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by ken 7y ago
That's nothing. I once returned produce to a grocery store!
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by ken 7y ago
Nearly all grocery stores (at least in Seattle) have a seniors-only hour right now, usually first thing in the morning. QFC, Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertson's, Whole Foods, PCC, Costco, Metropolitan Market, Uwajimaya.
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by ken 7y ago
Even Apple gave up on 16:10, for half of their computers. The iMac went 16:9 in 2009. The Cinema Display went 16:10 in 2010, and the recent XDR followed suit. The LG they sold in between was also 16:9. Only the MacBook Air and MacBook P
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by ken 7y ago
The nuclear weapon question isn't really covered, which is an interesting case because they're also strategically useless to a Modern army -- and the U.S. government knows it [1]. Yet disarmament basically froze 10 years ago. In
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by ken 7y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26955167/json-data-that-...
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by ken 7y ago
Like https://vimeo.com/399120258 ?
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by ken 7y ago
My field doesn't really exist right now. The highest performing people I know are just as unemployed as the schmucks like me.
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by ken 7y ago
> Some companies will no doubt have a bad quarter or two. That seems like an understatement. 99.9% of businesses in the USA are small businesses. Most that I know will be lucky to survive a month of this, without serious government ass
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by ken 7y ago
As a primary purpose? Hard to be certain, but I'd say no. The base configuration is in some ways ridiculously overpowered for the typical developer, while missing some easy wins. It looks like a great machine for developing software
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by ken 7y ago
> In the grand scheme of things, do you realize how niche software development is? During the Mac Pro redesign, Apple said developers are by far their largest group of "pro" users. Then they built a $6000+ workstation (with a
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by ken 7y ago
If you don't limit the discussion to "Macintosh", Apple had a 4th architecture (and a 3rd 'transition'): 6502. There were third-party software emulators for 6502-on-68K, but Apple only provided a hardware one. htt
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by ken 7y ago
His (roundabout) answer is to point to the new iPad Pro and cursor support, i.e., Apple is moving everybody to the iPad so it doesn't matter what the Mac does. Of course, as always, whether this is "an answer" or not depends
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by ken 7y ago
That only works within one jurisdiction. What about when the rich/poor divide are not constituents of one government, but the average citizens in two different countries? The U.S. couldn't even ratify Kyoto, and that only require
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by ken 7y ago
This has always been one of the big issues. I remember in college in the 1990's being told that you can't just enact pollution limits globally because developing countries would call foul over the injustice. The UK and the US an
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by ken 7y ago
Has our industry just given up on any software which isn't "SaaS"? I have a lot of problems with software today, and none of them can be solved by a web app.
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by ken 7y ago
I don't know how you think bargaining works, but they don't just demand "do XYZ or we'll all walk out". There's lots of levers on both sides. The point of negotiation is to arrive at a mutually beneficial s
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by ken 7y ago
Then again, lots of laid off workers (like me) come from other unions. What better way to unionize a workplace than by flooding it with union workers from other industries?
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by ken 7y ago
If that were true, how do explain studies (like this one) that show that hands-free devices also hurt reaction time worse than alcohol? Drivers don't even need to "let go of the phone". They're looking straight ahead
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by ken 7y ago
Everyone is focusing on the touchscreen, because those are easy to point a finger at (pun intended). In fact, this study confirmed what we already knew from previous research: even hands-free phone interfaces are terrible for driving. The
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by ken 7y ago
IAM RoadSmart page (and link to actual study): https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
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by ken 7y ago
Interesting that almost all of your examples of "contours of infection" are places that people don't need to go to, and the last one can be replaced by teleconferencing. That makes it sound easy: if you don't want to
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by ken 7y ago
> Italy found that among fatalities the median age is over 80 (older than the average lifespan of an Italian man). Selection bias. They're so overwhelmed they're using age as a primary factor to triage patients. Clearly, if y
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by ken 7y ago
Not any more: "With demand outpacing supply of beds and respirators, medical workers are told to prioritize younger patients." "The principle of "first come, first served" has been abandoned, said Mario Riccio, an a
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by ken 7y ago
Many stores have lower prices for cash customers, sometimes significantly, so I could just as easily say that credit card customers subsidize my lower prices. Free "miles" are nice (if you fly), but cash is always more valuable t
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by ken 7y ago
HN bubble effect? I would have said "of unemployment".
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by ken 7y ago
I really don't think it's that hard to sell ethanol. This is a substance which is regularly purchased by 70% of the population. You don't even have to be "not worst". "Worst" often also means "cheap
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by ken 7y ago
First of all, that's backwards. These features had to land before anyone could use them. Users can't use them before they land, so they couldn't have landed because they were being used. Second, how can you know if these fe
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by ken 7y ago
In all the TV shows I've ever seen featuring police as protagonists, I believe 100% of them show police corruption as part of standard procedure. And it's gotten far, far worse over the years. Dick Wolf's "Law & Ord
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by ken 7y ago
It must depend on the industry. My experience is the opposite. I've had programming jobs where every single day consisted of me running into a bug and wanting to fix it, and my manager saying there's no ROI in that and I need to
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by ken 7y ago
Replace "programmer" and "doctor" with almost any other professions and it would be just as true. Strategies like "Break problems into sub-problems" is in no way specific to these fields. You might as well sa

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