futureastronaut

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by futureastronaut 7y ago
I'm not sure the crowd here is technical enough to use your advice. Or at least that's my conclusion after seeing this same whining thread on every. single. submission.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
And doubly wrong by implying that said crowd would place politics over money. We're approaching "Not Even Wrong" territory here.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
That's cherry-picking though. The Gobi desert is expanding very quickly, as is the Sahara into Sudan. The Chihuaha desert also is expanding in Texas, I'm sure there are many other examples. Maybe deserts will in general become gre
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
> makes uninhabitable deserts verdant Is that likely? I wasn't aware of any predicted reversal of desertification. It may render some tundra provinces verdant however.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
You're probably being too picky. There are lots of women who would practically throw themselves at somebody like you describe, no matter how shy you are, if you faintly returned their interest. We all have our standards, but it's
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
That map is confusing, regions are colored grey that are clearly in the top 20 MSA, like the entire urbanized northeast. Also the article's mostly about Nashville, not its title.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
That's a pretty good excuse actually, we're running out of people.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Regardless of local cost of living, it's a bad offer becasue Wal-Mart can afford to pay better. That's "company town" pay right there.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
We have a winner. There are so many JavaScript libraries and frameworks because there's so much JavaScript being written. It has nothing to do with anything about the language, apart from perhaps the thin standard library.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Even worse than having Golang replace your Go language!
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Being a 10x programmer or whatever isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's not like they let you work 1/10x, or even 1/2x. You're expected to deliver that 10x 50 weeks a year, it's impossible to not get burn
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
What if I told you that you could be hobbled by inconsistent, scattered state in a system not expicitly designed to be distributed. There's no point in jumping to the conclusion that they are using a design you're familiar with.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Second one has no comments, not much of a discussion.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
I think there's a large overlap between image-conscious Mac users and image-conscious developers, for whom laptops are an expression of self or something like that.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
If I recall correctly, they were dressed like ODOT workers to appear official.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Ten years or so ago I recall a story about some guys in Eugene unbolting an entire rack full of bikes from the asphalt and loading it into a truck. Can't find the story now.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Temporary/incremental bike racks are common? I've never seen this before in any US city. Pretty cool idea.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
My point was about the usefulness of generational constructs as cultural boundaries, not "damn kids got no culture!". And according to sibling, I have "denouncements" to rebut. What a thread.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
It's not easy to lift furniture quietly, but yes, like any other move, because the flooding will be gradual. As far as how society reacts as a whole, look at how the Houston and Baton Rouge metro areas absorbed refugees of hurricane Ka
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
In places where sea walls aren't built, people will move uphill. You can prepare by purchasing currently undesirable properties that are at higher elevations in affected metro areas.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
I don't think there's such a thing as "millennial culture."
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Opposite here, the magsafe was a constant nuisance, always disconnecting. I like being able to drag the cord with the laptop.
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Chinese economists warn Beijing to prepare for decoupling from US(scmp.com)
13 points by futureastronaut 7y ago|4 comments
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
It's some AMD Radeon with 8G so reasonably beefy. Not sure about the driver, I choose AMD for Linux graphics to not have to think about that I suppose, Nvidia used to be (still is?) a headache on Linux.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
I would love to use Wayland, currently I only use it to watch movies without tearing. Anecdotally, everything feels brittle when using Wayland, applications crash... I really hope it matures.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
It's more like saying "the conventional P5 runtime is about as heavy as the distributed P6 one", seems fair to me.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Agreed, "Perl 6 is slow" is a ridiculous takeaway from a benchmark of process start times.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
The prominent mascot is more of a reflection of the times when Perl 6 marketing materials were written. It was during the heyday of whimsy and _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby. It feels a little forced to me.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
Yes, and we see this in disproportionate demand for software developers, and also in envy/resentment towards tech workers, who have benefitted the most in the recovery.
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by futureastronaut 7y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that the recovery from the 2008 recession is largely driven by growth of tech stocks, especially Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-0

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