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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Yeah..h as someone in Upstate New York, one of the snowiest places in the country. Snow tires are really what you want. AWD is really nice. BUT end of the day, if you can only go 30 you can only go 30. What really saves you with AWD is when
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I don't play any AAA games really. The only "AAA" game I've played in the past few years is basically Baldurs Gate 3 and Kingdom Come Deliverance II. But mostly I play rpgs and strategy games that don't require much
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Crucial shut down, Nvidia not producing consumer cards. Even with AMD cards, if there's no memory available then we can't get them either. Ram is 4-5x the price of a year ago. Is AI going to kill the consumer computer industry?
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Rails shops seem to not like to use SQS/PubSub/Kafka/RabbitMQ for some reason. They seem to really like these worker tasks like SideKiq or SolidQueue. When I compare this with Java, C# or Python who all seem much more likely
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
The US has this problem. There aren't really rules on paying executives as much as you want, or having bonus structures based on fundraising, as long as the board okays it and considers it as contributing to the mission. It is non-prof
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Local journalism is important but I am not really sure how to fix it. Lets say we make a big fund to pay for "independent journalism" at the local level. That only works for so long until people get inside with their own axe to gr
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Non-profits don't really stop any of that. Plenty of non-profits are after perverse incentives to gather as much money as they can to just pay higher ups more money, and use the non-profit status to pay employees less.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Yeah I was on the team that had yubikey working. It was kind of a pain because we had to support some ancient IE versions and Yubikey basically only worked on Chrome at the time IIRC. > I’ve also had other banks do the same. They provide
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
When I used to work on the Vanguard authentication team, we blocked Vietnam from access because of too much fraud (not my choice). But it was funny because we had Vietnam based clients, so there were a couple HNW clients in the logs that yo
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
China is ahead of the curve here, the one app is wechat.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
If we truly hit the point where we have more people than jobs. That we hit AI improving at miraculous paces that we cant even reskill people. I think it would be better to essentially have make work programs. Have basic qualification progra
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Did you read the expanse? The earth of the expanse is full of crime and destitution. People apply in the tens of thousands for every lottery slot of school or jobs. People just wallow in nothingness. The people fleet earth for mars and the
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
UBI will turn Earth into the Earth of the Expanse. I truly believe it would be absolutely ruinous on man. Our psychology is just not built for that.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
One of the best litmus tests for Democrat or Republican I have found is "Should people on food stamps be able to buy mountain dew / candy / etc with them?", very low false positive rate in either direction. But regardles
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
This is the first food recommendation from the government that makes sense. 6-11 servings of grains, 3-5 veges, 2-4 fruit, 2-3 dairy, 2-3 protein (all sources), minimal fat was absurd and bad. Protein is until you hit your needed macros. Fa
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
The US had 0-1% inflation a year until the federal reserve. I blame the FED and currency, yes. Look up the "what happened in 1970" charts, and its we got off the gold standard.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
When I was younger, teen and early 20s, and working in retail. I noticed and thought it was kind of funny how in the job application process, these 100+ question interviews were all about trying to filter out criminals. They really treated
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Even the myplate doesn't seem right. There's probably too much fruit and too much dairy. There isn't any indication of legumes. Vegetables is too vague. There is no indication of fats, which are part of everything else.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
I think the reason htmx and alpine are both popular is that they both get added as html attributes. So you really feel like youre just writing things html a lot of the time.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
I just cant say enough how much I love HTMX. I got my feet wet doing hotwire/turbo in rails, and htmx is really just such a wonderful expansion of thise ideas. Making reactive app experiences on the web with a tiny js bundle and just w
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
My hypothesis is that GLP-1 drugs are basically counteracting the effects of various chemicals interfering with the natural processes of our endocrine system. I think something (microplastics, chemicals in the water, hormones, ultraprocesse
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
I got the $10k a year employee from chatgpt with "Assume I have a company with 100 employees in New York, how much on average does it cost to provide health insurance" and it gave me poor, moderate and good ppo plan prices. I figu
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
So the ~$10k a year is just what the employer is paying in my example, taking some numbers from chatgpt for a medium sized company in new york. Not even counting the employee side of the premiums, which can be crazy high as well.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
SO this is just what the employer pays. The employee then pays premiums monthly as well for access. Employers pay somewhere between $5k and $25k (or more) per employee a year for health care depending on quality and portion of premiums th
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Even more minor issues and not going to those more abhorrent extremes, some countries like Japan or China have much more social shame for public misbehavior. The United States used to have more social shame for public misbehavior. This is
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
The body positivity movement when it was more about people not being ashamed for having conditions (amputations, eczema, vitiligo, etc.) was a good movement. It was about accepting people for their body that they had no control of. It was a
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Onshoring manufacturing and bringing back the US manufacturing base is a critical issue. This is from a social and security pov. Having millions of young men wallowing around playing video games and drugs all day and not working, raising fa
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Is that comparison similar square footage? I know of factories that have 10 employees and are small machine shops, and factories that have a few thousand employees (even ones that are highly automated). The difference is scale.
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
One of my main arguments for a universal health care scheme in the united states is how horrendously expensive, for employers, health care is. Lets totally ignore efficacy, moral arguments, expense for the patient, etc. If you are a company
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by ecshafer 10mo ago
Yeah I made an arithmetic error, meant 1990.

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