Joeboy

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by Joeboy 6y ago
I don't know if you read the comments to that link, but one of them links to a deleted scene where Guggenheim gets fairly sympathetic treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrJ_Huk5so I guess the scene was deleted
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by Joeboy 6y ago
First-class men were about twice as likely to survive as third-class men, and first-class women were about twice as likely to survive as third-class women.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
What you're saying is that frugality would open up options, which I am all for. Poverty would not.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> I also really like the scene in Titanic where the rich guy tries to buy his way into a lifeboat and gets told his money won't be worth anything at the bottom of the ocean. In reality of course, first class passengers were more tha
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by Joeboy 6y ago
It's always been a totally normal conversation, at least where I live (the UK), for the last few decades. I had a colleague who complained that he couldn't reasonably be expected to live on his pitiful salary, which turned out to
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Poverty is shit. I recommend avoiding it if you can.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
I think these things have become truer since the NYT debacle, due to people spamming his real name in lots of public places. Among many other examples, somebody set up a linkedin profile under his real name, listing his occupation as "
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Right, an inconsequential amount.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Those are both tiny sums anyway.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
I would love to quit my job and follow my heart, but I also think that would mean I couldn't pay my rent, which would probably not make me happier.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
While it definitely predates Nirvana, it doesn't appear in Catch-22.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> The audiophile definition of a "warm" sound signature I don't really know what, if anything, that means. But if we're talking about fidelity, surely the ideal would be no sound signature? If a particular "sou
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> You've never listened to audiophile equipment have you? You're saying that I ought to judge the merits of audiophile equipment by the subjective measure of whether I like the sound of it. Which is the metric I said audiophile
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity. Does it though? Audiophiles generally seem to eschew fidelity in favour of something that sounds subjectively nice , including the psychoacoustic effects of spending a lot of money
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Running Ubuntu 20.04 on my P53. The Internet told me I needed to check the BIOS was up to date and check a couple of things were set properly before installing, which I did, and everything seems fine. Before that it was a T430 which was als
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by Joeboy 6y ago
I use ripgrep (`rg`) much more than I use grep now. Wish I'd discovered it sooner.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
In recent years: 1) Ripgrep 2) Upgrading my Lenovo T430 laptop to a P53
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by Joeboy 6y ago
From skimming that video, I don't think that's a DAW, in the normal sense? Can you use it to track guitars, vocals etc?
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by Joeboy 6y ago
I suspect you are massively outnumbered by people who do use it because it integrates with their existing phone book, and is a drop-in replacement for the default SMS app. Without those things it'd be just another niche app for weird
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by Joeboy 6y ago
It's not about the gear, as long as you have a lot of really expensive gear.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> This is true, but I think this minimizes the size of "the global lunacy community" I have a friend who's a member of said community, and I don't think she's a lunatic at all. I think she's just struggling
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> The Github issues are also far more enlightening than Carmack's tweets on this Totally agree. The "lockdown skeptics" articles significantly misrepresent the github issues. They imply that there are mysterious uncertaint
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Yes. John Carmack says the code is OK, some anonymous person on the lockdownsceptics.org website says it's a flaming heap of garbage. For what it's worth I looked into some of the tickets linked in those articles and concluded the
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> These include the lack of testability, debuggability, reproducibility, separation of concerns, documentation, or usability Have you actually checked to what extent the Ferguson codebase is guilty of these things? It seems to me there a
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> That was a shitty code review Damn straight. The only sense in which it was not a shitty code review, is that it didn't actually review any code. Looking into the linked tickets is a time consuming faff, but people should actually
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by Joeboy 6y ago
> Too easy? Not exactly, but it feels kind of vampiric. I bought the house with sitting tenants a few years ago without really wanting to be a landlord, and they're still there (strictly speaking the people they sublet to are still
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by Joeboy 6y ago
Because of the situation I describe in my comment above. I would rather not be part of the problem.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
This is awkward, but I actually am a landlord. From my experience, it's not much work and is very profitable, compared to other investment options. Hoping to stop being a landlord fairly soon, although Covid-19 has put a bit of a spann
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by Joeboy 6y ago
The quintupling occurs largely because landlords are bidding against each other. Which doesn't increase the housing supply, just the rent.
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by Joeboy 6y ago
I don't know about the US but speaking for the UK, landlords have had a ridiculously easy ride in recent decades. As a result, people with spare money customarily invest it in buy-to-let properties, the cost of housing has rocketed, an

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