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Whatever your field of expertise, are there any popular science books you'd recommend that do a good job of presenting it to the public? in c/askscience@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't pointing me to a field count as geography? /s it's a joke

The creativity of end users in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

I love using interns for this type of stuff at work. They are most likely not idiots but still young and dumb to discover issues in my process....

California police accused a lawmaker of DUI when she was sober. She says she was targeted because she's queer in c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Ok that sounds fucked up. As does the article. But...

How do the cops recognize you as queer? I bet if 100 cars drove by me I couldn't recognize a single one confidently as gay/lesbian/queer/a sexual/whatever label you want.

Hell I drove home today, can't tell you if the car behind me was a male or female, how do cops spot this?

Latina maybe... Purposed eye looking for a face style.... Lesbian... I can't think of a look that says "that female car driver loves eating pussy".

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but I can't think of something you can do and make me think you're a Lesbian vs straight while driving

Happy 3,000 subscribers y'all. in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I could, give me a chance and I'll do it

No wonder I always felt it in my biceps and not the trapezius muscle! in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck you

/s

I'm not really mad just wanted to continue the joke

Also That, Yes in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree mostly, maybe a little more... I don't want any more violent criminals and I don't think lions from the safari should be brought into someplace like NY state.

That said I, as a natural born us citizen of several generations, believe we should welcome other potential citizens with few exceptions.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How long has this been going? A few hours? Days? Weeks?

85 years ago today, Tom Jones, a Welsh singer, was born. His career began with a string of top 10 hits in the 1960s and he has since toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas from 1967 to 2011. in c/anniversaries@sopuli.xyz
[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago

I mean that happened one time... Is it unusual???

Addiction is a disease in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One time a coworker asked me and another friend to go to the casino with her, her mom and her boyfriend after work and me and my friend said yes. We arrive and when we walk in we are told "if you sign up for our players card you get 20 dollars preloaded for free"... What the hell why not, free 20 dollars. Everyone besides me and my friend had one already so we said we'll meet you inside once we get the card.

So we go to the counter and fill out their one page form, take maybe 10 minutes being generous. We get the card and go to walk onto the floor, keep in mind this place only had machine games, no tables or anything and my coworker is walking out with her family. "what's up? I thought you were playing." she responds "nah, we are leaving, we already lost $1500"

Somehow they lost $500 each in under 10 minutes... I still don't know how.

Replaced a broken drum roller on the dryer in c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

I did mine like 4 years ago now, thermostat, drum roller, belt and bearings were like $20 total and took about 2 hours, ran wonderfully ever since

None of these in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 38 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Fun fact python was named after Monty python, not the snake.

Besties, even! Happy Pride month! in c/historymemes@lemmy.world
[–] vrek@programming.dev 39 points 1 month ago

They may of just been roommates.... /s

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How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? (programming.dev)
 

So background, my kid has seizures often. He is currently on 5 different medications to try to control it(plus 1 for sleeping and 1 for his liver enzymes) plus severe non verbal autism so he can't tell us if he already had his meds. Currently when it's medication time, it's always "did you give him his meds yet?" and we have no way of tracking how many seizures he actually has besides "alot more recently" or "it's gone down recently". Yes he had multiple doctors and this is NOT a post looking for health advice.

I am creating an app for phones(c# Maui) which will send json objects to a api to store/retrieve data in a database(when he last had medication x, when he has a seizure etc). It will probably only be used with in my family, maybe 20 entries a day on a really bad day(7 medications twice daily + 6 seizures to give a round number) but should be less then 10 transactions(most medications given at same time).

What's the cheapest/easiest was I can host something like this? I do not have a static ip. Yes it's health information but I'm only storing first names and tracking time of events, not too worried about hippa like security.

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People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though? (programming.dev)
 

The only possible exceptions I can think of are fish(I imagine gills and mouth are not connected but don't really know). I am excluding bacteria and viruses and I believe they don't really breath(correct me if I'm wrong).

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Is there a programming specific distro? (programming.dev)
 

I know there choice of distro is really meaningless as you can install almost any program on almost any distro. But I have been playing with kali which is for security people and pen testers. Is there a similar distro for programmers? Like a few ides installed some profiling tools some virtual environment tools etc?

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What do Muslims during Ramadan and sonic the hedgehog have in common? (programming.dev)
 

They gotta go fast!

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Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F! (programming.dev)
 
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Does C# (or any other languages) have an official style guide like python has pep8? (programming.dev)
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Technically a fishing license is a license to kill.. Only to a small percentage of the earth's population (programming.dev)
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Drowning pool's "let the bodies hit the floor" and the weather girls "it's raining men" (programming.dev)
 

Have the same story but from two different perspectives!

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Weird bug/feature on pixel 6 I just discovered (programming.dev)
 

I don't know why this is a thing but if I tap the back of my pixel 6 three times in rapid succession it begins to play my audio book on audible.

From what I can tell audible has to be open but doesn't need to be the app on the screen(for example I can start and stop it while typing this post). Also the phone has to be "on" (meaning the screen is displaying but doesn't need to be unlocked.

Is this just my phone or dies it happen on other people's phone too?

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