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by eropple 3y ago
How far do you have to drive to go to a supermarket from that development? To a library? (Silly me, expecting people to go to a library in 2024, right?) If Dallas or Houston or Austin had decent mass transit out to those areas that&#x27
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> In 1950 you could afford a car and house on one income - but that house as much smaller than the typical house today. "Typical" is doing some really heavy lifting there given the kind of housing stock available in, say, Eas
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by eropple 3y ago
You don't have to be "profound" to make a substantial comment. But as it is, you're being really unpleasant about something that ultimately doesn't matter enough to merit it. (And I don't even like ligatures in
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> Even when btc lightning solves most reasons why you probably hate it It "solves" that it is a predatory minefield of grifters, jangling keys of hope in front of people with little to lose? Since when?
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I don't want to be even peripherally associated with people who think these are socially legitimate tools.
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I think there's a lot of good ideas in the Podcasting 2.0 set of specs, but the insistence on stapling crypto shit into it (even for quote-unquote good reasons) has meant that I've got no interest in recommending it as a thing. Th
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> the idea that they’re going to be buying these new bags ever other trip to the store because they’re piling up in a room at home for years is hard for me to believe. One of the things that pushed me away from using Instacart was that
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by eropple 3y ago
Funny - I’m right-handed, but my left hand also works most of the keyboard. I think it’s more because the modifier keys on the right are more natural for me to hit. On thumb keyboards, it’s pretty similar too. My left thumb types as far to
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Yeah, it’s become super useful for me to color code the cursors between my work and personal Macs.
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To move directionally in the way you describe, you probably have to make the user experience of running scripts of any kind much weirder . macOS does this to some extent by prompting via GUI if something tries to access data directories on
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by eropple 3y ago
The highway under Boston has turned out to be one of the better solutions that the area could've had, I think. It doesn't mean that the highway that goes around (I-95) is unused, or even underused, but I-93/the former Centr
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Forget eighteen-wheelers, which are rolling geometry problems: ever driven a solid-axle flatbed? Come back and tell us that that doesn't "require skill".
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Over the years since, I think the primary characteristics you'll find from their slate are either "quickly disavowed the Sad Puppies movement when they found out they were endorsed" or "have in the years since turned out
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by eropple 3y ago
Statenize, v.: to banish to Staten Island. Can't say it couldn't help.
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Yeah, what you describe is not a remotely hot take. The technical advantage, such as it was, for the Spanish invaders was armor more than guns (though that was also subject to being unsuited for climate, etc.).
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They didn't. The Spanish invaders allied with locals, to the point where some of those locals' descendants had special--though not equal--status into the colonial era as the indios nobles .
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At my current job I work with several people who have one to three years of experience repeated over the span of twenty. It might be less likely than some parts of HN would like it to be.
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I'll support this comment from a pedestrian, to whom bicycles present some nontrivial danger. Drivers, however, choose to The Other themselves via driving increasingly larger masses of steel, and IME at least seem to be driving ever mo
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Clean room's for tryhards. Dust adds flavor.
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> This would be useful for dependencies for example, in most circumstances you can safely assume that dependency code doesn't contain compilation errors, so any passes that check for them are just pure and unnecessary overhead. It
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by eropple 3y ago
I assume you meant "plenty of small businesses". On what margin?
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In short: the type system is significantly more expressive and encourages domain modeling that tends to lead to fewer errors; "if the compiler says it's OK, it'll be OK" isn't strictly true but it's often prett
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by eropple 3y ago
Kobe Bryant came close for a while, but I can't think of somebody who just held onto it like that.
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by eropple 3y ago
Yeah, I can relate to this. Not Jordans, but still Nike; it wasn't a stylistic choice at first, but I habitually wear AF1s because they're the most comfortable I've found and I can walk ~5 miles a day in them for 2-3 years fo
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by eropple 3y ago
The Mac Pro does have a rackmount, but that's mostly a box for PCIe devices. If you just want Mac compute and storage, it's not nearly as suitable, and the pricing/unit economics are a mess.
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Are we talking "startups" or "small businesses" here? I could see this blowing up startups for sure, but the conversation was about small businesses and I'm not sure I see the connection there. In my conception of
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I won't lie, I've thought about 3D printing a 2U or a 3U rack and treating them like really cheap blades. ;) Admittedly, as much for the hell of it as anything.
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Right, this is exactly why I'm confused about the all-is-lost framing of this. $12K isn't nothing. It's a pretty shitty thing to have drop on you and I think it should revert. But if you're starting a software business t
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Some of them have something weird on them, most of them are a normal barrel jack. I can't speak to the weird one, I don't have one of those.
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I am aware of that part, yeah. It's a shitty change, one hundred percent, and I'm glad to see folks like Wyden trying to unwind it. At the same time, I've owned small software businesses before, and I've started/not

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