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by _skel 4y ago
The problem is not lack of money. There is plenty of money and it's being wasted. The root of the problem is the political views of the people who run the city and the voters who put them there.
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by _skel 4y ago
What is happening in the UK and Europe right now is a preview of a future where fossil fuel supply is rapidly curtailed before alternatives are ready. It's a cautionary tale about moving too fast in the right direction. It's easy
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by _skel 4y ago
The problem with not updating dependencies for a long time is that it can force you to make sudden version jumps if something like a CVE is discovered. At my company we had a real scramble to upgrade log4j when the CVE for that came out. A
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by _skel 4y ago
With Wayland, Gnome and KDE have no way to adjust the scroll speed on a laptop trackpad. Not the pointer speed, the scroll speed. In 2022. That is the kind of basic thing that does not work. In addition to that, if you have a high-DPI lap
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by _skel 4y ago
What Florida is asking for is not different than what many on the left have been asking for. The motivation is different, but the powers they want are the same. People on the left need to remember that if they give the government more power
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by _skel 4y ago
Caltrain also has limited ability to route around accidents, and in some cases has to run trains the "wrong way" on the other side of the tracks to get past certain areas. They also have no communication at all. Back when I had a
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by _skel 4y ago
Here is what might happen: State governments like the one in California try to ban gas car sales. This will not be popular. Right-wing politicians scream "they are taking away our cars and our freedom". Many people secretly agree,
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by _skel 4y ago
Those courtyard-style apartments don't exist because of crime. They exist because it's nice to have a courtyard. Most apartments in the Bay Area have no outdoor space other than a balcony or a small piece of land on the ground flo
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by _skel 4y ago
> People want quality public infra, but don't want to pay taxes. Sounds like a losing battle to me. A lot of people don't really want quality public infra. If they can pay for their own needs themselves, in their gated communit
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by _skel 4y ago
Debt is a useful tool for people who can control themselves. Dave Ramsey caters to people who need unusually strict financial discipline to avoid getting in trouble. For everyone else, responsibly using debt is often better than paying cash
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by _skel 4y ago
Oddly this is actually nicer in macOS than Linux desktops, because Ctrl-A is normally reserved for "select all" on other OSes. Because macOS puts all the "normal" select/cut/copy/paste combos on the comman
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by _skel 4y ago
Emacs movement keys generally work. Ctrl-A for the start of the line, Ctrl-E for the end, Ctrl-K to kill a line...
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by _skel 4y ago
Society benefits when the mercenary and competitive urges of high achievers are channeled rather than opposed. That's the secret behind the success of modern market economies, and the alternatives are clearly worse for everyone in a so
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by _skel 5y ago
> So what about that? I ignored it. The climate is warming at a dangerous rate for human civilization and focusing non-core one liners is a distraction from the real issue. A lot of people won't ignore that statement; they will latc
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by _skel 5y ago
> This presupposes that scientists are the reason that "not left-wing" people (in reality a small fraction of US conservatives) aren't listening to scientists No it doesn't. My argument is that if the scientists start
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by _skel 5y ago
Do you want people who are not left-wing to listen to scientists? When you are trying to convince people to believe in something they don’t want to believe in, it’s a bad move to insult them or inject inflammatory political views into the d
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by _skel 5y ago
It seems like these protests ought to be solvable by the police, using normal police powers, without resorting to emergency measures or doing things like freezing accounts and suspending truckers' licenses. Why not do the obvious thing
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by _skel 5y ago
I know several people who left academia after achieving various levels of rank (grad student, postdoc, professor, etc.) and their thought processes were all similar. They all eventually wished they had left sooner, and what held them back w
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by _skel 5y ago
There is a lot of cynicism in this thread, including this from the OP: > This is also what Software Engineering has become: you memorize, regurgitate and participate in agile the masquerade. Creativity is shunned. Tried architectures&#x2
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by _skel 5y ago
> So I reach out to the manager and ask what is going on. This is a simple task, I said. Why does it take an entire quarter for your team to deliver? He doesn't have an answer. Your simple task, which you think would only take a few
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by _skel 5y ago
To be fair there is also a large contingent of well-intentioned people who don't realize the full implications of what they are asking for. Ironically many of those people would say they oppose the concentration of corporate power, yet
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by _skel 5y ago
How do you ensure that this Ministry of Truth you are proposing will remain free of political pressure and corruption? And how do you expect a panel of experts to escape groupthink and rule fairly in cases where the expert consensus turns o