davidw

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by davidw 6d ago
It's really impressive how the icons+text carries through every single one of them isn't it.
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by davidw 8d ago
As a resident of Bend, Oregon, checking the homepage sets off some kind of "oh look, Bend!" alarm in my brain.
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by davidw 9d ago
Speaking of lava, you should do a presentation to the local tech group if you're ever here in Bend, Oregon...
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by davidw 12d ago
It's not hate, it's just something that changed in the US in about the 1970ies. In the past, you'd have a booming area and people would build homes as a result and things weren't perfect, but kind of balanced out in term
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by davidw 12d ago
Actually you can blame them because it was the done thing throughout US history to build more homes when people moved to an area. And there is nothing more American than moving to a place with better opportunities or amenities. "The pu
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by davidw 12d ago
Most of the 'squeeze' comes from things like housing and health care. The former driven by NIMBYs pulling the ladder up after them in so many desirable places.
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by davidw 12d ago
It's really dismaying how many people on this site seem to think immigration and the job market are a zero sum game... and that hasn't changed 12 years after I wrote this: https://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12&#
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by davidw 15d ago
I think there are a lot of bad actors at the top in tech, in general.
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by davidw 16d ago
Yeah, people trying to get rich quick are maybe not great, but that's a side of humanity that has always been with us and always will be and you can kind of discount it. I'm talking about the people who run things lurching towards
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by davidw 16d ago
I feel like tech has lost its way recently. It's a huge, huge field, so there have always been people working on 'bad' things, but IDK, I just don't have the same feeling of optimism about things that I used to and I wis
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by davidw 17d ago
That, plus it looks like Forth code grid dup 1.0 scale wind-x drop cols-4
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by davidw 19d ago
> worked really well, especially for folks without much money That's probably part of the reason they got rid of them. You still see that argument used against transit: "it will bring _____ to our part of town".
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by davidw 24d ago
Yeah I had one of those as a kid and spent many happy hours learning about it and of course playing games.
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by davidw 25d ago
This makes sense, but boy would it be easy to mix up something like this with some fancy graphics and sell some snake oil. Stuff that sounds like "What is therefore required is not merely a more capable agent, but a closed-loop capabil
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by davidw 1mo ago
They are willing to bear some pain in order to hit back at the US administration. And they're pretty united - Doug Ford for instance is not on the same team as Mark Carney - but has been very vocal about striking back. It's really
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by davidw 1mo ago
Not in the tech industry, apparently. As a 50 year old, it's really shocking to see what I thought were just solid, solid underpinnings of a modern liberal society like "white nationalists are bad and should be ostracized" er
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by davidw 1mo ago
This article has a good explanation of why "you, yes you" should leave: https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit...
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by davidw 1mo ago
Probably pretty ... banal, like Hannah Arendt pointed out.
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by davidw 1mo ago
As a huge fan of Fishbone, who did not make it big, despite being oh so close in the early 90ies... it'd be nice if there were a better balance. They've seemingly struggled over the years and kept going, but you get the sense th
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by davidw 1mo ago
Good writing and a fun trip to some really remote places. Hit me up if you're ever in Bend, happy to get a beer and chat about some of those places. Did you see the pictographs at Hart Mountain? That's actually one bit of Oregon t
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by davidw 1mo ago
This is what's called the "broken window fallacy"
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by davidw 1mo ago
> People who "almost got hit by a bicycle" are extremely numerous while people who actually got hit by cars remain unavailable for comment. https://bsky.app/profile/jwbee.bsky.social/post/3mtc2rx7
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by davidw 1mo ago
My eBike comes with a big basket and a bag that slots into it that can carry a ton of stuff. I do most of our family's grocery shopping with it. A huge upgrade from a backpack.
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by davidw 1mo ago
High quality eBikes are pretty amazing: I have nearly 4000 miles on one of ours, and nearly all of those are replacing car trips around town, including most of our grocery shopping. While not revolutionary - they're kind of an incremen
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by davidw 1mo ago
Yesterday I was reading about this place in Oregon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Shirk_Ranch Today, with a modern vehicle, it is 1.5 hours from the nearest 'town' and 2 from the county seat, which ha
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by davidw 1mo ago
That whole area makes for a fascinating trip. It is really, really empty and remote. Paisley is home to one of the largest ranches in the US: https://crookcountyhistorycenter.org/2022/10/one-of-largest-... And nea
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by davidw 1mo ago
I think the number of people who want to use something like this when it's icy out is pretty small. You'd want studded tires, for instance... and it's generally those who are really committed who ride in those conditions. Thi
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by davidw 1mo ago
Hopefully part of the long term effect is people accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels altogether.
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by davidw 1mo ago
I don't know much about the production of these models. How hard would it be to 'fork' something like this and have it not be full of CCP indoctrination?
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by davidw 2mo ago
I mean that could also be true, but it is not - IMO - the cause of the fairly sudden weak market for software engineers.

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