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Software Engineer | I talk about dev related stuff | also frequently say stupid things | OCaml, Go, TS, (Neovim?)

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8 months
@notshenetworks As a child, my family had trouble paying for even the bare essentials (private school, our 4 audis, etc). There was even a time when my parents almost made me get a retail job at 19 because they thought it might be a good lesson for me (I think they were preparing for me to have
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@joeflateau Is this how you make a bomb?
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@latkedelrey It's true. All the dinosaurs had gotten together for a concert, and the asteroid hit the venue :(
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@shoe0nhead Yeah, my wife just went to her parents' house and hung out with her bridesmaids, and my buddies took me kayaking and to an awesome dinner at a nice restaurant. It was more of a celebration than anything. It's not losing freedom, but it is representative of moving your life in a
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8 months
@weirddalle Linny, Tuck, and Ming Ming too!
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@lporiginalg L take. There's no way a bunch of random people on the internet know what this man would've wanted more than his wife. Chances are he'd interpret this as a symbol of their undying love and her loyalty to him. I honestly think this is actually kinda cool. You don't have to hate
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8 months
@based_floch @insultsrare The only correct answer
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@conztrail911 @lporiginalg I actually just did, and it's going great :) How about this, marry the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, and take it seriously 🤷‍♂️ Don't base it off of any arbitrary rules like whether or not they're your "high-school sweetheart" or dumb things like that. Base
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@weirddalle The phone. The phone is ringing.
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9 months
@trashh_dev Self-taught means you probably taught yourself bad habits while learning College educated means you probably overpaid for useless information Bootcamp educated means a little bit of both, overpaid and learned bad habits but in 3 months instead I did a boot camp :/
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8 months
@TateTheTalisman @benshapiro Israel warns Gaza citizens about bombings before they happen, whereas Hamas hides behind them as human shields. They tell their citizens to ignore Israeli warnings because they want footage of dead citizens so that you can fall for it. You tell me who cares more about the
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@HumansNoContext Yeah, that's just rude and embarrassing. There are pranks that are legitimately funny, and there are those that get people's hopes way up and then crash them down in front of a bunch of other people.
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@Internet_TLCM Ok, but real talk, I don't think they like it when people form militias either 🤣
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@IsabellaMDeLuca Tbh I do think women often can have completely non-romantic feelings for men. In very rare cases, I do think men can have the same for women, but only if they don't find them attractive. If a man does find a woman attractive (and is single), then in most instances I've seen a
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@lporiginalg This seems like bait tbh
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@charliefriday @shoe0nhead 40-70% of divorce is due to infidelity or abuse. Just don't abuse or cheat on each other, and your chances are a lot better. My wife and I don't see divorce as an option and never will. No fault divorce means that people can get divorces instead of sticking through hard times
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@1takeitzjake @joeflateau @FBI @CIA Good point I feel like they would have an answer
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Aidan Tilgner
11 months
@thatsinsane__ A couple of considerations here. Orangutans are actual very peaceful, unlike many other primates. I believe the context here is that the guy was taunting the Orangutan, which promptly grabbed him to negotiate. If it wanted to snap him it would've.
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9 months
@reddit_lies "No other animal has to pay to live." No one is stopping you from going into the wild and living like an animal. Learn to hunt, make shelter, craft tools, forage, identify and use natural medicine sources, etc. You can do all that for free. However, if you'd like to live in the
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9 months
@PicturesFoIder Let's break this down. When written explicitly instead of its pure algebraic form, we can write the left side expression as follows: 8 ÷ 2 × (2 + 2) ^ the part people forget Then it's simple PEMDAS: 8 ÷ 2 × 4 4 × 4 16 = 16 The wrong way: 8 ÷ 2 (2 + 2) 8 ÷ 2 (4)
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9 months
@OrwellNGoode Mine have done a similar thing:
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8 months
@lporiginalg Thanks for this I'm gonna go throw up now
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@PicturesFoIder Tbh, I don't see this is a problem. I think the widow probably knows what her husband would have wanted more than any of us do. This is actually kinda neat.
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@LoneGeorgie @conztrail911 @lporiginalg *pulls out incel detector* Ding ding ding ding 🚨
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Aidan Tilgner
7 months
@reddit_lies "No equivocation. No further discussion." The sign of a true intellectual.
