minorninth 8 months ago • 100%
Certainly many others would have tried to invent something like the web.
HyperCard predated the web browser and had the concept of easy to build pages that linked. Lots of people were working on ways to deliver apps over the Internet.
I think in some alternative timeline we'd still have a lot of interactive content on the Internet somewhat like the web, but probably based on different technology. Maybe more proprietary.
minorninth 8 months ago • 71%
You get to choose how your 401k is invested, though. The only difference is a tax advantage.
The advice is just: save money, let it grow using compound interest, use tax laws to your advantage.
There's no "trust the government" in that advice.
minorninth 8 months ago • 100%
I think it’s more that it’s hard to understand when you’re extroverted and your job depends on talking to people all day.
minorninth 8 months ago • 100%
I’m sure this is true for some businesses, but there are also tons of businesses that have no vested interest in commercial real estate. It doesn’t explain all of it.
Honestly I think a much better explanation is that on average, bosses like being in the office and they don’t understand why everyone isn’t like them. Top leadership tends to be extroverted and they got where they are by lots of networking. They don’t have enough appreciation that for a lot of other types of people and types of jobs, being in the office just makes things harder.
minorninth 9 months ago • 100%
Are you trying to illustrate the point?
It wasn't 200, it was 2000.
And while most did not carry guns, they brought other weapons and armor, and used improvised devices as weapons. And some did bring guns. Source: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/28/politics/armed-insurrection-january-6-guns-fact-check/index.html
Thank God they were poorly organized and that the capitol police resisted...but it's a complete lie to say it was 200 unarmed people.
This is all on video! This isn't a matter of opinion!
minorninth 9 months ago • 100%
I think there are different aspects to it.
Amazon’s delivery service is better than ever. You get products in half the time, with less packaging, and fewer miles traveled to deliver it to you, without any significant increase in delivery fees.
Price is still competitive when you take into account delivery cost and speed. If you don’t care about those, Amazon isn’t the cheapest.
Search and reviews are down the tubes. It’s like Amazon no longer cares if their site is overrun with crap products as long as people are buying them.
Amazon still works great if you only buy name-brand products that are fulfilled by Amazon.
minorninth 9 months ago • 100%
So wouldn’t the fees be proportional to the price? The added taxes on a tiny cheap holiday home would be cheap too.
minorninth 10 months ago • 100%
It explains the answer is 4 before the 5 minute mark.
Part of the reason is because it goes into the story of the SAT being wrong and a student being the one to catch it, which I found interesting.
After that it mathematically proves it several different ways and then shows how it relates to some real problems in astronomy.
minorninth 10 months ago • 100%
Can you elaborate on what happened when you tried to search? I’ve never had trouble.
minorninth 10 months ago • 100%
Those are all protocols for accessing an entire calendar or sharing your whole calendar, not for general-purpose inviting one user to one event.
minorninth 10 months ago • 100%
Ask it to come up with evolutions too. I tried and this was my favorite:
Breezling (basic) • Evolution: Gustoon • Final Evolution: Cyclown
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
I'm a semi-pro jazz piano player (meaning, I'm good enough to get paying gigs, but I don't do it for a living). I've definitely performed solo piano many times. I know it's not quite the same as guitar but hopefully it's still insightful.
You use the term "sight reading", but I would never perform a piece I'd never seen or heard before solo. If I'm playing solo, I get to pick what I play, so why would I play something I hadn't rehearsed?
Now, that doesn't mean that I might not pull out a piece I'd never performed solo before. There are lots of jazz standards that I've played many times in a trio or quartet, so I've heard and played the song many times before, but I never had to play the melody, chords, and bass line solo. I'm a strong enough player that I'd be comfortable coming up with a solo arrangement on the spot - but it'd depend on the piece, of course.
I'd definitely use a lead sheet for that, but I'm not sure I'd call it "sight reading", because I know the song. The lead sheet is there to remind me of the exact notes, rhythm, and chords, so that I'm not relying 100% on memory. It takes all of the pressure out of trying to remember exactly what chord to use - but to be honest, if it's a piece I'm going to play solo, I've probably played it enough times that I could get it 95% correct just from memory and by ear.
