca…

You need _some_ roads, but not to the extent of your typical suburban sprawl. Where I live (Vancouver, Canada), there are sufficient roads for most travel, but the city also has re…

Your analogy works as long as there's a machine doing the washing and drying. If you replace the machines with people, it makes much more sense for the function definition to defin…

Many cities use automated light rail or subway systems. Vancouver, Canada has has such a system in place since late 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metr…

We have a sample repository with a simple, but broken, web application. We ask our candidates to review the code as they would if a coworker had submitted it as a merge request. it…

When deleting a repository in Gitlab, you are required to type the name of the repository in a field. This forces you to change the response based on the particular action.