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by apercu 1mo ago
On one hand I am glad that (hopefully) some people were rewarded for their hard work. On the other hand, do we have to live in an oligarchy?
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by apercu 1mo ago
About time.
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by apercu 1mo ago
Ahh. I’m a dual citizen and the entire time I lived in the GTA (18 years) it seemed he was in Canada so I assumed.
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by apercu 2mo ago
Isn’t Gibson Canadian?
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by apercu 2mo ago
I think being self-employed is the only way you can make sure that your work is allowed to reach your own minimal quality standards.
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by apercu 2mo ago
Socialize the costs and privatize the profits is where all this regulatory capture has gotten us.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I had my ray-ban sunglasses stolen this summer. I replaced them with a brand I was able to confirm was a) Not Ray Ban b) Not a Luxotica brand. c) Owned and operated in America (note, that doesn't mean the glasses were made in USA). d)
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by apercu 2mo ago
Yea, we really only need to enforce the laws and regulations on the books.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I've learned that I don't need anything in 2-3 days typically anyway.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I cancelled prime this year. It no longer had any value. It's more expensive but shittier in every way.
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by apercu 2mo ago
> Of you can't run everything then you may as well have nothing. Who says? Say I need my fridge, freezer, router and a light or two. That's $4k. Whole house? $25-35k. Also, I have a wood burning stove and piles of firewood).
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by apercu 2mo ago
Fair, but I live in a wooded, semi-rural area and have had 7 outages this year, with one lasting over 8 hours.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I mean, yes and no. Switching your whole house over automatically? Yeah, ok, that can get invasive and expensive. Running an extension cord from a battery/inverter or generator a multiport plug then to to your fridge, router and a coup
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by apercu 2mo ago
It's a dumpster fire now like everything else (Quickbooks... ugh, I'm migrating off at the end of my fiscal year).
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by apercu 2mo ago
> But Trump 2 will definitely lower it, more than anyone has ever seen before. Lower what?
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by apercu 2mo ago
"Dang it, Bobby" :)
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by apercu 2mo ago
Huh. And to me it’s like “I can’t believe Anthropic has the audacity to post that and I can’t believe my peers defend it” Oh well.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I'm doing my best to interpret your comment but if I parse it it seems like you think my complaint is "I shouldn't have to express myself clearly" when really its "Why am I being asked to understand and manually man
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by apercu 2mo ago
I didn't read the whole thing, but I got my back up at the headline and my first reaction is now even the "AI" companies are telling you that "you're holding it wrong". I mean, they told us "just talk natu
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by apercu 2mo ago
I often do the same, I write the hell about things I'm learning as it forces me me to understand the topic better and it points out my weaknesses. But when I "publish" I'm usually clear about the fact that I'm study
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by apercu 2mo ago
I'm conflicted about upvoting sarcasm but it made me laugh so....
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by apercu 2mo ago
A caveat first, most of the data I work with is under 10k rows. YMMV. I find Excel slower than Python for analysis but I share a lot of data modelling with non technical people, and we both like being able to verify the results with pivot t
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by apercu 2mo ago
It’s a funny comment, but it’s also sort of true. Back in the stone ages I had to go from Solaris to sunOS to QNX to Unixware to HPUX to Linux to BSD (maybe freeBSD was in there too) and many others that I can’t remember. Oh yea, Irix, too.
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by apercu 2mo ago
Read “Careless People” or whatever that book by that Facebook employee that pretended not to see how awful all her colleagues were until her priorities shifted is called.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I am no finance expert but everything I have seen in the last 5-8 years is that "a correlation between good fundamentals and historical returns." have noting to do with stock valuations any more.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I lived in the Toronto area for ~20 years. I could commute by car in anywhere form 1-1.5 hours each way, OR, drive 30 minutes to a train station and spend 5-10 minutes looking for parking, wait 10 minutes to board, take an hour to get downt
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by apercu 2mo ago
Lol - I should have read your post before writing mine.
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by apercu 2mo ago
I have a "rich" life outside of work - guitar, gardening, prairie restoration, gym 3 times a week, dogs, and I work security or bartend 1 event per week (typically music). I can only have this "rich" life outside of work
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by apercu 2mo ago
Eh, it’s my fault as I was more blowing off steam than asking for help - I had a long week where in the middle of it my tooling cost me few hours of time but at the end of the week I can say that in spite of that I probably saved 10 hours o
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by apercu 2mo ago
I totally agree that we need to reinvigorate manufacturing in the US and that it’s going to take the government (federal level) to make this happen. But for some reason we’d rather give those tax dollars to billionaires and elect incompeten

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