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by jjav 5mo ago
> Now do cars and food… Food is obviously not comparable (you must consume it and only s*t is left over). Cars depreciate quickly becase they wear out in the timespan of a couple decades. You can keep them going longer but it's a la
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by jjav 5mo ago
Would paving over all of Central Park to fill the area with residential skyscrapers be a good idea?
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I have a cheap pre-paid plan (US Mobile). It's still a monthly fee though.
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by jjav 5mo ago
> The Mercurial CLI has clear, well named commands that are predictable and easy to memorize. Precisely this. I've been stuck using git since 2010 and to this day I have a large git-cheatsheet doc which I need to reference any time
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by jjav 5mo ago
Surely you know this, but the rich are paying less percentage taxes relative to the money they have.
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by jjav 5mo ago
Mercurial is one of the many sad stories of far better technology being forgotten by the popularity contest juggernaut of something else. I still use mercurial for all my personal project where I don't need to care what anyone else thi
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by jjav 5mo ago
> you cannot log in to your bank account on your laptop/computer without using your phone's banking app Where is this? I have lots of bank accounts, probably more than most people. Three local credit unions, Fidelity, Schwab, C
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by jjav 5mo ago
It is vital that government services must not depend on anything that is not government provided. No government service can depend on having a product from a private corporation.
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by jjav 5mo ago
I suggest making a scene about it. I've never encountered such a restaurant but will definitely make a scene about it if it happens.
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by jjav 5mo ago
Yes, absolutely! On the occasions where I've been to a restaurant that tries to pull off the QR nonsense, I just ask for a menu, I tell them I don't have a phone. I've yet to see one where they can't find me an actual me
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by jjav 5mo ago
> Internet café to print off your boarding pass for the flight home? You can print the boarding pass at the airline kiosk at the airport, at least in any US airport I've been to. I always do this. As noted in a peer post I try ver
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by jjav 5mo ago
> Nowadays, you can no longer exist in society without a phone. Fight this, fight it hard. It is not acceptable to have to pay a monthly fee to a giant corporation to participate in unrelated things. I do have a cell phone (grudgingly)
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by jjav 5mo ago
Given that enshittification is such a common term today, that didn't exist a few decades ago, suggests the decay is real not just a stage of life perception. Earlier computers, and particularly the early Internet, were all about person
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by jjav 5mo ago
> There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks. Yes! I have uMatrix on all my computers. I wish it was still being updated but.. it still works great. The best ever.
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by jjav 5mo ago
> That's simply not true. You may get a certain amount of leeway, but it has to be reasonable. Where have you seen this? When I was doing consulting I could charge whatever rate I wanted. Usually around $200 but went up to $500 and
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by jjav 5mo ago
> Nobody wants them to practice medicine, the question is whether they are they going to hand over the money or not. This doesn't make any sense. They're not handing over money for fun, they are supposed to pay for the medical
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by jjav 5mo ago
I don't follow this comment at all, sorry. Presumably you're comparing people of working age contributing to social security vs. people in retirement receiving social security. That age can vary but let's pick 65 as a typical
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by jjav 5mo ago
> fewer young people paying to support an much larger number of older folks The largest generation by population in the US is Millenials, second largest in Gen Z. https://www.populationpyramids.org/generations/united
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by jjav 5mo ago
Not quite, this thread was about encouraging people with interest in open hardware to have a home server rack. That said, it's not clear here what people in the thread even mean by "enterprise grade". Some of the commenters s
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by jjav 6mo ago
> Yes, small-N is more difficult living than big-N, but we are more similar than different. Absolutely, this is something I always try to explain regarding this topic. Of course it is a lot more comfortable if you can live for two years
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by jjav 6mo ago
You can make those rackmounted servers as loud or as quiet as you like. For home, optimize quiet (and low power consumption). Even though my server rack is in the garage I try to keep it quiet. A couple of them are fanless Atom-based and ot
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by jjav 6mo ago
> Not everyone in California lives in LA or has LA’s problems. That's why smog rules vary per county.
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by jjav 6mo ago
I remember how cool it felt that I pulled out my smartcard from my SunRay on my desk in California, flew to Tokyo, plugged in my smartcard to a SunRay there and just like that, there was my desktop ready to keep working!
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by jjav 6mo ago
> But because they have already sold, and are not buying, they drop out of the market entirely. Prices get set by the people who are price insensitive, because they're the only ones willing to participate. The buy & hold value i
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by jjav 6mo ago
Encourage yourself and all your similar-minded people to keep the fun going! Yes, 99.99(however many 9s)% of the internet is walled-garden advertising garbage. But, you can exist in the remaining space and bring your friends along! I run my
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by jjav 6mo ago
> As always, this story has have nothing to do with the cameras or AI Obviously not true, but with nuance. This shows the problem with bad practices at infinite scale. Maybe they always conflated 0 with O. Not great, but if it was done m
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by jjav 6mo ago
> Even on older cars, service techs can typically manually push firmware updates Older cars have no concept of such updates. Happy with my 70s and 80s and early 90s cars.
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by jjav 6mo ago
I ask in honesty, have you used LLMs? Seems to me the productivity gains are obvious. As for my source, it is my experience at work for both myself, and my direct reports, and my peer teams. Tiny example: a certain recurring task we need to
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by jjav 6mo ago
> You'd be amazed at the number of people that live pay check to pay check. Even on here, I'd guess the number is higher than you'd expect. Well you don't have to live anywhere near paycheck to paycheck to be intimida
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by jjav 6mo ago
> If you haven’t use LLMs at all, a weekend would be enough to be on par with everyone else in the industry Disagree. It takes a lot of experimenting to find the right balance between sufficient guardrails and insane halluciations. And i

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