lamontcg

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by lamontcg 2y ago
That increase literally is inflation. All of it. By definition.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> then gets MRSA That's just due to what is happening to health care in this country. The underlying cause is the same short-term-profits capitalism that has fucked over Boeing. The conspiracy is just the trivial one that requires o
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Not really that surprising. They won't stop until they generate a recession and higher unemployment and surplus labor.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The title works fine for me. Using the word "fired" conveys to me that Elon walked into a room and fired everyone. Not that it was part of a months-long planned corporate restructuring process. zorg_fire_one_million_meme.gif
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by lamontcg 2y ago
No, this is phase 2 of what every SV business[*] looks like these days. Once the initial growth period is over in whatever the business is actually good at, you need to pivot into some new nonsense (AI these days) because the business is c
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The flip side is that its a tax on poorer people who need a vehicle to work. If we had walkable cities with good public transportation and people had actual options it'd be different. There's an intersection of anti-car and social
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I think the SpaceX disaster is more likely to be a loss of crew event.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I've lived through dealing with non-UTF8 encoding issues and it was a truly gigantic pain in the ass. I'm much more on the side now of people who only want to deal with UTF8 and fully support software that tells any other encodin
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by lamontcg 2y ago
How does the layman consumer inspect/assess the quality/safety of other drugs or really any other substance that they ingest?
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by lamontcg 2y ago
> I've never been a big fan of mandatory message retention. I think all corporate communications should be preserved indefinitely. Deletion or using apps like signal to avoid retention should be used against the corporation in court
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by lamontcg 2y ago
In principle I like Apple being legally forced to crack open all their walled gardens, and I hate how far they've come from the open and hackable original Apple computers. In practice, I worry that they're going to imminently pivo
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Wonder how many people here who are reacting to what you posted negatively are also convinced about the lab leak theory of SARS-CoV-2 origins... People get worried about serial passage "gain of function" experiments in a lab with
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by lamontcg 2y ago
It might be better, though, to keep open communication channels between average people in the two nations. The more you isolate people in $SANCTIONED_COUNTRY the more they get their information filtered by those in power. Iran is likely p
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Keep in mind that so far we only have the driver's assertion that they were using Autopilot at the time. The driver may be attempting to shift blame.
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by lamontcg 2y ago
And Tesla is trying to reward Musk with $56B for these results: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqqndqndpq5o
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by lamontcg 2y ago
The problem is that the Cybertruck appeals mostly to people with an Elon Musk fetish. It doesn't actually appeal to "Republicans", just to silicon valley Libertarian Party techno-optimist types with more disposable income th
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Yeah, so its based on the SEC Rule 3b-7 definition of a company officer, only with some changes to make it even more restrictive to senior executives. They're not going to be able to claim that a SWE is now the VP in charge of changing
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I suspect that "policy-making positions" is a term of art that is more narrowly defined than it looks and that it'll actually be difficult or impossible to abuse it enough to made it apply to SWEs. Most likely big 4 accounti
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by lamontcg 2y ago
I'll take dynamically defining methods over method_missing
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by lamontcg 2y ago
Ruby has 'protected' which is not Java-like protected, but implements "another instance can see my internals" semantics. It is useful for methods which take another instance as an argument like binary operators (e.g. `d
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by lamontcg 3y ago
https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5694/14420
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Seems the N2-fixation is limited by CO2-fixation. Be a bit weird if it wasn't and they sucked all the N2 out of the atmosphere. Atmosphere would get a bit spicy and flammable.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Probably won't. As long as they stick to things that are already 'enshittifying' at warp speed (like customer support) there won't be any real consequences to bottom line because everyone they're competing with is r
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"shut up and just be a cog in the machine"
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Tesla is coming under intense competition and Musk is cashing out at the top.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
People who only go outside during daylight hours to go to the office are a bit of a symptom of a problem, not really a solution.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Smells like more of Elon's "lets do it the fastest, sloppiest way possible and see what breaks" philosophy.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
(also that 25M cable modem is going to be twice as expensive as 100M fiber in a major city and at least half the country only has access to DSL at those kinds of costs for anything half usable)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Edit: downvoters, what are the problems with U.S. internet? once you get outside of truly major metro areas, internet access tends to go to shit. i've got 1G fiber internet in Seattle now, but in Everett ~25M shared access comcast
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Not if you're writing a library/framework that other people use though. If all you do is consume other people's library/frameworks then yeah, nothing really matters, do whatever you want, refactor at will.

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