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  • Parental Advice

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  • You get to choose how your 401k is invested, though. The only difference is a tax advantage.

    The advice is just: save money, let it grow using compound interest, use tax laws to your advantage.

    There's no "trust the government" in that advice.

  • The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - Louis Rossman

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  • I think there are different aspects to it.

    Amazon’s delivery service is better than ever. You get products in half the time, with less packaging, and fewer miles traveled to deliver it to you, without any significant increase in delivery fees.

    Price is still competitive when you take into account delivery cost and speed. If you don’t care about those, Amazon isn’t the cheapest.

    Search and reviews are down the tubes. It’s like Amazon no longer cares if their site is overrun with crap products as long as people are buying them.

    Amazon still works great if you only buy name-brand products that are fulfilled by Amazon.

  • The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong

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  • It explains the answer is 4 before the 5 minute mark.

    Part of the reason is because it goes into the story of the SAT being wrong and a student being the one to catch it, which I found interesting.

    After that it mathematically proves it several different ways and then shows how it relates to some real problems in astronomy.

  • Why are email and calendar so inextricably linked?

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  • Those are all protocols for accessing an entire calendar or sharing your whole calendar, not for general-purpose inviting one user to one event.

  • What the Hell Happened to my Cookies?

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  • Also, did you fully cream the butter and sugar before adding any other ingredients?

    If you just dump everything into the bowl and then mix, this is what happens

  • What the Hell Happened to my Cookies?

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  • Did you scrape the bowl while mixing?

    KitchenAid mixers are great, but depending on what you’re mixing you need to scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula and then mix some more.

    I don’t think it’s over mixed, I think the cookies made from the batter that was stuck to the sides are under mixed.

  • What dog name pairs well with Olive?

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  • Pepperoni

    Or PUPperoni

  • What are some household chores people should do more often?

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  • Robot vacuums are great, but my Roomba is incredibly unreliable. I’m buying Roborock next time.

  • POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG

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  • Sure they do. Look at all of the posts from my neighbors on Facebook and Nextdoor every time a developer tries to build an apartment building instead of a single family home in our neighborhood.

  • in python, how do i check if an user boolean input is true or false

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  • Yeah, don’t do that. Users could accidentally or maliciously type something that would get executed as python code and break your program

  • What are the best solutions for extending Wi-Fi range in a big, old house with thick walls? I rent, so I'd rather avoid adding any cables.

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  • This is my vote too.

    We have Orbi. I tried using power line to bridge the satellites, but it turned out it was unnecessary. Orbi uses a separate backhaul wireless network between the base and satellites and it worked really well.

  • is there anything much useful I can do with an iPad 1? (not picture frame)

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  • I wouldn’t expect Gmail or most web mail hosts to work in a browser that old. Maybe if you used Gmail in basic HTML mode.

  • How to childproof a sliding glass door that can be unlocked and locked inside and out

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  • Just thinking outside the box here, what about an alarm or chime instead of a lock?

    You can’t make it impossible for a child to open. But you can make sure that if they do open it, you’ll know.

  • How much flakiness do you tolerate in end to end tests?

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  • I'm a fan of randomizing the test order. That helps catch ordering issues early.

    Also, it's usually valuable to have E2E tests all be as completely independent as possible so it's impossible for one to affect another. Have each one spin up the whole system, even though it takes longer. Use more parallelism, use dozens of VMs each running a fraction of the tests rather than trying to get the sequential time down.

  • How much flakiness do you tolerate in end to end tests?

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  • I think the reality is that there are lots of different levels of tests, we just don't have names for all of them.

    Even unit tests have levels. You have unit tests for a single function or method in isolation, then you have unit tests for a whole class that might set up quite a bit more mocks and test the class's contract with the rest of the system.

    Then there are tests for a whole module, that might test multiple classes working together, while mocking out the rest of the system.

    A step up from that might be unit tests that use fakes instead of mocks. You might have a fake in-memory database, for example. That enables you to test a class or module at a higher level and ensure it can solve more complex problems and leave the database in the state you expect it in the end.

    A step up from that might be integration tests between modules, but all things you control.

    Up from that might be integration tests or end-to-end tests that include third-party components like databases, libraries, etc. or tests that bring up a real GUI on the desktop - but where you still try to eliminate variables that are out of your control like sending requests to the external network, testing top-level window focus, etc.

    Then at the opposite extreme you have end-to-end tests that really do interact with components you don't have 100% control over. That might mean calling a third-party API, so the test fails if the third-party has downtime. It might mean opening a GUI on the desktop and automating it with the mouse, which might fail if the desktop OS pops up a dialog over top of your app. Those last types of tests can still be very important and useful, but they're never going to be 100% reliable.

    I think the solution is to have a smaller number of those tests with external dependencies, don't block the build on them, and look at statistics. Sound an alarm when a test fails multiple times in a row, but not for every failure.

    Most of the other types of tests can be written in a way to drive flakiness down to almost zero. It's not easy, but it can be doable. It requires a heavy investment in test infrastructure.

  • How can I compare the money saved when buying an item in bulk?

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  • Bulk mayo makes sense if you’re a restaurant or cafeteria or running a summer camp or something like that. Probably not for many other people.

  • Looking for a Jira replacement for 30-50 devs org

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  • Check out Linear. The startup I was at nearly switched to Jira and then thankfully when a bunch of us protested, we tried Linear and ended up really loving it.

  • Does the US have zero employee protection laws??

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  • Actually I'm going to disagree strongly with that statement.

    Small business are far, far worse at abusing workers. If a small business fires you, you've got absolutely no recourse. They can lay you off with no severance and then hire someone new a day layer, and who's going to do anything about it? They don't have that many employees so there's no pattern and no class-action, and you can't afford to hire a lawyer to spend years fighting them in court.

    In comparison, when you work at a big company, they have rules and an HR department to make sure they're going everything legally. Your boss wants to fire you? First your boss has to give you a negative performance review detailing exactly what you're doing wrong. Then they have to give you an opportunity to correct it. Only then can they fire you. At an absolute minimum, it gives you a chance to start looking for a new job. Often it gives you a chance to transfer within the company, if you were otherwise a well-liked and valuable employee.

    If a large company wants to let you go, they're going to give you severance pay and extended benefits.

    Of course you hear about the occasional incident where Elon Musk fires someone on the spot or a Disney employee gets reprimanded for something silly. But those incidents are extremely rare, and most of the time they end up settling behind the scenes for a nice severance.

    Now, I know, I know. The HR department is there to protect the company, not you. But that's exactly why the HR department ensures employees are treated well, even when they're fired - because they don't want a lawsuit later.

  • How is it even possible/practical to obey traffic laws?

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  • I have a hard time reconciling that with my observations in Europe:

    • People travel significantly faster than in the U.S., for example on the autobahn
    • Taxi drivers routinely do things I consider crazy in order to get around old European cities, like driving up on sidewalks, passing on narrow two-lane roads
    • There are a lot of narrow mountain roads and people seem to drive way too fast to be safe

    I've never felt like European drivers were "more safe".

    The only differences I can think of that are positive for Europe:

    • Less drunk driving
    • Traffic circles instead of stop signs
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    17yo student pilot lands her plane without a wheel (2018)

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What other countries have a 4th of July?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What do you call it when Mickey Mouse takes off his head in front of hundreds of children at Walt Disney World?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    If you play C, E, G it's a major chord, and if you play C, E flat, G it's a minor chord, but what if you play C, F, G. Is that a chord? My piano teacher replied...

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    I asked my daughter, "you reached for a marker and accidentally drew all over your hand"?