huhkerrf

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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
There has been a lot of bad things about the technology of the past 30 years, but I refuse to say that things were fantastic pre-Internet. The fact that I can listen to any music I want for less than it cost me to buy a CD in 1995, not even
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
I'm not sure why you insist on doubling down. It's not hard to find info about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/aggies/comments/v54bu/why_do_you_sa... Hell, it's on Wikipedia: https:/&#x
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
Context clues matter--note that we're both talking about Aggies and that tu is lower-cased. They do that to imply that "varsity" is not the University _of_ Texas. As with lots of things coming from College Station, you just s
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
It's all publicly funded universities in Texas, not just the UT system. In other words: you've just pissed off a lot of Aggies grouping them in with, ahem, tu.
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
No, it shouldn't tell us everything, but if someone makes a very data-oriented claim ("millenials will be the first generation poorer than their parents") and you return with data that shows the opposite, you can make a claim
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
What? Access to knowledge was better 3-4 decades ago? You're telling me that people had better access to knowledge in 1986 than they do today? Infant mortality was 10.4 per 1,000 live births in 1986 in the US. It was 5.5 I'm 2023.
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
That's silly. People have wrong impressions about a lot of things. Your "lived experience" (you can just say experience, okay?) can be wrong.
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
Yeah, but how does millennial median wealth compare to boomer median wealth? That's the question. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
> Don't forget that Millennials are the first generation to be poorer than their parents in a long time... This is simply not true. At some point, we do need to rely on data other than "lived experience," which compares on
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
It's not that hard to find the data. Subscription fees are the great majority of WSJ overall revenue. ~$500 million of $586 million total. https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/wsj-subs-rise-as-pricing...
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
I'm 10 paragraphs in and I still have no clue what this is about.
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by huhkerrf 9mo ago
Some postings get a second chance if they're considered interesting but didn't get much traction the first time around. More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
It was a good indication of how things like conspiracy theories spread. He gave his notice on NYE? Oh, he's probably just fudging that so he's not caught. He doesn't care about getting caught but he's on a burner laptop?
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Is this the same publication that reported on the post without any hedge whatsoever? Yes, it was: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/853018/a-developer-f... "A developer for a ‘major food delivery app’ s
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
This is what scares me the most about LLMs in my usage. Not that I'll go crazy and kill others or myself, but that I will be deluded by the LLM telling me what I want to hear. Even though I know the risks. I'm going through a smal
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Is everything okay? That's an extreme reaction. Are you alright?
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Fake Internet points for a creative writing project.
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
I assume Buckets does that because YNAB no longer allows you to take from next month.
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Another unexpected side effect is that it made me "excited" to spend money when I had saved up for it. Before it would be a back and forth, "should I buy this? I've wanted it, but I could use the money for something else
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
I regularly pay with 3 currencies, and YNAB isn't great for that, but it ends up working out because 95% of my spend is in just one. But, you're right, I have no need for tracking stocks, as I only check in once a year or so, and
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
I get that people on here don't like subscriptions, and I understand why, but I've been using You Need a Budget for well over a decade, and it is probably the last subscription I'd ever give up. The automatic import of expens
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Plenty of people have kids before then and they work out fine. I'm not saying that if you're truly destitute it's a good idea to have kids, but the only people I hear complaining about not being financially ready for kids are
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
> designed to keep engineers far from thinking about impact on real people Why do we think engineers are some special class of people who can't do bad things?
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
> But they will be unlikely to write a post about that. I don't know what you're talking about. People loooove talking about how hell is other people or how they'd rather be curled up on the couch, how relieved they are wh
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Most of the comments here are about joining groups, and rightfully so, as most people are really in the basement when it comes to having friends, especially after your 20s. But what the author did (organizing drinks) reminds me a lot of a g
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Maybe, but it sure reads like he was dragging his feet long before that. Considering all the confusion and questions in this comment section, maybe he should have been more open to an editor.
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
Don't go friend hunting, then. Go activity hunting, and if you make friends out of it, all the better.
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
> I honestly wish social clubs were a thing, and you would get introduced to people from all walks of life They are. Elks, Knights of Columbus, etc. Not as popular with the younger crowd, but nothing is stopping you from joining or start
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
> This is a depressing thought to consider in (linear) middle age, but it is hard to escape the feeling that it is essentially true. Childhood memories have an intensity and a vibrancy that it is difficult for the rest of life to match.
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by huhkerrf 10mo ago
I'm almost certain I know the publisher he's talking about in the blog post, and I can see why it didn't work out. You have to be willing to be open to feedback while also being able to push back on that feedback. You also ha

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