hamdingers

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by hamdingers 1y ago
Remember that you are not being tracked, the vehicle is, because the vehicle is the dangerous thing. The baseline expectation of anyone operating heavy machinery in public should be that it is tracked for safety and accountability. This is
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by hamdingers 1y ago
Pedantry: A _reused_ Google Pixel 5. It was not broken down and reconstituted. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is in order of environmental impact, so reusing is an upgrade!
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by hamdingers 1y ago
> If you're not [...] appropriately dressed One interesting but unfortunate second order impact of car dependence is people forgetting en masse (or never learning!) how to dress appropriately for the city they live in.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
There are still pedestrians in Toronto when the weather is below zero despite the existence of the tunnels. I've been one of them many times.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
The set of commercially successful software that could not be reimplemented by a determined team of caffeinated undergrads was already very small before LLM assistance. Turns out being able to write the software is not the only, or even the
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by hamdingers 1y ago
The people with whom this is a reputational risk were not going to buy Will Smith concert tickets anyway.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
There are approximately twice as many yoga instructors. It's unfortunate Big Yoga doesn't have the same political pull.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
That's probably another reason why we were limited to a set menu of computer options.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
What's the WPM limit you're using? It seems to be significantly slower than my silent reading speed.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
I previously worked at a company where everyone got a budget of ~$2000. The only requirement was you had to get a mac (to make it easier on IT I assume), the rest was up to you. Some people bought a $2000 macbook pro, some bought a $600 mac
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by hamdingers 1y ago
> I think Steam has been a net positive for the gaming community This is probably true on balance, but needs to be tempered with the reality that they also pioneered or popularized many of the worst parts of modern gaming. Always-on DRM,
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by hamdingers 1y ago
Meanwhile, my dockerfile for "purely static—hand-crafted artisanal HTML and CSS" is this: FROM nginx:alpine COPY . /usr/share/nginx/html
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by hamdingers 1y ago
> 15-19yrs old Also would explain their unfamiliarity with what looks to me like totally normal branded corporate training.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
1. The people who want to drive should fund their own testing. This is how it works for every other heavy equipment operator's license. 2. Sounds good
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by hamdingers 1y ago
Has your city made an effort to make it safe and attractive to ride on every street? Or is that a de-facto ban on cycling.
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by hamdingers 1y ago
> which is having police officers interact with random drivers, this time with a no-show warrant. Impounding vehicles is an option too. Like we do for parking tickets. That is routinely done without police interaction, or interaction at
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by hamdingers 1y ago
> Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC EVO 4g, Motorola Droid. Sharing your opinions without first prefacing they're 12-17 years out of date is disingenuous