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Programming questions for beginners
  • Agree on stack overflow. And part of learning how to program is trying to structure logic into thoughtful questions.

    With R specifically I’d recommend looking into the tidyverse library for R. Or at least understand the libraries your work environment will be specifying to make sure you’re on the same page.

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    iOS 17 Tip of the Week: Password Options
  • Not sure how to take this. Out of all people who handle my data at this point - Apple seems to be towards the top. Not the top - but above many who handle my data and above google specifically.

    Can you elaborate on this? If you have a moment.

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    2023 United States Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread
  • I’ve used that twice today with my wife - also an F1 fan. When she asks me something I just go “no talking I’m braking” and she gets super mad.

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    2023 United States Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread
  • Merc had prince Harry. Would be shocked if they had multiple high profile guests. Just from a logistics - must be nightmare being concerned for multiple ones.

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    How would I start as a database consultant for a niche software?
  • As others have mentioned - I would second. A good website. Let them come to you. Give your solutions to common problems. Create a github. Provide repeatable examples on your GitHub and encourage contact for custom solutions.

    This won’t be a multi million dollar business. At best you’ll give yourself some work to get your name out. Companies don’t talk to each other - but maybe your niche is different. This is really the only path I can see without attaching yourself to a larger entity.

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    Car free vacation in Mexico?
  • Don’t do it. Please don’t. As someone married into a family of Mexicans who are very open about the state of Mexico please don’t. If my fluent wife who is familiar with the area would not feel safe then I stress to not do it.

    It’s a shame. Beautiful country. Wonderful people. But you are very much at the whim of others and please do not.

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    Sony Reveals Tons of New Details About the PS5's Adaptive Controller
  • Surely it will be. Even if there’s not official drivers - which I’m guessing will happen soon - the community will probably get it going quickly. It’s got to have a close enough interface to a standard ps controller I wouldn’t be shocked if it works out of the box.

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    Python developers won’t let go of Python 2
  • 20 years on giant enterprise codebases. And any enterprise worth their salt at this point will be scanning these servers and flagging eosl software.

    My experience the last five years of the 20 - security and service life trumps all fucking complaints about complexity.

    To the point where it’s the opposite and I’m fielding weekly questions about why we’re still running an older 3.7.9 version. Among 50 other things.

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    Python developers won’t let go of Python 2
  • Meh. I’ve ported a fair many py2 projects to 3. At this point just bite the bullet. Even from a security standpoint. Trying to not let my bias seep through - but it’s been so long.

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    What is something crazy that happened at work?
  • That’s fucking heart breaking. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for doing what you did. What a good person the boss was.

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    BIFL Community Discussion
  • Love all the ideas. Was an avid subscriber on the platform I won’t name - and support them here.

    One opinion though - and not a ride or die opinion - just a thought. What if you made tags to categorize certain options. #vintage for things that are old and outdated but may still be obtained.

    So still allow it - just make sure it can be quantified and understood by readers/posters.

    I’m not a fan of certain days - that just discourages participation - but tagging is a great option to allow posts at any time but allow others to filter.

    Couple of tag ideas

    • vintage for older items
    • promotion for self promotion
    • diy for posts that encourage instructional material

    This way you don’t push off posters and allow a gentle path to posting and categorizing that will help others later on to filter and search. If I ever went to a sub-thing and saw a rule to not post until x day - I just ignored it and moved on to other communities.

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    $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet
  • Sometimes I wish I could have a job where companies just say “hey should we make this decision” and I tell them “that’s so fucking stupid no one will actually like that” and get paid well for it.

    That’s my dream.

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    $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet
  • Others have already replied with this info but I’m just spelling it out for anyone who is not familiar like me:

    They fucking named the brand new game mk1. Is it a remaster? No. It’s not a remaster. Is it a recreation of mk1? No. It’s an alternate timeline game given the worst name in the history of naming things. It’s genuinely a brand new game.

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    Changeling ep 4 - spoiler discussion
  • So I’m convinced there is something up with William. Or at least it’s a misdirect.

    I’m still happy it’s just not outright fantasy. No idea on the source material and how closely this follows. I would have expected more forward momentum in the first four episodes - but still great atmosphere and direction so far.

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  • Changeling ep 4 - spoiler discussion

    Thoughts so far? Spoilers below

    “I cannot tell a lie” sounds something like a magical creature would say. I’m not even done with the episode and major suspicion from him.

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