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I'd love to, but I keep/cut my grass on the longer side and my dog was eating so much of the clippings (and then throwing it up) when I mulched that I chose to compost far away fro…

I have a small yard and I'm not optimizing for the fewest moves, I'm optimizing for both the longest continuous lines (because I think they look nicest) and the shortest distance t…

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm. If not, I doubt some typesetter in the 19th century (or earlier) was so drunk with power when setting out the lead type to make the 3-em dash. EDIT…

It’s a famous “Yogi-ism”[0] > On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.” 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Be…

My issue with DDG AI result is that sometimes I would accidentally hit the "more" button to expand the result and it would begin a painfully slow crawl of text that pushed the resu…

A decade ago I was working with an intern who wasn’t allowed access to push to any branch. As I wanted him to get experience with the development cycle, I set up a bare repo in a s…

I apologize for taking the conversation off course as it wasn’t my intention, and I also thank you for providing examples of Dijkstra‘a writing. In asking for a recommendation, I w…

I suppose the thing that stuck in my craw is what I perceived as a personal slight: > Your writings made me wonder in which discipline you got your doctor’s degree. It’s ambiguous,…

APL is the only language I've ever dreamt about writing (as in: I could see the characters); I'd dreamt about programming in the past, but those dreams were usually what I would ca…

Where are these jobs that onboard non-APLers? Asking for a friend ;)

Excited for the new release! Though looks like `git history split` won't yet replace my typical workflow: $ git rebase -i // with e on commit in question $ git reset HEAD~ $ git ad…

I’m not really understanding the notion that these people are so sincere. Perhaps we have different definitions of sincerity. To my eye, the entire fascination of unsafely injectin…

I typically prefix my commit messages with the ticket number to make it easier to spot the commits to drop.

You head to the farthest branch in the chain, fetch the latest main, and run `git rebase --update-refs main` (I prefer interactive mode myself) and then force push all of the branc…

Is that by convention or is there a good reason that it’s so CPU bound? I don’t have experience with CAD, so I’m not sure if it’s due to entrenched solutions or something else.

Have you asked them to compile it to BEAM bytecode directly?

In the section on security: > One large enterprise employee commented that they were deliberately slow with AI tech, keeping about a quarter behind the leading edge. “We’re not in …

Last 2 positions I’ve had haven’t had 401k matching and the health insurance costs are eye watering. I might consider an improvement in both to be worth a fair bit.

How are folks navigating the sheer rate of inflation in the last 5 years? In job listings, I’ve seen salaries for Senior or Staff remain about the same as they were (thought usuall…

For pines, not great. Timber farming was so heavily encourage for so many years that there is a glut and prices have stayed about the same in real dollars for decades. Solar panel …

> This question may be naive, but why is the agricultural industry so subsidized? I believe this is the same tune we hear in other industries: it’s the effect of the consolidation …

When I was a young urbanite, I might not have believed you if you told me that one day I would gain great pleasure in discovering large blooms of Dog vomit slime mold in the garden…

I suppose I’m pointing it out to highlight the trade offs with any of these solutions. What is unsaid is that we need to sequester CO2 for hundreds of years—often far beyond the li…

One little appreciated fact is that trees also respirate CO2 when they are cracking their stored sugars produced via photosynthesis. So they don’t sequester all of the CO2 that the…