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by callalex 3y ago
Always be in the habit of saying “me too” to the robot that plays that message. Then it’s not even deceptive, you clearly stated to the other “party” that you are recording. Not your problem if the other end wasn’t listening because they ma
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by callalex 3y ago
For infrastructure it’s the opposite. You have to buy a food truck big enough to feed everyone on the worst day of the year. And at that point you may as well use it every day because you already paid for it.
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by callalex 3y ago
The private for-profit “utility” in California, PG&E, is extremely corrupt but voters can’t do anything about it because it’s a one-party state which means the only people that run for the opposition party are completely looney. Look up
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by callalex 3y ago
Civil engineering is incredibly complex and full of nuanced trade offs. If you find it to be simple, it is your lack of understanding of the topic.
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by callalex 3y ago
The site is down now so I can’t confirm, but I assume the site serves ads, which means Google is happy to have people visit it and profit.
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by callalex 3y ago
I wasn’t even speaking specifically to immigration, but I can understand why everyone thought that because of who I replied to.
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by callalex 3y ago
They won’t even accept a simple audit of the budget.
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by callalex 3y ago
That’s exactly how it has worked at every place I’ve ever lived in California.
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by callalex 3y ago
From a USA perspective, I find that usually when a bureaucratic process is hopelessly broken, it is because a small portion of the population actively hates the people that would benefit from the process and want to harm them. However they
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by callalex 3y ago
Is that really an option when there are another dozen people bidding on the house though? (I haven’t been through the home buying process yet)
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by callalex 3y ago
Web scraping is a cat-and-mouse game but all the cats got laid off.
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by callalex 3y ago
For those unaware, this is a reference to the real, actual patent Sony was granted that requires the user to stand up, T-Pose, and shout “MacDonalds!” in order to skip an ad. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-paten
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by callalex 3y ago
The button is labeled “Return” on Macs. You certainly don’t expect that button to navigate back..
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by callalex 3y ago
Maybe, but I think there is something innately funny about making computers say silly things. As a small child it was peak comedy to me making a Macintosh say “fart” and it’s still funny to me when a computer sings the MIT license.
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by callalex 3y ago
And if you make the experience broken and frustrating people will throw the whole computer away and buy a new one since the storage can’t be upgraded.
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by callalex 3y ago
> Teslas do not "disable themselves"; it's done by Tesla HQ That’s the same thing. If the owner isn’t disabling the car, then it is disabling itself.
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by callalex 3y ago
Got an example of that?
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by callalex 3y ago
As I always say, downdetector has successfully predicted 20 of the last 3 outages. It really is the perfect website for the ad-supported revenue model.
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by callalex 3y ago
When the CEO of Microsoft starts claiming insane things like “AI is a bigger invention than fire and electricity” it’s a huge red flag that investors are rabid and not based in reality.
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by callalex 3y ago
Is it a social safety net or stronger legal protections for retailers? In the USA the store has no legal right to detain you and spot check your receipt. Membership stores can revoke your membership for noncompliance and then not let you in
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by callalex 3y ago
When calculating the costs, you don’t get to just ignore the huge, expensive harms caused by releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere because they are inconvenient.
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by callalex 3y ago
As soon as you are picking and choosing, how are you adhering to any supposed wisdom provided by the divine?
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by callalex 3y ago
I’ll be sure to tell that to my gay friends, my female friends who don’t just shut up and submit, and anybody who puts cheese on a hotdog.
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by callalex 3y ago
Are you aware of the vast and diverse water-soluble cancer causing chemicals that are present in roasted coffee beans and tea? They have a lot of L- and R- and -anine and -quanine etc. Also you are aware that Arsenic is a naturally occurrin
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by callalex 3y ago
What?? That’s an insane way to describe what I’m talking about. Data/transaction isolation is very complex and extremely specific to every use case, which is why database engines worth anything let you describe to them what your needs
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by callalex 3y ago
You also have to keep in mind that the average consumer is…quite stupid, or more charitably quite sensitive. There are lots of cars on the market today with CVTs (continuously variable transmissions) that enable the motor to always be drive
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by callalex 3y ago
“It is more efficient to turn gas into electricity” I don’t think that’s correct. It may be true for highly variable/low loads where the pumping losses in the pistons dominates. However the majority of fuel consumption in a car happens
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by callalex 3y ago
Yes but that simplified write complexity means you are pushing a ton of read complexity out to your application.
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by callalex 3y ago
If your DB schema is expressed as an object/class it means your IDE will have robust autocompletion. It’s just a convenience to avoid having to look up the schema for whatever tables you’re interacting with. It helps cut down on trivia
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by callalex 3y ago
I know this isn’t a technical reason, but my main reason is “eww, gross, it smells like Oracle here.” I’ve been around long enough to know that even being in the same zip code as Oracle is a bad idea.

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