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by klooney 4y ago
I've heard that a lot of the stuff that people used to complain about, like panel alignment, has been fixed.
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by klooney 4y ago
Is that still true? I thought the mix had changed over the Trump years. My wife's prepandemic immigrant students were primarily from south of Mexico- Guatemala, El Salvador, even Peru.
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by klooney 4y ago
We get lots of immigrants from rural central America where the schools aren't amazing.
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by klooney 4y ago
Or if you're Google, promote them (see pixel 911 issues)
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by klooney 4y ago
Tim Cook: “In the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields" And that story repeats all the way up and down the supply chain. In WW II
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by klooney 4y ago
There was a great econtalk episode that I can never dig up claiming that even that was mostly about hedonic adjustments for the quality of Intel chips.
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by klooney 4y ago
Also, they have a large and still functional industrial base.
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by klooney 4y ago
> Even if the Russians got to fight in their perfect scenario of an artillery slugfest, the US Army could still defeat the fully-mobilized Soviet Union. US artillery and armor could cut down any combination of human waves and simple tank
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by klooney 4y ago
That only worked because college was a finishing school for the well brought up (plus the occasional striver), and businesses felt comfortable just trying to hire that demographic. It doesn't work if businesses are trying to hire based
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by klooney 4y ago
Probably the Germanic languages of the Anglo Saxons- it's called Anglish, after all.
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by klooney 4y ago
Starbucks has been selling a good blonde roast in drinks for years now, some of the rotating cast of mixed drinks default to it too.
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by klooney 4y ago
I feel like that doesn't place enough weight on the bull hypothesis- the devices are bad because most things are bad, because being good is hard.
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by klooney 4y ago
The law, in its majesty, forbids rich and poor alike from mugging.
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by klooney 4y ago
Yes- Sweden has had rising gun and gang violence over the past decade.
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by klooney 4y ago
Tbh I kind of see the whole chrome/chromium/blink stack as a single team at Google.
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by klooney 4y ago
Is there good virtualization software for m1 yet? Last time I looked it was like "well there's a parallels beta..."
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by klooney 4y ago
Flatpak has a concept of shared base layers, so if you update frequently you might notice 'org.gnome.Sdk' or whatever getting updated. This is a way to handle lots of the most popular shared dependencies. Besides, sufficiently qua
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by klooney 4y ago
My m1 is employer provided, so I always just blame the 10 different security/management tools.
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by klooney 4y ago
In federal prison, those are prison gangs.
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by klooney 4y ago
There have been persistent rumors about the DEA working with the same cartel (Sinaloa) as Luna. They were the big winners of the opioid crisis. There's no solid evidence though, and maybe some of the suspicious stuff was actually Luna
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by klooney 4y ago
My favorite description of a bad project was "dogshit fractal"- at every level of detail it was dogshit. Functions, file layout, architecture, build system, even the business case.
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by klooney 4y ago
I feel like programmer discourse goes in a circle every five years on agreeableness/human factors when hiring. You can say "rigid process and blind hiring!" And then you hire someone you knew was, er , difficult, and it sucks
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by klooney 4y ago
Humanity is a lawsuit risk, cold algorithmic process is armor.
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by klooney 4y ago
Or turbocharge it, that's a lot of calories going down
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by klooney 4y ago
You'd love Charm- https://charmindustrial.com/ that's exactly what they're doing. Using green crude, basically.
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by klooney 4y ago
How are you calculating that? If I plug 22k into a random auto loan calculator like https://www.bankofamerica.com/auto-loans/auto-loan-calculato... I do not get 650 a month, I get 421 with the current high interest rat
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by klooney 4y ago
They don't even sell the old LX trim, it starts at Sport now.
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by klooney 4y ago
Average car price doesn't make sense to compare to marginal car price. A new Corolla is still 21k.
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by klooney 4y ago
- The tourist trap bike ride across the golden gate bridge is great - have a picnic on golden gate park, weather permitting - Don't miss the food scene in Oakland - I like San Mateo too but I think I'm alone in this - Tilden Park
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by klooney 4y ago
Fun fact about systemd-boot, you have to hold down the spacebar to get the boot prompt, and it remembers the last boot. So if you let your toddler bang on the keyboard while booting, and you're boot looping into the BIOS config screen,

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