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@thatguymaxwell1 @notshenetworks I haven't been on the internet enough to know that was a thing
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@BasedMedical Yeah, this is just plain wrong. Cancer is a result of out of control mutated DNA, which rapidly multiplies to form a growth. When your body wants to get rid of toxins, it uses organs like the kidneys and liver to filter toxins and produce waste products, which are then excreted
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@umbongo_ed I mean, it depends, right? By culture, he's likely Japanese. By nationality, he's Japanese. Ethnically, he's not, but personally, I don't place much value on genetic factors. By language, he's Japanese. If someone is born and raised in the US, I don't care what race they are, I
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@TeamKillerCody @charliefriday @shoe0nhead I'm sorry to hear that :( Mine got divorced about 8 years ago after 13 years. It was one of the most difficult parts of my life to process honestly. It's painful in a way that's hard to explain. However, I've married the love of my life now and made it my mission to make our
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@Neightryder @shoe0nhead This is a good point. It's wrong on the woman's part, but the fiancé needs to have a backbone. Many men don't because they're scared they'll get called sexist, misogynistic, controlling, etc. Men are allowed to have standards for the women they intend to marry, and if they
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8 months
@NulliusPersona @iamyesyouareno Yeah, how is this even controversial 🤣
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@BasedMedical At this point, "Bad Medical Takes" is just screenshots of posts by people who mistrust a wildly flawed medical system but ultimately lack nuance. And "Based Medical Takes" is just screenshots of "Bad Medical Takes".
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Aidan Tilgner
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@tacosforkings @CallMeK1123 @nypost She's a biological woman with every part (ovaries, fallopian tubes, etc) other than a uterus. The article states that this procedure only works for women with ovaries intact. How is she not designed for it?
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Aidan Tilgner
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@powerbottomdad1 Are we really just supposed to treat land as first come, first serve? Do you really have a birthright to a place because you settled there first? Like, was the land stolen from the previous owners? Or the owners before them? Or the owners before those owners? What about some
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Aidan Tilgner
7 months
@packyM Bro, we Christians gotta get on the cathedral grind again 😭 can't be getting outdone like that. (This is seriously so awesome)
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Aidan Tilgner
2 years
@classicallyabby This comments section is a demonstration of how far society has fallen
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@reddit_lies Tell me you don't excersize without telling me you don't excersize.
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@Bornakang This may be unpopular, but this is incredibly messed up. Being denied food is rude, I get it, and everyone should get to eat, especially the hard-working photographer. However, you're not entitled to anything like that. Assumedly, this couple paid a photographer to take pictures
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Aidan Tilgner
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@basedalexandoor I don't think that this picture really properly depicts this type of person... and should we really be promoting such broad generalities about people? People are complicated, and you have to look at them as such. Come on, guys, it's just more nuanced than this.
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@t3dotgg Nah, Spotify is great. Search works great, playlists are great, ui feels great, recommendations are solid, and their new DJ feature is kinda cool. Not to mention the amazing synchronization features. Idk I've been using it since I was a wee lad. Perhaps I'm just really used to
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@unusual_whales Honestly, avoiding retirement savings for a short-term increase in monthly income is a terrible idea. Go get your 401k started. The best time was at 18, but the second best time is now. You might see a little bit of a hit on your income, sure, but it's worth it in the long run,
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Aidan Tilgner
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@InternetH0F @elonmusk can we get a feature or an update to address the annoyingness of all of the replies on big accounts being unrelated memes. I want to see an actual conversation around the post. Maybe a "filter text only" feature, or just deprioritizing replies which only have media
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@greg16676935420 Wait, Greg, how did you post if no one is able to post?
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Aidan Tilgner
6 months
@SavvasStephnds I usually start with this: "Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name..."
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@dracosrevenge Find a girl you love, treat her right, put a ring on her finger, have kids, start a family. That's actually the key to a good life as it has been reaffirmed countless times. Not all women are disloyal. Just because some have cheated doesn't mean it's some "canon event" that's
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Aidan Tilgner
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@lporiginalg Any woman who thinks this way probably is insecure about their own worth and uses sexual interactions with men to reassure herself. She also doesn't understand the importance of discipline or principled lifestyle. Consider this kind of reaction a screening mechanism.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@BjornIronSkull It's not really a "gratuity" if you're automatically charging it. That's just the price at that point 🤣. Hey, though, tbh that's better than tip culture. If you want more money, just charge for it up front. They get to decide these things and we get to decide not to go, that's
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@AtheistsL I'd rather live in a world with a holy war between good and evil than a world that had fallen into the depths of nihilism. I won't try to pretend like religious beliefs haven't and don't continue to drive evil actions. However, people forget where they came from. Western
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@SWENGDAD This is a sad reality. Porn kills love.
