jleyank

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by jleyank 1mo ago
Remember, in a consumer economy, anything that reduces the number of consumers is risky. Tech people such as developers are well-paid. Reducing their numbers will be a noticeable loss of market. Yeah, companies might save headcount, but t
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Building houses uses the same people…
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Building them, yeah. Once built, nuthin’ except drains on the local environment. Better to build housing.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
CUsMA might be convenient re Mexico. They can consider withdrawal once a bilateral deal is reached.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
More bigots than morons. I’m folding American exceptionalism into bigotry along with all the usual aspects.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Harsh, but same for oil and potash. Other minerals too.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Sweden? Germany? Last two defense contracts negotiations…
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Because it can…
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Note that these new tariffs are on goods covered by CUSMA, making that treaty inoperative. Pity it’s one Trump signed… One must stand up to bullies otherwise they’ll keep at it. Until the US population feels the pain the rest of the world
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Last time I checked, Russia, China and North Korea are doing business with Iran. Come on big guy, take these folks on. But then, this would probably cost Trump money and increase his personal risk. But the US lived there for decades.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Lookup gerrymander. Quality of living, education, etc.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
You forgot - it also aims to consume lots of power and water and hardware to keep it from others. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
People should always vote with their money. Give it to companies in sync with their views and withhold it from those out of sync. There is a grey middle ground where the decision is harder.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
"Talk" and "Walk" aren't the same word although they rhyme. And they only refer to Democrats, who are the only ones with agency in government (Murc's Law).
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by jleyank 1mo ago
There's been a lot of "progress". They used to be chattel property. Then they were merely abused. Then, post-WW II, they were lynched from time to time. Now, they're only denied the right to vote and to participate f
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by jleyank 1mo ago
In the Science field: degrees, publications, projects, patents In the Tech field: projects Basically, it's "who are you?" combined with "what have you done?". You can format it however you'd like, but these ar
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Which one? The one they’re in or the one they’re viewing as a possible alternative?
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by jleyank 1mo ago
I’m sure Oman is a little pissed off right now, too. Burn all those bridges and it’s going to get lonely.
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by jleyank 1mo ago
They also impact local utilities with little return contribution. Few jobs after construction, and no guarantee they’re even being used to support those paying the taxes for them. Being big brother of sorts doesn’t help. Particularly as t
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by jleyank 1mo ago
Rands made this point a few days ago as I recall. Worries about having his tool corrupt his writing during editing, etc.
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by jleyank 2mo ago
The military better pay attention to this kind of thing. Enlisted recruiting relies on the promise of medium-term gains (schooling, training) but relies on the first few years being better than the alternatives facing the 18-21's. Ta
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by jleyank 2mo ago
I seem to remember that Alpha’s were very fast for the time but their maximum optimization level waived IEEE floating point conformance. This, of course, drove us nuts trying to validate ports of numerically intensive code. Less interesti
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by jleyank 2mo ago
Cooking: everything made from scratch. Dirty every pot you own. cooking: made from components, but boiling pasta, cooking meat, seasoning premade side, etc. heating: bag or can into pot, simmered. in a rush: can with spoon, ramen is crunch
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by jleyank 2mo ago
Look at the disappearance of pink-collar jobs due to computerization and "do it yourself" that it enabled. There's lots of examples of whole career fields disappearing. The trick has always been to see whether and how thing
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by jleyank 2mo ago
Not surprising at all. There is paid for the locals when these things appear, but they don’t get anything back for that paid. Even if they’re computer literate and using ai, there’s no notice that this came from their local centre. Nor i
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by jleyank 2mo ago
Don't forget power and water shortages and probably pissed off neighbours. Aside from building the facility, they won't make jobs and they probably won't pay taxes - which will result in neighbours more pissed off... There&#
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by jleyank 2mo ago
If you want a developer's career, make sure you study something other than CS in uni. If you have some basis in an engineering or scientific field, speciality fields can open that can't be easily filled. It also helps to actuall
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by jleyank 2mo ago
Can they point to articles that are unjustly critical of America? How about those they think appropriate? For example, is a historical article summarizing the errors and omissions that let to Pearl Harbor “critical of America” or “history
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by jleyank 2mo ago
Debugging. Lots of debugging. It will be interesting when the researchers look back in 5-10 years to determine which was easier/better - trying to understand generated code vs generating code one understands. If a functional reasonin
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by jleyank 2mo ago
This can be phrased w/o gender - can equality exist with religious liberty? Some social groupings are inclusive, some are exclusive and the latter runs the risk of colliding with equality/liberty arguments. They could be religio

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