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by jjav 1y ago
> Then did the debtor not sell the motorbike to pay the debt? Because (it seems from OP story) that the court blatantly stole it from them, so they never had a chance.
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by jjav 1y ago
Common with amazon! I bought a DSLR camera a few years ago on amazon, and what showed up was an old very clearly used camera with thousands of photos taken (shutter counter) and parts missing, in a torn box. Really? I returned it, thankfull
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by jjav 1y ago
What is the best (most reliable) way to run multiple Linux instances on a FreeBSD host?
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by jjav 1y ago
> My credit cards, both the physical ones and the ones on my phone, work without an internet connection. Of course not. I guess you haven't been to shops that say their network is down, so it's cash-only until it comes back onl
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by jjav 1y ago
> That happened because online job sites made it so easy for candidates to apply that hiring managers could no longer personally keep up with the flood. Yes, this is a big factor. As an actively hiring manager, there's nothing worse
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by jjav 1y ago
> I've literally seen people being autorejected after being referred by team-leads these days. Yes. But not always. Getting an internal referral helps somewhere between not at all and a lot. And it is pretty random, nothing to do wi
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by jjav 1y ago
> And shutdown for a month should trigger elections. I'd be more strict and say shutdown on day 1 trigger reelection for all senate and congress seats and the president & VP. Get everyone out. It's not like they don't
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by jjav 1y ago
> Because they are drug traffickers and nobody likes them. So far zero proof of that, but plenty of proof that this administration lies about everything. So, the probabilities suggest these are lies too and they're just murdering ra
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by jjav 1y ago
> So in other words, they value other things much higher than cost? This is what PP said: > > Have you considered that Americans might value their time differently than you? Not random other things, specifically time Time is a lo
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by jjav 1y ago
The premise you established is a false dichotomy. Original text: > If Americans were price conscious about transport they wouldn't be driving $60,000, 15mpg, oversized pickup trucks to go drop off their kids at daycare and commute t
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by jjav 1y ago
What you might not be considering is that time is also a cost.
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by jjav 1y ago
> If Americans were price conscious about transport they wouldn't be driving $60,000, 15mpg, oversized pickup trucks to go drop off their kids at daycare and commute to their office job, they'd be riding the bus. > Most Amer
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by jjav 1y ago
Nextcloud is great, but I don't use it for backup (didn't realize it would even do that) so maybe that's why. I use it for a family cloud service for chat, shared todo lists, shared calendar and shared editing docs (don'
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by jjav 1y ago
Apparently by the second. Don't blink too often.
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by jjav 1y ago
> I think you're viewing the "good old days" of interviewing through the lens of nostalgia. Old school interviewing from decades ago or even more recently was significantly more similar to pledging to a frat than modern in
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by jjav 1y ago
> If you give AI a set of tests to pass and turn it loose with no oversight, it will happily spit out 500k LOC when 500 would do. And then it will have a very hard time when you ask it to add some functionality. I've been playing ar
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by jjav 1y ago
> Great, so you have to pretend 40 hours a week. Pretend to what? Not sure what this means. My "whole self" is my hobbies and my passions and interests. A few of those overlap with the stuff I do at work. At work I do the work
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by jjav 1y ago
> You are making things up out of thin air. Not OP but not really. Recalls are pretty rare in most cars. I own lots of cars and I've only had two recalls in the last 33 years. One for a Mazda minivan to replace a rear hatch shock (i
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by jjav 1y ago
> Yeah it doesn’t really seem different from people copy/pasting from stack overflow without reading through it. It is vastly different because there are no (as far as I've ever seen) multi-thousand line blocks of code to cut &
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by jjav 1y ago
> I regret being born too late to work somewhere like Bell Labs, SGI, or Sun. I had a ton of graybeard wizard coworkers from these places, and they were all a pleasure to learn from and even better friends. For the first 2 years of my fi
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by jjav 1y ago
> “The network is the computer” was a marketing campaign. No, not at all. It became a marketing campaing in the very late 90s dot.com boom, but the concept that defined Sun goes back to the beginning, 1984. Back then, that was a radical
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by jjav 1y ago
> Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome for me, but I never really understood what was so unusable about the vanilla command line git interface. I'm as hardcode CLI user as it gets, I've only lived in the CLI since the mid 80s and
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by jjav 1y ago
>it's not self-documented enough to just pick up and use with no instruction. If they just plop you in front of a 3-d printer never having seen one and having no documentation, it'll probably take you a good while to produce so
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by jjav 1y ago
> 0% of AI tools include the option to not train on my data. That's perhaps not true. If you sign up for the enterprise accounts there are options to not use any of your data to train. That's how we have it set up at $job. (I s
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by jjav 1y ago
> On the cloud it takes five seconds to get a new machine I can ssh into and I don't have to ask anyone for the budget. This isn't exactly realistic, not for too long anyway. Once your cloud bill climbs into the millions, expec
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by jjav 1y ago
> > The value of the dollar has already plummeted, 10% or so this year. > Compared to what? In terms of the DXY "US Dollar Index" https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DX-Y.NYB/
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by jjav 1y ago
Funny, in that just moments ago I was describing AI coder to friends as a very drunk intern high on crack. My experience is that using AI as a fancy code completion tool works very well and saves me a lot of time. But, trying to let it defi
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by jjav 1y ago
A wall street friend has been predicting the big crash "next month" for about nine months now, but we're still in a mad rally. I tend to agree a big crash is in the cards, but as they say, the market can be irrational for a v
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by jjav 1y ago
> Alas can't - employer prohibits any use of derivatives. What kind of employer is that? Employers often block you from trading derivatives of the company you work for, but how could they have any say on other stocks?
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by jjav 1y ago
> So you'll be buying mid 2010's cars for the rest of your life? That or earlier, yes.

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