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The seemingly random bold letters are sending me

Thank you for this suggestion, I had never heard of it! I was able to access it via my library, and easily searched up companies with websites, but then it made me manually click which results to download (wouldn’t let me export the results as one large file). Keeping it bookmarked though, seems like a great resource for other use cases.

Thank you for recommending kaggle! I found just what I needed there (actually way more data than I needed!). Here’s what I went with, if it’s useful to anyone else: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mfrye0/bigpicture-company-dataset

Pretty sure this violates Asimov’s first law of robotics

Book recommendation on “actual piracy”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541876.Villains_of_All_Nations

Remember when you joined the fediverse in July 2024 and immediately fought with strangers about AI? That was a wild time

Just read “The Story of Mel” for the first time (Issue #4, page 22); feel like I’ve been inducted into a programmer secret society

Thank you! This makes sense to me

Put it on GitHub and some tryhard will do a bunch of free work on it. Source: am tryhard

This is the right answer. Next can we get rid of money altogether?

Remember when Biden told rich donors “nothing would fundamentally change” if he was elected? Man lived up to his word, smh

As someone who is only a few months into learning to program, I find this perspective very grounding. If I set my expectations appropriately, then I can enjoy the process and not get frustrated with myself that it’s taking “too long.”

Thank you!

Thank you so much for this!

Thank you so much for the detailed reply! I’m learning a lot from this thread

Amazing, looking into this now

Hadn’t heard of it till now but I’ll look into it! Thank you!

This is great advice, thank you so much! I can feel the weight of countless bitter experiences in your post, and I am taking that shit to heart. Thank you again

This didn’t work for me, but what I’m gathering from the other comments is I need an SMTP configuration on my machine before I can do this. Thanks so much for the help!