When playing in a group, that's completely different. I'll sight read new pieces all the time. If someone else knows the melody and all I need to do is play the chords, that's super easy. By the time they've finished the melody and played the first solo, I've got the feel for the piece well enough that I can do an improvised solo while sightreading the chord changes.
I have sight-read the melody before, in a group setting - but that's far more terrifying and less forgiving. I'll only do that if it's clearly a very straightforward or easy piece, like a ballad or showtune, with no surprises. If I do that I'll deliberately take liberties and add flourishes so that anybody listening who knows the song doesn't think I'm playing it incorrectly. Trying to play the notes on the page strictly means that if I make a single mistake, everyone will hear it. But if I pretend I've heard the piece a hundred times and have fun with it, then if I play a "wrong" note (but one that fits with the chord), it won't sound like I don't know the piece, it will sound like I'm just doing it a different way.
I hope that helps!
As a jazz beginner, I'd say one of the best things you could be doing right now would be to attend jam sessions. If you can find a good beginner-friendly jam session you should be able to play along with more experienced players and have a chance to occasionally play a solo or melody.
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
I’m talking about using the ChatGPT API to make a chat bot. Even when the user’s input is just one sentence, it can cause ChatGPT to forget its prompt.
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
Is it possible to be a productive programmer with slow typing speed? Yes. I have met some.
But…can fast typing speed be an advantage for most people? Yes!
Like you said, once you come up with an idea it can be a huge advantage to be able to type out that idea quickly to try it out before your mind wanders.
But also, I use typing for so many others things: writing Slack messages and emails. Writing responses to bug tickets. Writing new tickets. Documentation. Search queries.
The faster I type, the faster I can do those things. Also, the more I’m incentivized to do it. It’s no big deal to file a big report for something I discovered along the way because I can type it up in 30 seconds. Someone else who’s slow at typing might not bother because it’d take too long.
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
GPT-3.5 seems to have a problem of recency bias. With long enough input it can forget its prompt or be convinced by new arguments.
GPT-4 is not immune though better.
I’ve had some luck with a post-prompt. Put the user’s input, then follow up with a final sentence reminding the model of the prompt and desired output format.
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
Also, did you fully cream the butter and sugar before adding any other ingredients?
If you just dump everything into the bowl and then mix, this is what happens
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
Did you scrape the bowl while mixing?
KitchenAid mixers are great, but depending on what you’re mixing you need to scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula and then mix some more.
I don’t think it’s over mixed, I think the cookies made from the batter that was stuck to the sides are under mixed.
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
It’s always a good idea to shop around when it comes to car insurance. Every company has their own formula.
Probably someone else’s insurance went down from $750 to $450.
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
Pepperoni
Or PUPperoni
minorninth 11 months ago • 100%
Even ignoring the part where you didn’t realize Jeffries is a Democrat, this is just not a fair characterization of Democrats at all, as if they’re all the same.
Democrats in congress represent a broad spectrum from quite liberal to moderate conservative. Even by European standards.
minorninth 12 months ago • 75%
Robot vacuums are great, but my Roomba is incredibly unreliable. I’m buying Roborock next time.
minorninth 12 months ago • 98%
Do they?
When Republicans are in power they never actually cut spending.
minorninth 12 months ago • 100%
Doesn’t that also mean that ONE malicious person can get traffic off their local street or hurt a competitor’s business?
Just like moderating Lemmy, effectively policing user-generated content is a huge challenge.
minorninth 12 months ago • 100%
I don’t think we know that yet, and I think the discovery will be interesting.
How many reports were there? Were they credible? What other sources of truth did Google consult in deciding to ignore those reports?
Google gets lots of reports and needs to filter out spam, and especially malicious reports like trying to mark a competitor’s business as closed, or trying to get less traffic in your neighborhood for selfish reasons. It wouldn’t be reasonable for Google to accept every user suggestion either.
So if Google reached out to the town and the town said the bridge is fine, then it’s not Google’s fault. If they ignored multiple credible complaints because the area was too rural to care about, that might be negligent.
minorninth 1 year ago • 66%
Sure they do. Look at all of the posts from my neighbors on Facebook and Nextdoor every time a developer tries to build an apartment building instead of a single family home in our neighborhood.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
Usually rich people get out of stuff by hiring smart lawyers and listening to what they say, though.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
Some people say there’s no malware for macOS and that’s obviously not true.
