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by com2kid 1y ago
Handy man prices around here are $65 to $100/hr, and there is a huge wait list for the good ones. I've gotten multiple quotes on running the 240v line, the labor breakdown was always over $400 alone. Just having someone show up to
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by com2kid 1y ago
Labor chargers alone are going to be higher than that in Seattle. Just to have someone come out on a call is going to be 150-200. If it is an independent electrician who owns their own business, maybe 100-150/hr, if they are part of a
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by com2kid 1y ago
It is! With a UV sensor you can actually tell when someone is outdoors in the sunlight. The MS Band's sunscreen experience was tailor made to automatically remind people to reapply sunscreen when needed, but it was a fair bit smarter t
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by com2kid 1y ago
> and currently electricians are at a premium so it'd likely end up costing a thousand+ I got a quote for over 2 thousand to run a 24v line literally 9 feet from my electrical panel across my garage to put a EV charger in. Opening
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by com2kid 1y ago
I'm sad that no product since the Microsoft Band has put a UV sensor on a watch. I'm biased because I largely designed the UV experience, but damn I miss having sunscreen reminders.
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by com2kid 1y ago
You are saying the exact same thing I am, just with different words. JSX makes it impossible to crap out invalid HTML because it is a library + toolchain (+ entire ecosystem) that keeps it from happening. JSX is always checked for validity
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by com2kid 1y ago
The magic system is amazing though, best I've played in any game. Easy to use, role play heavy, and it lets players go wild with ideas, but still reins in their crazier impulses. Mage: The Awakening is a minor rules revision to the mag
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by com2kid 1y ago
I ran a long running campaign, it is pretty fun. The game books were obviously written by artists and no mathematician was involved, some of the rules are very broken (may have been fixed in later revisions). The magic system is very fun an
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by com2kid 1y ago
Not directly as strings of course, but a for loop that outputs a bunch of JSX components based on the array return values from a DB fetch is dynamically generated JSX.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> I recall being met with a big fat "XML parse error" page on occasion. If XHTML really took off (as in a significant majority of web pages were XHTML), those XML parse error pages would become way more common Except JSX is bei
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by com2kid 1y ago
I was in Spain at the start of the year and I was impressed that drinks could be had for a price that only had one digit! I was also a bit confused about why beer was cheaper than water at some restaurants. That one threw me for a loop.
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by com2kid 1y ago
There was never a reason to visit DT Seattle outside of Pike Place Market. The restaurants there if anything have gotten better over the years, I'd say a decade ago most of them closed after lunch because everything catered to office w
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by com2kid 1y ago
College in general was meant as a way for people to rise up, and for my generation (early millennials) it worked. My first job in software engineering paid way more than my parents combined income. Society has managed to mess that pipeline
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by com2kid 1y ago
Similar patterns in Seattle, many once popular sit down restaurants are now empty and only serve as sources for delivery. Huge buildings with dozens of tables sit empty.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Why? The current system graduates kids from poor to not poor. Sure it is a small number, but it is one of the pathways for social mobility in our society.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Yeah in my view, the primary value of undergrad in college, is the social connections you make and the status it grants you. For those of us who went to state schools, it was about learning. Going to a 2nd tier state college instantly
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by com2kid 1y ago
The point of going to an Ivy is to interact with the rich and powerful. It is a way for people to jump up a few social classes all in one go. If Stanford was just filled with kids who got high test scores, that purpose would be gone. Plenty
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by com2kid 1y ago
$2k laptops now days come with 16 cores. They are thermally limited, but they are going to get you 60-80% the perf of their desktop counterparts. The real limit is on the Nvidia cards. They are cut down a fair bit, often with less VRAM unti
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Like, just straight up can’t do it even though they’re advertised as being able to. Most of the models I’ve tried with Goose (models which say they can do tool calls) will respond to my questions about a codebase with “I don’t have an
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Even with help from the "world's best" LLMs, things didn't go quite as smoothly as we had expected. They hallucinated steps, missed platform-specific quirks, and often left us worse off. This shows how little native
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by com2kid 1y ago
> JS/TS/npm is just as bad with probably more build tools/frameworks. This is flat out wrong. NPM packages by default are local to a directory. And I haven't seen a package rely on a specific minor version of node in
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by com2kid 1y ago
Swings layout stuff was fine, better in 2004 than anything the web had until 2020 at least. Also now nothing resembles native platform UIs, so that isn't a big deal. Swing was very theme-able, which is all anyone cares about now days.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Plenty of great UI toolkits exist. WPF was an amazing UI toolkit. Heck Silverlight was a great UI toolkit. Even Swing was nice to code in, it just ran horrible on machines of the time.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I just made a post saying the same thing so I feel the need to play devil's advocate - Induced demand also exists. Seattle got hit by this last decade when the Bay Area had no more construction but we still had some, people flooded her
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by com2kid 1y ago
Math is simple. Build more houses per year than people who want to move to the city. Prices will decrease. NYC did this over 100 years ago, it became one of the world's most important cities. SF did the same thing, it became a tier 1 w
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by com2kid 1y ago
Seattle allows them, it wasn't a magic bullet. ` We need to look at historically successful housing and just legalize that . For example - SF's row houses. You can't build anything like those due to rules about stairs, envir
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Ease of use is nice for a start, but usually becomes technical debt. The difference with the Express ecosystem is that you aren't getting any less power than with FastAPI or Spring Boot, you just get less overhead. Spring Boot has
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by com2kid 1y ago
At no point have any of my nginx files ever flipped their own bits. Are they a constant source of low level annoyance? Sure. But I've never had to look at a bus timing diagram to understand how to use one, nor worried about an nginx fi
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by com2kid 1y ago
> device drivers are the easiest thing in the world to code. Except the documentation lies and in reality your vendor shipped you a part with timing that is slightly out of sync with what the doc says and after 3 months of debugging, inc
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Node/V8 isn't well suited to backend Node was literally designed to be good for one thing - backend web service development. It is exceptionally good at it. The runtime overhead is tiny compared to the JVM, the async model is

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