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by epmatsw 4y ago
CIA has the same problem other government agencies always do with recruiting programmers: they just don’t pay enough to compete with the private market.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
I’d argue that useReducer and maybe even useRef most people could get away without knowing.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
See the federal government in general. People like my dad elect politicians who actively want the federal government to fail, and then use the government’s failures to justify that: “see, they were right all along!”
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by epmatsw 4y ago
Is that weird? Seems optimal for each region to grow the most efficient crops for their local conditions, which would require at least some of that type of trade.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
It’s a lot more rare now in my experience. Role queue locks you into at least 2-2-2, and open queue everyone kinda knows you’re getting 4 or 5 DPS anyways. Even in role queue off meta picks you might get a try hard annoyed every once in a w
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by epmatsw 4y ago
Depends! Generally to win a typical redraft 12 team league you need to hit on your first two draft picks, and then a couple more late round picks that outperform, and then have the rest of your team be at least okay. The top two picks are m
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by epmatsw 4y ago
The trick is just to not be good at them. At least in Overwatch, at middle or low tiers you can just ignore the meta and play whatever, no one cares really.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
The mistake they made was having it be closed invites for so long. Facebook butchered Facebook Chat, and my whole friend group was ready to jump ship. Except Google wouldn’t let us, and then Facebook had enough time to get Chat/Message
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by epmatsw 4y ago
“The End of the World is Just the Beginning” by Peter Zeihan. Probably needs to be read with a grain (or two or three) of salt, but it’s pretty thought-provoking.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
And yet the majority of Republicans were still unwilling to pass it.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
In our case googling “Comcast service <town name>” pulls up a page from the city government’s site that has contact info for our Community Connectivity Manager. That person, when contacted, got us hooked up.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
Talk to your local government. We were in the same situation, and it turns out Comcast was legally required to service our house, they just didn’t want to (because of the expense). A few days after getting the government involved we had a t
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by epmatsw 4y ago
There’s actually a $500 tax credit to install reflective shingles for this very reason. https://www.energystar.gov/about/federal_tax_credits/roofs_m...
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by epmatsw 4y ago
This is a fascinating story. The PGA has done a terrible job of keeping players happy, and now they’re facing big money competition and banking on morals to hold players back from jumping ship. It’s worth noting that most of the guys who sw
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by epmatsw 4y ago
Seems like the common thread in these failures is outsized “guaranteed” returns. Are there other large systems or companies still paying out double digit rates now?
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Boy Scouts sell off camps under financial strain from sex abuse lawsuits(npr.org)
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by epmatsw 4y ago
Kinda wild that MDMA is on the list with those other three (opioids, meth, and coke). Seems firmly in a less harmful tier to me.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
Odd Lots is also a really excellent podcast, even outside of this episode. Their coverage of the past couple years of supply chain issues has been so cool.
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by epmatsw 4y ago
100 times this. I’ve worked at a company with a commit history going back to 1979 (literal paper logs at that point, plus in-file headers), and another company where we lost ~2 years worth of historical context/info to WIP commits beca
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by epmatsw 4y ago
McRib is a hilarious name for a service
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by epmatsw 5y ago
Is 37 really young enough to be worth mentioning?
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by epmatsw 5y ago
This is probably the best take. If someone says that ads are part of the deal, fair enough. I can go somewhere else, or I can honor the deal. Otherwise, seems unethical to me.
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by epmatsw 5y ago
“Hey, viewing this ad is the price of getting this product I’m offering” “No thanks, I’ll just take it”. I don’t think it’s an incorrect argument. We’re free to seek out ad-free content, or paid content, or whatever, but unilaterally reject
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by epmatsw 5y ago
I guess you have think of the cost savings vs an actual fire too. $1.6B worth of property destroyed and a $55m cleanup project after the Boulder fires just now. That can justify a whole lot of $100 fire extinguishers even if they’re only ma
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by epmatsw 5y ago
I think the point was that seniors as a demographic generally vote for politicians that don’t support those policies, against the wishes of the majority of the rest of the population.
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by epmatsw 5y ago
It's because having an actual shrinkwrap file in a library introduces a huge number of conflicts. If library A has 20 transitive dependencies, and library B has the same 20 transitive dependencies, deduplication based on ranges can lea
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by epmatsw 5y ago
Yarn at least includes a hash of the tarball in the lockfile, so even if npm’s immutability fails somehow you’ll at least know.
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by epmatsw 5y ago
Seems like every other first-world country in the world should be sufficient experimentation.
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by epmatsw 5y ago
Hard to put a charitable interpretation on putting diversity in air quotes…
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by epmatsw 5y ago
Are there any public companies actually working on this? The last time I looked it seemed like the answer was “Chevron, kinda”, but that doesn’t seem like the right spirit.

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