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@10dai @TateTheTalisman @benshapiro They give residents the chance to leave. Unfortunately, it also gives the terrorists who hide there a chance to leave, but it's considered a net positive.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R Coward. Put them all in 1 state object. Be a man.
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@iammemeloper Idk if it's more funny that PHP doesn't have a description, or that HTML and React and both apparently programming languages.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@SWENGDAD Their general homemaking spirit. I have 0 decorating ability, and if left to my own devices, my home would be almost entirely utilitarian with rare and poorly placed decorations. My wife makes our home beautiful and comfortable, which is much more valuable than often realized.
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@EverythingOOC Also, notice the first sign doesn't specify dollars. They're getting 70k of something, but idk what it is 🤷‍♂️
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@KevinNaughtonJr Salting alone isn't enough. Add some pepper and garlic powder, maybe some smoked paprika.
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@pjsercel @BeardedNurseDad @LibertyCappy People can do research and understand concepts outside of their direct area of expertise. Appeal to authority is a fallacy.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@InternetH0F Fortunately, touching mercury is relatively low risk. It's definitely not advisable, but this guy should be fine. Chronic exposure and mercury vapor is what gets you. Also, fish can accumulate concentrated amounts of mercury through biomagnification, which can also be dangerous.
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@SWENGDAD Yeah there's also: 5. Spend time somewhere where you have an opportunity to meet people you respect, find a woman who shares similar values, take her on a date and treat her right, get married
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@Bornakang Replies have informed me that I should've read the whole thing before saying this. My bad. I stand by what I said if this was a pro photographer with a standard contract that didn't involve food. However, it sounds like in this case, the photographer kept his integrity.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@MichaelTrazzi No, it isn't. It has no ability to formulate new opinions or learn new ideas the same way a human can. It relies on a vast amount of training data to generate natural sounding responses to language. The human brain is far more efficient than GPT3.5 and works much differently.
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@angriestpigeon @LibertyCappy By this logic, they already share in the profits by taking a wage in the first place :)
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@davefarley77 I think some good canaries could be: 1. Heavy abstractions, which are lightly used, ex: a module dedicated to task A, which is only used one or two times 2. Solving problems that don't exist yet eg.,performance, scale, etc. 3. The sum of the time spent engineering is greater
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@flaviocopes Yeah, this is actually why I have my own little app template instead of using a dependency. With the exception of static sites (I love astro), I just use a vanilla Express servers and a vanilla React SPA. No additional dependencies except some used for built-in auth. Make
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Aidan Tilgner
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@EllenRudolph3 @Newsweek @DLoesch That's right! Feminism isn't dead...yet. We're making progress though. And why would a strong women in power like Dana be afraid of feminists? She's spokeswoman of the NRA, and last time I checked, that's not in your lane.
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@tragicbirdapp People will blame anyone but themselves for their current situation. Unfortunately they're also the only one with the power and will to change their situation. Bezos didn't wrong you and your envy will blind you and rob you of agency.
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@SWENGDAD @endofanerajc Ex: you give them food after midnight
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Aidan Tilgner
2 years
@Gonza_Lafalaise @CanuckPlucky @jordanbpeterson Definition of the word virtually: "almost or nearly as described, but not completely or according to strict definition."
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You know what I hate? I hate IDEs that work out of the box with expected functionality for every file type that I might be working with. That's why I switched to neovim
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@reddit_lies If you don't have a prenuptial then this is something which will be negotiated in court in the event of a divorce. However that line of thinking is already dangerous. You should think of everything that you own as something which you jointly own. Having half of the equity in
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@SirBarefoot Nah, weed is just fun. Anything that distracts you from life could be considered coping. Anything fun does that. Self-control is the key here, not unilaterally stopping something. Take away weed, and there are 20 other substances to go to. Teach self-control, and any substance
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@shoe0nhead Yeah, my wife just went to her parents' house and hung out with her bridesmaids, and my buddies took me kayaking and to an awesome dinner at a nice restaurant. It was more of a celebration than anything. It's not losing freedom, but it is representative of moving your life in a
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@lporiginalg Ok, listen. It's easy to hate on something like this because the world is a crazy and gross place. But, this can actually help women. This will theoretically help people who want and deserve to have kids, bring life into the world.
