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I can prevent 1:1 flamewars-I don't have to reply
! but the ecosystem has to prevent the 1:million flamewars & instead, that registers as engagement. So the algo is going to push that content to you same as if you told the machine that you love nothing more than pointless arguing

Y'all think you're speaking truth to power, you're feeding the algorithm, and you're playing "someone is wrong on the internet & I'm going to be the one to set them straight" except with larger numbers of people involved.

"But Matt, *someone is wrong on the internet!!*" And the algo writes that person a check when the engagement reaches a threshold level. Piss off one person & it is a fight. Piss off 50,000 and youtube will pay for your mortgage this month.

"But Matt, what he said is morally reprehensible! I'm a criminal if I don't reply!" And I say we are collectively criminals for participating in writing that check. Engagement is money, and we're dishing it out.

"Failing to continue to support Ukraine would be like paying the cannibal to eat us last."

Yes, I know, a centrist (by today's standards) who caucuses with the worst people in the world as has made a good point.

The articles say even after acclimating, you lose sleep in the heat and you get dumber doing math-like work. So all of this sounds like bad new for a work-from-home software developer.

The author doesn't care what you do with this, you shouldn't care what you do with this, your employer doesn't care what you do with this technology. In fact you can do whatever you want with it because no one cares and it won't matter.

If there is only 1 line it is safe to lick the lolly-pop. So far 1/2 the house is negative. Deciding if I should burn 2 more tests.

Russian media saying- "US & Europe" started a war against us, essentially is saying that Russia has already declared world war, the "who started it" doesn't matter, the artillery that will rain down across Europe and the thermonuclear weapons don't know who started it either.

that will last as long as the app. If the whole app is bundled with the app, as long as the app lasts, the dependencies will last.

so I wrote a blog post about it.

https://buildinginpython.blogspot.com/2022/05/stackoverflow-answers-miss-mark-cli.html

click, prompt and prompt-toolkit (libraries in pypi) are all better options than the off the cuff code people wrote. At best in that case SO was educational, not a source of quickly re-usable code.

Or like a J Crew Catalog for clothing that $0.00000001 and less. For nudists and ants and nudist ants.

This joke in USD terms is not worth enough for me to fix the omitted "costs"

Finished in 27+m. That's after 2 years of training by running 1mile a day indoors and recovering from a freak knee injury

5-6min slower than my last race in 2019

bot-or-not bot is a dumb question- all bots have a human behind them. There are a lot more interesting angles on if an account is a "high quality account" (but for who? advertisers? human readers? machine readers?)

A business minded filter would remove everyone from twitters user base that can't
- buy something in response to an ad
- vote (or otherwise matter politically, not all ads are selling physical things)

A business minded filter would remove API driven accounts, but would also remove 75% (?) of human, real-time-interactive users because they have no $ (children), are too poor, or don't matter to PR campaigners.

to get this joke you need to have been alive in the days before ad blockers, back when we ever saw ads.

Has anyone done a python fintech library for calculating how much money in our couch and the optimal search rates? I think if we let people sell/borrow against their couch search rights, this could be bank alternative.

Answer questions about what you want to code in next year as if you really do have some time to write go or rust next year

If you hate having to get hired based on some livecoding during an interview, why aren't you putting up a youtube presentation and doing some serious coding in public?

My econ prof said efficient markets didn't mean that benefits were divided up anywhere near fair, all the benefits might go to one or two people. The people griping about socialism all think they are going to be the last billionaire.