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541.
by forinti 2y ago
> You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. It's used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expe
542.
by forinti 2y ago
The restaurant could easily get into an agreement with the driver.
543.
by forinti 2y ago
I sometimes tell my team that writing software is about learning what to write and how to write it, not the actual artifacts. So throwing code out is not bad, it is just part of the process of learning.
544.
by forinti 2y ago
I tried reporting a phishing site to DO recently and I was quite disappointed at the response. With regards to AWS, I have most of their IPs blocked because so many attacks come from there.
545.
by forinti 2y ago
Spot on. You don't have much time with them before they grow up and move out.
546.
by forinti 2y ago
You can still get a cheaper model. You don't have to buy a Pi 5.
547.
by forinti 2y ago
I guess it's a sign that the CIA and the US military don't do their dirty jobs for them anymore. In another 100 years they might actually get a real sentence.
548.
by forinti 2y ago
Seems like a tourist trip: it goes all over Europe. Nice, but not really a regular bus ride.
549.
by forinti 2y ago
Nowadays the longest regular bus trip is from Rio de Janeiro do Lima, Peru. It's 6200km and takes 5 days to complete.
550.
by forinti 2y ago
In the Acorn DFS the "directory" was an attribute for each file that was just a letter prefixed to the file's name. It was used to group files. Since the original format only allowed 31 files per side, it wasn't really t
551.
by forinti 2y ago
I live in South America and I've never seen such products locked up in a supermarket. Usually it's just liquor and cigarettes if there's anything locked up at all.
552.
by forinti 2y ago
I recently had this interesting conversation with the CEO of a local company. After the pandemic, he pondered on RTO/WFH. His company is still growing and he needed to hire more people. If he ordered RTO, he would surely lose some peop
553.
by forinti 2y ago
HK was never actually British to begin with. It was leased territory. Maybe the independence of Brunei (1984) would be a better date to mark the end of the empire.
554.
by forinti 2y ago
I actually prefer Perl's stability. And, anyway, it's a dynamic language: you can create stuff without requiring changes to the compiler. For a long time I worked with Java and it became very tiresome to have to learn a new framew
555.
by forinti 2y ago
In the late 90s I learnt Perl precisely because I didn't want to do a job in C (simple CGI stuff) and it was the only other alternative on the particular server I was working on.
556.
by forinti 2y ago
I did some historical research to understand why the PC caught on (it made no sense to my 1980s teenage mind). A PC with 80 columns card, 64KB of RAM and a floppy drive cost about the same as an Apple II Plus with the same specs (US$2,700).
557.
by forinti 2y ago
It would be interesting to see the distribution across different countries. My guess is that Europe and US have a lot more PS5s and peripheral economies have a larger PS4 base.
558.
by forinti 2y ago
I feel that empty houses and apartments should pay more taxes after a year or two of being empty. I also see a lot of empty properties for years on end in the middle of town.
559.
by forinti 2y ago
My grandfather said there were such parties when he was young. That would have been 1930s-1940s. And what's even more crazy is that this was in the countryside in Portugal.
560.
by forinti 2y ago
In South America it's become common to hear about adolescents and young people (mostly men) who spend all their time on video games and neither work nor study. I imagine this to be a very different phenomenon from Japan, because the cu
561.
by forinti 2y ago
I knew a girl who could imitate perfectly that. Great party trick.
562.
by forinti 2y ago
I dunno, why not just use Perl or Python?
563.
by forinti 2y ago
The less profitable industries are already being shipped out to the likes of Vietnam.
564.
by forinti 2y ago
Why is this supposed to be a mystery? Every country wants a trade surplus. China exported US$3.38T in 2023, but also imported US$2.55T. In fact, their exports are only a little above the US's, which exported about US$3.053T in 2023.
565.
by forinti 2y ago
It's a bit disappointing that Sony made the beautiful HB-101 and then decided to make this model look so industrial.
566.
by forinti 2y ago
And how are you going to find the source?
567.
by forinti 2y ago
8086 wasn't really much faster. It just allowed you to use more memory and was easier to write assembly to. BASIC was actually slower on the original PC than on the 6502 and the Z80.
568.
by forinti 2y ago
My family had a Beeb with 128KB of RAM. I thought XTs were awful. Sure, they had more RAM, but for our use cases (games and word processing), it wasn't really necessary. I even learnt Pascal on it. Things definitely changed with 386s a
569.
by forinti 2y ago
Plus it's probably better to have many smaller and cheaper planes than one big expensive one.
570.
by forinti 2y ago
I played this on a friend's MSX. It was slower than on the Beeb, but impressive nonetheless. By the time I finished college (about 10 years later), I could make animations with shading in C++ without a GPU on a 386 and no need for magi

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