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by hiram112 6y ago
This next year or two might be your chance to get a home for a good deal. Vegas and similar cities are projected to have a very hard landing due to them being so dependent on tourism, boom and bust cycles, etc.
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by hiram112 6y ago
> I'm tall, and there I feel normal I've enjoyed numerous trips to the Netherlands, but one thing I did NOT like is that, as a 5'10 guy who dresses like a typical American (i.e. not so well), I felt even shorter and less a
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by hiram112 6y ago
> the in-office superstars and leaders who are highly paid, and the cheaper remote workers who have a glass ceiling on their career progression and are mostly relegated to the execution of the in-office team’s vision. I went remote a few
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by hiram112 6y ago
Dell has put out Linux laptops (XPS and Precision) with both Redhat and now Ubuntu for years. The problem is that they don't keep up with updates, and so you buy an XPS in 2017, and then decide to update to the next non-LTS version of
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by hiram112 6y ago
IBM is notorious for both offshoring jobs to places like India and also heavily abusing the H1B visa, both themselves and through body-shops like Wipro and Infosys. They have more employees in India than in the US. IBM once told its laid of
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by hiram112 6y ago
It's too bad that such important pieces of the Linux desktop are so underfunded and neglected, though I can understand there just isn't enough revenue for even Redhat, Suse, etc. to justify hiring more developers. But with all the
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by hiram112 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, do you have to completely force removal of libinput and then add synaptics, which will replace everything libinput did? Because last time I tried it, libinput had so many dependencies, it wanted to remove the whole de
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by hiram112 6y ago
I've been able to read WSJ links with the Bypass Paywall plugin, Firefox, and UBlock Origin. * https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
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by hiram112 6y ago
> but why do you need an increasing number of them? Because most public and private retirement accounts assumed that the growth would occur, thus it was okay to promise themselves a pension and health package that was very, very generous
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by hiram112 6y ago
I was a beta user of WSL1. It was interesting, but the very slow file system performance from Windows to Linux and vice versa was a deal breaker for development use. I haven't even bothered to use WSL2 because I hardly use Windows anym
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by hiram112 6y ago
So what happens when you've basically stored your digital life on Amazon's accounts, many times with purchases from their own site? I've got tons of music - mp3 songs and albums, hundreds of both purchased Kindle books and up
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by hiram112 6y ago
There is a reason that Google, at least, is worth so much on the stock market. My mother is definitely not a tech savvy computer user, but she's learning. I've finally showed her how to do a few things 'online', includin
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by hiram112 6y ago
I don't consider Wikipedia a valid reference for anything more trivial than sports statistics or Hollywood trivia these days. I'd imagine the amount of blatant organized 'revisioning' by nation states, NGOs, for-profit c
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by hiram112 6y ago
That's what I made around year 2000. Though I delivered 'Better Pizza, with Better Ingredients'! Gas was $1/gallon and we got 70¢ per delivery. I asked a friend about 2008 or so, when gas had gotten up to almost $5/
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by hiram112 6y ago
> not outsourced to a third party that takes a hefty fee from the restaurant and the customer. I delivered pizza for years before and during college. Looking back, I sometimes think the drivers were the ones who were subsidizing the big
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by hiram112 6y ago
That definition is the same as the one I gave. It talks specifically of "physical" violence, at least as the main definition. When I was growing up, we always had this phrase: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words
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by hiram112 6y ago
> And now pay is higher than ever. I think this is, as usual, specific to the Bay Area and maybe NYC, and also limited to the top 10% of developers at tech companies. I don't think tech salaries are all that great even in other big
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by hiram112 6y ago
The 1st Googled definition of violence: "behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something." Notice that word "physical". Liberals have tried to define the word to be associated wit
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by hiram112 6y ago
But muh private companies... WeChat is owned by the 'private company' Tencent. And most here think it's perfectly valid when Facebook or Google censor things they don't like. I'm sure you think that Google is a rea
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by hiram112 6y ago
> “we’ve learned a number of lessons from months of testing... clear, powerful words and a conversational tone make a big difference.” Haha, 'clear, powerful words...'. That's an understatement. This Bill Maher clip seems
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by hiram112 6y ago
> Historically Linux implemented DNS control using config files read by the C library. On Linux for not really good reasons the C library is perceived as an optional gateway to the kernel rather than the primary OS interface as it is on
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by hiram112 6y ago
The days where gov workers traded high private sector income for stability and retirement was finaihed sometime in the late 80s, when offshoring, immigration, and massive amounts of productivity started being squeezed from labor to capital.
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by hiram112 6y ago
Yep. If they paid out the value of those pensions upon retirement at the cost of a similar annuity and an estimate for the health care costs, people would probably be more angry than they are now, as they don't realize just how generou
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by hiram112 6y ago
These red state takers idea has propagated throughout social media, and become a talking point used anytime some fiscal argument breaks out between left and right. And it's mostly absurd, because it just looks at net transfers betwee
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by hiram112 6y ago
Who owned that debt in the bible? It's not all sheiks and kings these days, but instead pension funds and insurance companies. I'm not sure you can just forget the debt without screwing a lot of people in the process. My guess is
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by hiram112 6y ago
I don't really mind Systemd as a replacement for init, it's just that other unrelated systems are now requiring it explicitly that probably shouldn't (e.g. Gnome) and also Systemd is creating more and more sub projects that r
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by hiram112 6y ago
Not that it's exactly relevant to this article, but on RHEL 8, at least, Docker isn't supported, and instead they use their own container runtime called Podman along with Buildah for building them. Podman does not run as root, and
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by hiram112 7y ago
> Google has not yet discovered how to automate "is this a quality link?" Google has so much more data than just the keywords and searches people make, it seems like this should be a problem they could solve. Through tracking c
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by hiram112 7y ago
I understand it's your right to control your own yard, but if someone trapped my own cat and dumped it off at the pound, I wouldn't be too happy. If it were my cat who kept being dumped off at the pound, after being attracted to
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by hiram112 7y ago
GIMP has had no much powerful functionality while at the same time having an absolute awful UI going on 15 years or more now. And it still hasn't been fixed. I'm not a big believer in conspiracies, but if there's one I'd

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