commandlinefan

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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
> picking Waymos instead. Can you pick Waymos? I was in Austin with my daughter who Ubers quite a bit (because dear God there's nowhere to park in that damned city) this weekend. She called an Uber and a Waymo showed up and she wa
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
That's not why women ask for women-only gyms.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
> If an employer Actually, in this case, the rider _is_ a (temporary) employer.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
I've had my suspicions - this seems way worse than anything I remember before. I think right now is worse than the 2000 dot-com bust, too.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
Did they actually raise prices, though? I haven't noticed any significant jumps; my understanding was that they were absorbing (for the most part) the tariffs for the time being, but planned to raise prices in the near future.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
That was a black mirror episode.
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
Honestly, publication has been pretty meaningless for a long time, long before AI could generate complete paragraphs. "Publish or perish" meant that a lot of human-generated slop was being published by people who were put in a po
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
> Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck. The state can imprison you. Zuck can't.
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
For all the recent hand-wringing about the U.S. becoming less welcoming to immigrants, the U.S. is still far, far ahead of any European country in terms of immigration opportunities. If you're qualified to come to anywhere in Europe,
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
> many of the changes we are talking about don't even really cost us anything I hear that often, but it's never followed by details about any of the actual changes that are being talked about. The ones I actually hear (especia
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
> full of spelling, punctuation, grammar and capitalization errors I can spell correctly in a few different languages without having to think about it. I suspect you can, too. I can do a lot of math in my head that Jeffery Epstein prob
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
This is just normal par-for-the-course business chasing an expanding market. Entertainment companies, in particular, _always_ focus on the youth market. When I was a teenager, record companies were obsessed with what teenagers liked: that
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
Pretty disturbing to me how many people _on here_ are cheering for this. I thought that at least here of all places, there might be some nuanced discussion on "ok, I see why people are emotional about this topic in particular, but it&
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
> programming is easier than ever Or does it just seem that way because you've had a whole lifetime to digest it one little bit at a time so that it all seems intuitive now? If "easy to understand and get started with" we
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
... and the biggest problem is that the people who _do_ know how hard it is to build software are the ones whose input on the matter is most likely to be discounted as "sour grapes"/"fear of obsolescence".
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by commandlinefan 8mo ago
As always, the only way anybody has ever thought of to "plan" software is: 1) write down everything you're going to do 2) write down how long that's going to take 3) add them all up and voila! You have a s
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
I’ve been hearing this since the 90’s.
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
> why should Garfield hate Mondays? He’s a cat! He doesn’t have to work! There’s a fan theory that Garfield hates Mondays because he just spent two days with Jon and now Jon is leaving him alone again.
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
If somebody is making $400,000/year, they're contributing a little over $100,000 in income taxes. You don't think that's a fair share?
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
And he may well be tried and convicted for something that comes out of those, but he hasn't been yet.
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
See, this is exactly why I don't believe the things I read - his only actual conviction was for falsifying business records. (He is a convicted felon, though, that's indisputable).
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
I'm not 100% sure what to believe, but I have been around long enough to take everything I read with a grain of salt.
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
> focus on the criminals and dangerous people first That's what they say they are doing? Every time I read about them arresting somebody who was "just picking their kids up from school", it turns out to be some profession
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
That's where I'm stuck on this. When you have certain cities (or even entire states) saying "we will resist _any_ deportation effort", what choice does a deportation officer have than what they're doing right now?
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
> expensive "forward deployed engineers" (aka, consultants) Well, at least they're paying those consultants a lot of money, since they're charging a lot for them... right? Right?
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
> OpenSSL code was not pleasant or easy to read I published a book about SSL a while back - my original plan for the book was going to be to work through the OpenSSL source code and relate each piece back to the relevant specifications,
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
> PSA is just a blood test. Um, well, the test I was referring to is quite a bit more involved than a blood test. But yes, get yourself checked.
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
According to this link https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cray-1-supercompu... these things retailed for $8 million (in 1975 dollars!). That's almost $50,000,000 today - I can't even imagine how
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
I recall when reading TAOCP that Knuth's MIX assembly supported subroutines by requiring the caller to modify the RET call to it's own address (obviously not re-entrant!). This sort of thing was common when Knuth started in the ea
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by commandlinefan 9mo ago
Take this as your reminder to get it checked. Takes a morning, lasts for 10 years.

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