mattpallissard

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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Same in the US. I technically have a street address but all of my paperwork just has plat map/parcel information. Sort of a pain when trying to validate your address. No mail delivery still. And when places won't ship to a PO b
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Midwesterner here, this tracks. WI takes the cake but it also holds true for MN, MI, and IL. Hard working, hard drinking, good timing folks.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Nah, it's actually a blast. We had our first kids when we're legitimately poor. We're fairly well off now and have had a few more. It was just as fun then as it is now. One's financial well being their childrens'
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Living in Alaska I struggle more with the endless daylight than the short dark days. It messes with my sleep too much.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I agree with this for the most part but it doesn't explain everything. The town I grew up in has a lot of areas that are conducive to children roaming; low traffic speeds and volume, separated sidewalks, parks, green spaces. As kids w
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> Most people will have been raised to understand littering is morally wrong I disagree with this. If you were raised to understand that littering was morally wrong, you are likely surrounded by folks that also understand that. On the
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Yeah, they'll do it. You'll typically see a pair of cops with a speed gun. Then as you pass a curve, bridge, or other obstruction there will be six or more squad cars lined up. Speeders are picked up by radioing ahead. I'
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
The standard move with hearty invasive plants (brush honeysuckle) where I grew up is to cut it back to a single stem stem then use a paintbrush to immediately apply glyphosate. I don't like using it myself but it's better than bot
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Humans can make assumptions about humans better than machines. For example there was a trailer with a tire that blew out in front of me. It was rapidly slowing. I checked my mirrors and was being tail-gated too closely to hit the breaks.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> > They cannot both be right. > You know? You are also right.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> This is a really weird assertion But not surprising, it is vox, and hit pieces are kind-of their schtick.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> If you are a blue collar or middle class worker This. All of my friends are blue collar workers. It's been getting tougher for them year after year. It's been difficult to watch at times. The ones who have gone to work for
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I'd fix every outstanding bug I've reported but not had the time to fix myself.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines — and grappling with the possibility of campus closures — as dollars follow the increasing number of parents opting out of traditional public schools
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> reduced by 30% on Linux with default settings With the default settings being the key there. I had the exact same laptop and was able to get idle power down under 3W. But to your point, that's a fair amount of friction for someon
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Archlinux. It tries to track mainline as close as possible, as a result it has minimal patches to software. Very vanilla. It can be as light weight or as heavy as you want. Most important to me is that it's rolling release so you neve
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Agreed! But OCaml is close enough that I don't despair. Chris okasaki's purely functional data structures is an excellent intro to SML if your familiar with FP already.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
As an American I agree with grid lock being a feature. I don't like rapid change. Let's argue for a few years so we have time to think of all the angles. It doesn't seem like that's how it works, but it does. Even the
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
We call them caucuses.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I fail to see the tie to populist parties here.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I always told our new-hires to avoid thinking too deeply about computer timekeeping if they value their sanity.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Typically corn needs be planted in soil that's not too wet. You have to wait for the low laying portions of your land to dry out. It doesn't play catch up a well as other crops in terms of yield. If it gets pushed back too far
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
True, I misread your original reply.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Agreed, I love the one large file approach. :split :vsplit That said, I never use it because everyone else complains about it.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Not exactly, GC is a general solution. Manual management can be tailor made. But to your point more compiler enforcement is a good thing.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I think the rift comes from people thinking manual memory management is a bunch of random allocs and frees all over the place. That is gross and those of us who don't mind managing memory don't like it either. Personally my gripe
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Seemes a bit pedantic, but so am I. I like that term.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> you will very likely go an entire project without running into a single memory bug Sure, you haven't lost the handle to the memory, but you can still "leak" memory with a GC. Happens all the time. Add to data structure
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> > I'm pretty amazed to see a JavaScript runtime ranking so high here > The bodies of many, many PhD students have been hurled unto a big mound to optimize JavaScript within an inch of it's life. https://youtu
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
This (distemper outbreak) happened every handful of years where I grew up in the US, Illinois. They'd ultimately be culled by the authorities. But before that you'd always see people gathering around, messing with them, letting c

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