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by jjav 2y ago
> Of course someone could say "well they're not forcing you to buy the IPO'd stock!", and that's sort of true, but only in the strictest sense. My 401k, like I think nearly everyone's, is a mutual fund, and
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by jjav 2y ago
> If that is true, then what stops port operators from raising prices from their present level and pocketing the free money? They do raise prices, gradually. But raising prices is harder because users complain in many ways. Keeping price
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by jjav 2y ago
> New construction costs in much of the country are $100-200/sqft [1] I don't believe that for a moment. If you do, why don't you try to get a 1000sqft home built for $100K? Cheap housing! If that was actually possible (in
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by jjav 2y ago
> A landlord duopoly would not have the political power to get the restrictions passed in the first place. I'm at a loss on how to respond to this. This is exactly the polar opposite of how our (USA) political system works. Huge cor
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by jjav 2y ago
> In fact, any database is more complex than a text file. This statement is true, at a very superficial level. But it is missing all the nunace that goes into why would someone be using this file. Are you comparing opening a text file
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by jjav 2y ago
> Totally false. The benefits go to anyone who buys or sells goods that pass through the ports. Mostly true. Only if there is huge competitive pressure will the prices be forced to go down. Otherwise, those owners simply make more profit
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by jjav 2y ago
That's a big win! There are very few things more frustrating than software that keeps changing the UI just because some designed somewhere wants to feel busy. Make it work well and then stop fiddling with it.
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by jjav 2y ago
> I don't think any other package really matches the endurance. This is hugely valuable. I've been using gnucash since the late 90s, and have the all data files going back to 2000.
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by jjav 2y ago
If you intend to read it by human eyes, you're right. That seems like a rare edge case though. If you want to interact with the data outside of the software, the common case is you're writing some script for that, in which case be
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by jjav 2y ago
> Suppose you don't have SQLite, how do you open a SQLite database? The only way is you have to re-implement SQLite from scratch. Good luck with that. Or, you know, install SQLite. Although it is so ubiquitous that it is almost cert
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by jjav 2y ago
> If something is wrong and immoral, it doesn't matter much if it's perpretrated by a small-time crook or an industrial-sized one. No, it makes all the difference. If you only have small-time operators, by definition you have l
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by jjav 2y ago
> But it would be much more broadly effective to remove one digit from housing prices How would you in the real world reduce prices by one order of magnitude? e.g. a $1M house would cost 100K tomorrow? Building that house has more than 1
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by jjav 2y ago
> There was a time when people would have said the same about make. The shell is the simple command that is guaranteed to be on all Unix systems from the get go. That would've been a pretty short window of time since make first cam
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by jjav 2y ago
> People using the wrong word for something doesn't mean the original definition of the word is invalid. It doesn't make the original definition invalid, but words mean what society uses them to mean, which changes over time. S
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by jjav 2y ago
> The way I have always looked at it is that want to “retire from _having_ to work” and promote myself to working on things that I _want_ to work on. But this is exactly what retirement is!
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by jjav 2y ago
> Things that are overlooked for normal people (jaywalking) would end up with cops wasting their time in court or even jail. That would actually be a great thing. Not because of the wasted time, but because it'll highlight silly law
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by jjav 2y ago
Indeed. It forces the question: What is the point of amateur astrophotography? If you just want to admire the results, go to https://welcome.astrobin.com/ for photos that are better than most people will ever have time or b
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by jjav 2y ago
> I did a survey once in about 3/4 of the comments were either wrong or useless. > Examples: > //Add 1 to x > x+=1; If 3/4ths of comments are like this, maybe show a sampling of public source code (e.g. from
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by jjav 2y ago
> So why is this any different? It is only different in that by making cars internet-connected, the manufacturers see a golden opportunity to make them all cars-as-a-service that you must buy but no longer own. In other words, profit and
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by jjav 2y ago
> and its not like a dev can't do anything system related I'm glad to read this! Unfortunately the industry has become so fragmented that a very significant percentage of younger developers no longer have any knowledge nor any
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by jjav 2y ago
> Meanwhile, some of the major DoH servers specifically don't. You can't possible make that assertion, because all it takes is one NSL and they will log and share it all.
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by jjav 2y ago
Parallel to this, are there any good retirement projection planning open source tools? Just yesterday I was thinking of writing something basic for my needs, but if there is something good out there already maybe I don't need to.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Do people really dislike 2FA on something as important as source hosting? "important" is a per-person individual decision. A phrase that used to be very common is "mechanism, not policy". The role of a vendor is sup
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by jjav 2y ago
> But where is the dividing line between market research and collusion? Scale and ubiquity make all the difference in the world even if it seems like the same public data. An example that comes to mind, different topic but somewhat analo
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by jjav 2y ago
> Because it's cheaper now to throw hardware at a problem than actually try to fix the code or root of the issue. It's not cheaper, it's just more opaque. Back when your service was deployed on that 2 CPU box and it was to
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by jjav 2y ago
> Instead of having to hire a full sysadmin You need the same sysadmins (called something else to be trendy, but basically same role) either way.
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by jjav 2y ago
> One advantage of having 50 states with various laws is that we don’t need to just speculate about this stuff. That's actually a disadvantage, and explains why the US will never be able to address the homelessness problem. If you h
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by jjav 2y ago
> Trusting Google's OAuth not to vanish overnight Sorry if I wasn't clear. It is not that google will remove the service overnight (although they are infamous for canceling things, but not that bad). The problem is google will
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by jjav 2y ago
> single-use tool websites use Google's login Topic drift, but no tools should use google login. Doing that means handing over to google the authority to decide who can and can't use your tool. And we all know google support is
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by jjav 2y ago
Which cities are these? Where living in that city is cheaper (for equivalent lifestyle) than in its suburbs?

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