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Nix 2.20 Released(discourse.nixos.org)
3 points by matthewbauer 3y ago|0 comments
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
I've found DuckDuckGo to have more spam than Google in a lot of cases.
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
How can the fed both cause inflation and high housing costs? Raising interest rates like they have been doing should lower inflation but make housing more expensive.
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
Really cool idea. Would be neat to also be able to click railways as well. I think openrailwaymap provides some cool details like owner, max speed, electrification. I also noticed the map makes it look like the trains are travelling slightl
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
"still" has kind of a negative connotation for something that doesn't seem necessarily negative.
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
That reminds me of that quote about bankruptcy from The Sun Also Rises: > “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. > “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” It felt like that’s how IE lost its dominance.
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
It’s really part of Kansas City, MO, but there is a 4th called “Kansas City, North” which an extremely confusing concept but refers to the part of Kansas City, MO north of North Kansas City. Suburbs annexed by the bigger city while NKC was
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by matthewbauer 3y ago
Interestingly, schizophrenia is really rare in accounts before the 1800s. It appears to be a modern disease, which would make it seem like it would be environmental. Another interesting thing about schizophrenia is it's much more commo
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by matthewbauer 4y ago
Presumably they own equity in these banks.
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by matthewbauer 4y ago
I had no idea Protocol Labs had so many employees!
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How to sell a business for under $1M(meridian.mercury.com)
3 points by matthewbauer 4y ago|0 comments
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The Glamorous Lives of TechTok(meridian.mercury.com)
1 points by matthewbauer 4y ago|1 comments
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
Ironically, polkit is designed to avoid the need to have suid binaries, since it allows other programs to obtain restricted privileges without full suid. The problem is, polkit itself still needs suid to hand out privileges to other program
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
I was interested in where the 2% number came from and found the full context: > Educators of computer science have repeatedly observed that only about 2 out of every 100 students enrolling in introductory programming classes really reson
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
Sorry, 10x seems like a crazy difference when talking about salary. Could you be more specific? I’m trying to figure out numbers that make sense. Like you were getting $30,000 a year in 2011 and now getting $300,000+ in 2021? In the same fi
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
You can contribute to a traditional IRA at any income. You can only take the deduction at certain income ranges though. Also, you can “use” an IRA after you contributed to it, so you could be high income now but contributed to an IRA when y
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
I wonder what % of people don't file taxes. And what % of those, are owed a refund? That would skew these stats a lot if people aren't claiming what they're owed.
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
Postgres is one of those pieces of software that’s so much better than anything else, it’s really incredible. I wonder if it’s even possible for competitors to catch up at this point - there’s not a lot of room for improvement in architectu
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by matthewbauer 5y ago
Supposedly, pregnant women can get the vaccine. In fact, it’s recommended due to risk of certain complications with getting covid-19 while pregnant.
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
Does /opt/homebrew still end up in root’s PATH, I wonder? That has the same issue that /usr/local has I think. Letting users mess with root’s environment basically means there is no real distinction between root and non-
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
My under $100 router didn’t work because it had too little ram and flash storage to work. It was a few years ago though so maybe the situation has changed. I’d be interested in seeing which routers under $100 are working well with OpenWRT.
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
The readme says it’s based off native-comp so I think compiled lisp stuff should be no worse than gccemacs.
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
Bitcoin doesn't have to use so much energy. The difficulty level is what causes the high levels of energy consumption. If we could get all the major mining groups to dismantle some % of their machines, we could reduce energy consumptio
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
Some companies do buybacks that provide the same value as dividends - but avoid capital gains. Since there are less shares after the buyback, the remaining shareholders have relatively more value in the company.
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
But there are tons of overpriced stocks out there. Where do you draw the line? TSLA? AAPL? S&P 500?
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
In theory, it can lessen volatility since traders can bet against overvalued companies in the same way they can invest in undervalued companies. In practice, I'm not so sure if this is really how short selling works, since "the ma
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
A few states are using direct recording systems, without a paper trail: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat... "Currently only one state — Louisiana — keeps no paper trail of votes at all. Coun
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
Handcounting every single vote? That seems much more error prone than anything the U.S. uses. Ballot-marking devices used in many states[1] produce paper ballots that voter can validate and have some guarantee that it can be scanned in tabu
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
Terrorism is "Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience". Trying to coerce / kidnap / etc
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by matthewbauer 6y ago
When I looked at it, it looked like sensors were all polling based. Things like wait until another task completes or this file appears. Is there a way to make them push/event based?

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