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by jghn 1y ago
That's the thing about population level trends: there's always going to be individuals with counterexamples.
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by jghn 1y ago
What country do you live in where you're experiencing living with socialism?
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by jghn 1y ago
But I'd at least think that anyone who is complaining about what content they're seeing, the algorithm, etc knows enough to do this too. Especially on a site like ths. Instead online discourse often revolves around this being an i
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by jghn 1y ago
> Boobs, butts, gambling, brain rot, watchbait/ragebait, all that stuf I don't understand how other people have this experience and I don't. I see targeted ads of course. And every once in a while it starts showing me con
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by jghn 1y ago
> in the US grade school is just through 5th grade, and 6th grade in most of the rest of the world Be careful with this. Where I grew up in the US, "Grade school" was usually through 6th grade with a grade 7-8 middle school or
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by jghn 1y ago
Because most people probably have all of those ingredients in their pantry anyways?
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by jghn 1y ago
"non-citizens" and "undocumented workers" don't even come close to forming a circle in a Venn diagram.
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by jghn 1y ago
> Rents would go down because deportation of illegals will reduce demand The fact that anyone would think this could possibly be true is an indicator of how strong the propaganda machine is.
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by jghn 1y ago
> But I know that many blue cities also play games with crime metrics How do you *know* this?
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by jghn 1y ago
> Would you let them bicycle through the homeless district? I have lived in and around more than one area known to have a high density of people experiencing homelessness. It seems a lot, lot scarier than it really is. Once you get used
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by jghn 1y ago
> (Boston) .... Why exactly would it be _dangerous_ to wave at someone in a friendly way? It's not dangerous at all to do this. It's just considered odd & borderline impolite to do that. It's hard to explain to an outs
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by jghn 1y ago
> think women especially do not want a small phone because they carry it in a purse anyway The correlation I saw a while back during one of the debates about the trend towards phablets was it depended a lot on your usage patterns. Are y
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by jghn 1y ago
I want a handle on the back of my phone even less than I want a larger phone. I also refuse to use cases and any other contraption that adds further bulk.
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by jghn 1y ago
Yep. I keep holding out for a new Mini. They keep making phones wider and taller. Thanks Apple!
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by jghn 1y ago
You also need to adjust the 100k for inflation. It'd be well over 300k now. I'd rather the 300k at 4% in that scenario.
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by jghn 1y ago
> that they would go out and run errands during work hours So? I do this when I work in an office, and I do this when I work remote. If someone doesn't like it, they can go screw. I put in my hours, and I get my work done. I don&#x
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by jghn 1y ago
I don't think this is what you're saying but when I've seen debates over choice the pattern I've sen is: 1) The people who feel more engaged at home can stay home, those who feel more engaged at work can go there 2) The
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by jghn 1y ago
Don't worry. Congress will take back this power as soon as a Dem is in office.
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by jghn 1y ago
I remember my parents being excited about the opportunity to refinance their mortgage to something in the high teens. And now these days headlines act like the apocalypse is occurring when mortgage rates are in the 6-7 range.
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by jghn 1y ago
We had both SPARCstations and IBM RISC workstations running AIX. Our assignments were always graded on Solaris. But the IBMs had better keyboards, so I used those. The downside? I had a real knack for finding constructs that'd lead to
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by jghn 1y ago
I’d agree with you except for the trend over the last 10 years or so to set limits back to the Stone Age. For a while there we seemed to be settling on somewhere around 150 characters and yet these days we’re back to the 80-100 range.
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by jghn 1y ago
> is literally less readable Please point me to an objective measure of "readability" that holds for all people. And then demonstrate that your example is "literally" lower on that scale.
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by jghn 1y ago
And then there are those of us who have used Java for a long time who feel the FP features make Java tolerable.
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by jghn 1y ago
I am not intending this as a backhanded way of suggesting your experience is invalid. I get that it's quite possible in some areas. However, I think the point of the GP is that the number of people who say this is their typical experie
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by jghn 1y ago
I played a *lot* of rogue in the early 80s. I can't remember a single game marketed as a "roguelike" that I've played that reminded me of playing rogue.
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by jghn 1y ago
The way I've been looking at this is that when The Big One happens and the average American loses their shirt via the crash of the giant ETFs, the naysayers who managed to have been invested in the things that don't crash will zig
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by jghn 1y ago
This presupposes the use case is such that this even matters. Obviously that is the case sometimes, but in the vast majority of cases it is not.
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by jghn 1y ago
> taking up 10x the memory it seems like it should need… when idle. The JVM tends to hold onto memory in order to make things faster when it does wind up needing that memory for actual stuff. However, how much it holds on to, how the GC
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by jghn 1y ago
I have since the early days. And I avoid algorithmic feeds. So I don’t get furry porn she. I read bsky. Or X. Or Insta. These are non-problems for people who don’t allow them to be
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by jghn 1y ago
> Hmmm... It's the other way around for me. I find it hard to memorise things I don't actually understand. I think you two are agreeing. GP said that they found they couldn't memorize something until they actually understo

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