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by et-al 2y ago
Two small exceptions to a generally good rule: - good shoes in certain regions may not be easy to find. don't skimp on good shoes. - not to get into a dirtbag pissing contest about necessities, but there were also plenty of towns in My
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by et-al 2y ago
New regimes have often relied on child soldiers who don’t have a developed moral compass to question their actions.
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by et-al 2y ago
I trust dang. I also believe there are a bunch of Musk fanboys on this site that would flag this. Or people who don’t want to understand the implications of what’s going on and avoid anything that’s “political”.
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by et-al 2y ago
Wow, thanks for the sharing this lovely tidbit!
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by et-al 2y ago
I work in an industry with a small handful of software companies, so not going to out myself. But the 13 year old edgelord I was wouldn't be able to criticize what I'm working on now, so I can rest easy here.
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by et-al 2y ago
> For example, your job at the ad tech company could be anonymizing data and protecting people’s privacy. This only happens because companies need to adhere to regulations, not because they're doing it out of respect for people. And
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by et-al 2y ago
> do you make a utilitarian analysis of the impact of your employer or other products you use? Actually there are us who would consider what impacts our employers have. E.g. I avoid working for adtech, and sure as hell would not want to
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by et-al 2y ago
iirc with this setup, Google just changes the "reply-to" and someone can still figure out your actual Gmail address.
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by et-al 2y ago
To back this up, here's one perspective: > TB continues to be one of the major public health threats. BCG is the only available vaccine against TB and confers significant protection against the childhood disease. However, the prote
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by et-al 2y ago
> The public education system provides resources like gifted programs, AP courses, and extracurricular activities to challenge / engage students at all levels of above/below average. So if your kid is an advanced learner they
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by et-al 2y ago
It seems like we're in a period of realizing that airplane systems aren't as robust as we've assumed. E.g. MH370's satellite uplink also lost power.
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by et-al 2y ago
Thanks for sharing these. It's really inspiring to see some fun antics like this to bring back the joy of frontend work.
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by et-al 2y ago
He is. But at the cost of the greater good. Most of us care mainly about the Wayback Machine and archiving webpages; not borrowing books still under copyright and fighting publishers.
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by et-al 2y ago
This $263k median in the Bay Area is making me sad.
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by et-al 2y ago
What are you using in lieu of Action Cable for websocket connections?
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by et-al 2y ago
And just like real debt, some tech debt has higher compounding effects than others. (Consider this fix cost and impact in the author's framework.)
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by et-al 2y ago
> Are they hard to make at home? I haven't found great/reliable spots to get these in SF. (Where are the great SF spots for these??) A number of Japanese students I knew just used leftover rice to make onigiri for lunch the n
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by et-al 2y ago
Here's some normalized data (pedestrian deaths to VMT) on Figure 5, page 12. Unfortunately it only goes back to 2016 and not 1975: https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2024-06/2023%20Pede... And
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by et-al 2y ago
How many times a week do you walk or bike to buy groceries? If it's one or less, you lack perspective in this space. Anyone who has been nearly hit by a car while walking understands why violence is the correct term. Secondly, your c
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by et-al 2y ago
Is there a modern replacement for the Sansa Clip Zip? Tiny screen, micro SD slot, and great battery life. Rockbox flashable would be a big plus.
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by et-al 2y ago
Naïvely, I'm hoping they're only patenting this so no one less savory can and will charge nothing to license it. I'm hoping.
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by et-al 2y ago
Why the QC25s over the QC35s?
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by et-al 2y ago
The Latter-Day Saints (aka Mormons) are relatively young, but they're definitely one of the more, if not the most, organized Christian sect around.
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by et-al 2y ago
I think this may also come down to record keeping. And keep in mind that China had the Cultural Revolution which reset the counter to zero.
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by et-al 2y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about sports
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by et-al 2y ago
The article mentions this, but just to emphasize: there are two Technik museums close to Mannheim, Germany. Speyer has a bunch of vintage cars and the 747. Sinsheim has the Concorde.
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by et-al 2y ago
> Normally I would have dismissed that as a coincidence, but daylight saving time also ended at 11:00pm (PT) on November 7! Huh? Unless I'm mistaken, Daylight Saving ended at 2am local time on Nov 7, 2021. Was the bug that Day S
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by et-al 2y ago
That statement is similar to the "everything has been done before", or "everything is art" reductivism. There's a marked difference between fixing the color shift to better capture the mood and straight up removing
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by et-al 2y ago
Ah no. To clarify I was highlighting mvkel's point by pointing out two lesser known films that future film historians would want to access to in addition to The Matrix . Luckily there are plenty of DVDs floating about for those films,
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by et-al 2y ago
>Think of all the countless valuable film, music, etc that didn't have the acclaim of The Matrix. Gone sooner, and more prolifically. E.g. Existenz and Strange Days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz h

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