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by deltarholamda 9mo ago
His point of high church vs. Protestantism is a good one. We in the US practice a kind of competitive Protestantism designed--at least partly, if not mostly--to make the adherents feel good about themselves. There is a distinct difference b
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by deltarholamda 9mo ago
I got one where the called script ended in ".pl" and I had a flashback to the 90s. My trousers grew into JNCOs, Limp Bizkit started playing out of nowhere and I got a massive urge to tell Slashdot that Alan Thicke had died.
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by deltarholamda 9mo ago
That is possible, for sure. But think of it like a person learning the piano. You could practice your arpeggios on a Steinway, or you can buy a Casio with an arpeggiator button. At a certain point, the professional piano player can make muc
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by deltarholamda 9mo ago
I think there is a danger in the enthusiasm for AI inside of these excellent points, namely that the skills that make a good programmer are not inherent, they are learned. The comparison would be a guy who is an excellent journeyman electri
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by deltarholamda 9mo ago
It also impressed me, as I'm not sure I'd have that sort of dogged patience. Samba is one of those incredibly useful pieces of open source software that sometimes I feel I take for granted. I won't take it for granted now. As
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by deltarholamda 10mo ago
If you are interested in keeping backups, including the ability to go back in time to recover accidentally deleted/changed files, then ZFS with its reliable snapshot facility is fantastic. Other file systems offer some version of this,
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by deltarholamda 10mo ago
You can tell it's great visual storytelling because you don't even need to know the words. I guess the McDonald's ad didn't need words either, but it was just depressing and awful.
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by deltarholamda 11mo ago
Homeschoolers form co-ops. A local one here does ballroom dance, tennis, basketball. There is often a youth symphony option in mid- to large-sized cities. For STEM-type stuff, see if there's a nearby Civil Air Patrol squadron. That alo
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
I've been a paying Affinity customer for a while. I did not like the Adobe subscription model, even though pricewise it more or less the same as what I paid for software upgrades to Adobe products, ~$600/yr. So I looked for altern
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
Quite a lot of the low-hanging fruit from pharma has already been picked. The modern business model for pharma involves coming up with a patentable new drug that does the same thing as an older drug that's now out of patent and availab
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
gitolite is great. It's simple and extremely lightweight.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
If at all possible, find a local independent book store and buy from there. If they don't have it in stock, often they'll order it for you. I have one that's been around since I was a kid, and I love taking the family there.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
>Where it gets really fun is I have an apostraphe in my last name I know this pain. What's great is when some systems allow it, but other systems--that are connected to the first system and should work together--don't. Sudden
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
>why single out the debt Social Security owns for that treatment Because it's the biggest slice of the federal budget pie, and currently it goes to the segment of the US population with the highest average net worth. Whether you thi
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
Isn't diversity a positive metric? Mississippi has the highest black percentage of all the states. If one wants to use statistics, use all of the statistics.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
>because the manufacturing infrastructure of Europe was decimated after some pretty intense warfare Exactly this. The US coasted as the last major economy standing for a very long time, and we built our expectations upon this very tempor
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
>They're doing it because they have the money and feel it's worth the risk in case it pays off. If the current work in AI/ML leads to something more fundamental like AGI, then whoever does it first gets to be the modern ve
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
The graphic design version of this is "Get it done, make it beautiful," but it works for code too. I used to get hung up on things like doing a loop when a ternary operator would work. "Somebody is going to see this and be ru
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
I'm all for playing the "oh, the children!" card. As a parent it's nice to not have to worry about that sort of thing. It does ring hollow when the Screen Time controls that Apple includes is such a muddled mess. And, so
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
We called it the Orient because at one time to orient yourself meant to face east towards the rising Sun. So maps with east at the top make sense.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
I thought this was great, very much the sort of thing I would have done when I was younger and had the time (and patience!). I don't usually watch long-form videos (that patience thing again), but I watched all the way with this one. I
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
Yes, vehicles driven by amateurs are more dangerous than high-capacity vehicles with professional drivers/pilots. People talk about the high number of fatalities as if you have to drive over the scattered dead every day like gruesome s
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
Fair enough, though I'm not offended. I detected condescension where none was meant, and I apologize for that.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
That's an amazingly reductive take on a complex issue, and it infers something which was not implied. At no point did I suggest that walkable cities were not in demand, only that the current state is less than ideal for a large number
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
Well, panhandling was just one thing mentioned, and to focus on that to the exclusion of the others seems disingenuous. But it does depend on the nature of the panhandling, doesn't it? Passive panhandling is one thing, and aggressive p
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
There is "housing shortage" and "affordable housing shortage", and these are two things that sound similar but are actually very different.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
"Nobody I know voted for Nixon." Many cities have been losing population for a while, regardless of your intimate knowledge of what other people do or don't feel. Incredulity isn't really much of a solution if you want t
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
My wife is far more risk adverse than I am. We'd be moving if she had to bike through a Hooverville to buy milk.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
I'd think "it can be both" would be obvious, but clearly not. Rich people have been enjoying a different standard of life even in the midst of abject poverty since forever, but I guess this is news to some.
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by deltarholamda 1y ago
According to Zillow they start at about a million for 2/1 apartments and go up from there. We have completely different definitions for affordable, unless $250K+/yr jobs are just falling out of the sky.

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