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by gymbeaux 1y ago
It’s optimistic of you to think we’ll have a Democratic anything for the foreseeable future. In 2016 we could say “well a lot of people are tired of the status quo” but after 2024… Nah, this what America wants. This is what the people who
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
A consumption tax would affect the lower class more than the 1% for two main reasons: 1. Non-discretionary spending as a percentage of income is much larger for the lower (and middle) classes, who spend 100% or near 100% of their income on
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I think Midway (another old airport) is like this in that it’s “Southwest + some private flights”
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Well that settles it then, military aircraft will have to just turn on their ADS-B transponders when within X miles of a commercial/public airport
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Underrated comment. People don’t understand global trade and logistics (understandably so- it’s all very complicated and there are multiple middlemen involved between the factory in China and the company in the U.S. buying the goods to rese
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
There’s a bill[1] sitting in the House of Representatives that would abolish the IRS and replace all tax code with a consumption tax. In typical fashion they’ve written it so it seems like the flat consumption tax will be something like 24%
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Why do you think he’s bullish on Bitcoin?
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
ChatGPT seems more agreeable than ever before and I do question whether it’s agreeing with me because I’m right, or because I’m its overlord.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Evidently not a lot- the RTX 3060 would be as low as I go for GOU horsepower with any sort of AI stuff.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
My question would be “why not close down Reagan?” especially now that the DC Metro runs to Dulles. Yes, yes, Congress likes to fly into Reagan. Too bad. Not only does Reagan have the same design problem as LGA and SFO (built before jetliner
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Par for the course
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Someone just sent me a job opening for an engineer to work on a startup’s PHP backend and Python “everything else”. Absolutely insane.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
This is probably brought up whenever an article mentions “wasted time”, but I wonder what percentage of side and “main” software projects “fail”- so we have to define side vs main and what it means to fail (I would imagine failure looks dif
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
A black background on an AMOLED display (something Samsung Galaxy phones tended to have) would use less energy because “pitch black” on AMOLED is literally turning the underlying pixels off- with LED displays, that’s not possible.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
KDE Wallet though?
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
If you're being facetious, I would love to know why you use Haskell's but not Python's. Is it a better UX? A lack of alternatives like intellisense?
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Donald Trump has been complaining about the Fed's interest rate being too high going all the way back to his first term (perhaps even earlier). It's no secret that he wants Powell to drop rates to zero or near-zero. The "glas
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Sounds like one heck of a loophole for those individuals, propped up by the institutions themselves (as usual). It reminds me of all the loopholes with the H-1B visas- for example, employers can get around both the "you need to hire U.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I did a dive into these services back in 2019 though some of these services in the article I’ve never heard of. The three I spent a lot of time with were Azure Maps, MapQuest and of course OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim. This was for a side proj
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Right on. To be clear, the core "issue" is whether developers use or like to use that functionality, and to that end I say I never use it for Python (obviously- since I didn't know of its existence). More succinctly, it seems
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
It sounds like you're saying people like me just need to "wait out" the "mediocre" SWEs... that they, already with one foot out of the industry anyway (having never been particularly passionate), are more-likely to
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Short-term thinking is a big problem. I'm not sure why the stock market continues to grow despite short-term thinking absolutely destroying stalwarts like Boeing, GE, Intel, et al. I suppose part of the stock market's perceived-su
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Most of my classmates were white, so I doubt they were there for immigration reasons. This was also undergrad. Is an M.S. an automatic ticket to permanent U.S. residency?
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
There's so much we can learn from history, but that takes time and we're a very apathetic and comfortable civilization now. I think it's important and worthwhile, though. It will give you an edge over everyone else if you &qu
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Of course I don't expect to wax poetic about the finer technical details of an implementation- what I mean is he tends to get frustrated at the technical limitations, but has no interest in understanding those technical limitations so
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Because (as far as I know) that's not the case for most other languages. It's an interesting (and certainly not necessarily "wrong") way to program when you aren't sure about how to write something. Python has somet
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Yeah fair enough. I do write my own tickets. I don't think that resolves the "can't be bothered" attitude- that they're very busy and value their time very highly. I will add another interesting quirk- he will never
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I appreciate the empathy. I don't have much insight into "other industries", so I believe that even unemployed I would be better off than most (I have an emergency fund after all). We should all be very worried when even ~5%
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Pre-pandemic I was getting 2-4 unsolicited recruiter messages per week. Now it’s roughly 1 per month .

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