jonfw

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by jonfw 6y ago
People have been complaining about reddit's moderation for years, but I think due to the anonymity it's not being looked at the same way as twitter or Facebook. It's closer to a tabloid than a newspaper
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by jonfw 6y ago
Costs (of EVs) are passed onto the consumer and thus self-regulate, whereas many of the costs of crypto's wasteful energy usage are distributed among society.
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by jonfw 6y ago
This is like saying that pollution is a recognized issue with fossil fuels and while it offers challenges they are understood and engineers are keen to address this. There aren't always easy solutions and you can't hand wave aside
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by jonfw 6y ago
The US is unique in it's low population density and enormous scale of it's postal service.
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by jonfw 6y ago
And a charger is still a consumer automobile, where if you registered it under a different VIN (from a totaled charger probably) you would be able to drive it around without raising eyebrows. What the hell are you going to do with a stolen
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by jonfw 6y ago
We are thousands of times over capturing economies of scale in gas production, we support thousands of independent drilling and refining sites.
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by jonfw 6y ago
Sports are one of the few examples of a zero sum game in life. It is impossible to punish one team without giving an opposing team an unearned advantage in their league's standings. This unearned advantage is a negative externality of
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by jonfw 6y ago
> IMO, copy-and-pasting bash commands is an organizational smell to begin with The people who develop the automation have to start somewhere :). If you're standing up a test environment or a PoC, writing down commands get's you
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by jonfw 6y ago
I share a lot of snippets and commands with members of the team, write a lot of bash (which I like to debug in interactive mode), and often follow or produce documented procedures in interactive shell (not quite repetitive enough or frequen
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by jonfw 6y ago
My impression of ZSH after fish is "ok this made for a really annoying couple of hours to set things up, but now I'll never have an incompatibility hassle again!" When I was in school and working on my own stuff I liked using
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by jonfw 6y ago
The parsing and setting of environment variables was always my #1 hassle with fish. I feel like I see a lot of BASH snippets that get copy pasted around that I always had to re-write or throw in a sub shell. Particularly annoying when you&#
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by jonfw 6y ago
I just use tab complete if I want a file from my working directory, which I actually prefer. If anybody else is using zsh-autosuggestions, it's really worth looking into configuring it rather than using it out of the box. It exposes so
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by jonfw 6y ago
Google alone did more than 179B+ in 2020- https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...
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by jonfw 6y ago
I would say 'app developers' is the category
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by jonfw 6y ago
I can't imagine that the industry is so uniquely emotionally abusive that it would drive a disparity in earnings across such a large sample size. I'm sure that there are some bad apples though, and I'm sorry that your friends
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by jonfw 6y ago
I can opt out of a toll road by taking the long way. If I was forced to take a toll road to get to my office, I would consider that a tax.
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by jonfw 6y ago
It's pretty disrespectful to game developers to imply that their 'dreams are easily manipulated' when they take less money to work in a field that's more interesting to them. This is a simple function of supply and deman
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by jonfw 6y ago
In business terms, however, it's much easier to target consumers of a different country than of a different App Store. Even if you blacklist the top two countries, US and China, you still have a lot of consumers largely in India and Eu
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by jonfw 6y ago
I can not do business in the US, or I can not do business with iPhone users. My only 'opt out' is to quit doing business in their market. I continue to see similarities here
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by jonfw 6y ago
Is my income tax a price the government charges for providing roads, schools, and protection? Just because there are services rendered doesn't mean it's not a tax. There is no opt out, and price is a function of earnings rather th
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by jonfw 6y ago
> Do they just find 20% smaller houses every year? Just fixing the index would have a huge impact The opposite, people are in significantly larger and better equipped houses than they used to be. I also think 20% is pretty steep outside
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by jonfw 6y ago
I think there is a step between actively monitoring and blind trust, where you build trust through a relationship.
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by jonfw 6y ago
So two islands, an authoritarian communist government, and Italy have seen success with lockdowns? Good for Italy!
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by jonfw 6y ago
There is a physical garage (more of a hipster warehouse styled co-working space) that the org no longer fits entirely in, but was still in use up until Covid hit. The plan pre-covid was to build more of these spaces to use for co-working se
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by jonfw 6y ago
I actually liked my experience with the guild structure, as somebody new to the industry. I had my specialty, was the leader in my team in my particular specialty, but that's mostly because I was the only one in my team with the specia
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by jonfw 6y ago
I worked within IBM garage, it's not 'any team of people', it's a specific organization that mostly does services work. Their 'secret sauce' is that they're trying to consult on technology and company cult
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by jonfw 6y ago
Do you need datacenter grade? Fiber can probably serve a lot of requests per second
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by jonfw 6y ago
There isn't anything that verifies your argument in that link, FYI
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What I really hate about that is that the keyboard isn't centered on my laptop, which means I'm either slightly lopsided on my screen or I'm bending my right wrist at a weird angle
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by jonfw 6y ago
For an entry to programming class, I'm not sure why you would forego a GUI though. For context, I just got my cs degree a year ago and most of my classmates only know a terminal as that bottom pane in vscode If you want people to get u

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