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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
And they had a valid point.
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
My sympathies for your loss. That sucks badly. But look at how many people have been unjustly/incorrectly imprisoned for many years in the US, often based on poverty or racism. Would you be willing to jail 5 people for life-without-par
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
I hope it works out! It's amazing how far Tcl/Tk has come since I "had" to use it as a wrapper around an X11 window back on an SGI Irix, using Tcl scripting to interface to an OpenGL backend. I think that was like 7.3.x
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Probably. We paid thousands / year for the developer seat in our startup, and in the end, it wasn't great. I did manage to make the Tcl/Tk event loop and the Qt event loop work together, so we could have Tk windows inside a Q
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Any thoughts on how brightplan compares to some of the other apps mentioned here? It's free via work.
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
This. It makes me less and less interested in the sports I have enjoyed watching for 45+ years (and played frequently in some form). Seeing an NHL player hawking NFTs a few years back really made me do a double take and wonder if I was trul
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Yes to that last part. It's made watching sports much less enjoyable to see/hear constant gambling ads. And it's not like they're charging any less for the product (mlb.tv, for example) - quite the opposite: they are mak
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Ok, so add "is it easy / quick / cheap to acquire?". Performance cars (I take measured risks at the race track) and track days / race tires aren't cheap. Not in any sense of the word. Unsafe driving in ANY car?
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
I would like the majority of food sold in the US to improve in quality. I would support passing legislation to force the issue.
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
You mean, like hyperglycemia?
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
There have been pushes to remove soda from school vending machines, limit the size / add extra taxes on bigger soda containers, etc. But it's often "crazy California" doing it, so a whole chunk of the country writes it o
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
> but in the Fentanyl age I see people dropping like flies all around me Do you literally mean you are seeing people die around you? From doing drugs? What is your general location / occupation / lifestyle? I'm a 20+ year
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Of course, I'm also an old-school hacker (typed my first BASIC program ~45 years ago), so I have a desktop mentality. None of this newfangled 17-pound-portable stuff for me :-) And phones are at best a tertiary computing mechanism: fir
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
To me, I prefer desktop apps because I KNOW when I've upgraded - it either said "upgrade now?" and did it, or, in the olden days, I had to track it down, or I installed an updated version of a distro, which included updated
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
I've used Qt off and on, and it's generally worked as advertised. Although when drawing very short lines on a canvas way back when (~2004), it wouldn't do a great job and I had to hack in custom routines that did a much bette
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Unless their parents didn't give them one? Ours only had Nooks that only lasted a few years..
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
But then, "country" feels slighted when "city" eventually grows to encompass some of them.
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
I'm still partial to Tcl from years in EDA - sign me up..
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
It's more that the psychologically broken people who are also somewhat lucky and intelligent and hard-working end up being those "richest people" - they almost all have some kind of impostor/self-esteem issue. Pretty sur
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Now? NOW? Not 15 years ago?
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
What's the vibe coder's track record? Have they been able to provide support / alterations for other projects for multiple years?
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Safe for cars/bikes, or the passengers vs the bicyclist? Hail comes to mind. Lightning possibly (I believe cars are much better insulated against lighting strikes). High winds could easily push bikes around / knock them over where
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
They want the grand total of humanity's knowledge, from which they create tokens, to be given to them for free, though..
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Especially since many of them are some of the brightest minds around.
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Tracfone burners for any protests?
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
I'm seeing it in a lot of younger tech people. We had a NASA presentation at work about air quality and that forest fires are one of our biggest problems in CA. TWO separate people (from maybe 20-25 attending) brought up "do you t
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Sure, but.. I've been coding for 40 years and I don't know everything. To me, a LOT depends on what the plumber asked chatgpt about. For example: building codes in that city, to figure out what his options are - like, is he allowe
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
Even if hardware is "cheap" and open-source/weight models are available.. Now what? How does this benefit the average person who just wants to have a 9-5 job and go home and hang with family / enjoy some hobbies? Not eve
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
It reminds me a bit of the Segway hype "they'll build complete cities around these". Sure, you can find problems faster, but it's not like they'll find 20 NEW classes of bugs.
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by hn_acc1 6mo ago
The top 1% also owns something like 70% of all the wealth, IIRC. The should be paying MORE than 40% of all the taxes.

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