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jtrek

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  • What do you think of homeschooling?

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  • It's hubris and/or abuse, and should be illegal barring exceptional circumstances.

    Public schools should be well funded.

    Private schools should also be illegal.

  • What was the smallest python hobby project you worked on?

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  • I did some webdriver stuff for reasons I don't remember anymore.

    I also made a simple Django app to track job applications.

    Unsolicited advice:

    • use type annotations. You'll thank yourself later when your IDE tells you "hey this can be None are you sure you want to call .some_func() on it?"
    • use an ide. Don't just raw dog it in notepad. You should have syntax highlighting, red squiggles for errors, the ability to go to definition.
    • learn to use a debugger. Pdb is built in and fine.
    • don't write mega functions that do a thousand things. Split things up into smaller steps.
    • avoid side effects. You don't want your "say_hello" function to also turn on the lights

  • How adventurous are you with music?

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  • Mixed. I find new artists I like somewhat frequently, but genre-wise I don't often go that far.

    I don't really relate to "I listen to all kinds of music! A hundred new songs a day!". I find an album I like and spend a couple weeks with it, then find something new. I go into my backlog a lot.

    I buy music (mostly on Bandcamp) so that works for me. Cheaper than a subscription,.and now I have a library.

  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

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  • There was someone a while ago who was trying to get a web ring going for like nerd stuff. They said so many of their friends and people they talked to loved the idea, but no one made a site of their own.

    I posted it in a local community group, and everyone said the same thing.

  • What in your opinion is the appropriate way to use emojis?

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  • I use them as reactions on platforms that support it. Someone sends a PR and I react with eye emoji for looking at it, checkmark for done, or speech bubble for comments. It takes less space than a full text response. Especially in damned Teams that doesn't have threads in chats, so you can't even group your responses.

    That's pretty much it. I don't use them as punctuation and rarely use them in an actual message

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • Yep. Infrastructure shouldn't be privately owned.

  • Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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  • Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there's six figure payouts to be had here.

    This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.

  • Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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  • This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren't getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

  • Erika Kirk event booted off high school campus after backlash from students and parents

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  • Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk's presence would inevitably import onto campus

    Peeve: it's not the division that's the problem. It's the hate and lies.

  • fuck you bill

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  • There's also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

    # Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

    Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

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  • At work, the team isn't very good at python. They're mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I'm happy to mentor and guide.

    The product lady said to me "can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?"

    I'm like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I'm not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.

    I wrote something anyway because I don't want to further irritate the product lady.

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.

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  • If you sell your game through Steam, you cannot have it cheaper anywhere else. Even DRM free version on your website. Even temporary sales.

    I don't see anything about this in their docs. The closest is "You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers."

    That seems reasonable. If you're selling DRM-free, you don't generate steam keys, and valve has no stake in it.

  • Courage

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  • I sincerely believe that being rich is bad some kinds of intelligence You don't have to deal with problems. You just brute force your way through with money. You don't have to practice restraint and delayed gratification. You can just buy the thing now.

  • [meta] Please ban comics by bigoted artists

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  • The people who really want racist/sexist/etc comics are free to make their own instance or community. This is the fediverse. There's no government with guns or CEO to lock it down.

    If that stuff makes for a better community, it will do just fine. I expect it won't.

    One of the things right-wingers push for is the idea that they're normal and healthy, and everyone else is deficient. Like everything else from the right, it's projection.

  • Hello World!

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  • I had a really good DND group during the pandemic. Probably the best game I ever ran. But it was online, and when the pandemic called down they all just drifted away. Very sad about it, honestly.

  • What's your favourite song lyrics?

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  • [War and Peas] Sitcoms

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  • My cat hasn't done hairballs during intimate times lately, but he has done "HIGH SPEED LAPS" that include jumping onto the bed as part of his circuit.

  • Hello World!

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  • I remember when the internet was new, I'd make friends with random people I'd "meet". Like, I'd play Diablo with some rando on battle.net and then we'd stay in touch. Now it seems more ephemeral. Maybe it's just because I'm older.