But others say macOS has malware so it’s no better than Windows in that regard, but I don’t think that’s true either.
Look at this example. It only works if it tricks users into downloading and running an unsigned executable, bypassing sometimes multiple warnings.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
No, but honestly I wasn’t expecting them to vote to impeach one of their own in the first place.
How did that happen?
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
Violent crime is lower today than the 90’s.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, don’t do that. Users could accidentally or maliciously type something that would get executed as python code and break your program
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
This is my vote too.
We have Orbi. I tried using power line to bridge the satellites, but it turned out it was unnecessary. Orbi uses a separate backhaul wireless network between the base and satellites and it worked really well.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
Trump can do whatever he wants.
He’s never once listened to his lawyers before. Why would he do so now?
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
I agree with you, but politics is complicated. If she felt like continuing to fight for nuclear at that time would be unpopular, it might not have been worth it. It probably would have made it impossible to achieve other goals.
minorninth 1 year ago • 91%
Trump might say that but he’d never actually do it. He never does anything to help others.
minorninth 1 year ago • 50%
But the Supreme Court is part of the whole system of appeals courts. They all have lifetime appointments. It makes no sense. You’d just be giving regional judges more power and the country would have even more stark divided across state lines.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
I wouldn’t expect Gmail or most web mail hosts to work in a browser that old. Maybe if you used Gmail in basic HTML mode.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
So do you throw out the whole appeals court system? Or just the Supreme Court?
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
Just thinking outside the box here, what about an alarm or chime instead of a lock?
You can’t make it impossible for a child to open. But you can make sure that if they do open it, you’ll know.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
I'm a fan of randomizing the test order. That helps catch ordering issues early.
Also, it's usually valuable to have E2E tests all be as completely independent as possible so it's impossible for one to affect another. Have each one spin up the whole system, even though it takes longer. Use more parallelism, use dozens of VMs each running a fraction of the tests rather than trying to get the sequential time down.
minorninth 1 year ago • 100%
I think the reality is that there are lots of different levels of tests, we just don't have names for all of them.
Even unit tests have levels. You have unit tests for a single function or method in isolation, then you have unit tests for a whole class that might set up quite a bit more mocks and test the class's contract with the rest of the system.
Then there are tests for a whole module, that might test multiple classes working together, while mocking out the rest of the system.
A step up from that might be unit tests that use fakes instead of mocks. You might have a fake in-memory database, for example. That enables you to test a class or module at a higher level and ensure it can solve more complex problems and leave the database in the state you expect it in the end.
A step up from that might be integration tests between modules, but all things you control.
Up from that might be integration tests or end-to-end tests that include third-party components like databases, libraries, etc. or tests that bring up a real GUI on the desktop - but where you still try to eliminate variables that are out of your control like sending requests to the external network, testing top-level window focus, etc.
Then at the opposite extreme you have end-to-end tests that really do interact with components you don't have 100% control over. That might mean calling a third-party API, so the test fails if the third-party has downtime. It might mean opening a GUI on the desktop and automating it with the mouse, which might fail if the desktop OS pops up a dialog over top of your app. Those last types of tests can still be very important and useful, but they're never going to be 100% reliable.
I think the solution is to have a smaller number of those tests with external dependencies, don't block the build on them, and look at statistics. Sound an alarm when a test fails multiple times in a row, but not for every failure.
Most of the other types of tests can be written in a way to drive flakiness down to almost zero. It's not easy, but it can be doable. It requires a heavy investment in test infrastructure.
I'll start: 4yo: Knock knock! 9yo: Who's there? 4yo: Banana! 9yo: Banana who? 4yo: Banana you glad I didn't say Orange?
Just posting this because I didn't realize it! It was shut down for several years due to Covid and actually taken over as a Covid vaccine site, but now it's back.
VASAviation is a great channel, it's all real air traffic control radio communications. They've got everything from pilots landing on the wrong runway, sick or injured passengers. If you haven't checked it out before, I think this is a great one to start with: a 17yo student pilot flying solo loses a wheel, and flight instructors provide guidance and moral support to help her land safely. The channel is full of ATC communication from other similar incidents including everything from other successful recoveries to some fatal crashes.
