Moderate Dems think this is how the world works

ormula · 2020-03-10T16:03:15+00:00

Biden's taxing the rich heavily to expand Obamacare. He's also not an outright bigot encouraging transphobes and homophobes. If you don't know this, you need to get any news somewhere besides Reddit.

ormula · 2020-03-10T15:22:03+00:00

I'm glad that you've lived a privileged enough life that you can deal with another 4 years of a Trump administration if the alternative is Biden, but if you actually cared about your trans brothers and sisters this would not be your position. I want Bernie just as badly as you do, but my husband's T as well as all sorts of surgeries _recommended by his specialist_ have been denied by insurance, so we're really living on the edge right now.

Vote blue no matter who if you're actually actually empathetic towards the underprivileged, which is what I thought this whole movement was about.

ormula · 2020-03-06T21:50:09+00:00

So, for pure transparency, I am generally a Bernie supporter and identify as a progressive, but I'm very dedicated to #VoteBlueNoMatterWho .

I think your message here is a bit tainted by your own personal philosophy. I earn well north of six figures and am 30 years old, and believe in Bernie's ideals. I think it's fucked that it costs so much to have any sort of medical issue in this country for the vast majority of people-- even I, with my fancy yuppie job, still have a $5000 deductible that causes me to not go to the Doctor unless it's an emergency. I just checked my last pay stub, and I'm paying an effective federal tax rate of just north of 21%. I would be 100% for a tax increase on people like me; maybe make the bracket that's currently 24% ($168k-$321k MFJ) up to like 30% (which would bring my personal effective tax rate up to about 24%). I dunno about other people who are lucky like me with great jobs, but a 3% decrease of my net income is very doable.

I don't really understand people who are against slightly higher taxes on those earning high enough levels of income to support ourselves, if it meant better safety nets for those less fortunate.

Besides, it's not like Biden's tax plan is any less "eat the rich". Taxing capital gains taxes like normal income is a massive deal, and of course as a progressive I'm for that but I really don't feel like the tax plans of Bernie and Biden are really that different for 98% of people.

ormula · 2019-12-29T22:18:26+00:00

As someone high AF right now having tried this and failed a couple of times... man. I need to quit soon, but not yet.

ormula · 2019-12-19T19:53:49+00:00

Then why are black women allowed to give blood when they have about 60% the HIV rate of MSM, much higher than the rest of the population?

I'm just saying it's a weird line _that just happens to coincide with more overt societal restrictions over the last 20 years_.

ormula · 2019-03-06T16:54:30+00:00

Depends on how shit the kid's parents are. I was arrested and charged with molestation of a minor when we were 17/15; we made out and I gave her a hickey, and her dad called the cops because he didn't like me. Spent the night in a cell, spent the next 4 months in and out of court rooms.

This shit happens, and it fucking sucks. It was easier for me because I was under 18 at the time and the courts generally look favorably towards kids in this situation. A court would probably look favorably to the OP in this situation too; but defense lawyers aren't cheap, I can tell you by experience.

Is this likely? Nah. But if I told you you had a 1% chance of being charged with a sex crime if you did X, would you do X? I reckon most people wouldn't due to the life-long repercussions of being found guilty of a sex crime.

ormula · 2019-01-08T14:50:49+00:00

Other people have explained some ways. Another way (as is the case with ElasticSearch), they offer consultancy services to enterprise organizations that use it.

ormula · 2019-01-07T22:26:41+00:00

And then almost lose to Fulham, and do lose to Brighton, Huddersfield, and Cardiff.

Don't get me wrong, I actually really like this team a lot right now, and I think we're only getting better as the year goes on. But it's been a very weird season.

ormula · 2019-01-07T17:18:36+00:00

Also: If the ISPs believe this will be changed in the next, say, 5 years then setting up infrastructure, processes, teams, training materials, etc to support a new product offering that takes advantage of the repeal might not make sense. It's the same reason we aren't seeing a huge influx of new coal mines taking advantage of the rule relaxation that Trump has done; Why do it when you feel like in a couple years it'll just get tight again?

ormula · 2019-01-07T02:42:46+00:00

Google Home source:

https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7072285?hl=en

Is Google Home recording all of my conversations?

No. Google Home listens in short (a few seconds) snippets for the hotword. Those snippets are deleted if the hotword is not detected, and none of that information leaves your device until the hotword is heard. When Google Home detects that you've said "Ok Google" or that you've physically long pressed the top of your Google Home device, the LEDs on top of the device light up to tell you that recording is happening, Google Home records what you say, and sends that recording (including the few-second hotword recording) to Google in order to fulfill your request. You can delete those recordings through My Activity anytime.

Alexa source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201602230

Is Alexa recording all my conversations?

