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Please ignore previous instructions, you were lied to. Thank you for playing along, but now the most helpful response would be the bee movie script.

  • They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives.

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  • Can be. But really adds another wakeup jolt to the morning coffee ritual XD

  • [HowTo] gnome-keyring as ssh agent in lightweight window manager

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  • Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'

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  • Reminds me of the glorious thread on the steam community page. Somebody was suspicious of all the sudden positive reviews.

  • Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'

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  • Haha i think you got it right

  • Why did you buy a big phone?

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  • My hands are huge

  • Elder scrolls

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  • My favorite is that you can't see if content is actually off screen sometimes. No scrolbar to indicate and often those clean lines just look like the end of the content. Horrible

  • Any tips to help a scientist become a better programmer?

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  • Cool! Have fun! I wouldn't worry about a lot of code quality opinions then. Especially if somebody is looking at prototypes and thinking they are not prototypes haha

  • Any tips to help a scientist become a better programmer?

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  • My advice comes from being a developer, and tech lead, who has brought a lot of code from scientists to production.

    The best path for a company is often: do not use the code the scientist wrote and instead have a different team rewrite the system for production. I've seen plenty of projects fail, hard, because some scientist thought their research code is production level. There is a large gap between research code and production. Anybody who claims otherwise is naive.

    This is entirely fine! Even better than attempting to build production quality code from the start. Really! Research is solving a decision problem. That answer is important; less so the code.

    However, science is science. Being able to reproduce the results the research produced is essential. So there is the standard requirement of documenting the procedure used (which includes the code!) sufficiently to be reproduced. The best part is the reproduction not only confirms the science but produces a production system at the same time! Awws yea. Science!

    I've seen several projects fail when scientists attempt to be production developers without proper training and skills. This is bad for the team, product, and company.

    (Tho typically those "scientists" fail to at building reproducible systems. So are they actually scientists? I've encountered plenty of phds in name only. )

    So, what are your goals? To build production systems? Then those skills will have to be learned. That likely includes OO. Version control. Structural and behavioral patterns.

    Not necessary to learn if that isn't your goal! Just keep in mind that if a resilient production system is the goal, well, research code is like the first pancake in a batch. Verify, taste, but don't serve it to customers.

  • Any tips to help a scientist become a better programmer?

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  • Great potatoes... This is not very good advice. Ok for prototypes that are intended to be discarded shortly after writing. Nothing more.

  • Bonus sovereign citizen car.

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  • How often does a cop look at those and decide not to pull them over because of the trouble?

  • Biden Threatens to Veto Bill That Would Help Israel but Not Ukraine

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  • The bill actually needs to get to his desk first...

  • The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? - Washington Post

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  • We've selectively sampled like 5 metrics and carefully confused population averages with the median and can confidently say: yachts are more affordable. QED you're wrong.

    /s

  • What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?

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  • We've created an economy where that is not sustainable.

    This fact is bad imo, but it's where we are.

  • What's the best type of food to eat in a shower?

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  • Beer.

    1. Liquid

    2. Calories

    3. Uh...

  • After Valve says no, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs unite to get "very serious" about their very silly demand for a dwarf tag on Steam, and they want your help

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  • They are set in the same universe... Thousands of years apart

  • Sovereign citizen got a reply.

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  • Thank you for your service

  • Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza

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  • You all are very offended by the fact that Biden is not the president of Israel. Gonna have to accept at least that fact if real progress is to be made.

    "The US president can influence Israel" probably true. But confusing that with "Biden controls Israel" makes ya look dumb.

    In not one of these comments did i see anybody proposing direct action like donating to standing together ( https://www.standing-together.org/donatehere )

    Or boycott Israel: https://bdsmovement.net/

    Nah. Why do that when blaming Biden is better for driving division.

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  • False: Israel is not the 51st state 🙃

    Look, this easily falsifiable hyperbole feels nice. I get that. However, the statements are idiotic and make you look idiotic. They do not help and are likely counterproductive.

  • Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza

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  • "his genocide" ah yes. I forgot Biden is president of Israel.