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by dahfizz 3y ago
> Feinstein’s current term isn’t up until 2024, so should her seat become vacant before then, it would be up to Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat, to appoint a temporary replacement. Newsom, like most governors, would have no restrict
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> Recycling is a last resort It sounds like that's exactly what Apple is doing though? >> If your device isn’t eligible for credit , we’ll recycle it for free. If they can, they will resell the device. But a 5+ year old phone
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I am not personally a fan of Apple products for exactly this reason. I think the user experience on all their products (iphone, ipad, mac) is not good out of the box and is really restricting in what you can do. But, I still believe Apple i
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I assume you foster children, then?
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I think the point is that the blame lies with DCF, not the doctors. Doctors should report, and DCF should competently investigate. In this scenario, the doctor did their job and DCF did not.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
My first inclination is to blame DCF workers. > These people are working in the shadows, in darkness," Lamanna said. "They can show up at your house in the middle of the night with no paperwork, no court order whatsoever, and s
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Apple comes to mind as a company with some degree of long term vision and strong leadership. They are meticulous about maintaining their brand, and so far have resisted the enshitification. They also have more cash than they know how to spe
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> because it’s been only 2 years The net neutrality repeal took effect in 2018, its been 5 years https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/technology/net-neutrality...
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Vitally, net neutrality is an actual law in California. It can't be overturned arbitrarily by some bureaucrats. Since Congress won't do anything at the national level, this is going to be re-hashed out by the FCC every time the
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by dahfizz 3y ago
We are tired of the fear mongering and propaganda. We have seen the internet work just fine with and without net neutrality - its a micro-optimization as far as I am concerned. Political capital is limited. Instead of wasting it rehashing t
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Of course they do, its just invisible to the consumer. It is way cheaper for amazon to ship something via UPS than it is for you, because Amazon and UPS have negotiated contracts in place.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
If you believed the scare tactics at the time, losing net neutrality literally threatened the end of the internet as we know it. But my internet has worked the same before, during, and after net neutrality. I really don't get what all
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I'm not really concerned with what the criminal tells themself. I am concerned about society at large sympathizing and excusing criminal behavior because the criminal was poor.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
So tired of this notion that poor people have no morals. Someone who is capable of kidnapping a child for ransom is seriously fucked up. Paying that person off with welfare so they don't "have" to resort to heinous crimes, as
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Okay, to be more pedantic - the vast vast majority of people living in suburbs have access to a car and do not consider a 2 mile drive to the grocery store an inconvenience. To say these people live in a food dessert is silly. You are very
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by dahfizz 3y ago
I don't really buy this scenario where everyone on food stamps are unable to go to a grocery store. And if that is really true, subsidizing uber with tax dollars is not the solution.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> Well, 5 miles down the road makes it not a food desert, so there we go. Not true. Unless you live in a truly rural town with less than 5000 people, you are counted as "urban" and any more than 1 mile from a grocery store is a
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by dahfizz 3y ago
But nobody is walking in a suburban town. This definition makes basically all suburbs a food dessert, even though the grocery store is only a few minutes from most people's house.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
The problem is the definition of "urban or suburban". The census classifies any town of 5000 (!!!) people or more as urban. I live in a small town of more than 5000 people, so it's technically urban. It takes me 5 minutes to
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Yeah, I have no problem with people using their EBT to pay for groceries; that's what it's for. But it feels wrong for Uber to take a cut
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> The IEEE floats can represent a subset of integers in their range exactly. For example, 64 bit floats can represent the range of 32 bit ints accurately (and more). I know, I am being a little facetious. A double has a 52 bit mantissa,
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> they represent subsets of the reals Sure. My point is that this subset is useless. Because trying to add, subtract, multiply, or divide members of this set will result in a number outside the set. > When you want to do exact calcula
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by dahfizz 3y ago
In programming, an `int` perfectly represents the integers between INT_MIN and INT_MAX. A `float` on the other hand, approximates the real numbers. It can perfectly represent exactly 0% of them. Having control over the rounding behavior is
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by dahfizz 3y ago
A shocking number of devs are simply afraid of bits and bytes.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
These systems use something like 10^-8 as the implied decimal in the real world. Some forex exchanges even go to 10^-9
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by dahfizz 3y ago
> be done with some level of abstraction so it doesn’t matter at all what your computer’s implementation is. This still doesn't do that, its just integer math. It doesn't matter how your CPU implements it, as long as `x = a +
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by dahfizz 3y ago
BCD is better than IEEE 754 floating point, but simple integers with an implied decimal point is much better than either of those.
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Sounds slow as hell, what kind of financial systems have you worked with? I write trading software, and pretty much everyone uses integers with implied decimal place, similar to TFA. How do you know you convert your internal string to a flo
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by dahfizz 3y ago
Because the brain physically, anatomically, has these "old strata". Lizard brains are pretty much just a basal ganglia. Humans have a basal ganglia, and then extra stuff on top. Mammals, and only mammals, have a neocortex "st
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by dahfizz 3y ago
So you agree that this is a problem then, and we should work to increase agency and reduce disenfranchisement by moving more power to local communities?

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