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by bsder 1y ago
If the money is superior, then why aren't the people working at Amazon warehouses moving to the trades?
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by bsder 1y ago
Over 3 months it's easy to forget something that you probably only had a tenuous grasp on. My father was a high school teacher and loathed Christmas break . "I spend 4 months pouring information in, and it's gone in 4 da
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by bsder 1y ago
The Gates Foundation documented that underperforming students tend to actually gain on the average throughout the school year. The problem is that those same students lose terribly over the summer break. Students from better socioeconomi
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by bsder 1y ago
> They're also the kids that are least likely to improve despite any number of things that might happen in the school, including basically unlimited educational funding. This is not true. The Gates Foundation, whom I generally disli
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by bsder 1y ago
Is the pay better? https://www.sotxjatc.org/ The pay seems pretty comparable to an Amazon warehouse until you pass at least 3 years of training. And not everybody gets to wire up air conditioned data centers. A lot of wiri
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by bsder 1y ago
At this point, the biggest problem simply seems to be that the size of "Python Core" has outstripped the number of maintainers. I helped shepherd a bug fix into Python that was less than a dozen lines, dead simple, completely obvi
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by bsder 1y ago
> Aren't the ads already injected and the real trick will be getting the advertisers to foot more of the bill? No, the ads aren't specifically injected. Yet. When you start finding LLMs that call all sodas "Pepsi",
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by bsder 1y ago
> Huge numbers of people could avoid universities if we offered better vocational training. Could they? This is a perennial HN complaint; however, the salaries for jobs that vocational schools would train your for show very little press
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by bsder 1y ago
> in my experience AI results are quite a bit better than the top-ranked results. Only because the AI results haven't been infested with ads ... yet. As soon as the VC lottery stops, the ads will get injected and the AI stuff will q
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by bsder 1y ago
> I've written Python for 14 years and have never seen code like that. Exactly because it's a footgun that everybody hits very early. I think the Python linters even flag this. The fact that default arguments in Python get s
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by bsder 1y ago
You can't put Ticketmaster aside precisely because Ticketmaster likes scalpers. They don't want to shut down scalpers. Hell, for all I know, Ticketmaster might actually BE the scalpers (talk about paranoia ... but, hey, ve
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by bsder 1y ago
> And what, every terminal application should have its own special knob for you to tell it what kind of terminal you have? No, they should default to the only sane thing left, ignore TERM/termcap/terminfo, and leave the people
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by bsder 1y ago
> That's a bummer to hear, I've been wanting to use Ghostty for a while but that'd be a showstopper for me. Is there a GitHub issue tracking this? You should try it out for yourself first. It could be something weird in m
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by bsder 1y ago
> but it will definitely fix the scalpers problem Nobody wants to fix the scalpers problem because, to the Ticketmaster monopoly, scalpers aren't a problem . The Ticketmaster monopoly values known, consistent, derisked revenue ove
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by bsder 1y ago
> I'm probably tilting at windmills here, but I wish people wouldn't hardcode terminal escape codes. Please, no. There is no reason for this to be querying a hack from 1978 in 2025 when there are effectively two output termina
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by bsder 1y ago
See, now "local repository search" is one of those things that you would think that somebody would use one of the LLMs for. Alas, that would be "useful" but not Unicorn Lottery Ticket Useful and so will never get imple
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by bsder 1y ago
It's really unlikely that most people will gain a lot of money from these kinds of installations nowadays (an EV probably tips that somewhat). The big benefit is the resilience. Since you are using them every day, they will be far m
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by bsder 1y ago
> I never in a million years would have guessed microcontrollers & power efficient small chips would see so little change across a decade of time It's because the software ecosystem around them is so incredibly lousy and painfu
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by bsder 1y ago
> CapitalOne in the US allows you to have virtual cards Anything recurring will not take a virtual card or gift card in the US. I got burned on this a couple times until I figured it out.
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by bsder 1y ago
Truck is about 30% more than rail, but they both move an awful lot of stuff: https://www.bts.gov/content/us-ton-miles-freight
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by bsder 1y ago
> If a language needs an article like this, absolutely begging people to bite the bullet to learn it, maybe that's a language design smell. The problem with articles like this is that they don't really get to the heart of the p
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by bsder 1y ago
This isn't unique to semiconductors. If you turn off any manufacturing line, your company forgets really quickly how to make what that line made. GE discovered this when they tried to restart a water heater line in Appliance Park.
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by bsder 1y ago
Because the auto companies outsource everything , lay the risk onto the outsourced companies and expect that some significant percentage of them will go bankrupt every year. With that kind of adversarial relationship, you are never getting
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by bsder 1y ago
Will somebody please tell me when the AI assistants will finally write my embedded networking code for me? I'd really love to hand that off already.
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by bsder 1y ago
> I allow for the possibility that SWD is far more complex than I imagine, but this approach works pretty well for figuring out whats going on with SPI or I2C or BLE. SWD is pretty well documented. I won't claim its simple, but, in
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by bsder 1y ago
The point of Hanlon's Razor is that stupidity and malice are often indistinguishable and interchangeable. It doesn't matter to someone getting the pointy end of the stick whether it happened out of malice or stupidity--the pointy
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by bsder 1y ago
> (addressing modes gone mad!) With good reason. The 6809 was the 6800 with all the idiocies cleaned up. And I'm pretty sure that it is still the only 8-bit micro with genuinely relocatable/position independent code (aka does
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by bsder 1y ago
> Again further stating the obvious here but this is the _desired_ effect. Hanlon's Razor suggests that your statement is incorrect. Tariffs need consistency and stability to be effective rather than purely disruptive. You can see t
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by bsder 1y ago
VC thinking at its worst: Me: “Why does competitor X have five times your revenue?” Entrepreneur: “We are using partners and OEMs, because we can’t build a direct channel like competitor X.” Me: “Why not? If you have the better prod
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by bsder 1y ago
> This is probably why having some churn with the outside world, and also understanding what is the periphery of the outside, unbiased opinion is, is very important. Maximally efficient is minimally robust. Squeezing every penny out of s

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