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by hansvm 6mo ago
On the other side, why should one crazed/corrupt judge in some state which has nothing to do with me be able to infringe on my freedoms and make my life worse? Worse, why is it possible to jurisdiction shop for the single bad actor and
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by hansvm 6mo ago
I'm not sure if it extends to box wines or Spanish wines, but my main complaint of bottom-shelf wines in the US is that they're pure sugar/acid/alcohol with almost no extra flavors and pretty bad distributions of the mai
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Small-scale distillation is fine. Ten bottles of wine have 500mg of methanol, which is mostly fine for most people even if it all ends up in the same shot -- which it won't; it'll be split between 1-2 750ml bottles even if you do
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Last I tried to run Pijul (IIRC, 2.5yrs ago), there were major, seemingly unresolvable crashes for the simplest of operations on Mac and Linux. Has it gotten better?
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by hansvm 6mo ago
None of these stats (including the person you're replying to) are directly comparable. - Median net worth is $193k, of which $185k is in their home. Suppose a $10k emergency crops up. Well...you're fucked. If you're lucky you
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by hansvm 6mo ago
I know a number of people who view basically any kind of aid as morally wrong, ultimately leading to the downfall of the people you're trying to help. Even with their own kids, once they're 18 they're on their own -- no help
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by hansvm 6mo ago
How does that work mechanically? If I have a home to rent out, why don't I reduce prices to $19k to guarantee zero occupancy-related losses, and why doesn't somebody else out-compete me?
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by hansvm 6mo ago
It happens new too, and it's not the DC side of things. The AC -> DC component has some AC leakage, and the default of bad two-prong charging blocks basically guarantees you'll have issues. I normally "fix" it by usin
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by hansvm 6mo ago
People come in all sorts of different shapes, sizes, and configurations. I don't have any pressure on the sharp edges in my normal day-to-day, and I'm having a little trouble figuring out how I'd contort myself to change that
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Aha, how clever. We aren't discussing whether they can be forced to display messaging; we're discussing whether they're going to later get slapped down for blocking that messaging. I get that the distinction matters a bit fro
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by hansvm 6mo ago
Companies have to inform affected individuals of data breaches, especially when HIPAA gets involved. Brokers have to inform clients of transaction errors. Auto manufacturers have to inform owners of recalls. Retirement funds have to inform
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by hansvm 6mo ago
They're still maybe right. In CA, it's pretty common for the best plan you can buy as an individual to be half as good as whatever your employer offers and to cost twice as much as the combined employee+employer contribution. How
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Cold applying works reasonably well IME, but you have to be able to nail the interviews for it to make sense. I'm great at what I do, I only apply to jobs which should be a good fit, and I still only get interviews 1-2% of the time. I
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by hansvm 7mo ago
I had chronic pain in various parts of my feet for years from fairly tame activities (biking 20mi/day, hiking 10-20mi Saturday and Sunday, etc). I'd been fairly conscientious about "good" shoes that fit well, and it didn
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by hansvm 7mo ago
That sounds a lot like my experience as an Apple Developer too, with the added bonus (unclear from your description if you experienced this too) that they took my money before the verification process was finished and wouldn't refund i
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by hansvm 7mo ago
> not every day Yep > can take your PTO You can, but if salaried you usually shouldn't, ignoring any particularly malicious employers and social contracts around the outskirts of the law. > No obligation to pay hourly employee
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by hansvm 7mo ago
If you perform nearly any work at all in a given week you're entitled to your salary, and they can't fire you. They might be able to take away the $15/day stipend from your pay, and there are obvious additional negatives (6 m
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by hansvm 7mo ago
I'm listening
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Of course there is. Raw machine code is the gold standard, and everything else is an attempt to achieve _something_ at the cost of performance, C included, and that's even when considering whole-program optimization and ignoring the ov
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by hansvm 7mo ago
On their own merits, people choose SMS-based 2FA, "2FA" which lets you into an account without a password, perf-critical CLI tools written in Python, externalizing the cost of hacks to random people who aren't even your own c
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Thanks for the comment. Lack of seriousness is now appropriately indicated.
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by hansvm 7mo ago
It's probably just a higher rate of autonomous vehicles needing stop signs and buses identified at that moment, and cognitive bias causes you to only remember when that happens when you recently performed an update. /s
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by hansvm 7mo ago
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that complaints of rocks where you expect soil invite other Ozarkians. That was something that shocked me about the Midwest in comparison; even with a concerted effort, I couldn't find enough of
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Details depend, but the root cause is basically the same every time: your hardware is designed to do something other than what you want it to do. It might be close enough that you want to give it a shot anyway (often works, often doesn&#x27
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Yeah, the situation from TFA doesn't make a lot of sense; I was just highlighting that it's not as clear-cut as "costs > 1 FTE => fix it."
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by hansvm 7mo ago
I mostly agree, but it's more appropriate to weigh contributions against an FTE's output rather than their input. If I have a $10m/yr feature I'm fleshing out now and a few more lined up afterward, it's often not wo
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by hansvm 7mo ago
That reminds me of one of the easiest big wins I've had in my career. SystemD was causing issues, so I slapped in Gentoo with the real-time kernel patch. Peak latency (practically speaking, the only core metric we cared about -- some c
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by hansvm 7mo ago
> good stuff rejected, are you sure that's true In the academic circles I frequent, it's not true. Any one journal might reject the good stuff, but it doesn't take more than a few applications to find a journal who recogni
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Every place I've lived other than CA has had >3x cheaper electricity. If the max break-even period in CA is 20yrs, that's 60yrs in those other places, which is both longer than I practically care about (not that I'm not a
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by hansvm 7mo ago
Not all software can be sufficiently insulated from external changes, but almost all software I care about can be. My normal update cadence is every 2-3 years, and that's only because of a quirk in my package manager making it annoying

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