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@littlebird428 @OrwellNGoode Yes I do. They told me secrets about the foundation. I know what you did.
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@JLarky LAMBO stack: Laravel (php) Angular MySQL Bootstrap OpenAI (for all your AI grifter needs) Maybe there aren't Lambos in PHP, but there is definitely PHP in Lambos 😉
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Aidan Tilgner
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@myfear I've been trying out Warp, and I have to say it's a very cool experience. I think it combines a good set of innovative features without adding too much overhead to the terminal experience. The AI command generation is useful, and I like that the mouse is functional in it.
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@SunshineDaisie @BASEDJON__ @TinfoilTricorn @iheartmindy @elonmusk Nothing is toxic at any level. There is always a threshold.
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@lporiginalg So I guess the line here is something like "is the value you produce valuable because it's a basic human need or because people place arbitrary value on it". I don't think this is a good way to look at it. Ultimately, every job in the economy exists at some layer of abstraction
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@ThePrimeagen "Those who have swords, and know how to use them, but keep them sheathed, will inherit the world." ~ Matthew 5:5
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Aidan Tilgner
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@halimah_kay I took a boot camp and got a job 4 months later. It's 100% dependent on your own perseverance, will to learn, and a bit of luck. University provides you with a lot of helpful resources, but there's a significant time and monetary cost to it. Make the right decision for yourself.
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@daboigbae This is why choosing a good backpack is very important.
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8 months
@ratlpolicy 111k likes too. I know it's just internet points and probably bots... but geez...
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Aidan Tilgner
6 years
@ayankowsky @andrewklavan It's obviously systemic opression
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Aidan Tilgner
7 months
@t3dotgg JavaScript is actually a very good language... Let me explain. JavaScript is an excellent language for what it was designed for: relatively-low-complexity user interactivity and client-side logic. As a dynamically typed, object-oriented language, JavaScript's object model is
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Aidan Tilgner
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@t3dotgg The entire "block Twitter blue" idea is silly, IMHO. If you don't want to give money to a tech company, then don't use their app. Otherwise, don't get annoyed at people who like the app and want to enjoy their experience on an app they're willing to support.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@theraviranjankr @engineers_feed True. A lot of them occur because the longer the software runs, the more small imperfections (memory leaks, etc.) accumulate. So when you restart your phone you clear our the accumulated problems.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@Rick83420440 @AlessioUrban Bro people I guess don't know what a tie fighter and storm troopers look like 😭🤣
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Aidan Tilgner
8 months
@Kuturupkuturup @CityBureaucrat @restoreorderusa After a quick Google search my day is ruined
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Aidan Tilgner
1 year
@VersaceValerio @alexeyguzey At the end of the day code is still only a small part of an engineer's job. Automation has only ever led to new jobs, at the end of the day someone still needs to instruct the tool, even if it van write its own code. That person is an engineer.
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Aidan Tilgner
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@acitrano @JonathanTurley Because he's still bound by the law, and he can't change it(drastically at least, and temporarily without congress), which is why he's not a monarch. And he hasn't pardoned himself, he said he could.
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@tawnniee The "master" thing is silly. I understand not using words that solely have ill-intent, e.g., slurs, derogatory terms, etc. However, we can't just eliminate words that have been used in an ill-intended way at some point, which also have a pure descriptive meaning. Master and
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@drawing_trans @insultsrare Plus aerodynamics if I understand correctly.
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@SWENGDAD Honestly, I'm extremely disappointed with a lot of the figures that I usually respect. The lengths that people will go to demonize their political rivals are disgusting. This is a tragedy no matter how you cut it. No politics even need to be applied here , except that there is
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@ken_wheeler Yeah, the whole language/code/data collection thing is probably the shadiest part of this whole thing. The people who were working on their passion projects weren't thinking that it was going to be collected and used to train things like this. This definitely breaks trust.
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@ThePrimeagen To avoid writing industry code
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Aidan Tilgner
9 months
@ZeroZmm @PicturesFoIder So close but so far. 2x is the same as 2 × x, and the parenthesis only takes precedence in that the expression contained must be evaluated first. It doesn't imply precedence in multiplication. Or type this into the console in
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