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by larkost 7mo ago
We happened to live on the top floor, so I don't have personal experience for the lower floors, but the communication on the (non official) group chat for the building always hinted that any water outages (we had a few non-power issues
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by larkost 7mo ago
I wonder if this was in an apartment building. We owned a condo in a 5 story (4+1) apartment building and because it was taller than the San Jose water system was built for, our building needed (electric) pumps to provide water pressure to
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by larkost 7mo ago
Isn't this exactly what we should want from a market system? If your division in Florida is inefficient, then from the market perspective we should absolutely want competitors to enter the market and crush them. I think the problem is
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by larkost 7mo ago
I can't find a reference for this, but listening to NPR this morning there was an offhand mention that last month there were significant strikes going on, and that those are now resolved, but showed up in the employment numbers for las
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by larkost 8mo ago
The rate of warming is a problem (i.e.: it determines what generations of humans are going to see this), but the major problem is the warming itself, or rather the change. We (humanity) have gotten comfortable with the way things are, and a
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by larkost 8mo ago
I think the thing to remember is that with interest rates being essentially 0 during the (middle/end of) pandemic that made it really easy for a lot of companies to finance a virtually free checkbook. They were at liberty to try out al
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by larkost 8mo ago
I think this is mostly because they don't care about false-negatives. They have forgotten the idea that our justice system was supposed to hold true to: "better a hundred guilty go free than one innocent person suffer" (attri
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by larkost 9mo ago
This is misleading. While there are privately owned tanks, they are all old, and lack any weapons (other than as a battering ram). They likely could cause a lot of trouble for a local police force, but would not stand up to any infantry for
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by larkost 9mo ago
I don't think that you understand how that part of statistics works. You are said that we have sampled 64% of the population, so we can extrapolate to the rest. That works if the sampling is sufficiently random. But in this case the &q
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by larkost 9mo ago
These are being sold on Apple's AppStore, and there the model is that you get all of the updates for that App. Of course there is the work-around that some apps use, which is to create a new App (i.e.: MyApp vs MyApp2), which Apple cou
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by larkost 9mo ago
I don't agree that it was a "bad management decision". The Trump administration has demonstrated that it will play dirty with grants if they perceive that the receiving organization is not towing their political line as close
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by larkost 9mo ago
My wife's previous job was as an accountant with the endowment foundation at a mid-sized public university (San Jose State University). A lot of her time was spent making sure that the spending from the endowments many different funds
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by larkost 9mo ago
The NeXT (then Apple) product you are talking about is/was WebObjects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects It allowed for both HTML applications and Java apps (both JNLP and completely local). And before the
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by larkost 9mo ago
This is a longstanding problem. I worked at the receiving dock of a retailer long ago, and the amount of procedure and double-verification involved was a bit of a drag, all of it obviously aimed at making sure that neither I nor the guy dri
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by larkost 9mo ago
This is true, but frontline healthcare staff wages are only one part of the problem. For specifics you can see details here (e.g.: US average front-line healthcare worker salary: €74.450, Germany: €40.522): https://www.qunomedica
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by larkost 9mo ago
It is actually more complicated than this implies. For example hospitals are often held afloat by Medicare/Medicaid spending (25%/19%). Private health insurance is about 37%, so larger than either, but smaller than both. But then
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by larkost 10mo ago
The discharge petition to all the bill that forced this release was going nowhere until President Trump declared that he was onboard, and then it happened. Until then it was going nowhere. My guess is that someone suggested to Trump that th
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by larkost 10mo ago
An actual meltdown at sea would have the now-molten uranium come in contact with seawater, which would instantly flash to high-pressure steam, throwing the uranium into a cancer-causing cloud that the world has never yet seen. This is absol
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by larkost 10mo ago
I did find it odd that there was no discussion about whether those other media now represent the exact colors that they had when they were originally created. I know from experience that colors fade, but the argument seems to ignore that. I
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by larkost 10mo ago
But it is not for hardware you own. It is for the use of GutHubs coordinators, which they have been donating the use of to you for free. They have now decided that that service is something they are going to charge for. Your objection to Gi
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by larkost 10mo ago
GitHub has still been managing the orchestration and monitoring of runs that you run on your own (or other cloud) hardware. They have just decided that they are no longer going to do this for free. So the question becomes: is $0.002/mi
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by larkost 10mo ago
No the original Microsoft business model was to get the incumbent (IBM) to bundle your product (DOS, bought from someone else) onto their product so that you had a near-monopoly, then use that to sell your other software onto that, occasion
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by larkost 10mo ago
China uses Capitalism as a tool where the Party feels it would be beneficial (for the Party), and crushes it mercilessly when it gets in the way (other than this real estate problem they have right now). In the U.S. we have mistaken Capital
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by larkost 11mo ago
Yes, the features in YAML absolutely get in the way. The "Norway problem" for example ("no" translates to "False" in versions prior to YAML 1.2), but that is just the one more people ran into. Here is a nice ov
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by larkost 11mo ago
Many (possibly all) of the boats in question were not capable of making it to the U.S. from where they were hit without refueling multiple times. It is not possible that they were headed directly to the U.S..
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by larkost 11mo ago
I haven't used Jenkins in a few years, so some of this might change, but in working with it I saw that Jenkins has a few fundamental flaws that I don't see them as working to change: 1. There is no central database to coordinate t
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by larkost 11mo ago
I am not sure that if it actually stops the program, but it does at least stop programs from printing, so for anything that gives feedback on stderr/stdout you are at least pausing the main thread. I have a mostly-non-threaded program
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by larkost 11mo ago
I think you need to show evidence that this is a power U.S. Presidents have. As much as I dislike most of the drone strikes the U.S. has conducted in the "war on terror" in the Middle East (and think some of them are war crimes),
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by larkost 11mo ago
This may or may not be generally true. The needs around motors in a robot are more about control than raw output (some output is certainly needed). It is possible that this advancement in manufacturing will benefit there, but it is not assu
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by larkost 11mo ago
There were eGPUs for Macs, but only the Intel ones. To my knowledge there are no drivers for eGPUs for Apple Silicon. My guess is that without Apple's involvement it would be near-impossible to get graphics accelerators working. In the

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