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by bombcar 4mo ago
I wish they'd just tax the tires. Bigger vehicles, more tires, more wear.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I always felt Serious Sam was the real spiritual successor of the original Doom lineage.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It had a very specific meaning, which we would more properly translate as "personal recourse loan".
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by bombcar 4mo ago
> Children are not stored under the hood. Oh now you tell me!
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Fun fact - in most states a 12 or 13 year old can operate many tens of thousands of pounds of agricultural equipment “incidentally over a highway” or similar - which can be multiple miles between farm plots. Me? I commute in a New Holland C
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I can remember the day I switched to using Linux - the third coaster from the CD-burner that couldn't work under Windows 95 without dying, but Linux handled it fine while playing music if I reniced it. Terminators - now there's
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Quadragesimo anno [99] goes into detail on how "equal pay for equal work" has serious problems - nobody likes considering that and it sounds so unfair to our sensibilities - and then we build systems to disable that (child tax c
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by bombcar 4mo ago
SCSI was that thing your dad's workstation had at work, and the rich kid had on his Mac. I remember finding some older Adaptec cards for an early Linux box and they were still worth some change, even 5+ years old.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It might be more common in Europe, I've never seen it in the US (but maybe some property managers offer that as part of their 5-10% cut of the rent).
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I was surprised how sudden the change was - I didn't become a dad to my kid, I became a dad to all kids within sight or sound . Sure, most of the time I don't have to do anything, but I certainly notice much more now.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
They're limited by what people will pay - and "techbro" cities have people with insane salaries willing to fork over big bucks. But there are similarly expensive areas that don't support the income necessary, and there o
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by bombcar 4mo ago
In many locations, this exists in practice - especially if you rent parts of a building that you reside in (one half of a duplex or 1/4th of a quadplex, etc). In some cases, anti-discrimination laws don't even apply.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
This form of insurance is exceeding expensive and exceedingly rare. Large buildings self-insure (by having a ton of doors) and small landlords don't want to pay it.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
It's surprisingly common in places like SF, and near popular colleges.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Rental prices stay surprisingly steady even when house prices go insane - compare similar apartments/houses in major expensive cities and cheaper ones.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I read their story as "I'm not small, but I know a lot of smalls who tell me things they won't even tell their confessor."
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by bombcar 4mo ago
we may be coming back online
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The tools are almost always something they sell normally, and it keeps their accounting clean. You'd be a silly goose to rent it and then never return it, however, as the rental tools have been used to heck and back.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
How can you switch vsclaude to opus 4.5?
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Good news! We have 6 9s of reliability! Bad news! You need 128 bit floating point to see them.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
API Error: 529 Overloaded. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check https://status.claude.com .
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Books yes, DVDs yes. But we can check out a Netflix Roku, and the wait time really is what it says on the tin + a bit more; which works out to about once a year, which is about what we need ...
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Auto part stores often will lend both weird and specialized tools, and relatively basic ones, too. Usually the way it works is you "buy" the tool and then "return" it.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
That kind of fatal escalation occurs 40,000 times a year in vehicles.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
In GA that’s usually surprisingly quick - it’s absolutely amazing just how many runways are everywhere
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by bombcar 4mo ago
I had a similar decision to make (pilot or motorbike) and the fact that 60%+ of aviation deaths are pilot error and something like 60%+ of motorcycle crashes are NOT the rider's fault - led me to be a pilot. At least then I can try to
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by bombcar 4mo ago
The vast majority of GA crashes are pilot error directly or indirectly (taking off without fuel is "technically" a mechanical issue but really pilot failure). Equipment failure is pretty low on list.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Most people don't like loss ( | || || |_ ) but rarely is it really a case of potential loss (unless "density increase" is code for "build a maximum security prison next door") - it's just a case of slower app
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Apparently this means that the top house of the bottom 1/3rd is now $1m in 242 cities.
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by bombcar 4mo ago
Homeowners care less about their house prices than people realize - it's just a convenient excuse. Most homeowners just don't want things to change.

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