Calloggs

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by Calloggs 4y ago
> at the end it just searches for dealers that have inventory Most U.S. states have laws requiring car sales only through dealerships. That's why you can't just directly buy a vehicle fully customized from a manufacturer. http
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by Calloggs 4y ago
Most U.S. states have laws that only allow car sales to happen though dealers. Online car sales, even from manufacturers, just let you shop the inventory of dealerships. The purchase still goes through a dealership. https://www.k
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by Calloggs 6y ago
"Only delusional, heavily-biased people / social justice warriors think looting is helping the cause" The problem, which shows up in plenty of posts on social media, is that people's concern should, first and foremost, b
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by Calloggs 7y ago
Planet Money covered tax filing a few years ago and visited it again recently: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor... My understanding is that the main opposition appears to be (1) the tax
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by Calloggs 8y ago
Please don't equivocate gay rights and anti-vaccination. One is a trait many people are born with that does not harm others; the other is a choice that can and often does harm others.
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by Calloggs 8y ago
These are valid points for embedded systems without latency/power requirements, but I want to add that many embedded systems require rolling custom assembly and writing everything else in C to avoid the overhead of other languages and
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by Calloggs 8y ago
Regardless of implementation (regex vs. conditionals), there should be sufficient unittesting to make sure that all the corner cases are tested. For embedded systems, the complexity tradeoff is relevant though, since a regex library will (p
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by Calloggs 8y ago
Your metaphor is good, but misses the part where this art museum has either bought or forced downsizing/closure on all other competitive museums. That forces artists to choose this museum or one that it owns if they want any recognitio