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We must lorem ipsum. https://x.com/hotdogsladies/status/1278241390539886594
Election betting odds continues to be garbage - folk think there is an 8% chance neither Trump nor Biden will be President. So people with enough money to waste on a bet don't think Trump will win, but can't bear to bet on Biden.
https://electionbettingodds.com/
I think the true odds are closer to 50/50 because of all the changes red states have made to tip the scale in favor of Republicans. The margin of victory has to be large enough to overcome all these corrupt institutions.
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This computation work load is a good candidate for containerization. If you put enough in a box, you achieve hyperthreading. https://twitter.com/mattcampux/status/1278090087520223232
Case study of getting covid from...passerbys on side walks? From some forgotten interaction? Fomite?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/a-hypervigilant-mom-followed-every-health-guideline-she-still-caught-the-coronavirus/2020/06/27/fa119ce2-b654-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html
WFH people - do you use a different desk for work vs non-work?
Wayback machine doesn't have this page, but was this always the policy? "If you’ve been in the job market for a while and have accumulated an extensive work history, you may be well qualified for many jobs even without a college degree."
https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/application/qualifications/college-degree/ https://x.com/AshleyMay_007/status/1277230285755691008
This is how we get a kakistocracy-- one party runs a candidate so bad that no one supporting the opposition bothers to vote because no one can imagine them winning. https://x.com/SolomonMg/status/1277226092034654208
2nd Xbox achievement, signing into 5 accounts, for 4 people (4x5 sign ins). Next achievement, create email accounts for the 4 year old. The 7 made it 7 years before needing an email account.
Xbox setup-- choose your time zone. I'm going to choose Hawaii. No one told me I can choose my own time zone. I should be able to sleep 20 hours tonight.
So the first Xbox game is to figure out how to get your "Xbox All Access" subscription enabled because you get no paper, no email, nothing, but they do charge you for it. @XboxSupport @XboxGamePass ??
Ok, so it Gamer Pass recognizes the machine about 10 minutes into set up. Y'all and @BestBuy could improve the messaging at point of purchase.
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Writing `hypothesis` tests-- sort of surreal. Ok, you want to test def add(a,b): return a+b... `hypothesis` says, well, have you tried add(fish,JPG)?
And I'm like, well, I'm not sure what the right thing to do is. If I add type checks, then I'm re-implementing a typed language.
In a phone interview, no one is ever asking for you to google for an answer. Just say, "I don't know that off the top of my head"
I just ran `pip install hypothesis` and then edited the Pipfile because it was so much faster. If there was a utility to do this, I would switch to it immediately.
What is your bag? My bag is intentionally misreading common sentences. Is that your bag, too? https://x.com/thedansimonson/status/1276198405488984064
The worst datatype in python is Union[bytes,str]. Because of that legacy python 2 code, this will remain true for a long time.
We're essentially back to where we were late March, except the epicenters have moved, mostly to the South. My guess is 1.5m to 3.3m will die and then some smaller % of that every year forever. This is going to show up in life expectancy stats.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-spread.html
"Chuck E Cheese parent files for bankruptcy" -- Well that parent should have thought twice before buying so many game tickets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/25/coronavirus-live-updates-us/#link-T7IY4I66UREWVC54NTJEPDYMHU
Organizations settling for crap video conferencing is industrial sabotage. All this worry about people coming to the office with bombs when the real threat to the continuation of business is Skype and Webex.
If I'm unit testing f(), I trust unit tests covering f() more than I trust tests exercising a(b(c(d(e(f())))). But the unit test reports I got think both sorts of coverage are equivalent.
This app worked perfectly until I made my first modification. https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1275943190378409984
And it has docker support out of the box.
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What do you round to impossible? Events with a probability of...
We're back to exponential growth!
Not in DMV, but elsewhere. https://x.com/ASlavitt/status/1275907797096505344
Status- documenting ephemeral IP addresses, machine names, etc & the like for AWS because they used to be static when things were on-premise.
15 minute scrum is a waste of everyone time as the number of participants goes to infinity. There is no information in 15/n minutes of talk from each person as n gets close to 15. At that point, scrum should just be cancelled.
Masking is now a data-driven policy. Back in March I saw science communicators say it lacked empirical evidence. Not true anymore. https://twitter.com/ShaTweeter/status/1275440428750221313
How to get an Xbox on a subscription plan. Step one, lift your credit freeze 3 times on some of the worst UI you've seen since 1998.
Step two, turn down in-store pickup. I mean, they ship it faster than they can have it available in a physical store.
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terraform with the `destroy` command workflow is like having a chaos monkey, except there is no way to compensate because any compensating asset will be destroyed too.
gamers...a paid minecraft realms & xbox live gets you the same thing (persistent multiplayer worlds)... right? Asking for my 7 year old.
We have found a student with an aptitude for python here. https://x.com/DrKMTurner/status/1274082580481159170
Since everyone is talking about paid email--I haven't started paying, but I did set up everyone in my family with protonmail. The surveillance state/(& surveillance capitalism) hits a speed bump when it has to cross jurisdictions.
Tired: Getting the $12-per-head plates at a restaurant
Wired: Getting $100 of Indian food takeout that lasts for 3-4 meals for 4 people and enough surplus rice for rice pudding.
Data journalist needs job https://x.com/Disha_RC/status/1273658836654620672
Python slicing is obfuscatory show-offery.
thing[-3:] vs thing.right(3)
It is the most overrated part of the language. If there were extension methods for str, I'd switch to that and expunge most slicing from my code.
How do you lazy load a python global without using the global keyword? A write-once global is morally the same as an initialized global, but all the linters think that the `global` keyword needs to be removed from the programming language because it could be write-many
#python
The 7 year old is tricking Alexa & Siri into talking to each other.
diagramming software like gliffy has all the ease of use of blender or gimp, but if blender or gimp had be designed to be more difficult to use.
I'm pro-video-on for teleconference calls. Camera-off brings out the worst in meeting behavior.
- no one can signal that they've stopped paying attention, are bored or tired.
- no one can signal that they'd like to talk except for making noise & stepping on the current talker
- much harder to signal that you have to leave for 2 minutes without rudely stopping everyone
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Finally the win10 2004 update arrives at my main work machine! WSL2! I've never been so excited about a pending OS update.
DACA not going to be canceled. Good.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-rules-against-trump-administration-attempt-to-end-daca-a-win-for-undocumented-immigrants-brought-to-us-as-children/2020/06/18/4f0b6c74-b163-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_court-1020a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans