intergalplan

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by intergalplan 5y ago
This reads to me like "is it really inflation if money just got cheaper?" Which... I think the answer is "yes, that's exactly what it is"?
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by intergalplan 5y ago
"Your function runs from scratch on each request, with some intelligent caching for performance reasons." Gestures at LAMP and PHP-FPM
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Ah, OK—if so then the total share of all household income from all government sources must be well over 50% right now, no? Wages, pensions, (including military, in both cases, and state and local government) Social Security, et c.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I've had the thought before that a "team secretary" for programmers would be a huge productivity and QOL boost. I don't think every single developer needs one, but one shared among 4-10 programmers? Might make a ton of s
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Audio, in particular, is much less likely to "just work" on a $100 computer than a Roku. Ditto things like HDR. [edit] by "audio" I mean, in particular, sending the right codecs to get surround sound for a particular sou
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by intergalplan 5y ago
How many CEOs and "founders" on LinkedIn list a half-dozen active projects, businesses, and roles (boards, "advisor"), and then blog about the "challenge" of balancing all that with family life, which they stil
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Seriously. I'd rather "deadbeat Johnny" down the street milk the government for a few hundred a month than Halliburton milk them for $50,000,000,000. At least he's gonna spend a fair bit of that money locally.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> Apparently close to 30% of household income right now is from government payments How much is it normally? Definitely not 0%. Also, what's "government payments"? Does it include wages to government employees, for instanc
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by intergalplan 5y ago
This rational behavior in the face of stupid incentives is the same reason the rational set of management-sorts may not bother to make sure their facts & figures actually demonstrate what they claim they do, even when they know they pro
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I've seen an awful lot of either not understanding what a measurement means, or not caring, among management, including out of "top-tier" folks from e.g. management consulting firms you've heard of. Talking really obviou
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Yeah, I don't know how someone can look at housing prices say, 1990-2020 and say there wasn't inflation after the housing crisis. House prices dropped, but not as much as they "should" have to eradicate the evident bub
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by intergalplan 5y ago
This is pretty much what the show Ted Lasso is all about. I think it's the key reason people find it so wholesome and charming.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
You might enjoy n-gate.com's take on HN.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad (IIRC a 900Mhz Celeron + 384MB memory) was my laptop in college. Aside from a few beasts (KDE or Gnome, for which you'd end up needing to have at least the libs to run much in X even if you didn't use tho
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by intergalplan 5y ago
iOS discoverability/usability tanked when iOS7 came out and hasn't recovered. It went from being the only OS I'd happily give to my 80-something can-barely-email grandma, to "um... well, shit, I guess we'll get you
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Right, preferences and "guys teaching little kids is creepy" play a role, and maybe some other stuff.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Class isn't just money, it's habits, attitudes, and the way others treat you, some of which are related to money, in a necessary-but-not-sufficient way. Besides, the vast majority of programmers in the US, let alone abroad, don&
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> 98.8% (!) of preschool and kindergarten teachers are female I'm fairly sure a big part of the driver for the imbalance in education is that being a teacher is one of the only ways, other than being a full-time employee (not contra
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Actual intent differs from presented intent. As in "not negotiating in good faith"—carrying on negotiations only to extract information, with no intention of making a deal, might be an example of this.
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by intergalplan 5y ago
That's a working-in-an-office habit, which I personally am trying to break. (as he goofs around on HN)
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I truly think class-anxiety will make the freer kinds of WFH fairly uncommon over time, if it persists on a large scale at all, the more savvy managers get to it. I'm seeing non-programmer, bog-standard office drone friends get their w
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by intergalplan 5y ago
There are plenty of really good video recordings of all but the most obscure plays (I'm sure there are a few of King John, for instance, but not a tenth as many as there are of King Lear). It's not the same as seeing it live, but
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by intergalplan 5y ago
That's definitely one part of it: thumb-scrunching-to-cmd requires less wrist movement, for me at least, than ctrl+[anything]. Re-mapping caps lock as an extra ctrl helps a ton, but cmd is a much better default than the ordinary ctrl
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Oh, you didn't do it like some do, you just expressed that you didn't understand something, which is something everyone should probably do more often. Almost every time iPads come up on here there are several much more angry-seemi
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Fewer restrictions and less questioning of your use of time and your activities is typical the higher one observes the class ladder. WFH (absent remote monitoring tools, which take it back down below an in-person job without such tools) i
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by intergalplan 5y ago
It's basically "pro" for a bunch of uses that take advantage of the sensors, input methods, and form factor, a tolerable-to-good replacement for a few other use cases with the addition of a keyboard, and useless for a few cas
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> iPad Pro does, etc I get that. But. Having used many iPads, my favorite sizes are the 12.9" (Pro) and the Mini. Why (for the pro—I trust my love of the mini needs little explanation)? The 12.9" is so big that it's about
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by intergalplan 5y ago
> M1 is a very impressive chip, but it can't compete with the Threadripper/Xeon club. Looks at fanless M1 MacBook Air, with 14+ damn hours of battery life in my real-world use I mean... OK? My minivan isn't an aircraft c
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by intergalplan 5y ago
I have good/bad news: the command key thing, and most related macOS shortcuts, are so good that once you get used to them you'll be really annoyed when you use anything else, and left wondering how it's been this long and no-
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by intergalplan 5y ago
Also, a bunch of stuff that seems super-old actually isn't. There were still lions in the Caucusus until the 10th century... CE, not BCE. A thousand years earlier they lived in Thrace, too. There were still some wooly mammoths alive wh

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