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by beej71 2y ago
> Under the principles of free speech, it’s more ambiguous. I don't think it is. The First Amendment gives companies control of what gets posted to the sites they own. And it gives you that control for the sites you own, too.
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by beej71 2y ago
TMI, Fukushima, Chernobyl. Those are the problems and "minor" real-world implications. That's why no one wants a nuclear plant in their backyard. If those never happened, I suspect we'd have far more nuclear energy today
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by beej71 2y ago
I hope so. I like small cars. Our last small car was destroyed by a big truck, and that was no fun.
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by beej71 2y ago
(I think I might be the only one in the world who actually prefers paper straws based on their qualities.)
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by beej71 2y ago
Have two library cards. One says "Library Card" in Helvetica on a professional background and gives you full access to the library. To get it, your parents have to sign a release. The other has pictures of cute cartoon animals and
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by beej71 2y ago
You can bet it's in their TOS now. :)
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by beej71 2y ago
I get what you're asking here, but I think it's important to note that OSM's primary value is in its data, not in a human-consumable map. So if I could respectfully amend your request, I'd say I hope some third party can
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by beej71 2y ago
I guess so. You hate it with a passion but you're totally motivated to do it; you get up in the morning rearing to go and spend every waking moment considering how to improve the craft. Well done you.
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by beej71 2y ago
One of the resonant political messages now is that Americans are too poor to afford basic necessities.
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by beej71 2y ago
> an enormous number of people (undergrads) i met while doing my phd in cs at xyz-elite school did not love cs and they were almost all uniformly excellent. the ones i kept track ended up in FAANG or quantfi or whatever tough/challe
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by beej71 2y ago
My argument is that you had a harder time of it than someone who was passionate about it. I said it wasn't impossible. And I trust you wanted it enough to get it. Edit: I've seen many students who apparently have better things to
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by beej71 2y ago
This is why my dream search engine downranks pages with advertising on them. Optimize away! :)
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by beej71 2y ago
Depends on the definition of "better", I think.
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by beej71 2y ago
I tell students thinking of getting into coding that "you gotta want it". If you love that work, great. If you don't, you're going to have a hard time of it. Not impossible, but maybe something peripheral like tech sales
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by beej71 2y ago
A fun thing to do with personal sites is to try to minimize the download. This one is currently 1.96 MB, but I'll bet you could get it down to 0.1 MB.
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by beej71 2y ago
> Even if you are a plumber or an electrician, the job gets physically very demanding and hard when you are in your late 40s and early 50s. It is near impossible when you are 60+. Exactly like software development, then, except for the p
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by beej71 2y ago
Also I'd probably argue there's a fair amount of creativity in the trades. Large- and small-scale optimization problems are everywhere, after all.
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by beej71 2y ago
At FB scale, this seems like a non-trivial computational expense, meaning they'll do it if they're forced to.
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by beej71 2y ago
This reminds me of something that might be related. Someone recently told me that if you look at any object, you can imagine what it feels like to put your tongue on it. (With all kinds of subsequent hilarious and disgusting suggestions.) A
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by beej71 2y ago
I started looking at converting my books to use Sphinx (from pandoc) and got almost there. What stopped me was something a little odd: I wanted to use different fonts in a link, notably some proportional and some monospace in the same link.
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by beej71 2y ago
+100. Day job to support free content you create makes for a greater Internet. IMHO. :)
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by beej71 2y ago
That's a dark post. Ymmv with this, it seems. I quit because I couldn't drink much of anything without getting a headache. Still drink NA beer, since I'm a big beer fan. (Review: meh. But darker beers are more passable.) My o
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by beej71 2y ago
If I had my way, one single person would be responsible for 100% of healthcare spending, poor bastard.
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by beej71 2y ago
If $x is nothing then people will keep paying it and there'll be no need for early termination fees.
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by beej71 2y ago
Why, we'll have fewer babies and restrict immigration, of course.
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by beej71 2y ago
These used to be called "commercial displays". I don't know if they're still sold. Costs more than a smart TV, but is dumb.
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by beej71 2y ago
Ours, too. It used to be amazing, but now it's a bit of a dog, performance-wise. I want something better, but I don't know what it is. DIY is sounding better and better, but won't have the same app coverage...? Getting me thi
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by beej71 2y ago
Wasn't it some private key signature...? Man, that's digging back a bit.
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by beej71 2y ago
People I know are waiting to see what happens, but they want to know what the options are if things really start going downhill. It wouldn't surprise me if the spike were just research. Right now most people in my circles aren't r
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by beej71 2y ago
I got burnt out on a job and then spent a year riding my mountain bike. Got into some photography, which I've since dropped. Got into some GIS and map making. After a year, I was ready for coding again. I did some contract work that I

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