indepndnt

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[–] indepndnt 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My parents always told me the "truth" about Christmas: it's Jesus' birthday, and Santa Claus is a lie from the devil meant to turn you away from God.

I grappled with this question for awhile as a young parent. A thing that I noticed about kids is that they are great at make-believe, and they will get endless enjoyment from things that they made up themselves.

So I gave them presents "from Santa", I filled stockings on Christmas Eve, etc., and we all knew we were playing the Christmas game together. I don't think there was any lack in wonder or enjoyment.

I also made sure that they knew that some folks take it really seriously and believe Santa is real and everything, and that's really none of your business so just play along and don't ruin it for them.

[–] indepndnt 6 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the engineering solution is much more robust.

[–] indepndnt 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ironically, that's like the one thing I've learned to do in Vim.

[–] indepndnt 29 points 1 year ago

I have to admit, I thought you were exaggerating. But that's a damn fine stick.

[–] indepndnt 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just saw someone on Mastodon saying they replaced Chrome with Vivaldi, so maybe that?

[–] indepndnt 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's a bad take; what's actually demonstrated here though is that you are likely to make friends that you have stuff in common with.

[–] indepndnt 36 points 1 year ago

She discovered she was trans. Note that the friend was referred to as "he" in the first post, then the second post was "...what happened to her." Additionally, 90% of her friends were apparently trans already because she gravitated to them because either consciously or subconsciously she recognized their common experience.

[–] indepndnt 17 points 1 year ago

I wish you got that money too.

[–] indepndnt 5 points 1 year ago

In short, it's the wrong tool for the job.

In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it's probably fine. But as a general statement about someone's behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.

[–] indepndnt 109 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm down with scraping, but "parses HTML with regex" has got me fucked up.

[–] indepndnt 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw something about this somewhere else, but I don't know what's going on? What is this about?

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