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by doom2 9mo ago
It reminded me of Chinese style military naming conventions, which makes sense since for all the anti-China bluster, Trump seems to be a big admirer of the power Xi has.
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by doom2 9mo ago
I'm also very confused by the almost complete dismissal of intellectual curiosity in this thread. People learn things they don't _need_ to learn all the time and post about it here without being met with a "I don't need
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by doom2 9mo ago
Ok? Just because there has been a drop in the number of licensees and the exam no longer requires Morse code wouldn't necessarily put Morse on a list of "methods of transferring information we may have lost historically that we do
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by doom2 9mo ago
> - Morse code I would argue that Morse code is not only alive and well in the amateur radio hobby but actively being adopted by younger people both in and out of the hobby. I just got a holiday card from a college friend whose 6 year ol
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by doom2 9mo ago
The project I keep wanting to pair learning C with is an extremely simple IRC client in the terminal. It'd give me the chance to learn the language and the protocol at the same time.
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by doom2 9mo ago
I want to learn two languages in 2026: * CW (also known as Morse code) - I'm not able to have an amateur radio station at home, so I have to work portable/QRP. Given current band conditions, CW is one easy option to make contacts
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by doom2 10mo ago
How did you pivot from web to your current position? I'm an amateur radio operator but not trained as an electrical engineer. If my current niche ever became stale or went away, I've always wondered if I could work in something ra
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by doom2 10mo ago
Hello fellow data engineer! I feel like I don't see a lot of us around / don't see many popular submissions dealing with data engineering. I also work with financial datasets (think aggregated consumer transaction data) for u
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by doom2 10mo ago
I think the disconnect for me is that I want AI to do a bunch of mundane stuff in my job where it is likely to be discouraged so I can focus on my work. My employer's CEO just implemented an Elon-style "top 5" bi-weekly repor
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by doom2 10mo ago
> Customer diversity is a good thing. Tell that to Micron.
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by doom2 10mo ago
> but out in the official data, and less so but still true in the real world, things are still bobbing along. Not great guns but still ok. The interesting thing is how much is internet chatter a leading signal for this thing now than in
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by doom2 11mo ago
> He is an anti-Semite. Fortunately for NYC voters, the other candidates (and national Republicans generally) seemed happy to traffic in casual Islamophobia. Why we don't treat the two as equally unacceptable is beyond me.
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by doom2 11mo ago
I'm also suffering this on macOS. I can get through an entire work day, but when I close the laptop for the night and come back the next day, wez has crashed and I don't know why.
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by doom2 1y ago
This is also what I think is a driving factor behind American politics today: > Alarming and misleading news may be a particular threat to the elderly, who are twice as likely as under-25s to use news apps or websites. Millions of people
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by doom2 1y ago
Just not by SCOTUS (cf. the shadow docket which has not gone against Trump since May).
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by doom2 1y ago
If the government can determine that my taxes are wrong, then they know the amount I have to pay. So why can't they tell me the correct number up front? (Yes, I know the reason why, but I still feel like it's a valid question)
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by doom2 1y ago
Similarly, the parent comment claims > There's almost no upside to eating in a sit-down restaurant anymore. But _lots_ of people live in places where there are multiple choices of restaurants whose menus aren't filled with Sysc
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by doom2 1y ago
In the large-ish East Coast city I live in, there are so many restaurants making food that a) isn't defrosted Sysco meals and b) is something that would take either a large amount of labor or specialized ingredients to make at home. My
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by doom2 1y ago
Germany and Japan also got to keep their countries in the end. What guarantees do the Palestinians have that they'll get to keep Gaza and not have it be overrun by Israeli settlers (who are already wreaking havoc in the West Bank)?
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by doom2 1y ago
> Most of America is car-centric and it's pretty good once you buy into that model of living. Is it though? I'm for public transit because one day I'll be of an age where I probably shouldn't be driving but am still a
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by doom2 1y ago
> Spend some time not just driving through them, and one may be surprised to find plenty of diverse and interesting people that live full lives with rich family and social bonds I would argue that this could also be said to people (mainl
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by doom2 1y ago
Unfortunately, my (Republican) senator doesn't seem to agree with me (a Democrat) on even the smaller issues. Yet he theoretically represents every resident of this state in the Senate, including the ones that didn't vote for him.
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by doom2 1y ago
> Ego: senior people need to be seen and respected in person The funny thing is that the CEO of my current employer lives in Connecticut and rarely (ever?) comes into the office in Manhattan. When he does come in, they shut the office do
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by doom2 1y ago
> So they are allowed to be as upset as anyone else about this stuff. My issue with this take is the lack of evidence. I don't read about Trump voters calling their reps to try and push back (and let's be real, most Republican
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by doom2 1y ago
If anything, I think we're even closer. It feels like the current administration is stifling speech more than ever. It's open season on people who don't proudly wave the flag or correctly mourn Charlie Kirk. People who dare s
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by doom2 1y ago
Now you see channels avoiding saying "Gaza" or "genocide". I haven't seen any proof platforms are censoring at least some content related to Israel but I wouldn't be surprised.
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by doom2 1y ago
Amazing to me that a supposedly big part of Trump's win in 2024 was that people were voting for him to turn down the magic grocery price reduction knob and *poof* we'd be back to pre-pandemic prices. Yet somehow I don't think
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by doom2 1y ago
> this implies we’re losing acceptability of political “others”. I think this is being seriously accelerated by Trump. Why should I treat those I disagree with with dignity and respect when the President (who theoretically is a leader fo
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by doom2 1y ago
> you'd expect Israel to be equally targeting Palestinians in the West Bank The Israeli government doesn't have to. They let settlers take care of that for them without any repercussions.
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by doom2 1y ago
> Rhetoric on social media must be deescalated. Let's start with the President (and others in power) along with prominent media figures like Jesse Watters. They can set an example for others to follow.

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