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i_hate_pigeons

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    Comment #35681122

    maybe try nixos? assuming you are happy to handle the conf management

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    Comment #34478917

    here https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10h2fz7/reddits_def...

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    Comment #34003209

    I have tried given a simple test suite and asking for an implementation that fulfills it, then asking to modify its impl and the test suite with a new requirement and it did it

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    Comment #32437554

    I've been using docsify in this manner for a while and it's worked well for me

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    Comment #32323509

    this is what I learned is functional programming and I've also benefited greatly from it

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    Comment #32156561

    not every thing is a transaction though, say a deleted piece of ref data that still has FKs to other stuff etc

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    Comment #30396058

    you never use nix env really, agree if that's the only thing you are after then there is no point switching

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    Comment #30396047

    it's really useful if you work on projects that need different version of dependencies, as you can define on a folder basis what jdk or python versions you want to have. You can ev…

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    Comment #30218850

    I imagine the client facing pages are very sensitive to seo/crawling so that's why they go for server side rendering

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    Comment #29857257

    it's mostly lots of code fragments and incrementally building on whatever he's trying to convey, is not like he put a brain dump or a wall of text as per when that phrase is used. …

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    Comment #29821259

    same with my bank in the UK when I had to apply for a mortgage, what a pain was to find a service or working fax machine it was

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    Comment #29808737

    that should provide some low cost heating at least

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    Comment #29807096

    Maybe a bit overdone, but I think in between lines the interviee well knows the intended solution to the question and is just toying with the interviewer to make a point, much like…

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    Comment #29771964

    NFTs represent something else completely, I'm talking of other use cases that are enabled by the same underlying tech - with the disclaimer I mentioned above of pending issues to b…

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    Comment #29768488

    even if you could update state* once you gave access to anything it's out of your control as it might be cached somewhere else. This is why I mentioned for future changes rather th…

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    Comment #29768102

    I wasn't talking about it as in copyright / legal sense, and more in the I can allow others to access a snapshot of it at a given time and/or remove access to it for future content…

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    Comment #29767439

    I don't think web3 is just competing with traditional finance, or at least not in the restricted sense of investing/especulation. Also web3 is not replacing anything that already e…

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    Comment #29756904

    My main point being that such tradeoff wasn't obvious at the time, and also the cloud offering back then was very inferior to what it has evolved into and that we are familiar now …

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    Comment #29746965

    I don't really know much about web3 or what it will happen in the future, but these same debates happened ith other techs before which are now mainstream in a similar fashion as th…

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    Comment #29746890

    there are a few clones of social media sites like https://orbis.club/ , there are others that are like reddit or similar but I don't remember their urls. As other commenter mention…

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    Comment #29671857

    I once worked in a codebase full of such comments, they were all like // Adding this because XYZ said so

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    Comment #29647234

    There is a light hearted talk from Freeman Dyson that touches on these, I'm not sure how accurate the overall talk is but found it very entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

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    Comment #29647141

    It's not just the mistakes, when I speak with my non-standard accent or slightly incorrect phonetics the listener needs to work harder to process information, even if unconciously,…

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    Comment #29589791

    They have lots of reference material for the non usual stuff, I remember looking for something that came wrong on a blood test and landing on the NHS GP manuals and it was full of …

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    Comment #29550160

    I mean he explains what partial functions in his context are in the very first paragraph, not sure how that can be any less confusing!