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bumblehean

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    Comment #49162295

    >Hours + Hours of reading and a lot of trial-and-error. The loop was so long and sooo slow. But that's how you learn...

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    Comment #49139857

    I think there's a large middle ground between relocating somewhere undesirable (or to a developing country) just to stretch your money as far possible vs "keeping up with the Jones…

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    Comment #48980150

    Many people across all income levels are really bad at dealing with personal finances and long-term financial planning.

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    Comment #48867424

    > Are we discussing Steve Jobs in 1985? Steve Jobs left because he lost a corporate power struggle. Sam Altman was fired because the board thought he was too fundamentally untrustw…

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    Comment #48057913

    Hugs going out to the teams at Instructure working to fix this. I've been through a similar Ransomware attack (national news stories, lots of customers dead in the water, etc.), an…

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    Comment #48043400

    It's going to depend on the type of team and environment you work in. Probably on how senior you are as well. If your boss asks you for specific documents and expects a quick turna…

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    Comment #48025362

    Why wouldn't they?

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    Comment #47621780

    >Is Azure really this unreliable? There are concrete numbers in this blog. For those who use Azure, does it match your external experience? IME, yes. I'm currently working as an SR…

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    Comment #47602212

    AWS me-south-1 got hit (again) earlier today.

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    Comment #47595000

    Firing someone for an honest mistake is a great way to make all of your employees afraid to push changes out of concern that they'll be next (although to be fair this was a pretty …

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    Comment #47485818

    >before I went to elite companies, where it is quite normal for people to live-and-breath software, at almost all hours. Honest question: Do they actually _want_ to live-and-breath…

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    Comment #47236300

    >It is true IF you live and work in the Bay Area, Seattle, and TLV - which represent the bulk of tech industry employment. Is that actually true (the bulk of people in the tech ind…

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    Comment #46782665

    Same here. A local grocery store and several other local businesses got bought out and demolished so Amazon could build a new Fresh store. I guess Amazon pulled out of the project …

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    Comment #46662295

    This is why you shouldn't waste your money on expensive "consultants" like this guy. We've had 100% success in reducing Dependabot noise by disabling it in our repos. Why should we…

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    Comment #46439265

    Aren't the shape/size/placement/etc. of human teeth fairly unique across different individuals? At least unique enough to use dental records to identify bodies. I don't see if ment…

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    Comment #46009035

    Sure I'll go suggest that to my C-suite lol

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    Comment #46008681

    >The thing to do is to monitor your dependencies and their published vulnerabilities, and for critical vulnerabilities to assess whether your product is affect by it. Only then do …

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    Comment #46000009

    "When Zork arrived, it didn’t just ask players to win; it asked them to imagine" Literally the first sentence.

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    Comment #45946290

    >Welcome to America where you must watch the kid every second until they turn 18 This must be a regional thing? I live in New England and I always see kids out and about with no ad…

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    Comment #45086771

    Interesting! I'll be sure to ask my doctor about those options

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    Comment #45086329

    I really wish my body could tolerate stimulants. I tried the major ones (Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, Concerta, etc.). They all made dealing with ADHD significantly easier, but even…

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    Comment #44800069

    > You can get work done in 1/2 of the time it used to. Now you got 1/2 of the day to just mess around. Socialize or network. This has never been the case in any company I've ever w…

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    Comment #44781408

    > They provide a tagging system but it's only informative if someone spends several hours a month tracking down the stuff that didn't get tagged properly. The way to deal with this…

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    Comment #43595240

    As a non Python developer, what would be the use-case(s) for importing a module inside of the main function instead of importing it at the top of main.py with the others?