kevincox

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, that "what can I start in 10min" question really ruins a lot of productivity.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Drink cans are lined with plastic so you shouldn't get any metal taste if you pour it into a glass before drinking. If you drink straight from the can you may get a slight taste.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think that is true. Not much at Google really bought into the UUID hype. At least not for internal interfaces. But really there is no difference between a UUID v4 and a large random number. UUID just specifies a standard formatting.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't really mean literally to practice asking people out. But there are times in your life where you need to ask people for things. It is hard to get over the anxiety, risk of social embarrassment and practice showing confidence (even if you are not). These are valuable skills in all sort of social circumstances.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It is true, don't do it.

Even at huge companies like Google, lots of stuff was keyed on your email address. This was a huge problem so Google employees were not allowed to change their email for the longest time. Eventually they opened it up by request but they made it very clear that you would run into problems. So many systems and services would break. Over time I think most external services are pretty robust now, but lots of internal systems still use emails (or the username part of it) and have issues.

IIUC Google accounts now use a random number as the key. But there are still places where the email is in use, slowly being fixed at massive cost.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

FWIW I think it is actually a valuable social skill to be encouraged to ask someone out to prom. A lot of people don't have many similar experiences throughout their lives.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Prom is fun. You get to hang out with all of your classmates, ask someone out. A subset of people are always going to go overboard, but keep in mind that you don't see the "normal" cases. Most people just walk up to someone and ask them out. They find a date from the school or go alone.

I'm from Canada so I don't know if the US is wildly different, but here it is a bit of a big deal, but I think part of that is what makes it fun, you sort of build a bit of hype around what would otherwise be just another school dance.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

I don't agree. As a single counter example of many YouTube has a huge wealth of information and content.

Maybe that value isn't worth the ads, that is much harder to say for certain. But it is clear that there is some valuable information on some sites that are supported by ads.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Actually a sailor makes sales.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Algorithms are like AI but accurate, predictable and usually much faster.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Like actually deletes them from the working copy? Or just removes them in the code sent to the compiler but they still appear in the editor?

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

IDE is one thing, Go refuses to compile. Like calm down, I'm going to use it in a second. Just let me test the basics of my new method before I start using this variable.

Or every time you add or remove a printf it refuses to compile until you remove that unused import. Please just fuck off.

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