indymike

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by indymike 2y ago
Lifetime debt is not ok
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by indymike 2y ago
> I'm one of the people who paid off a large portion of debt and probably don't need this assistance. However, this argument is so offensive. Please spend my tax dollars on curing disease, fixing homelessness, free addiction tr
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by indymike 2y ago
The chance happened in 2023.
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This would shift the political dynamics in the rest of the US as people left for car-friendly cities where they could own their homes.
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by indymike 2y ago
You ought to see the magic they do when coding medical procedures for billing in the US. It makes these tax shenanigans look simple.
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by indymike 2y ago
Every time I have a meeting with government, especially regulatory agencies about getting something done, it isn't easy because these words have very different meanings, which can lead you into bad places quickly: support - engineer me
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by indymike 2y ago
This is less about Marxist/capitalist and more about a change in regulation in the US that makes R&D expenses (dev headcount) amortized over five years (for taxes) versus sales being a straight-up expense. This one is going to be g
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by indymike 2y ago
As long as the metrics attached to an OKR actaully a)make sense and b)are causally related to the OKR, then they can work. Where ORKs go off the rail is trying to set a goal for something you just can't manage.
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by indymike 2y ago
Yes, there were many - including the original IBM PC which would could boot to BASIC loaded from ROM. Some more sophisticated machines included: - Many Tandy PC compatibles could boot from ROM to their DeskMate GUI - HP, GRiD, Zenith and ot
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by indymike 2y ago
> why are there not militia groups with Navy SEAL/Delta-level tactical abilities? Let's set aside talent, access to experience trainers, facilities and equipment and just look at time on task: real special forces operators spen
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by indymike 2y ago
> This concerns me. How do we assess the AI's interpretation when it comes to what we ourselves can't see? Sometimes a clue or nudge can trigger a cascade of discovery. Even if that clue is wrong, it causes people to look at so
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by indymike 2y ago
> in all likelihood it was just a weather balloon Normal weather balloons are 20ft in diameter. This one was 200 feet in diameter and carried quite a payload - about the size of a couple of box cars. Additionally it had propellers and t
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by indymike 2y ago
Logitech used to have a Chrome plug-in that could manage their unifying devices.
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by indymike 2y ago
From the second sentence of the readme: Solaar is not a device driver and responds only to special messages from devices that are otherwise ignored by the Linux input system Sounds like this isn't working at the kernel level.
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by indymike 2y ago
If only there was a new labor saving technology that could be used...
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This is an easy to solve problem: oral exams / interview exams.
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by indymike 2y ago
> It is not a "rug pull" for someone to stop giving you gifts. I'm not sure that the developers contributing code from outside the company see it that way. An easy way to tell if contributors see a license change as a rug
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by indymike 2y ago
> How much of that wealth is tied up in home equity? Home equity is often the first real wealth American families accrue. Most of the time, by the time a parent dies, the children all have homes already. > private equity firms buying
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by indymike 2y ago
I think GenX will mostly be the beneficiary of the inheritance boom.
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by indymike 2y ago
> And the middle class in the US already thinks they are struggling Middle class financial issues in the US are age related. College debt, cost of raising children, buying a home combined with low entry wages put young people in a hole i
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by indymike 2y ago
Great software works well when it enables people to do things they could not before. Low code works well when the use case is isolated to something where you can focus on simplifying or putting training wheels on writing logic or configurat
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by indymike 2y ago
> After the Nordstream pipeline attacked and destroyed This happend a very, very long time ago. Destroing things years after the fact is not logical and is not longer a defensive response. Using this as justification is just trying to es
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by indymike 2y ago
Old problem: AR-15 behind door. New (old) problem: 18 pounder loaded with grapeshot behind the door. I'd take the AR.
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by indymike 2y ago
> World that be an improvement? Unpopular opinion: if the student will be able to pay that loan off in 10-20 years and maintain a good standard of living while doing so, then it is probably fine. > None of the other major players in t
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by indymike 2y ago
My parents spent around $16k in 80s money on orthodontics. The US Navy dentist took a look at the two more years of treatment thor orthodontist had planned and said you can do that or we can just pull these two teeth and everything will sli
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by indymike 2y ago
Why the Library of Congress or some other over budgeted agency can't archive the web is beyond me.
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by indymike 2y ago
> As a user, I want common UI controls to look and behave the same way across all web sites. That ship has sailed. (and I wish it had not) > Everyone's site looks and feels inconsistent with every other site. Somehow, this model
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by indymike 2y ago
The article is about the desktop iMac model. Regardless, I think many would upgrade because ssds are cheap... RAM would lead to customers getting another year or two out of their computer...
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Better hope the defense attorney doesn't ask who the caller was. Parallel construction is actually not legal and can result in evidence being inadmissible.
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by indymike 2y ago
> How would one go about accomplishing a 'dumbing down' of a contract Perhaps go with the UCC default and not try to have the buyer opt out of every specific consumer right. The longer the contract, the more one party is probab

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