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by jjav 4mo ago
> I don't like keyboard-centric text editing. Interesting? Unless you're using voice dictation, isn't text editing 100% keyboard based input?
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> It's quite difficult to find software older than Emacs in widespread use. Agredd! Aside from the basic Unix commands (ls, cat, etc), the only substantial program that I use today that I also used in 1991, is emacs. Well, and perl.
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> you're still running a unix OS They are trying so hard to destroy that, basically nothing is left. Just yesterday I needed to run equivalent of strace on a mac to trace system call. Great, it has dtruss (truss was the command on S
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> It has been polished and ready since at least 2019. Linux has been a fine desktop since almost its beginning. My first work-issued laptop was in 1994, running Linux. Using a PCMCIA modem to connect to the internet via dialup. Worked pe
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> The top-end rate with PG&E is not way higher than $0.50/kWh. This is from a recent PG&E bill from my house: Peak pricing: 0.48575 delivery + 0.14920 generation = $0.635 kWh So yes that's pretty much higher than $0.50
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> Your computer is likely to be stolen and sold. Quite a stretch. In almost 50 years of using computers every day, never had one stolen.
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> Last I checked, its $0.10/kwh for the first tranch,... That is completely wrong.
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> Let's say your overall rate is $0.50/kWh It's way higher than that with PG&E. My PG&E bill tends to be around $500/mo and I run basically nothing out of the basics. Never turn on the A/C. Tiny house, no
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> But PG&E has charged significantly more for power the last few years. Most people easily hit 50c/kwh on their bills. Way more than that! In prime time it's now in the ~80c/kWh these days. I've been posting this
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Right, I can't understand what this breaking refers to? I've been using emacs every day all day every time I'm front of a computer, since 1991. I need only one finger to count the pieces of software I've been using that
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> "Trap" here means the deal is so good that they don't ever want to leave. Yes. I know someone who has a huge rent controlled place in San Francisco and has had it for many decades. Probably worth like 10K/month if y
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If other investors are irrational that's a wonderful arbitrage opportunity. But good arbitrage opportunities are rare and don't last very long, so maybe they are rational.
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> At the startups, particularly the high performing ones, issues were addressed immediately. 1:1s are not about addressing issues, most certainly not any issues that need addressing immediately. If you have an immediate issue, open an in
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> How about if the direct has absolutely no interest in talking about anything because they are just trying to do their job, which is going fine? Because that's 99%, maybe 100% of these meetings I've ever had. Easy, send a mess
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> Sounds insane? It was! Well yes, it sounds insane. It is good to connect at a personal level. Talk about your weekend, family, hobbies. This might happen naturally in an office setting, but with everyone remote on zoom, it's hel
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> When you do daily standups or mandatory everyone says something type stuff, it does something damaging psychologically. Yes, very much. The most stressful times I've had at jobs were when I felt necessary to have an update every d
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> So basically useless unless you need to schedule a meeting with them Back in the day of 5 days in the office, this kind of connection happened through osmosis, not really necessary to schedule. In this day of everyone remote, if you do
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> because honesty has most of the time just yielded me useless work in the long term Are you sure it's useless work, or growth opportunities? A good manager will be handing growth opportunities to you often. I had one employee once
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> I like this idea but frankly I don't trust our lawmakers to do a fair assessment of this. Absolutely true. But at least it would force every legislator to put their name yay or nay on every law every year. There are few things tha
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> There are so many laws on the books that reviewing all of them every year is completely impossible. Oh well, so maybe there are too many laws, let's simplify. That is only partially tongue in cheek. I'd say if there is no tim
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This is why, as someone who works in security and encryption and has implemented web server TLS stacks and such, I still oppose the "always-https" idea. TLS is awesome, one of the most valuable developments in Internet history. Bu
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> It's a good balance to care about science while still maintaining a human brain with independent thoughts. What do you think science is? The whole point of science is questioning assumptions and applying data gathering and indepen
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> Did they think Having argued these topics for decades, I think that a lot of people just truly can't foresee the inevitable consequences. I don't know why, the consequences seem obvious but because they are not spelled out, m
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> The first kind think "This is the law, we must follow it" and the other kind think "This law doesn't make sense, we must change it". Indeed. I can't understand the people who blindly believe any law is goo
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That robot will of course be transmitting 24/7 video and audio to the mothership and be fully remotely controllable, and its corporate overlord will be able to override any programming you give it. Of course, "to enhance your cust
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A tsunami wave isn't necessarily high, it is not at all like a regular wave which arrives on shore, breaks and immediately dissipates. A tsunami wave could be just a handful of inches high but it keeps coming on and on and on, pushing
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> Do I miss anything? That human art is worth the humanity in the art. As soon as anything is automated, it's worth nothing.
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> The best solution is to have uniform federal regulation with no state laws. If we believe that government mostly does the right thing for the people, this is true. One set of rules, simpler, more efficient. OTOH, if there ever was a ho
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Absolutely. Cybersecurity is not a field you can (well of course you can, but not with legitimate effectiveness) approach as an isolated field of study. To be effective you must have a reasonable experience and skill in programming, and in
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> But there’s a long way to go between current property prices and raw construction costs. How much? Searching a bit suggests that net profit margin in housing industry is about 8.7% Consindering an investor can get ~3.75% in zero risk T

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