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by gaoshan 3y ago
People refusing to vote for the greater good because they want to preserve their own wealth (well, their wealth wouldn't be at risk but for some even given up $10 is intolerable in the service of society at large) is a great argument f
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by gaoshan 3y ago
I'm not so sure about Coke or beer being worse. That sort of tea generally has just as much sugar as a can of coke (and the synthetic creamer is probably just as bad as the rest of what's in a coke). Both are quite unhealthy for y
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by gaoshan 3y ago
It's amazing how similar the construction of the pipe segments and the pipe network is to ones I've seen from Roman times. Makes you wonder how many times such a thing has been reinvented over the millennia and how interesting it
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Much of a city in China I have spent a lot of time in (Hangzhou) has protected bike lanes with their own signals and crossings. They do still interact with traffic at the crossings but the lanes are wide and well protected from vehicles. I
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by gaoshan 3y ago
I have a friend there that was hired into a mid level developer role and he hates it for many reasons (from management style to the personality of teammates to how code gets reviewed and pushed and more). Just biding his time to get enough
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Agreed. At our company the technical interview involves walking a dev through a working app that uses the same stack we develop with. There are bugs to solve, potential optimizations that exist and the dev explains and walks through the cli
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Most folks would agree with you that we can use what we like but that isn't the reason for the vitriol. I think most of the vitriol comes from the way the it is presented as "the winner" when a lot of people either actively d
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Most people outside of China. Not just "the West".
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Many small merchants just refuse as well. Try to use Amex at the local Chinese food marts around me and they will not take them (and I don't blame them).
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by gaoshan 3y ago
If WeChat was not permitted on iPhones, iPhones would not sell in China.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
If that's the case, that the federal government backing the loans is what permits the increases, then why not just have the federal government pay up front and cut out the loan portion? Might give them more power to negotiate lower pri
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by gaoshan 3y ago
That might be it. I was there every year for about a 15 year period but this may have been around the time of the 2010 Expo. Though I was not in hotels, I was in apartments (ones owned and lived in by Chinese, not foreigners).
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Content creator, not aggregator. National Geographic generated the stories itself and provided some of the best photography obtainable in the history of the medium.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Many years back I was running a socks proxy for access while in China and I found that it worked great in Shanghai but was rapidly blocked (or degraded in some fashion) in Hangzhou. That seemed internal and not edge but I do no really know
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by gaoshan 3y ago
My team ran some code that crushed our Github actions very shortly before this outage. Nervous laughter around the office that it was us.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
It's my understanding that LIGO is too small to be able to detect such waves, hence the use of pulsar timings.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
I first visited San Francisco almost 20 years ago and I loved it. I last went in late 2019 and I was horrified. The change was night and day from my perspective (and depressing as I saw this place that used to have a special vibe to me turn
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Isn't human population already too high for the planet (or at least headed that way)? I would think that a trend in the other direction is good, on the whole and over the long run.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
A small, anecdotal example of this... there is a family in my community that is part of the conservative christian organization called "Quiverfull" that believes in having very large families. The one in our community has 12 child
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by gaoshan 3y ago
I'm a mod (of an insignificant subreddit), have been active for 15+ years, 6 figure karma, even had the single most upvoted comment on all of reddit one day...they notify you and give you an award when that happens in case you wonder.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
Good. Real consequences are exactly what is needed for the people behind that event.
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by gaoshan 3y ago
In the case of a place like Florida, parts of the gigantic aquifer that extends under that State and up in Georgia get backfilled by brackish water once depleted below a certain level and this effectively destroys it, preventing refilling o
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by gaoshan 3y ago
This is me though I was never really a gamer growing up. As a child I loved playing Adventure on my friend's Atari 3600 but never had a game console of my own until recently (I bought an Xbox). Now I play, of all things, Fortnite (main
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by gaoshan 3y ago
I agree that Reddit is doing a good job of harming its usability (and the overall experience with mods that wield the ban hammer for the slightest disagreements, for example) I do not understand this sentiment for old reddit. I've been
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by gaoshan 3y ago
The price of EVs is the only thing keeping me from replacing my 13 year old car. Everything I would consider buying is just slightly too high for my budget and needs.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
State affiliated media indicates state run media... i.e. propaganda for the State. NPR is in no way propaganda for the State. It's probably the furthest a media outlet could be from such a thing. This as an example of people putting th
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Right or wrong this is just going to lead to others taking the lead and accelerating away in this technology.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Of course I validate the tests. I get it to churn them out then go over them to make sure everything is sane and covered as expected. I'm surprised that people would assume otherwise.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I'm still rocking a maxed out MacBook Pro from 2013. The battery IS shot but plugged in and connected to a monitor it still gets the job done as a home machine.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
So far (super early days, I know) the main thing I've used AI for at work is to write tests for code I'm working on. I get to do the fun bit, solving the problem space, and the AI gets to do the tedious bit (and do it faster than

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