At California's Great America theme park
My 4yo is just starting to get the hang of knock-knock jokes. She told this one this morning that I think turned out unintentionally pretty hilarious. 4yo: Knock knock 9yo: Who's there? 4yo: Banana 9yo: Banana who? 4yo: Banana you glad I didn't say Orange?
All of them! It's not a holiday...but they have a 4th of July.
We bought some new roller coaster cars on BrickLink because a couple of the wheels/axles were just slightly worn and the cars wouldn't make it all the way down. Now it works great! I was surprised at how it can still be a really creative set for the kids, they don't try to modify the track (that'd be too hard to make it work), but they have fun building it into a whole amusement park with other Lego sets and bricks.
One of the most common questions that comes up involves trouble setting up VS Code - in particular if you want to not just use it as an editor, but set it up to fully run and debug your code. Obviously the details vary by platform on language, so I'd welcome any resources you think are particularly good that specifically walk a beginner through how to set up VS Code on Windows with Python, or how to set up VS Code on macOS with C++, etc.
[Direct link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg8u50XSmEM) but you can find it on most streaming services. I've been a fan of Gary Burton (vibraphone) for years, but this is the first album where I discovered Makoto Ozone (piano). I love the piano / vibraphone combination. There are very few other pairs of instruments that are so equally matched in playing together and accompanying the other while one solos. Piano/Guitar is the only other combination that works just as well in my opinion. But with piano/vibraphone, and these two in particular, the accompaniment style is so percussive that all of the up-tempo pieces just have a fantastic groove and sense of rhythm even with no bass of drums.
I love the drawing and the spelling
I grew up going to church but I'm not religious now and I never really understood this part. Please, no answers along the lines of "aha, that's why Christianity is a sham" or "religions aren't logical". I don't want to debate whether it's right or wrong, I just want to understand the logic and reasoning that Christians use to explain this.
Tears of the Magic Kingdom
I've got a table saw, a cordless power drill, and wood screws. I was going to run to Home Depot for the wood and any other supplies I might need. Any tips?
My favorite part is the mom's expression in the 3rd panel
This is our third child. We thought we knew what we were doing, at least a tiny bit. Both of her siblings by 4 had figured out that everyone else in the family has wants and needs too and that the world doesn't revolve around them. 4yo mini is growing and maturing in most other ways. She just really struggles with not getting her way. A typical conversation: - Mini: I want my pink bunny - Dad: You can have your bunny when we get home, but right now we're going to school (preschool), and we're not going to turn around. Also, stuffed animals from home aren't allowed at school. - Mini: But I want it! - Dad: It's okay to be sad. You'll see pink bunny soon. You have your teddy bear in the car, hug him. - Mini: I don't want teddy bear. I want pink bunny! - Dad: We don't always get all of the things we want. It's okay to be sad, but we're not getting pink bunny now. We're already on the way to school and your brother and sister don't want to be late. - Mini: But I want it! - Dad: Sorry - Mini: (5-minute tantrum) - Mini: (Eventually gets tired of crying or gets distracted) Let's play I Spy! Any tips? Anyone else have children that struggled to understand they can't have everything they want at that age? I'm especially interested in different ways to phrase it, games, role-play, etc. - anything to help get the concept through and have fewer tantrums.
I love it when an improvised solo becomes so famous that other jazz artists / groups can recreate it and people will recognize it. Here are some examples: Arturo Sandoval recreated and harmonized Clifford Brown's legendary "Cherokee" and "Joy Spring" solos. The live rendition of Cherokee from the GRP All-Star Big Band Live was particularly good. Vocal groups like Manhattan Transfer and New York Voices frequently lyricize classic jazz songs, sometimes including some of the improvised solos. New York Voices' rendition of Giant Steps is particularly good. The lyrics are silly but I like their Ella Fitzgerald "Lady Be Good" rendition. What are your favorites? Or are there solos that are iconic that you wish someone would recreate?
My 4yo daughter found some alphabet / letter stickers, and she used the O and I letters to make a pair of glasses for her drawing
...well, it's kinda sus
She said, "no cap"