dlcarrier

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by dlcarrier 5d ago
Does it let you get crazy amounts of money by pulling shenanigans while trading currency with other nations? It seems that 4X games are notoriously bad at forex.
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by dlcarrier 6d ago
Is everyone online just that bad at programming? Yes: https://xkcd.com/2030/ I work in electronics hardware development, where everything has to work on the first release, and the equivalent to compiling take
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by dlcarrier 6d ago
I wonder how much of the bad sentiment is from Flock being used as an excuse for government agencies to blatantly violate the fourth amendment. If the data they collect could only be accessed for specific individuals, after a warrant is is
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by dlcarrier 6d ago
There was a period when automated red-light cameras were really popular with municipalities, followed by significant backlash. Since then, the companies selling them have not recovered financially and the cameras never regained popularity.
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by dlcarrier 6d ago
Who's throwing away their legos? Random assortments of pieces sell for for like $5 to $10 a pound, where I live.
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by dlcarrier 6d ago
I hope they can figure out something more efficient than daily commuting, because there a lot of state workers in Sacramento and not many roads crossing the Sacramento river, so the more state workers commute, the longer you have to sit in
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by dlcarrier 9d ago
Many areas make it difficult to build housing, especially small units with low market rates, so living in your car is a much cheaper option. It's a secure area to sleep and house belongings, and while most jurisdictions limit parking
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by dlcarrier 9d ago
My 25-year-old car gets 30+ miles to the gallon, far better than an F-series truck, which is the best selling vehicle in the US. It's been 30 years since anyone sold a new carbureted production car in the US, for just as long cars have
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by dlcarrier 9d ago
He liked travelling in it, but what he really liked was hanging out inside it while drinking cocktails with friends and family, and if he could have done that while parked in an air-conditioned man cave he might never have taken it o
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by dlcarrier 9d ago
Demand is outpacing supply, so new supply is serving that unmet demand, not creating it.
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by dlcarrier 9d ago
Huge slow ships are exponentially more fuel efficient and cheaper to build per capacity than smaller and faster ships. That's what dictates their design more than anything else. The most cost effective alternate method, to avoid the c
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by dlcarrier 10d ago
Like most federal regulations, there's enough poorly worded or vaguely written requirements that any investigator could find a way to fail every vehicle ever made. Without the standards it would be difficult to hold automakers liable f
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by dlcarrier 10d ago
Markets exist within politics as much as they do for physical goods. Single-party governments tend to function poorly, regardless of the party, because there's no competition to try and capture the most swing voters, so bad ideas prev
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by dlcarrier 11d ago
I've yet to find a video as straightforward as the manual. Not only do you need to find a video with the right information, you need to find where within the video that information is. Also, videos are one-dimensional, whereas print m
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by dlcarrier 11d ago
In my experience, any industry following a security standard halts all effort at security once they're compliant with the standard. HIPAA sets a minimum but seems to also guarantee you will get exactly that minimum and nothing better.
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by dlcarrier 11d ago
The best part about the breadth of NEMA standards is that the plugs generally match the power needed, so for light-duty appliances, which includes most household appliances that aren't permanently installed, if you were to accidentally
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by dlcarrier 11d ago
tl;dr: The desktop environment the author is using is adopting mac OS unusability features, but doing so slowly, so jumping to mac OS will allow full unusability without the wait.
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by dlcarrier 11d ago
For sure, but it's more so the reaction to the existence of AI; I can't go a day without being blocked from a site because it thinks I'm a bot. They claim pay-per-crawl is about bots, but I'm convinced it's a way f
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
Nothing prevents competition like letting the top players in a field write their own regulation.
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
The purpose of the Communications Decency Act is to allow providers to moderate community content, and section 230 provides liability from both undermoderating and overmoderating, so that providers don't forgo mederating altogether, fo
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
He can vote in a replacement board. The board knew that any action they took was temporary, and likely planned around this from the start.
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
Definitely stay away from anything Matt Mullenweg is involved in. Part of what led up to this was a feud he had with a plug-in author, that led to Mullenweg signing his own plug-in as an update to the original author's plug-in, in the
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
There's been ~40% inflation accumulated over the last decade. On top of that, storage and RAM prices have recently doubled or even tripled, as demand has outpaced supply. A quick look on Dell's web page shows an entry-level Core
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
That's usually a RAM limit, and only six computers had RAM swapped out of them.
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
Back then, if computers needed to be centrally managed, they'd give employees terminals and run everything on mainframes or X servers. Personal computers were often not even networked.
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by dlcarrier 12d ago
I've had the opposite problem, where I assumed shell scripts were cached, but an instance already running started using my modified version, while I was still working on it
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by dlcarrier 15d ago
I predict that in five years, half the businesses currently running in the US will be bankrupt or merged into another business, and in ten years, the same will happen again. I can pretty confidently make this prediction, because it's
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by dlcarrier 15d ago
It's the employment market waking up to the lack of value of the universities' credentialing. The universities themselves don't have a competitive market to speak of, because their customers are so heavily subsidized† that t
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by dlcarrier 17d ago
The Apple Vision Pro was a rare early entry into a field. Usually they wait until the technology is established and the userbase is just starting to take off, as is currently the case with folding phone displays. Samsung has already worked
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by dlcarrier 17d ago
Is an inner screen camera really worth it? There's already a camera cutout on the outer screen, plus you can open the phone and use the full-size camera with the outer screen, which results in much more flattering imagery than the wid

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