jlarocco

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by jlarocco 5y ago
> We are even facing a population crises where we don't have enough people to work the jobs that are open now, much less the number of jobs in the next ten years. I'm not sure that's really a "population crisis",
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> Kiln was also a great product and allowed for using both Git and Mercurial. It was way better than anything else at the time, but lost out to Github. I used both FogBugz and Kiln at a previous employer, and I really liked FogBugz, but
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by jlarocco 5y ago
While I agree it's a little easier for a famous millionaire to say it, I think you're missing the point, which is that "success" is subjective and everybody decides for themselves what's important. It's only a
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Thank you. It seems "px" is really the worst of both worlds, then. It's not device independent like "pt", it's not what most people expect it to be (one device pixel), and there's subjective "wiggle
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I do have a high DPI display, and HN is ridiculously tiny without manually overriding, because it's setting text size in pixels instead of points, for no good reason. It doesn't make any sense. View source shows: line-heig
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by jlarocco 5y ago
On further thought, what I meant to say was that in this specific example, I don't think it makes sense to use these particular libraries from Common Lisp because there are native CL libraries for doing basically the same thing. On the
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by jlarocco 5y ago
This is interesting from a "look what we can do!" perspective, but practically speaking, there's not a good reason for doing it this way. It would be better all around to use one of the "native" Common Lisp librari
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by jlarocco 5y ago
On the other hand, people have been saying that for decades now. I was a huge fan of the original Blizzard games, and I remember thinking they were getting off track with StarCraft, and being unhappy that WoW was a MMOG. And don't eve
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Omeletes are eggs with extra ingredients (ham, peppers, etc.)
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> He didn't directly disclose any name the accusation is he wrote multiple clues from which witness could be identified . Well, judges aren't stupid. I guess he's finding out the hard way.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Yeah. It seems he (indirectly) released the names of (alleged) sexual assault victims, against a court order. Regardless of what he's done otherwise, it seems pretty clear he was in the wrong here.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Actually, this is poor skimming on your part. Émilie Jaumain - the person refered to in your first quoted paragraph - worked at INRAE and the lab there works on prions that can infect humans. She cut her finger, and became infected. Adrian
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> If someone took some new laptops with them in their carry-ons or checked luggage when they flew from one state to another, or even acted as an official courier, would that be illegal? If their plan is to sell them when they arrive then
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by jlarocco 5y ago
It's a little more complicated than that, though. The underlying issue for the university is whether she can effectively teach Muslim students when she thinks they're "scum" who should be deported. And, will Muslim stud
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> or automate 99% of the business and free these poor souls from a mundane existence. I agree on one hand, but there's a lot of hand waving and hopeful/wishful thinking built into that answer. It's very easy to say, "
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I don't think my comment implies more corporate concentration. And even if it does, why should restaurants be held to a higher standard than other sectors? It's fine for Google and Facebook to buy up everything, but restaurants c
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Then maybe restaurants aren't a viable business? I know it sounds crazy because we've had them for so long, but maybe it's not sustainable to have so many of them? In any case, this seems like a great area to let the market f
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Not sure what your point is with this. I'm personally glad contractors aren't handling things like this, and would like to see their role diminshed in general.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
The goal of a government isn't to make a big profit.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
When you put it that way, this is an unfair comparison and the downsides are more obvious. With GCC and Clang, I only pay for cross compilation if I need it, so for a fair comparison, the cross-compiler libraries should be installed for GCC
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by jlarocco 5y ago
It is up to the end user to not break the law. But... > In its earlier Forfeiture Order, the FCC said it had made clear that “[d]evices used in the Amateur Radio Service do not require authorization prior to being imported into the Un
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Yeah, it's hard to imagine an implementation where the geothermal can only be used for bitcoin mining. I'm not a fan of crypto or bitcoin, but if it funds their roll out of geothermal power, then that seems like a net-positive.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Funny how different people are on this. When I worked in an office I never worried about being the first to leave, and didn't even realize other people do. For me, the biggest downside of working from home is how easy it is to get dist
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> I like this article overall but I get irritated when I read stuff about drug users that is clearly written by somebody who hasn’t done a lot of drugs. To be fair, though, medical doctors with personal experience using meth are probably
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by jlarocco 5y ago
That's a good question, and I don't know. Can a state bring an anti-trust case or does it have to be done by at the federal level?
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> So how about this, the upfront cost and effort of typing in a different URL is at least a few orders of magnitude easier than drilling a well. That's missing the point. Regardless of whether you personally type google.com or duckd
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by jlarocco 5y ago
It's not the same at all. Insurance protects people financially from unlikely and *undesirable* events they don't want to happen. Nobody in good faith wants to get in a car accident or have a medical emergency. Insurance "w
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> Gym membership. > Movie theater attendance has been dropping steadily. Theaters, especially today's multi-plexes, are vast wastelands of empty seats the majority of the time. There absolutely is a benefit to them selling more t
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Maybe, but a gym membership isn't trying to sell me somebody else's product for 1/3 the price, while paying the full price themself.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Sure, but any business can survive indefinitely if they're given unlimited funding with no expectation of returns. In your opinion, what's the point of being the main funnel to theaters if you're losing money hand over fist t

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