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JackbyDev

@ JackbyDev @programming.dev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Signs like this could be found in the late 1800s/early 1900s, explaining this strange new technology.

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  • Oh you absolutely should. Also you need to make part of it "haunted" somehow lol.

  • Signs like this could be found in the late 1800s/early 1900s, explaining this strange new technology.

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  • IT DOES NOT AFFECT THE SOUNDNESS OF SLEEP!

  • ADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought

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  • prejudice

    I am already filled with guilt about the way things like executive dysfunction work. I don't open up about the details of it with folks because I'm afraid they'll think I'm lazy.

  • ADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought

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  • Brain scans revealed that these medications activate reward and alertness systems

    I've been taking ADHD medication for over a decade and was told this was how it works.

  • now that's a talk i would watch

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  • This reminds me of a panel I saw that was something like Romance novel cover or Magic the Gathering art. It was tougher than you'd've thought.

  • Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)

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  • Name some! Don't leave us hanging!

  • base 10

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  • That's base 22, for all the base 10 users out there.

  • you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!

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  • Real. Curiosity is such a desirable trait in folks.

  • "i can hear the difference"

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  • $35 is generous

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  • be okay with a shitty old phone for years etc.

    Nothing in the comic indicates the woman in the first two panels isn't doing this.

  • True of mine but he more than made up for it

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  • My wife is unemployed and loves doing gift stuff including wrapping. Even constantly asking if I want them to wrap their gifts for themself lol. I think some folks just see this without having loved it and assume it's bad. The reality is couples split their chores. My wife doesn't help me with yard work, even while unemployed, does it make them a deadbeat? No. That's just not how we split the chores.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Yeah, after reading the answers I see it more clearly. Also, I assume in hindsight that it's three switches which can be on or off, so we know if all three are off the light is off. Which helps as well.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Like I said, it's been over a decade, some of the specifics may be lost to me.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • YOU'RE DOOMED! You must weigh two against two in the first step.

  • windows quality

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  • Reminder that the Windows devs copied AppGet, even spoke with the dev of it, but refused to hire them. Reminder that just because something is legal with regards to FLOSS tools, it doesn't mean it is ethical. It's stories like this that I think people need to think long and hard about when making FLOSS stuff and whether you want to use a permissive license. A copy left license wouldn't have necessarily prevented this, but this is the competition. They don't play nice.

    https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • Impossible even if you know if the light is on or off to start with. Even then, there are 2 possible outcomes which means the solution space halves on each test. 3 divided by 2 is greater than 1 (1.5) so we cannot figure it out in a single test.

    That's my recollection of how to solve these from computer science. The classic one is 8 coins and figuring out which one weighs a different amount (and you don't know if it is more or less). You have a scale that tells you which side is heavier (or equal) but it doesn't give readouts (as in it doesn't say a side is X pounds/grams). With only three uses of the scale, how can you find the fake coin? I'm not going to go into the process in depth but because you have THREE outcomes (left heavier, equal, and right heavier) you reduce the solution space (which of the 8 coins is the bad one) by a THIRD each test. The number 8 sort of lures into thinking powers of 2. You can actually do it with 9 coins in 3 tests.

    Some of the details of my explanation may be wrong, it's been over a decade since I took that class in college lol. It was my worst professor (while different story lol) but I distinctly remember him talking about this. He had a very thick accent, some form of eastern European or Russian, I'm not really sure what exactly. But he gave us that problem as homework or something or maybe just to think about. And he'd ask us to explain how we'd do it. Whenever someone began to describe something doing like test 4, 2, etc instead of the correct way (which involves using coins you already tested) he'd say "YOU'RE DOOMED!" Then someone else would try, and when they got to a way that wouldn't work "YOU'RE DOOMED!" It was hilarious. Very memorable.

  • ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't

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  • Righties really see this and don't get why due process for all is necessary.

  • After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'

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  • And they lied about it on the award application, but yes.

  • Trump suggests quitting as president and making ‘hosting a full time job’ as he gushes over his Kennedy Center performance

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  • Sounds great, bud! Do it!