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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> The things that annoy you the most about your partner will be the same things that you will miss the most when they are gone. absolutely not. don't miss any of the annoyances, and my life is immensely better. to quote someone el
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
alternative: copy-paste the ones that speak to you into a document or something, and the review it every few years. i've got an internal, personal 'wikiquote' doc of stuff that I like, and i make a point to review it, add to
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
I remember a study from ages ago about the people who were able to stay focused on tasks though of the stuff they had to do, and committed to doing it in 15 seconds or less after thinking about it. Especially if it was simple, quick, or ea
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
3 years of cohabitation and joint finances where I live only difference from marriage is that to get out of a marriage you MUST have a divorce; ending common law relationships leaves a 2-year window where a proceeding can be filed, and will
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> I especially like that one. Me, as a newbie in the industry: "Customer X is a bunch of idiots." Boss: "If they weren't idiots, they wouldn't need us." As a former coworker of mine put it: "if IT was e
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> It's only lying if he doesn't believe it. Whether he believes it or not doesn't mean jack. You are still out several thousand dollars for something that doesn't work. I bet Liz Holmes really truly thought Therano
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Funny how Tesla is able to pull this off. I can't think of another brand that so easily gets people to throw large sums of money at it while expecting so little in return. The tech-bro -- basically us here -- crowd thinks that the
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
the guy whose platform is going back on the gold standard and abolishing embassies to other countries? i'll give him credit for having a consistant platform and world view, but if he had his way we'd hand control of everything ove
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
The level of access required to make Spectre work, basically shoehorning microcode into the CPU, means that you'd already have some deep hooks in the box anyway. Easier to use other methods at that point.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Aye, we're diagnosing things at a much higher rate than before.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Haven't seen this posted for almost 6 months. Yall are getting slow. Great read, but also fails the sniff test the harder you think about it.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Didn't just shock a generation, it shocked the President. There is the apocryphal story about Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood actor who turned politician, who saw The Day After and asked his staff if would really be that bad. His st
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Threads is the most relentlessly grim and bleak thing I've ever seen. It's like they thought "let's make this get bleaker and bleaker until people have just had enough". The reality would have probably been wo
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
We don't grant a government the monopoly of violence -- they are the government because they hold the monopoly of violence. The monopoly of violence is disconnected from issues of legitimacy and authority. You don't have to agree
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Retail is getting hammered and a lot of industries have a glut of supply, esp. after COVID threw off global logistics. Demand went up like crazy for some items, and they went hard manufacturing em, and now that the world is mostly back to n
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
It's an open secret it's a rough place to work, even as a programmer. The Seattle Times and others have articles about it. No shortage of people talking shit on Reddit, either; NDAs don't last forever.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> One of the biggest perks of working downtown in a moderately sized or larger city is being able to go to the bathroom there outside of work hours. I'm in a big city in Canada and there was a downtown farmer's market here for
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> Who is threatening Japan with cruise missiles? Certainly not China or Russia. North Korea, perhaps. China has said that they believe that, in the event of hostilities over Taiwan, they will be obligated to strike US forces everywhere
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> It's an interesting case study in how much power financial incentives have. Publicly traded companies gonna behave like a publicly traded company -- badly. Gotta keep that share price up up up, and woe be to the executive that do
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
It's just that the search engine is getting worse, to the benefit of the advertising platform.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
If you ask around people will get nervous and figure out what's going on. Inevitably some will leave -- usually those who are motivated and well qualified. The ones you want to fire will still be there. No no, you do it quietly and ba
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
So, the issue is that Debian has older and non-updated packages, correct? Aka the meme about Debian's packages being stale is on-point in this case? Surprised to see that if true, esp. since Ubuntu has it working.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
> The ledger as a permanent history available to the world, in real time, of every single transaction. arguably a selling point. just not for selling large quantities of online drugs.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Agit-Prop runs on "useful idiots". High profile idiots are especially useful.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
in other words: he's only good in small doses
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Define large sums of money. levels.fyi has the salaries for FAANGs, but also other places. Plenty of juicy salaries in non-FAANGs. Sales -- esp. SaaS -- can make crazy money. Close a big deal and walk home with 100k, and possibly residual
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
As in, literally a fish, called the sarcastic fringehead. Headline is kind of a pun / clickbate.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
They couldn't have chosen a name that wouldn't conflict with Ethernet standards? We're already up to Cat7 and it's not crazy to think we'll be on Cat9 in a little while.
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by blaser-waffle 4y ago
Depends on the index fund and the rules / guidance they follow to balance. Many of them are passive, and only adjust once a quarter or once a year. Additionally, big spikes by one stock match drops in other stocks, aka they're no
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Don't forget the culture of corruption, esp. in the south of the country.

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