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by asark 7y ago
Makes it trivial to remove any build dependencies afterward, and the instructions/script are the same no matter your distro (delete the VM). Also, only one script or set of instructions needed to install the deps to begin with, if a VM
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah. Higher cost, usage caps low enough to be worth mentioning, and mobile operators seem a lot more likely to do really weird crap to my traffic. Fix those and who needs a physical line? Until all are fixed I'll keep the fiber.
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by asark 7y ago
> and lenses that focus at negative infinity. Any reasonable chance of of implications for projective geometry?
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by asark 7y ago
Remember the phones after 9/11? Long distance calls were touch and go for, IIRC, days. Barely worked at all day of, might get through on like your tenth try and then probably get disconnected after a minute or two. Good thing ICQ exist
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by asark 7y ago
I'm not seeing USB 3 on that particular Optiplex, either. Gigabit ethernet, yes. No HDMI. DVI, VGA. Maybe displayport? Hard to tell. Do have PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, which is kinda nice.
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by asark 7y ago
Considering the way the middle of the market (for lots of products, not just cables, and not just electronics) seems to evaporate and the options become "cheap and shitty and may not work at all", "mid-priced but still shitty
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by asark 7y ago
No permanent laundry lines is a very common restriction. Some probably restrict hang-drying clothes at all. Landscaping restrictions like that are common. Fence material/style/height restrictions guaranteed, and unless you're
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by asark 7y ago
I remember when it was the AM radio folks mocking Trump. And, you know, everyone else. Ah, the 90s, when regarding Trump as the textbook definition of a philandering flim-flam artist, worthy of little to no respect whatsoever and certainly
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by asark 7y ago
Sure, the Costco pizza's just an example because I happened to be contemplating their calorie-including menu while standing in the grocery checkout line the other day. That's expensive junk food and happens to actually have some
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by asark 7y ago
Realistically, if you stop there you're gonna have information asymmetry problems so damaging that if you don't fix them the torches and pitchforks will come out.
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by asark 7y ago
> I’m trying to think of the punch that’s landed the hardest and actually caused damage, and I’m coming up short. SNL's Palin parodies? Not sure whether that actually mattered or the Republicans just, for unrelated reasons, failed t
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by asark 7y ago
Markets as we know them are products of regulation. That's why "free market" is such a useless term. It can mean anything one likes, including "no" regulation (for certain values of "no"—now let's h
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by asark 7y ago
At this point I think "free market" is mostly a term of propaganda. It's too loose and wide-ranging to be useful for productive discussion, and meanwhile "free" is always good, right, so who would want a non free
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by asark 7y ago
> And a 2L of Coke is even cheaper (and heavier and calorific)... You can buy a 3L of Best Choice Soda with change you found in the parking lot, making it basically free. Coca Cola, what is this, the Hamptons? ;-)
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by asark 7y ago
Cheap, gross pizza is a thing, and you just have to pick it up. IIRC a Costco combination pizza will provide enough calories for a largish adult for two days , and is $10. No oven, no kitchen, no gadgets, no cooking required. It'll ev
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by asark 7y ago
Pi4's strong enough I'm planning to run one of the 4GB models as my VM (well, Docker, probably) server.
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by asark 7y ago
I've more often seen the app change from on top of the DB, than the DB change from under the app. Actually I'm not sure I've ever seen the latter happen IRL. App rewrite/replacement but DB remaining? Several times. Netwo
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by asark 7y ago
Nah, it's the student (and parent) pool, mostly, I reckon. Selection bias, essentially. The bad lockdown-over-threats-of-violence-every-week sorts around here pay better than the good schools, by a large margin (they get more grants an
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by asark 7y ago
1) Public can mean relocating, if you want a good district, and higher housing costs. So that sucks. Even the good ones are usually just OK, really, with some exceptions. Whole exercise is kinda horrifying, even if you have a very normal co
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by asark 7y ago
3) the hallways are already monitored by cameras in many schools, and the kids, though informed, often completely forget about it until reminded for some reason.
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by asark 7y ago
Administrative bloat's pretty bad, and from what I've seen a serious audit/investigation of every district in the country would turn up north of 50% being full of corruption—padded stipends, kickbacks for building contracts,
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, past a certain age almost all the problem kids have parents enabling them and/or causing tons of problems for them at home. You can't fix that in school, certainly not as long as parents are allowed to have any say in what h
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by asark 7y ago
To be fair the 4 bumps the devices up out of the awkward "somewhat better than an Arduino, but still kinda crappy at almost everything" the 2 and 3 were stuck in. Much better I/O speeds, h265 and 4k, enough memory (and dual-m
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by asark 7y ago
Maybe it still re-paints your eyes, relative to the person's eyes. So you glance down at their mouth and it looks like you're looking at their mouth rather than... down at their chest or something, like it would without the adjust
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by asark 7y ago
For me, I'm already iffy about the whole thing when it's just me but the thought of putting my kids in one of these things makes me... very unhappy, in a bunch of different ways at once. But so does a stranger feeling them up. I&#
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by asark 7y ago
I'd guess tax stuff's a hell of a lot easier to prove in court than a lot of other crimes. Heavy on figures and a defendant with no decent explanation of where the money came from or why they didn't report it, light on witnes
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, just leaving some wiggle room to account for my own stupidity, since it looks like at least one person read it differently.
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by asark 7y ago
I took it to mean not relatable because we go "what's the big deal, looks like a hillier version of what and who I can see if I find a state highway and drive 20 minutes", here in the Midwest. A jab at the New Yorker more tha
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by asark 7y ago
Salaries have gone kinda nuts the last 3ish years. IDK what's going on, but that's the state of things. Still, even 3-4 years ago ~$70-80k was entry-level around here, as far as places with actual money went. Maybe (unfunded) star
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by asark 7y ago
Mid-career developer rates in my much-smaller-market-than-Chicago city are like $120-150k—salary, that is. $4k/week's the minimum I'd need to even consider jumping to consulting/contracting, and even then I'd pr

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