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by brimble 4y ago
Linux user for years before switching to Mac. I prefer Brew to every Linux package manager I've used. I like that it's totally separate from the base OS. I like the insanely large package selection, including binary [edit: that
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by brimble 4y ago
What are people doing with their computers that a Mac is so stifling? I'm late to the Mac game, have been on it for about a decade, and was a 15-year Windows and Linux desktop user before that. Still, I don't even know what it mig
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by brimble 4y ago
I've used Spectacle with the defaults, for years. It's not actively developed but still works. There are actively-maintained alternatives, but since it has zero times done anything weird or glitchy for me, even with multiple mon
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by brimble 4y ago
It's still asking employees to float their enormous mega-corp employer potentially thousands of dollars (each) in short-term loans.
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, like part of the reason Taiwan, say, is so much cheaper, is that wages are lower across the board. Canada? Switzerland? Germany? Yes they pay a lot worse for some jobs (software developer, and, more relevantly, doctor) but ordinary fu
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by brimble 4y ago
> We just have something to do while we do nothing. Back in time we did not. Back when? TV and very low-value, low-effort reading (periodicals, comics, books) have existed for quite a while and filled many an otherwise idle hour. I think
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by brimble 4y ago
Last I checked, pretty much the entire rest of the OECD was between 40% and 70% of US per-capita spending on healthcare. Some spend less total , per capita, than we do just from public spending that we already do (medicare, medicaid, CH
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by brimble 4y ago
Varies a lot state-by-state. Ours has no individual plans offered outside the "marketplace", which most years only has a couple companies offering plans on it, all with bad networks, bad coverage, and terrible rates. A fairly ba
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by brimble 4y ago
The ACA ossified the existing system a bit, but employer-provided care was the norm before the ACA. That or just not having any insurance, especially for young people working for small companies.
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by brimble 4y ago
Oh yeah, good point. And since they're manicured and sprayed with all kinds of pesticides (and lots of fertilizer, which contributes to the downstream poisoning you note) they're not even helpful for any kind of preservation of na
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by brimble 4y ago
The DMV worker that administered my mom's last test definitely fudged things so she could renew her license. Luckily she basically never drives anyway [edit: because my dad who's still a decent driver drivers her around when she n
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by brimble 4y ago
A huge percentage of elderly drivers shouldn't be on the road. We (the US) seem, as a society, to have decided to just live with that rather than trying to make it easier to live here without a car.
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by brimble 5y ago
Lawns—especially front lawns—are connected to a weirdly-large number of problems in the US, when you think about it. Noise pollution, excessive water use, more driving (all those barely-used front lawns take up a ton of space, which pushe
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by brimble 5y ago
This used to be a more common thing, including on the mainland. It's still depicted in TV and film, sometimes. There's a (probably intentionally goofily anachronistic) political ad van featured in Steven Universe, for instance. Th
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by brimble 5y ago
> 1. This is crazy to me. I could maybe cut $3K by taking a huge hit to quality of life (that would probably not be sustainable with a full time job anyways). Getting the other $7K would involve either homelessness or cutting back on eat
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by brimble 5y ago
Yes, absolutely correct and I should have been clearer about this, this was the (at this point) long-running USDS program, not this new thing.
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by brimble 5y ago
Ah, the language on the descriptions back when I was looking at it made it seem like you had to leave when it was up, and didn't make it look like transferring was a possibility (wouldn't you take a big cut, moving somewhere els
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by brimble 5y ago
Implemented correctly, a carbon credit market ought to be putting economic pressure on everyone to use power more efficiently, or to switch to renewables. It's supposed to be the market-based conservative approach to regulating exter
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by brimble 5y ago
The program I looked at back then read like it was targeting established professionals.
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by brimble 5y ago
As someone not in FAANG, I was super-interested in their remote option, since it'd have been much more like that 30% cut (for me) than a 70% cut—until I saw the weird "term of service" limitation. Half the point of taking a
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by brimble 5y ago
This continues to baffle me. Apple's usually so good at the extra first party software, and they already have an iOS calculator on iPhones . WTF. I get that they don't do it for polish reasons or whatever, but just letting the iP
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by brimble 5y ago
You have to carry a separate keyboard and mouse/trackpad for a laptop if you want to use it ergonomically , anyway. The built-in stuff is great for occasional use, but awful as a main interface over long periods of time. You need to b
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by brimble 5y ago
I think people sometimes forget that tons of high-traffic sites used to be served from what would, today, be laughably weak machines and very simple architectures (say, just a failover second machine, or LB between just two servers, or some
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by brimble 5y ago
Can confirm for the specific task of a Minecraft server that a Pi4 beats the pants off the first few tiers of DO VPS. You have to get up to a cost equivalent of nearly buying a (bottom-tier) Pi per month to get close. One problem with the
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by brimble 5y ago
If they need to use insurance (say, on a phone) or are getting credit cards stolen in these incidents, then they probably are. Or passports, drivers licenses, et c. You don't report most crimes to the police because you expect them to
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by brimble 5y ago
No, it's very confusing. I also found Facebook too confusing to use back when I briefly tried it around 2009. A friend who'd been on it since it was still exclusive to some universities assured me it made a lot more sense a year o
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by brimble 5y ago
I guess it's got something to do with repeat rates or animations or something, but Windows' cmd prompt (or just DOS itself) has always felt better to type in, to me, than any other terminal I've ever used. I don't like i
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by brimble 5y ago
But there are things they've done to save space, with a much larger effect than this, that they could simply have... not done, if that's what they were aiming for. Much more likely they're just sloppy sometimes, like most c
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by brimble 5y ago
In earlier decades, the mid-life crisis years were likely also about the time most parents' kids had either just left the house, or would very soon. If you have a kid at 20, they're (hopefully) leaving at 38....
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by brimble 5y ago
With carbonated beverages, canned seems the most strongly-carbonated to me, followed closely by plastic bottles, then glass which seems much milder. Maybe the caps on glass leak more CO2. ... of course that could all be in my head.

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