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by irrational 1y ago
So, I have a ton of links in pocket. Any suggestions on where to move them to? This feels like yet another wake up call to only use open source software.
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by irrational 1y ago
The book is better, but... yeah, this was my first thought too.
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by irrational 1y ago
> 2014: questions started to decline, which was also when Stack Overflow significantly improved moderator efficiency. From then, questions were closed faster, many more were closed, and “low quality” questions were removed more efficient
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by irrational 1y ago
Why not use caffeine pills? You get the caffeine jolt without the calories. Plus, they are far cheaper than buying drinks.
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by irrational 1y ago
I’ve read that a large asteroid could be positioned at a particular Mars L point and it would protect the planets atmosphere from being stripped by the sun.
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by irrational 1y ago
This seems on brand for this administration. What an embarrassment.
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by irrational 1y ago
I’m thankful I live in a state that uses my tax money to make all school breakfast and lunches free. I wonder what percentage of state taxes is actually required to pay for all school breakfast and lunches? Making sure kids aren’t inhibited
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by irrational 1y ago
> Boredom was part of life, and we accepted and adjusted to this reality. I remember myself and my siblings often complaining, “Mom! I’m bored!” With the “bored” long and drawn out. This post caused me to stop and reflect that I haven’t
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by irrational 1y ago
I would add those to the list of official planets, yes. Don’t remove Pluto, add the rest.
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by irrational 1y ago
A few weeks ago we were in Santa Monica on vacation. This was my first time seeing Waymo vehicles in the wild. We did see one blatantly run a red light, well after the light had changed. Fortunately no car was crossing at the same time. It
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by irrational 1y ago
And a reminder that the police have never been on the side of the people. They are they muscle of the state.
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by irrational 1y ago
And an axis.
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by irrational 1y ago
I expected this to be about the Brandon Sanderson teen series that starts with Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians.
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by irrational 1y ago
Wouldn’t Intuit do the same?
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by irrational 1y ago
Use Free Tax USA. Federal is free. If you need to file state, it is $15. I’ve used it for years and it works great. For a number of years I prepared my taxes on both Turbo Tax (without actually paying for it) and Free Tax USA. They always c
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by irrational 1y ago
> Did anyone commenting realize they were trying to engage with a bot designed to monetize their empathy? I thought, they are probably all bots, but then I got to your next line: > Maybe they were also bots, spiraling endlessly into t
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by irrational 1y ago
> Around 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of urine are spilled onto the floor and walls of public restrooms each day in the U.S. Each day?! 165 million males in the USA. So, 16.5 males on average are peeing enough on the walls and floo
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by irrational 1y ago
Except the military.
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by irrational 1y ago
This makes me contemplate how different people’s experiences will alter their perception of this project. Having never read Garfield, the man in these comics comes off as unhinged. But, I imagine, if I was familiar with the source material,
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by irrational 1y ago
Other engineering work. Currently I'm doing integration work.
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by irrational 2y ago
I was a web developer from 1996 until 2023. I jumped ship because of exactly this sort of nonsense. I still do private web development, but I do it all using native vanilla HTML, JS, and CSS. It just works.
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by irrational 2y ago
> No money is exchanged when I promote my own product through my own channels Isn’t it? You receive money when people buy your product because of your advertising.
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by irrational 2y ago
They get loans using their portfolios as collateral and then use the loans to buy stocks. This is very standard.
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by irrational 2y ago
One of our kids stuck a bean in their nose. The doctor at the urgent care clinic spent 30 seconds removing it. The bill was $600.
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by irrational 2y ago
I’m pretty sure the only ones it will be good for are the rich. Make the rich richer. They will be able to buy stocks cheaply. They will be able to buy homes cheaply as people lose their jobs and foreclose. They will make the USA into a nat
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by irrational 2y ago
Is this getting into questions like "Where did the singularity come from?" and "What came before the singularity?". We don't have a way to answer these kinds of questions.
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by irrational 2y ago
Is this new? My wife was a TA in college back in the 1990s and her main job was reading and grading papers. The vast majority of papers were incoherent and the students seemed to have only a passing familiarity with English (nearly all of t
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by irrational 2y ago
I’m all about spelling things correctly. To, too, two or their, there, they’re matter. But using the correct dash/hyphen is way too pedantic to me. In isolation, I can’t tell the difference between them.
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by irrational 2y ago
That is confusing. In my mind, the tip of the pyramid is the smallest part of the pyramid, just like the brief overview at the beginning of the post is the smallest part. The base of the pyramid is the biggest part of they pyramid, so that
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by irrational 2y ago
Yes. Quite a few. But I'm old enough that I've seen them go from quite large to almost gone.

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