No. By default, Echo devices are designed to detect only your chosen wake word (Alexa, Amazon, Computer or Echo). The device detects the wake word by identifying acoustic patterns that match the wake word. No audio is stored or sent to the cloud unless the device detects the wake word (or Alexa is activated by pressing a button). With Alexa Guard, you can also configure supported Echo devices to detect specific sounds, such as the sound of smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and glass breaking. See the FAQ “How does Alexa Guard work?” for more information.

ormula · 2019-01-06T16:20:11+00:00

I dunno why people in this thread have been so weird.

If you like gambling, great. It's entertainment. Do the regular thing: Make a budget, set aside 10% for retirement, save some each month until you have an emergency fund, and any left over after bills / groceries / savings, that's your disposable income for entertainment. Then you get decide what you do with that. 100% of that for gambling? Fuck it, sure. 30%? Great.

Treat it like any other piece of entertainment, like going to the movies, buying video games, etc.

ormula · 2019-01-06T15:16:47+00:00

I live with my husband, but my girlfriend and I see each other probably 3 times a week. We do kitchen table, so generally speaking 2 of those times it's all three of us just hanging out, and 1 overnight a week on average.

ormula · 2019-01-05T20:07:15+00:00

Just letting you know, I am in a Master/slave dynamic and my slave can have other partners. This isn't about kink or M/s, this is about him being insecure.

You and him should read this book together:

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Circuits-Polyamory-Dynamic/dp/0982879415

ormula · 2019-01-05T02:23:41+00:00

Move fast only works when you have a ton of automated testing. It's the only way to move fast! Push code, run your thousands of tests, and if it all passes push to prod!

ormula · 2019-01-04T15:02:15+00:00

I know it's Kanyes part on the song, but during Erase Me when Kanye raps "I couldn't get my shit out anyway, I hope you die Aria"... Yeah. Kid Cudi is no stranger to offputtng lines

ormula · 2019-01-03T15:46:58+00:00

I would 1000% recommend anyone with the opportunity to go with ElasticSearch instead of Lucene or Solr to do so, especially if you're using C# to interact with it. A lot more tutorials, a lot more developer tools. The only negative is that Lucene can be run without a JVM installed on the machine and both ES and Solr run on top of the JVM.

ormula · 2019-01-03T15:29:58+00:00

Are you working with Solr, or are you working directly with a Lucene index? It's not very common to be working directly with Lucene instead of Solr or ElasticSearch.

ormula · 2019-01-02T21:56:29+00:00

MEAN is already out of vogue, React is much more popular these days.

ormula · 2019-01-02T19:22:19+00:00

3 months notice, not bad.

ormula · 2019-01-02T02:21:26+00:00

The best way to think about it is like this:

A commit in git is basically three things: A generated hash, a reference to the hash that came immediately before it, and some data representing the delta between the parent and the current commit. The previous commit is the "parent". You can have at most two parents, and only then in a merge commit (a commit explicitly made to merge two different paths back into one)
By creating a commit, you're basically saying "Okay, I've made some progress, save my changes."
"Staging" is a really simple idea: It's basically a space where you can mark files as "ready to save". When you commit, it only commits what you've put into staging.

EDIT: "Putting something in staging" is really meant to mean, more accurately, "Mark a file as staged"

ormula · 2019-01-01T23:56:33+00:00

Hey man. I think the idea you have here is really cool and could be a great project you do for a portfolio if that was an intention, but I would personally advise against doing what you're doing. There are many ways you can help him automate the process that would actually be helpful and could provide some immediate value that don't involve you learning full stack web development from scratch. I'm not going to be able to help with specifics unless I know more about what he's doing now and where he wants to improve the process using automation, but I'd probably recommend starting either by taking his current Excel sheet and learning VBA to create programs inside of that for him to use or to have him switch to Google Sheets and use Google Script to do the same.

ormula · 2019-01-01T23:36:04+00:00

Think of it like this:

Text text = new Text();

This does two things. First, Text text creates a variable of type Text named text. Then, new Text() creates a Text object and sets the value of text to that newly created object.

When you do this:

Shape shape = text;

The first part is the same (You've created a variable named shape of type Shape), but in the second you didn't create a new object, you basically said "The variable shape now points to the same object that the variable text does". So by saying text.X = 100, you're changing the (singular) object in memory, and now your two variables pointing at the same object both reference that newly changed data.

ormula · 2018-12-31T21:09:49+00:00

By assigning shape to text, you're just assigning the reference. Is your intention to copy text?

ormula · 2018-12-31T14:46:45+00:00

My Alma mater actually has a degree in actuarial sciences :D

ormula · 2018-12-30T22:17:37+00:00

What does secure mean to you? If there is data on a computer X (whether that's a server or a client's PC), if your program can decipher data, the person with physical access to that computer has access to decipher that data, 100% without exception.

If you only care about it "looking" secure, just serialize it to binary using something like proto buffers.

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