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by galdosdi 2y ago
The landlord could put panels on it, and pass the lease fee on, and advertise the house as, eg "$1000 a month plus $100 FLAT FEE ELECTRICAL! You never pay more than $100 per month for electric AND IT'S STEPS AWAY FROM EVERYTHING&q
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Point well taken, golang feels painful to use compared to java due to its weak type system (to be fair, I have NOT used it since generics were added, so I don't know if that helped a lot -- that was always my main pain point, it made c
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Didn't used to be this way. I recently looked at my mom's 1960s history book from 5th grade she found in her old things, and was pretty surprised at how the reading and content seemed be aimed at a similar level as 8th or 9th grad
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Let me help your imagination then! I substitute taught 10th grade math at a Midwestern public school district for half a year in 2021 I had multiple students who pulled out their calculators to multiply by 1 or by 0. This is extreme, most w
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Any other millennials remember the pre-ajax CGI and <frame> based web game based on the book where you made your own countries and alliances and chose tax policy and stuff? Come to think of it 2003 was only a couple years before Gmail
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Honest question as a java lover-- do rust and TS have slow compile times or something? Because java has a robust type system and yet I've never had any issue with it's compile times. And the parsing in the IDEs is so fast and good
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Yeah. My job at the time was in the fidi and we had power trucks lining the streets for months. I saw the cars floating upside down with my own eyes. It was quite a time. Anyway: That is not the comeback you think it is. New York was unprep
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Couple more: (1) Garbage collection in every high level language: Java, which was the first mainstream language to do it-- people were seriously using cpp for high level business logic at the time, and were suspicious of GC for its performa
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> Either side thinks they can't survive without vanquishing the other. Except, it actually is not a two way street. It's purely one way. Without users, the content sellers can't survive. But if users stop consuming ads and
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I don't believe you. Your track record is of repeatedly responding to say you won't respond any more, over and over. It is bizarre, and it is conduct that has no place here. At this point I think I'm just amused and curious t
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Thank you for eloquently capturing why qarl's conduct was pissing me off.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
The shitshow that is python tooling is one of the reasons I prefer java jobs to python jobs when I can help it. Java got this pretty right years and years and years earlier. Why are python and javascript continuing to horse around playing g
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I would just use WSL then, if native windows dev tooling is such a shit show
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I agree, and even more strongly: you don't even need to remember .PHONY as long as your target names don't overlap with actual filenames, which is usually easy. In fact, I didn't even know about .PHONY and have used make for
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by galdosdi 2y ago
This is what financialization is for -- allowing homeowners to get "free" panels in exchange for paying back out of the savings over the years. Leasing panels is not uncommon. If these kinds of services don't exist in enough
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Another poster pointed out that the cost of moving lines underground is really only a one time fee of about $5 per person per month for about 10 years. This does not seem too expensive for a permanent increase in reliability. One thing I wi
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Source? The grid was far more reliable where I've lived with underground than overhead lines. Kind of hard to believe. Sounds like that would only happen if your city cheaped out on the conduit material.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
It's free if you spend it on a durable asset that is as or more valuable than the cash was, which can often be true of infrastructure. Your balance sheet goes up not down after the spend then.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I don't know if not everyone knows about this, but Amazon and YouTube offer $3 movie rentals and seem to have a really extensive catalogue, as in I've never failed to find a movie there that would have been available in the old DV
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by galdosdi 2y ago
For clarity, this is indeed the case in the USA and is the huge advantage physical media have. That's why mom and pop video rental stores with their own interesting taste were so common in the late 20th century. It's possible the
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> Somehow knowing that first boy born today will have an ID number of 120702450001X It's even worse. Only post-2011 IIRC births have an algoirthmic SSN. So everyone over the age of 13 still has old fashioned sequential SSNs, where X
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by galdosdi 2y ago
It's because it happened gradually / naturally / semi un intentionally, because: 1) SSN was not intended as a national ID, but it so happened to fit the shape of one, in that almost everyone has one and they're unique. 2
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Ah it was a different time. Societal trust was greater. Without global internetification, the only people who could ever have any opportunity to exploit this information were your fellow campus denizens (students, professors, etc). Without
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by galdosdi 2y ago
It's not just internet marketing. The 0.1% largest businesses in the USA represent around 60% of our GDP, and about half our employment. People really do interact with big business a lot. And the share for big business has only been gr
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by galdosdi 2y ago
No, not at all. You have missed the mark completely here. This is totally culturally dependent. In a culture where this is expected, this is indeed what will happen. If you've only ever lived in such a culture then, yeah, you might get
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I'm deeply gratified. Thank you.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Especially considering the top 5 threads on this article are all complaining about how speed limiting and speed limit recognition technology sucks. That's why I thought this was the most logical response.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. You take care now. Stop spamming HN saying this over and over. It doesn't make you look clever or polite, as you think. If you have substantive comments, make them. Obstentatiousl
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Wasn't talking to you. Was talking to the person I replied to
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Wrong. You think you're being clever but you're just being obnoxious. So, I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.

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