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Sounds like it’s doing more than implying it. The scheduling software seems to be pretty hosed at the moment

Edit: I was thinking of a totally different gift card scam. Whoops

Gift cards should require some amount of destruction in order to get to the actual barcode… something to make tampering obvious.

The same way clothes have a little ink exploder the clerk removes… just a quick easy step that is destructive to the packaging… but still presentable when you give it to someone

Hahaha I’m a pretty scrawny build… throwing a chainsaw around and all that for a few hours and carrying the limbs would’ve definitely had me at least a little sore prior to working out

In America we were already in such a weird situation I doubt anything would’ve truly been 100% effective. It’s interesting to hear these different perspectives though

If the government quietly convinced all major retailers to stop selling masks that would’ve been 10000x more detrimental than the mixed messaging early on.

If someone could produce even one document implying that this was discussed at all it would’ve been catastrophic.

I think so much of the messaging would have been better if there were disclaimers about “we are still doing research” and “based on our knowledge at this time”… or even timeboxing the advice so it’s updated every 12-48 hours even if unchanged.

This specific messaging has been a rallying point for people who don’t even believe covid exists. At least that was the case in the US

I have personally had discussions with people about this. I’m about as liberal as they come, but a lot of covid guidance was confusing in the beginning and I think that admitting that has somehow become taboo. It’s still weird that I feel the need to clarify my political stance on an apolitical issue like this. As time went on messaging improved, but the initial confusion was definitely there.

Nobody knew what was going on, I read as much about covid as I could (including HN comments about something to do with quinine that was popular for a day or two)

This is the source I found https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...

I think there is a big time Mandela effect here. I remember “don’t buy masks” as being about preserving masks for essential workers and medical professionals, I don’t necessarily recall the portion where they said it didn’t help infection rates, but yet there it is.

Lifting weights has added so many little moments to my day to day where I say “wow that’s not as heavy as it looked”. I decided to prune a couple of trees in my front yard and haul the branches to the curb, not even a little sore the next day.

I didn’t start with a particular purpose but I knew I wanted something a little different. Now when I go to the gym and it’s a day I’m just not into it, I drag myself in there anyways.

The last Jedi was pretty tough. Magic flying leia, the racing animal subplot that had no impact on the main plot whatsoever. The entire resistance hinging on one guy who is totally stopped so that his girlfriend can give him a kiss.

It was a weird fever dream of a movie even for a franchise that brought us a giant space slug gangster and a backwards talking green puppet

7-9 were better than 1-3, but last jedi was undoubtedly the worst of the new trilogy

Doubtful lazy imports would’ve helped at all… I joined a project where almost every import statement has side effects, some of which took multiple minutes to read things into memory etc.

Tried some poor-man’s debugging and never hit a breakpoint on the first significant line of code… took a while to figure out as it was my first Python project.

It almost feels like Python needs a scripting and non-scripting mode, or some kind of warning logging “you did everything wrong”

Checked exceptions are the bane of my existence

I’m new to Java so I just want to confirm… are you saying streams are or are not fashionable? Is there a better api out there?

But why would the cooperative have survive and why is it less prone to antagonistic work?

In sqlserver (and others?) you can have one clustered index. Typically this is the primary key (doesn’t have to be though).

The clustered index is actually the physical order of the data stored on disk, so any new guid causes tremendous amounts of churn.

Not sure how modern this concern is, but I would guess a LOT of SASS companies have to consider this.

Quick edit: sequential GUIDs are obviously a thing and I believe alleviate a lot of these concerns. I do not believe that was an option in sql server 2008 r2 (a version that lived a LONG time).

Is there someone else you think fits better? Anyone else in Washington talking about regulation with politicians?

The most reputable spokesman the crypto space has managed to cough up was a fraud and a thief. Maybe has something to say about crypto.

If I had the knowledge/ability/skills to build an “emotionless keyboard with a blow tube” I’d be pretty damn happy. I don’t think a lack of vibrato diminishes what is going on here.

Am open sourced wind synth made with a custom keyboard? Pretty sick IMO

Very cool! Awesome project

As the owner of a (recently revived) ewi-usb… I’m really curious about the mouthpiece bit. What kind of analog sounds are happening while playing this? Do you notice that reed age, strength etc are as impactful as on a real saxophone? Do you feel a need to swap mouthpieces for different styles of playing?

I love the idea and ingenuity to make this happen!

The gall people have to make their own choices… and they won’t even affect me? Appalling.

Then don’t get the addon? You’re not really saying anything interesting or constructive. I’m not sure why people wanting something you don’t would throw your world into a state of chaos.

Acting like Elon hasn’t given people legit reasons to dislike him? Anybody is allowed to overlook the flaws he has but you shouldn’t ignore them outright.

I’d actually argue he was the darling of the tech world for a while and his awful personality has eroded that over the last handful of years.

I think it’s not binary one way or the other.

Companies don’t have to be profitable to be successful. A charismatic leader + lofty goals (FSD, rockets, flame throwers) and you’ll get a ton of money even if you never turn a profit.

Let’s not forget the tunnels I’m Vegas btw. They aren’t all winners.

I responded to another with something similar…

Throwing money at people and saying “I want these charts to be customizable” vs “let’s land a rocket booster, it’s ok if a few blow up, we can test it live” will get VERY different levels of passion/expertise

My theory is that getting smart people to make twitter vs landing reusable rocket boosters… will yield VERY different levels of passion/interest.

Which again is FINE. Personally, I just wanna do cool stuff and have a great work/life balance. I don’t want to (and don’t have the expertise to) land a rocket booster.

I guess… not everyone’s problem domains are interesting enough to lure a team like space-x etc. again, I don’t like him, but credit to Elon for at least trying to solve these tough problems. Just admit FSD isn’t a year away!

I’m always surprised when there are still people acting like Elon isn’t just BEGGING to be hated.

I’m still of the opinion he is not doing the work and his success is mostly throwing money at eager (and smart) engineers. That’s a smart thing to do, good call on his part, but it’s almost like he doesn’t know that’s how his companies work.

Maybe he is just great at running tech companies or something but acting like the media/everyday people hate him for no reason is just dishonest.

I have a bad habit of writing a mondo-super-all-encompassing test, and I have to break it up when I realize it’s a house of cards.

I think the better rule is “just test one thing, don’t use a lot of overlapping assertions between tests”.

Number of assertions, as noted by this post and this comment section, is not a smell at all.

I start a new gig Monday… my best interviews were with two big tech companies… one hired me and the other said I lacked “code fluency”, which I had never heard of in those words.

Some of these places expect your first draft of a weird abstract problem to be perfectly readable in a live coding environment. Without any pressure my first draft is feeling out the problem and then trimming everything up.

In any case I landed at my preferred company, which is very exciting.

Anything having to do with twitter is not “direly needed”

I believe the stock still exists (still has an active ticker/cusip) but trade volume is at 0. At some point it will be delisted and shareholders will just get cash. I assume grant vesting is still meaningful until that point.