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by ghaff 2mo ago
As a native English speaker, keen feels like a very 1950s TV word. Don't know if that's actually true but feels like that way. I expect you're more likely to hear like cool today are some more contemporary word.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I have had a financial advisor for a while now. (Did and does handle my dad as well.) Costs a bit of money but he probably does some things with his brokerage's computers that I don't have easy access to and, with one exception, I
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by ghaff 2mo ago
The PowerPC name is still around although it's mostly around in the form of the POWER ISA used in systems that run AIX and, I believe OS/400. IBM i used to be a largely distinct product line that grew from older IBM minicomputers
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I think he's generally been right with autonomous driving skepticism even if, arguably, still too optimistic himself.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I'm definitely at the point where, if not sticking money in my mattress, I'm keeping a lot in pretty safe investments. Did sort of an equity housecleaning a couple years back and consolidated some investments, in part to make them
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Truly conservative investments are more in the 3-4% range these days; money markets were running around 5% a few years back but they've come down. I have some bonds (including treasuries) that are higher than that but I bought them qui
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I mean, it depends on the house style in general. I don't really love that style but I get that you're just taking up too much space in the separation otherwise. But we also probably shouldn't have both en-dashes and em-dashe
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by ghaff 2mo ago
As someone who does a lot of writing, I ended up doing a lot of re-writing of what I'll call reference architectures in a previous role. I did use an LLM for some of the missing context up-front. It was essentially boilerplate and I di
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by ghaff 2mo ago
The em-dash thing really annoys me. Using them has been house style the last couple of places I worked and I'm not just going to stop using them because some idiot might think they were generated by AI.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I'd probably do it more if it were a convenient walk down the street but the nearest decent movie theater is probably an hour round-trip between driving and parking. The setup I have at home is good enough and I have access to more tha
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I was on the college's film committee and I often enjoyed hanging out with some of the other members on a weekend night especially if I didn't have anything else going on or it was later. (We also pre-screened all of our films in
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by ghaff 2mo ago
>why "going to a movie" is culturally thought of as an activity one does with a companion, even a date. Much like dining out in a sit-down restaurant. Let me unpack a little bit. I very rarely go to movies and really haven&#x27
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I used to do a lot of chit-chat with folks I knew on Twitter during the work day. After Musk largely torched it and a lot of people just decided they didn't need that kind of social media any longer, that channel largely went away. I u
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by ghaff 2mo ago
A bit cruel and there were probably some indie stores that were different but I remember video rentals as a place where you went in, grabbed a movie, and left.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
My house has definitely been opened up over time since I bought it. Not really the upstairs but the ground floor is much more open and lighter. In fact, it's where I mostly do stuff on a laptop in spite of having a full-fledged office
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I apparently didn't get the intent that TV=panel. Fair enough. But I do know people who put a TV in pretty much every room and I don't know if a projector is a great solution at this point even for a dedicated room given that you
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Yes, Athena was a bit after my time. I did take FORTRAN using keypunches and the card reader at the joint computer facility (I was mechanical engineering). And I think VAXs were just coming in shortly after. But attending Dartmouth for grad
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Dartmouth had remarkably democratized access to computers (which I mostly used for word processing with some exceptions both for tech and fun purposes). Funnily enough an engineering school I also attended in the Northeast, while I did take
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by ghaff 2mo ago
But you also seem to also be saying that a lot of rooms require TVs.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
A relative likes to have TV on as ambient background. Drives me a bit crazy but, hey, I'm a guest. Also used to drive me nuts when I was on group trips with a roommate and their first reaction on entering a room was to turn the TV on.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
>Multi use rooms require TVs That seems an overstatement. I now have one in my entire house (don't have kids). There's a fairly large TV panel on one wall in basically a sitting room. Otherwise I just use a computer. A relative
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by ghaff 2mo ago
When I had a kitchen fire, I told my electrician "no smart stuff" and he was happy to go along. (I had very little previously.) He did simplify and updated my electrical panel and switches which sort of accreted over time.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
And the US and various other countries (like the UK) effectively use hybrid systems for units for many purposes. Science and engineering in the US are heavily metric.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I think that's right. My M1 MBP suits me just fine. (I do have a lighter MacBook Air but that's because my old Intel-based MacBook finally gave up the ghost and was out of support anyway--and I mostly work downstairs but want my &
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by ghaff 2mo ago
>"buy the fastest cpu and the most ram you can afford”. I would append "subject to diminishing returns" for your use cases. I could afford maxed-out computers (within reason) but, for most purposes, the premiums for the
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I've handled the Maxes and they're just too big for my taste. It's not a financial thing. I'm by no means a phone size minimalist but my 15 Pro feels like just the right size for a phone at this point.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I don't think so. Maybe I'm just used to it but I like the gripiness of my Otterbox case in addition to the protection it provides. My prior iPhoen might have survived a hiking trip if I had an equivalently robust case (and the ne
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Without any inside knowledge--and I'd have to revisit a piece I wrote at the time during my prior analyst stint--it always felt like a bit of a sideline/experiment. There were a lot of dynamics going on at the time. Linux was real
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Those numbers aren't typical but it's still the case that credit cards generally have significantly higher interest rates if you don't pay in full by the due date than just about any other sort of loan (that admittedly not ev
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Leasing is just a financial transaction. You need to run the numbers, evaluate the alternatives, and peer at least a bit into the future. I've never leased a car and I doubt I'd lease a phone if only to keep my options open. (At t

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