It’s debt in the sense of obligation, not literal finance. If we get more volume, we’re going to be obligated to change this so it does something smarter than dumping output to a csv on disk. For now it’s fine, even if it’s annoying to scp and parse the files every time you want to see something.
There was a website where users could request something or other, like a PDF report. Users had a limited number of tokens per month.
The client would make a call to the backend and say how many tokens it was spending. The backend would then update their total, make the PDF, and send it.
Except this is stupid. First of all, if you told it you were spending -1 tokens, it would happily accept this and give you a free token along with your report.
Second of all, why is the client sending that at all? The client should just ask and the backend should figure out if they have enough credit or not.
Say four guys are sitting in a bar having a sports argument—talking about the upcoming college football playoffs, say. They begin by agreeing that Ohio State is the favorite because it is currently ranked number one in the polls, which it in fact is.
But one of them says: No, Texas A&M is number one. The other three look at him like he’s insane. They reach for their phones, they tap, tap, tap, and they show him the rankings. But he keeps insisting. Those polls are fake. It’s Texas A&M. Everybody says so.
The conversation stalls. The liar has “won” the argument. Not in the sense that he is factually correct; he is not. But he has won in two senses. First, he has shut down what might have been a rational, interesting, spirited debate that proceeded from shared factual premises. Second, he has forced the other three to waste time and mental energy debating a proposition that is not remotely up for debate, and in the process has succeeded in making himself the center of attention and controversy whom everyone else talks about.
Sounds like they should remove the liar from the bar. Maybe not beat the shit out of him and leave him in a sobbing pile of piss and vomit in the back alleyway, but certainly not just letting it slide.
Liars and such get by because people are too polite to do anything about it. This goes for other bad behavior, too.
Someone in my extended friend group got a divorce, and her ex-husband started acting like a creeper. He was bothering the other women in the group. Eventually, another dude in the group pulled him aside and said if he doesn’t behave, he can’t hang out with them anymore. The guy didn’t change, and now he’s out of the friend group.
Of course, there’s so many shitty maga-hats that maybe he went and found a new group of misogynists .
The other day I accidentally looked at YouTube without adblock, without history off, and it was a nightmare. Just AI slop and rage bait. Absolute trash.
I pretty much only use YouTube for music and very specific clips. It’s a bad place.
[mode="snob] read more books. [/mode]
This is very heteronormative and gender binaried. Queer people exist and date.
That said, anecdotally, from the handful of women I’ve talked about this with: many don’t like making first moves on these apps.
Using dating apps is a skill, and if you haven’t been practicing sending messages you’re going to be bad at it. The vast majority of first messages I got from women were “hey”. Trash tier. Probably because they just haven’t done it very often.
The problem is most people are lazy and don’t understand anything. They just use the app they know, even if it sucks.
If you got it to be popular it could work , but I don’t see how you could.
ls never asks you to create an account or to update.
Don’t give anyone ideas.
“Pay $2.99/mo to see hidden files!”
Personally I feel like SQL syntax is upside down, and things are used before they are defined.
SELECT
a.id -- what the fuck is a?
, a.name
, b.city -- and b??
from users a -- oh
join city b on a.id = b.user_id -- oh here's b
I’d expect it to instead be like
From users a
join city b on a.id = b.user_id
SELECT
a.id,
a.name,
b.city
What’s that saying? If conservatives cannot win under democracy, they will not abandon conservatism. They will abandon democracy.
They are bad people choosing to be bad people repeatedly.
In the context of Trump et al doing rape, I don’t think the distinction presented by Kelly really matters. Any amount of sexual assault and abuse is too much.
In what way does it matter here? Is some amount of trump rape acceptable? Is it beneficial to anyone other than trump et Al to split this hair?
Lowering indent levels is nice in functions. Early returns mean you don’t have to think as much. “If it got here, I know foo isn’t null because it already would have returned”.
Yeah some comments are not useful
# returns the value as a string
return str(user.id)
Some comments are
# returns the user id as a string because ZenDesk's API throws errors if it gets a number.
# See ticket RA-1037
# See ZenDesk docs: https://etc/
return str(user.id)
That is a bizarre and ungenerous conclusion. Do you think adults having sex with 15 year olds is okay? What point are you trying to make?
Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference
A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists.[1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.
For example, a person might say “I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit.”[2]
Reminds me of the “Last Call Cats” art set that I really like.
Not finding the original but here they are in coaster form https://arnamiller.com/products/drunk-cat-coasters
One of my jobs went to microservices. Not really sure why. They had daily active users in the thousands, maybe. But it meant we spent a lot of time on inter-service communication, plus local development and testing got a lot more complicated.
But before that, it was a single API written in Go by an intern, so maybe it was an improvement.
Conservatism is a bad world view. Rigid patriarchal authority will lead to abuse.
And the ultra rich would deserve to lose everything
I get my clothes from the thrift store. Sadly, even that’s getting more expensive. Used to be could get jeans for $5 and now it’s more like $20