deltarholamda

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by deltarholamda 2y ago
True enough, but those are technological solutions to a social problem. E.g., if the public transportation is terrible because it's dangerous or you get hassled on it, people don't use it. The guy sitting in a 4 hour commute every
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Another possibility is that the uber-rich techbros can see that, if we keep heading the way we're going, the whole thing comes crashing down. We've been speedrunning a far-left utopia for quite a while now, and it's not going
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
I don't care how good emacs is, that function is too long.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
PDF is brushing up against "more harm than good". Wish there was a proper alternative.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
"If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." -- Col. Jack O'Neill (with 2 Ls)
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
>“DEI exists” isn’t an argument. But it is. DEI indicates ideological capture. Whether it's good or bad doesn't matter, it's not germane to the purported goals of "advancing science/health/military readiness
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
>intentionally have an inefficient economy Yes, but the economy should serve the people. The people do not serve the economy. Or at least that's the way it should work. Wall Street tends to disagree with this sentiment.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Can a large ship, or any ship, intercept a hypersonic missile? Because that's the reality of today.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
There isn't much rule of law left. Think something should be illegal? It's probably in there somewhere. Want to do it anyway? It's probably allowed somewhere else. Want to know if you can or can't do something? Well, goo
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
I'm not completely opposed, but the ones that seem to be worth the effort are still very expensive. The advantage of the flip phone is that it is cheap and durable. If I need something more robust, I have a laptop. If the flip phone ca
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
My partner got the "you must download iOS 18.3, it has security fixes!" message, and did so. It defaults to Apple Intelligence "on", which they had already declined in the last update. So, turned it off in settings. Then
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
It is great news. I was not aware this was in the works. Using other libraries for something as fundamental as this always seemed odd.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
>I realize there's some devils in the details here with regards to social pressures and the like. I have a no-socials policy for my kids until they're practically adults. It's not an easy policy, and the oldest who had to
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Exactly this. Don't think of it as "moving to a service-based economy", think of it as "outsourcing manufacturing and resource extraction". They are two sides of the same coin, but people tend to only look at the on
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Loggers used to sink logs in water to keep them from rotting. Keeping wood wet is a pretty good preservative. What gets to wood is critters. A lot of sea creatures will nibble away at it. On land, it's insects and fungus and the like.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
>We simply talk to the teachers and administrators, and you would not believe the results. It would depend on what you're asking for. It depends on the school district/state, but anything that gets close to the curriculum isn&#
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
It takes more effort to homeschool than farming it out to public schools, so you're naturally selecting for involved parents. To the detriment of public schools, it should be noted. It also skews the perspectives of homeschool parents
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
That you felt the need to explain these makes me feel really, really old. (And you did need to explain it; it's practically Elder Lore at this point.) It's like explaining to young people that we used to have to pay per message fo
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
You don't just stay home with your siblings. A major factor of how homeschooling works is homeschoolers have local organizations or co-ops where they do things together. And, yes, this is just reinventing some aspects of the public sch
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
I took the pedals off for one of my kids (the others did the training wheels), and it worked quite well. The only downside was that he figured out that if he got wobbly, he could stick his legs down and a bit out and it would help him stabi
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Second this suggestion. The one by Caroline Alexander is also very good. It's a story of the most incredible leadership during spectacular difficulty overcoming multiple seemingly impossible things.
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
My kids do mountain bike racing, and one of the reasons I like they do it is because it is incredibly safe. For one, where I am there aren't "mountains"; it's essentially off-road biking. But additionally, the organizati
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
The girlfriend thing was very odd. At one time, "making it" meant now you can marry the girl, have a bunch of kids, and become a pillar of your community. Get rich? Move to a small or mid-sized city, marry your girl, have some kid
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Name fields in general. But sometimes I don't have control, e.g. another person is inputting the data and dutifully duplicates my name. That's how I ended up with the 2 phone calls/3 person situation, which happened about a m
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
>Not as bad as when I was once issued a first.o'last@corp email address though Oh, man, that happened to me too, way back in the late 90s. I had forgotten about that. It broke things all over the place. Even now you run into the occ
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
My last name has an apostrophe in it. This isn't super weird or anything, there have been "O'Haras" and "O'Neills" (with 2 Ls) forever. And yet whenever I deal with a computer system I don't put the a
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
I was at an event recently, with a bunch of teenagers (one of which was mine) and I passed around a couple of those Fuji Instax cameras. They loved them. They liked writing notes on the border. The photos aren't nearly as good as even
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
"Do They Know It's Christmas" usually makes the lists of terrible Christmas music as well. So much Christmas music is repetitive, but coloring outside the lines is a tough thing to do with Christmas music. The Pogues nailed i
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
I didn't know Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics to this song. Man, that's gotta sting. But if I was making a list of Awful, Terrible Songs, I'm not sure I would have even included this one, mostly because I wouldn't remembe
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by deltarholamda 2y ago
Well, sure, specific cases are different. But, FWIW, I did it with regular conference calls. Infants aren't much of a distraction IMO. My cats were more distracting, at least until the baby got mobile. That stage is certainly more chal

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