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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Since SFH owners tend to view living next to a 4-plex as a disaster, it doesn't seem to happen the way you envision. Almost all apartment here in Silicon Valley are built on boulevards, often displacing low end retail. Nice apartment
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
That's if they are property owners. Renters have little protection in most communities.
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Those are more or less the functions that Parkinson described as who needs to be in the inner circle. Parkinson's book is really brilliant observation, with a humorous overlay.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Homeowners typically go ballistic at any concept for something other than single family homes in their neighborhoods. Certainly allowing something as modest as allowing say 25% of lots in R-1 areas to be duplexes would go a long way to help
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> curtail rising taxes That, of course, was Proposition 13, a ballot initiative. The fallout was exactly what people predicted. Prop 13 did two things. It capped property taxes, though there have been a variety of ways of getting aroun
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
C. Northcote Parkinson, in his book "Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress", discussed the evolution of the British cabinet. Don't remember the details but each institution that served as a Cabinet inexorably expande
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Everything MSFT produces seems terribly slow. Windows design issues? Coding standards incentivize slow code? Something I'm missing completely?
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Hadn't heard of the RP2040. It's quite impressive. I see even the Arduino organization produces a board that uses it.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer!
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Super low end Arduino or a PIC board, or something equivalent in power. But the Raspberry Pi has the advantage of a lot of computer power, and a full set of programming tools, which is nice.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Haven't been to Kroger, or as we used to say, Krogers, for quite a while, but I assume what this means is that much of their floor space is taken up by low-quality prepared food and over-the-counter medicines. But that's true of
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
These days? Meat counter, extensive selection of frozen food. Good amount of space for non-food items, like over the counter medicine, schools supplies, cleaning supplies, personal care items. Maybe a pharmacy, maybe not, depending on the
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
If you don't have a card that allows that, you can also buy a prepaid card, though I believe such cards may have distinctive numbers and it's possible a vendor may disallow.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Friend refused to take small computers seriously, this was late 80s. Reminiscing about Control Data back in 60s. Looked up specs, even then an 80386 with math coprocessor could run rings around the CDC systems. Don't get me wrong, th
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
It turns work into a war of all against all.
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> force a certain amount of attrition each year Common experience, someone is told shortly before review time that they are doing an acceptable job, then two weeks later they are signing the PIP. The assumption is their boss had to fire
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
TJ's is OK but it's no substitute for a full supermarket.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Some didn't make it. Half died before the age of 5, just as an example of what "some" means.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Don't forget cousin Postgres.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
California used to be bad, but the appointments have really helped. Also, the people who actually work at the DMV are pretty helpful, but they are way overworked. Once again, this is in California.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Often a search returns an SO answer as first or even featured in side bar result. That generates traffic and reinforces the dominant position. But +1 on "stupid library". Most of the time the poster must use it, company standard
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
My best typing experience, typewriters manual or electric, or computer keyboards, was the IBM Selectric. Second best was on an AT&T 3270 (!?!) with a mechanical clicking keyboard, similar to original IBM PC, but even better. I mean us
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Takes me to information on keymaps
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Using the menu bar, remember don't disable that, Help => More Manuals => Introduction to Emacs Lisp
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Yes, eventually 100% of the money came through. I was naive and just starting out then. Today I would never put up with something like that.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Coffee has effects beyond just the caffeine, in a way that caffeine pills or even tea do not.
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Don Lancaster, who doesn't think much of patents, recommended when you have an idea, publish it immediately. That puts it in the "prior art" and makes it harder to enforce a patent covering the concepts.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I mentioned this video also, the six month delay is due to one of the classic excuses he mentions.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I abandoned freelancing/moonlighting over collection issues. Including one client that I was basically 40 hours a week who didn't pay for six months, just like OP. If I ever start again, I hope to be more diligent. Always worth w
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With very few exceptions, Python libraries require 3, and often fairly recent versions like >= 3.6.

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