TIL- if you sign up for the free http://ancestry.com account and just start to create a family tree, the app makes crazy accurate suggestions that let you trace most branches back to the 1600s.
I think the paid version is for solving the "dead end" branches.
Home
Public posts preserved on my own site.
Status- asking distant cousins if they know their great-great-grandparents.
Do you?
Why is mandofun so awful?
- all strangers
- non-organic relationships (all forced, no one wants to know each other)
- utterly structureless
- you'll never see these people again
- no joint purpose
- too many people
Mando-fun (mandatory fun, not Mandalorian fun) is a society-wide phenomenon, not just at work. I generall misestimate how much fun these will be, but I talking about, pure misery to almost pure misery.
Have you ever... quiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tVGctt4Zo
The current version of Matthew Martin no longer supports anything below Python 3.6.
I'm tired of switching out Py2 to Py3 style type annotations. If you have a dependency on the previous version of Matthew Martin, you're SOoL (aka SOL)
I'm officially giving up on the Outlook calendar. Without the desktop client or a phone client, & an 8 minute login process (VPN hoops), I'm going to have to break my habit of relying on it & switch to paper. I think notif make it to me 1% of the time.
SW
High-speed buses leaving from Union Station, 160MPH on existing highways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNixDlRoMvA
PEP 7778 Along with the walrus operator := ... I propose the Homer operator for when you don't know what operator to use.
if x (_8^(1) y:
print("D'oh!")
#python
The Tesla short sellers are *rich* (else they'd get closed out). They are betting their politics. Idea futures noticed that people bet their political preferences, not who they think will actually win an election. Same as the young guy that shorted impossible burger & lost. https://x.com/mrandrewmills/status/1222966590314110977
Crypto algos when they are released: cracking this takes longer than the life of the universe. <algo cracked in 20 years>
Crypo currency when released: no way for anyone to just steal all the money, it is based on uncrackable crypto. <me, waiting 20 years to see that happen>
What does SAFe have to say about what developers do?
SDLC- intensely managed the tech lead, but ignored the devs.
Scrum- intensely manages the devs but it a way that try to make it feel like dev still have autonomy
SAFe? Is this about managing project managers(boss of techleads)?
AT THIS TIME THERE ARE NO CONFIRMED CASES OF CORONA VIRUS AT MY DESK.
Everyone is getting in on announcing that there is no news yet, I don't want to be the last.
https://umd.edu/virusinfo
https://montgomerycountymd.gov/OPI/alerts/coronavirus.html
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-testing-2-people-for-coronavirus/2205248/
Microsoft's OWAs web client can scale to 25, sometimes even 50 emails before the tab freezes up and becomes unresponsive. Fortunately, mailboxes with 50 emails are never seen in the wild.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe: |
print("soul")
Humanity finally writes code that passes the Turing test, not by writing smarter code, but by finder stupider judges.
What would I have answered? "Stupid" because 1 word is not enough space to say, "This is stupid" https://x.com/drjuliashaw/status/1042002026715131904
On second read, maybe the most popular answer is "Love", which could just mean that the participant also thinks this is stupid and is hitting on the judge.
♡ 0 ↻ 0
How are we diagnosing memory leaks in python nowadays? Closing files isn't enough for this lib I'm working with.
I can't manage as a upper-middle class American. Benefit denial systems like this are ways for the legislative and executive to bypass the budgeting process. (i.e. driving down costs by adding paperwork hoops)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/28/upshot/administrative-burden-quiz.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage
What if we made one block of New York City part of Wyoming so that Wyoming would be Blue. https://x.com/jyazman2012/status/1222267922061590529
It's the economy-minus seat. Save $15 dollars. https://x.com/kennelliott/status/1222246765459574784
How many grandkids will y'all have? (My great-grandmothers had 12-17!)
I'm the proud father of three kids and statistically speaking, 5.4 grandkids that haven't been born yet. Maybe 9.7 grandkids, for a total of 15.1 (great)-grand kids. They add up fast.
♡ 0 ↻ 0
Security is also a lock on the door and being able to send folk to jail after the fact. https://x.com/halvarflake/status/1222049035290320896
Pyint is a disappointed mother
[R0201(no-self-use), Logic.add_all_subfields] Method could be a function
What have you made of your self? You could have been a doctor or at least a function!
How to ready mypy annotations:
List[List[Dict[str,Any]]]
The `Any` means I gave up.
Writing without classes seems like such a PITA. Hmm, where to put this state that would normally be a class private field? module level global variables? pylint hates that. How about serialize it to the module docstring? REDIS? Maybe give up on module oriented programming?
Oh, add properties (value types and def's and lambdas) to the running function and then hack the function object into a class. Or maybe dictionaries with values that are values and functions and give each function a ref to the parent dictionary.
♡ 0 ↻ 0
Endorse, this is one of the better C++ courses out there, especially wrt to writing modern C++ (as opposed to what C++ used to be decades ago) https://x.com/gregcons/status/1221763803244875777
Please point to the Ukraine on this unlabeled globe https://x.com/mistersql/status/1221199911007465477/photo/1
Yeah, I'll probably be rounded up for a concentration camp because of my 23 & me profile, but solving the "how the heck am I related to this cousin" mystery is fun. It gives you a tree chart with the cousins filled in & you fill in the blanks for parents, grandparents, uncles etc
This year is the year of which pokemon
"I and everyone I know has the flexibility to stay home when sick even if it means three weeks" (i.e. They won't lose wages, or fired, someone else will get the kid to school)
[I mean, the effectiveness of self-imposed quarantine, I'm skeptical]
Folk, keep an eye on your temperatures, especially for the vulnerable- the young, sick and old. The math says the Wuhan coronovirus is going to spread fast. https://x.com/DrEricDing/status/1220919589623803905
I can't do `[].last()` and I have to do `personal_names[-1:]`? Is there a better way to get last element in python?
If you kill & bury Mr Peanut, he rises again as a vine zombie.
"It may seem counterintuitive, but jailing people leads to less, not more, public safety. Jail destabilizes people who may already be struggling to pay the rent or get to work." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/bail-reform-new-york.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Seems like the time to do anything in a new programming language takes 2-4 months. I want to write a 25 line C app, if I had time, it would take me 2-4 months. In a language I already know, it takes a morning, tops.
This is just an horrible stat if you want new tech adoption.
Most orgs I work at there is another Matthew Martin & the help desk confuses them constantly. If the auth system can't distinguish between two people of the same name, then a social engineering attack only requires knowing the *name* of the account you wish to highjack.
Active directory, two-factor auth, encrypted passwords with punctuation, my ass.
♡ 0 ↻ 0
Federal Jobs Part 2- So this particular listing is limited to 3 years, why? Oh, FERS (retirement vesting) doesn't kick in until 5 years. The economist in me says this particular job is optimized to get:
- least experienced(not market rates)
- most unhealthy(benefs mostly health) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1220363706443403265
All small country statistics are vacuous statistical artifacts. If you drew a line around the largest city in the largest country, that virtual country would have the world's most impressive stats per capita/sq mile/etc. (looking at you Netherlands, Iceland)
In fact, when you sort any ratios, the statistical anomalies representing the fewest events move to the top & bottom. States like RI are going to be disproportionately represented as having the most mosts. IIRC, I read this somewhere in "How Not to Be Wrong"
♡ 0 ↻ 0
If you don't take a philosophy class, you will never realize how dangerous trolleys are.