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by jjav 2y ago
6809 for me was ideal first assembly language. The 6502 was too limited.
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I miss the times when stuff went to Weird Stuff for fun browsing.
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> 20 years ago you could run your email domain on a machine in your basement and it would work. You could send out email and it would be received, and the incoming spam volume was manageable. I'm still doing that today, works fine.
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> Ya know, like leaders worth following. Indeed. Some years ago, also during a California wildfire, I was at a company with honorable leadership. Not only did people impacted by evacuations get all the time off they needed but the compan
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> There wasn't really an internet before ads though. You must be very young, or have forgotten? The Internet (and the Web also) existed well before ads. Advertising (all commercial use) was forbidden. The Internet existed and was m
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> Science, the process of science, does not prove something as fact. I intentionally picked a wrong value for Earth gravity instead of the correct one to avoid nitpickery on precision, location, yada yada. If someone has a feeling that E
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> The internet as you know it is the value you get out of ads. No. I'm old enough to clearly remember the Internet without ads (commercial use was banned) and it was a far superior place. Ads only add surveillance and noise and wast
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> But how do we distinguish facts from non facts? What do you mean how? Science. The process of science. There might be people who want to believe gravity on Earth accelerates objects at 1m/s^2, but we can trivially establish throug
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Seconded. Lustig's talks are extremely good and highly recommended for anyone who eats.
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> what does or doesn’t constitute a “fact”, are all political topics. It clearly is not. A fact is a fact by definition, regardless of what anyone happens to feel about it. There are facts that are known to be true beyond all possible do
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> congestion pricing pays off in a big way Define "pays off". Who benefits, who suffers?
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> while this settlement does not admit wrongdoing Settlements basically never admit wrongdoing, that is a big motivation to doing them. It is safe to assume that companies that are willing to settle are doing so because if they go to cou
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HOAs are the only thing so evil that it is more favorable to give up a 2.25% mortgage than to deal with a HOA!
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> To fire an individual, the company must have documentation to ensure it's not a wrongful termination. Not in the US. All you must do is tell them they're gone, walk them out the door and that's that. You must pay them an
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> so is firing people (at least in United States it is.) There's probably some country somewhere where it is easier to fire people than the US, but not sure where would that be. There are zero requirements to fire people in the US
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> limitations re the number of blocking rules in Manifest V3 Which of course was the whole purpose for google pushing for this v3, to benefits ads and hurt users.
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Yes, minimum wage jobs for the locals, most of the profit goes to Bezos. When you shop at locally-owned stores the money goes to a local small business owner, truly staying local. Look up how walmart used to destroy small town economies by
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by jjav 2y ago
I looove ruby. It is my favorite scripting language for nearly everything. Text processing though? Nope. perl is immensely better at that. And of course in unix text processing is life.
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> You really have a mad productivity work horse. I'm not aware of anything that can be as effective at text processing as perl. While I don't do much perl anymore, if I have to wrangle text files in all kinds of ways, there is
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> You may make your function 2x faster, at a cost of additional complexity, but you never run it enough in a year for it to pay itself back. "You" is both singular and plural, which is often the problem with this thinking. Is i
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> Jurors are screened for bias, likely questions from the prosecutors will include, "Have you ever been denied a medical insurance claim?" Those who answer yes will definitely not make the jury. In the US, it will be very diffi
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> food are free market because they are easy to get substitutes for in most of the western world (move to a different neighborhood, buy different food) In the US, a very small number of corporations own nearly all the supermarkets. You c
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> If your company has multiple things you need to log in to, its doing something wrong. It is inevitable. The SSO tax is often very high and for some products very difficult to justify. And then of course the large tail of smaller vendor
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> that equals replacing whatever might already be there with a giant McMansion That's the opposite of what we see around here. Developers buy houses from the 1940 to 60's (big houses on big lots), tear them down and build an 8-
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> builders are going to build what gives them the biggest return: large, luxuriously finished houses In a lot you could build one largish luxurious home and sell it for 1.5 to 2.0M Or do 8 tiny townhouse units and sell each for 800K for
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> Houses are much bigger. Houses have almost tripled in size [2]. I know the numbers support this but I always wonder why my observations are so different. When growing up (I'm Gen X) all my friends houses and mine were pretty big.
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> > by taking away their devices > That is literally your job as the parent. Tell me you're not a parent without telling me you're not a parent! This only works if there is broad support from the entire social group, mean
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> I wrote a BBS in Rust. A BBS? Does this have a different meaning now than in 1986? Where do I dial up to it?
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> And nationalize PG&E to get rid of exploitative power rates. This needs to be highlighted more. Electricity is so expensive with PG&E that it is going to hold back anything that needs electricity. A few more rounds of price h
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> I assume this is a few hours or overnight. Even slow charging from a regular outlet gives enough over night or a 6 hour stay. Not even close. We don't have a fast charger at home, so just charging from regular outlet. We charge fr

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