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by jjav 8mo ago
> Always sucked. If you don't believe me feel free to go back to any underpowered machine of your choice and use it as a daily driver for a while. No, tech didn't always suck. Sure, it was slower hardware. But it was empowering
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by jjav 8mo ago
> I highly recommend talking to strangers! People are lovely. Go out and try it. Which country are you in? I'm from a latin country and the norm is that you end up chatting about life the universe and everything with any random peop
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by jjav 8mo ago
I suspect Musk will negotiate with Musk to convince SpaceX to buy Tesla for more than its market value to avoid the otherwise inevitable crash. Either that or eventually Tesla drops to ~$50/share, but since that would hurt the Musk ego
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by jjav 8mo ago
> This has been similarly true of ICEVs for the better part of the last 100 years. Well no, since a 1926 engine is very different from a 2026 engine. An early 90s fuel injected computer controlled engine is pretty similar to a current en
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by jjav 8mo ago
Cities and states do not have needs or feelings. Humans do. The electoral college is deeply unfair system where humans in low population states have far more say than others. Everyone should have equal say.
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by jjav 8mo ago
> My wife was complaining about far right knuckle draggers turning up in her feed. This is what is so difficult in facebook vs. HN. Here if people post angry insulting rants, it gets collectively downvoted to oblivion. That is effective.
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by jjav 8mo ago
> > The tradeoff Go made is that certain code just cannot be written in it. > Uh... yeah? That's true of basically all platforms, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. What code can you not write in C? Might be p
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by jjav 8mo ago
> Meanwhile the written language has almost no correlation with the spoken language. So identical to French then!
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by jjav 8mo ago
IMO leaving salary to late stages leads to a huge waste of time. I am not going to spend time going to interviews, let alone preparing for them, many rounds over many days, just to discover at the end that their salary range is not a fit. I
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by jjav 8mo ago
Not too surprising. I've been at companies where a job posting is hyper-specific to one job description, as soon as I (as a hiring manager) change a single word, HR makes a new job posting and cancels the old one. And also I've be
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by jjav 8mo ago
As other say, what a strange question. The whole dot.com boom when every company on earth scrambled to host their website... pretty much all of them on Sun hardware. Thus the insane run up of SUNW share price prior to the bust.
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by jjav 8mo ago
Found this educational & fun video on youtube comparing a 4x4 car on summer tires vs. a 2wd car on proper winter tires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atayHQYqA3g Moral of the story: 4x4 is useless in the snow without
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by jjav 9mo ago
> The difference between two-wheel and all-wheel drive is night and day, compared to the difference between winter and summer tires. No, this is incorrect. Just try it. Summer tires are hopeless in freezing temperatures (and are not rate
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by jjav 9mo ago
The #1 lesson to learn from living in a snowy place, is to move away to a place that does not have that problem! That's what I did and living on the California coast is much better.
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by jjav 9mo ago
> The difference between what winter-only tires can handle vs winter-rated all-season tires is so minimal that they're not with getting. Yeah.. no. The difference is night and day. Put on some Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires and prepare
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by jjav 9mo ago
In a world where emacs exists, why use something else?
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by jjav 9mo ago
> housing stock in a lot of metros If you actually want walkable, big metro areas are overrated. Look for small towns, that's where walkability rules. The town is small, so everything is near. Where I live now, most of the town is i
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by jjav 9mo ago
> You should expand your study to other areas, not every place in the US is Southern California. (Silicon Valley is NorCal but still) I've also lived in Pittsburgh, did not own a car or a bike just walked everywhere. And northern Ne
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by jjav 9mo ago
Two trains of thought; I was reacting to the OP line of "People would rather stay marooned in the middle of an endless desert of houses with essentials being a 30-45m drive away", which I maintain is a nearly impossible scenario.
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by jjav 9mo ago
OP said "established hillside community with equestrian 1 - 5 acre lots". It is reasonably likely that people who lived there chose the location because they wanted to have horses, otherwise why buy there? When dense apartments ge
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by jjav 9mo ago
> access to the things that make life good Could it be possible that what makes life good is subjective and people have different enjoyments and hobbies? Having space for a woodworking shop or a large garden or a backyard pool or any oth
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by jjav 9mo ago
The claim at the top of the thread was "essentials being a 30-45m drive away". I clicked on each of those links and asked for directions to food shops and in every case google maps gave me a route less than 10 minutes drive. So I
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by jjav 9mo ago
Very much this. My neighborhood was built in the late 90s. Single family home small town suburbia. I can walk to just about anything I need in daily life. Within 10 minutes walk there are 2 supermarkets, movies, many restaurants, variety of
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by jjav 9mo ago
> People would rather stay marooned in the middle of an endless desert of houses with essentials being a 30-45m drive away. Please tell me where in the US, aside from very remote desert areas, can you possibly be 45m (min or mile? either
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by jjav 9mo ago
I don't know how rare they are overall, but you can make them rare for yourself by quitting such places. In over 30 years of career, I'd say I've spent a total of about 2.25 years (between 3 companies) in roles where I wasn&#
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by jjav 9mo ago
> More likely to talk back. Yes, that's great. Push back, tell me why I'm wrong or why we should do it differently (with reasons and data, of course). Those are the best team members. I currently manage an engineering team and
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by jjav 9mo ago
Two out of 535 easily meets the definition of "practically none". And maybe a few more, so maybe around 1%
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by jjav 9mo ago
> Courts don't have an army either. Only the executive has an army. Exactly, that's the bug. Two of the three branches of government can only write sternly worded opinions on paper. Only one has the brute force to impose their
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by jjav 9mo ago
> It's also a mistake to say that a lot of land gets evaluated in isolation, because that's not even true with a the current property tax. Sorry, my sentence may have been confusingly worded. I don't mean for tax computati
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by jjav 9mo ago
Based on what we've seen of the courts, I have doubts about that. Congress does not have an army they can send out to enforce any law they pass, so turns out the president can simply just ignore it all without consequences. What are th

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