jim

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[–] jim@programming.dev 20 points 5 months ago

Yes it can be an issue because the GPS doesn't know where you are and thinks you are on an aboveground street. Freeway tunnels can have multiple exits too.

[–] jim@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. I think the default option should be what users expect, and users expect "copy" to do exactly that: copy without modifying the text.

[–] jim@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've turned off the bot for now.

[–] jim@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Just because you can get part of your education remotely or through self-learning didn't mean "anything can be learned online".

And if you were hiring a math tutor for your kid, would you prefer a self-proclaimed expert from watching YouTube videos or would you want someone who got a degree from a credentialed university? And even if you don't care, why are you surprised that others would be skeptical of the YouTube expert?

Remote learning can be fine for some things, and self learning through informal channels are also fine, but it's not a full on replacement for formal education in all cases.

[–] jim@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No sorry, that's just fundamentally false. You can't just learn titration techniques from watching a video. You can't learn phlebotomy without an instructor watching you do it to a patient. Hell, you aren't learning how to drive a car from playing a video game.

And I'm not sure where you are pulling the "if you are that powerful" from. You really have an ax to grind don't you.

[–] jim@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Ah yes, I'm sure the formal training received by doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, and engineers is just an over-hyped "education" that can all be replaced by online MOOCs.

There are real problems with education, especially with the costs, but "anything can be learned online" is the worst take I've heard in a long while.

[–] jim@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This and the last episode were kind of weak, to be honest. I think both of them could have been combined. The pacing was a bit too slow compared to the rest of the season.

[–] jim@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

I feel the opposite. We should have mandatory voting for all federal general elections. Treat it like jury duty or taxes - voting is a civic duty. You should be compelled to cast a ballot even if you leave it blank because you have no preference.

Of course, this can only workwith automatic voter registration and 100% mail-in ballots.

 

Here's a hypothetical scenario at a company: We have 2 repos that builds and deploys code as tools and libraries for other apps at the company. Let's call this lib1 and lib2.

There's a third repo, let's call it app, that is application code that depends on lib1 and lib2.

The hard part right now is keeping track of which version of lib1 and lib2 are packaged for app at any point in time.

I'd like to know at a glance, say 1 month ago, what versions of app is deployed and what version of lib1 and lib2 they were using. Ideally, I'm looking for a software solution that would be agnostic to any CI/CD build system, and doubly ideally, an open source one. Maybe a simple web service you call with some metadata, and it displays it in a nice UI.

Right now, we accomplish this by looking at logs, git commit history, and stick things together. I know I can build a custom solution pretty easily, but I'm looking for something more out-of-the-box.

[–] jim@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Beautiful illustration!

[–] jim@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Not a big fan of this series but I do like the character design. Thanks for sharing.

[–] jim@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's a remake and not a new season.

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