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Waldowal

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  • Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women

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  • All you have to do is make a life altering choice, be ridiculed by half of society in your most formative years, take drugs that forever reshape your body, and YOU TOO CAN WIN AT SWIMMING!

  • Elon Musk calls Social Security ‘the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time’

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  • Should have listened to Al Gore: Lockbox

  • Kennedy Center ticket sales have dropped 50% since Trump takeover

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  • Do you guys read programming books? How do you make the most out of it?

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  • Yes. I find it very difficult to get a complete knowledge of something just reading random articles and playing with it. For me, one of those giant books intended to document every little aspect has always helped fill the gaps, and take my working knowledge up to expert level. It's getting harder to find those kind of quality books though.

  • Pliny got a desktop bed for Christmas

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  • Is Pliny "The Elder" or "The Younger"?

  • What do you want for Christmas but you probably won't get?

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  • For all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace.

  • Any one else have absolutely wild dreams?

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  • Usually no, but the last 2 days, yes. They have involved very accurate plays of songs I don't normally listen to (which I can't remember ever dreaming about before). The first was "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. I was in a bar and it was being played. Heard every note for about 30 seconds. There was a guy in the band whose role was to suck smoke out of a dish with a slab of dry ice in it and blow it into a microphone.

    The second song was "Only the Lonely" by Roy Orbison. I've maybe heard this song 3 times in my life I think. But it seemed note perfect. The situation was I was hanging out with 3 people I called The Performer, The Guy, and The Lonely. The first two guys had to leave and... cue the song.

    EDIT: cue... thanks SpaceNoodle

  • After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code

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  • I could go all day, but in brief, I (jokingly) blame you guys (non-Microsoft developers) for enshitifying Microsoft's toolset.

    Microsoft's approach for years was to build designers and GUIs into Visual Studio to make coding super easy. Everything was integrated. The developer experience was glorious.

    Then, all the developers like you suffering with shit like NetBeans, Eclipse, Apache, and TortoiseSVN decided they'd had enough and started romanticizing one-off command line tools, goofy data structures like yaml, and git. That made everything too hard, so you built code generators, transpilers, and job runners to automate things. That led to so much complexity, you needed virtual containers to run it in so setup wouldn't be a nightmare. Then, the containers got out of control so you needed something to manage THAT.

    Microsoft could have laughed and let us live in our developer utopia, but noooooo. They felt compelled to play along. And now anything new coming from MS is built to support all that crap we never needed in the first place.

    We had it so good. Sigh.

  • After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code

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  • SOAP services are a thing of the past, but I still remember how easy it was to put the WSDL URL is Visual Studio and poof you'd have a full SDK complete with a service facade and data models. So nice and easy. (Which appears to be similar to what this guy was trying to build and sell)

    When REST started getting popular, I was like: "WTF, we have to code all this now by hand again!?"

  • Anthem Blue Cross Plans Won't Cover Anesthesia for Entire Length of Surgeries That Exceed Time Limit

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  • That's right. Rush the surgeons. That will end well.

  • What is the worst movie that you enjoy watching?

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  • A recent one: Ernest Saves Christmas

    Almost every line of this movie gets quoted around my house all year.

  • Which celebrity were you sure had already passed away but has not?

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  • John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)

  • Which celebrity were you sure had already passed away but has not?

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  • Charo

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  • Simple and tasty: 3-4 chicken breasts. Pour a jar of your favorite salsa over it. Cook.

    When ready to eat, shred the chicken, put it back in pot and stir it up with the salsa. Awesome tacos, burritos, nachos, chicken sandwiches, etc.

  • A Social Etiquette Question

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  • Seems like if she's interested, she might invite you in for a drink or coffee next time you drop your kid at their house. If she's too shy, maybe you offer next time she drops her kid at your house. If she stays in her car as little Billy runs up, that's a sign she's not interested (or just busy at that moment).

    I also like the idea of offering to take the boys to a movie or something and inviting her. But she may just want to see a movie, so that's not a total green light. If she grabs your dick during the movie though, that's a pretty good sign.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Yes, and add an Agile framework. Extreme Monkey typing.

  • How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders

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  • Pointless Stupid Gesture 2024!

  • How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders

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  • Good plan dude. Trump to the rescue.

  • Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?

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  • Imagine if you just had to scroll down to get to the other options like "Does not describe me", and they are still talking about "The biggest psychopath we've ever interviewed - just out of morbid curiosity. "

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some fun ways to prank an asshole neighbor I'm moving away from?

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    Dunkin' Donuts boycott launched by MAGA influencers

    www.yahoo.com /news/dunkin-donuts-boycott-launched-maga-205500138.html
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    Taking a closer look at Boebert at the theater

    www.meidastouch.com /news/boebert-appeared-to-fondle-dates-penis-in-packed-theater-as-she-put-his-hand-on-her-breasts