ElfinTrousers

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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
> This is a very American question, driving is not the only way to leave your house. ...except that in many parts of the USA, effectively it is, after spending the past eighty years preferentially building exclusively infrastructure for
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Yeah personally my approach has been lifting heavy and the seafood diet ("when I see food, I eat it"). Much more fun than calorie restriction and no lifting.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
It's great that these commuters were able to have a rich spiritual experience and a little exercise and fresh air on their way to the Dulles Memorial Society For Sociopathy.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
If this person worked for me and I found out about this, I wouldn't call them a hacker. I'd call them unemployed without a reference.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
As a born-and-raised American who speaks English for a first language and is of mixed Semitic and Celtic descent, I endorse this.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
English has lots and lots and lots of vocabulary. Of course, a lot of that vocabulary still has tags on it saying "PROPERTY OF SPANISH" or "IF FOUND, RETURN TO FRANCE".
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Which I bet the French just _love_.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
> USA (weird culture, guns) I was at a book reading in a cafe in Berlin once and there was some sort of loud noise outside, firecrackers I believe. Some people flinched, some didn't. The reader said something to the effect of "
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Tracks with my experience.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
...that actually sounds like great entertainment.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Believe me, you don't have to make quality software to win a major government software development contract.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Well hold on, what's wrong with the current system where legislation is generated by lobbyists? /s
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
It's true: a lot of people in software are people who, at a very early age, decided that a life with many more machines and many fewer people in it would be best for them.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Kind of funny that "starting you off with all the features that are the same in every product" is a good description of the original motivation for Rails itself. Which is not criticism, the goalposts have moved quite a bit the pas
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
Not only is district heating energy-efficient, it's great for setting a real film noir atmosphere.
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by ElfinTrousers 3y ago
tl;dr: leaky steam pipes in district heating in downtown SF. Same reason you get it in NYC.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I once quit a job by saying "I don't want to work here anymore" and then walking out the front door. 2 weeks' notice is just a custom.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I haven't been in SF in many years, but at least 15 years ago there were still loads of SRO (single-room occupancy) hotels that people lived in long-term. Typically you'd get a private room with a sink, a block of bathrooms per fl
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
That's a good point, but then, it's not as if these businesses are going to benefit from buildings standing empty either. Also, the hypothetical future residents of these buildings are going to need somewhere to get their food, to
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I hesitate to speak for every American but I think FRY would go over better.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Mind-blowing: I had been writing incorrect, unreadable, idiosyncratic, complicated, and slow code this whole time, thinking that was the thing to do. But now I see my mistake and will cease forthwith. Thanks, Captain Obvious!
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Except to large commercial landlords, who...actually, there is no downside.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I've heard the same, to which I have two replies: (1) It might be expensive to add a lot of extra plumbing, but is it really more expensive than the revenue your building isn't generating as office space? (I imagine this will vary
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
They're not really subtle about it, no.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
My reaction to this article was "hmm, interesting point, OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE PHOTO SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR"
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Not everything in this article is outrageous. $27.85 to drink a Sam Adams would be... ...wait, they want _me_ to pay to drink a Sam Adams? Sorry, my misunderstanding. No deal.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Early 80s computers were meant for hobbyists and enthusiasts, people who liked to tinker with the fancy machine they just bought. A smartphone is, as others have pointed out, a consumption device with mass appeal. They have some of the same
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Same thing with rail, that's why American freight trains seem to want to go anywhere except along the rails lately.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
He has plenty of trufans to whom the world looks a little different. To us, he looks like a touchy, petulant little man with far more money than sense. To them, everything he's doing is part of some Master Plan.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Thanks, I got a good laugh out of this. You're right, 47 would be a ridiculously bad hit man in real life.

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