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by mjevans 1y ago
Skimmed TFA. This might be an accurate summary: Less kids are enrolling in college due to several factors. A decline in birthrates (right around the 2008 recession), a decline in those who calculate that college provides a real return on
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by mjevans 1y ago
I don't know much about anyone, but the 1990s Star Trek captains were more my speed. Picard, Sisko (spelling), Janeway I hope none of them are bad people IRL, they didn't give that impression on the little screen.
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by mjevans 1y ago
Observationally it's the truth. However the truth can hurt. It doesn't help with the implicit issues of few or no relationships of that quality. My __theory__ is that relationships require mutual investment. There are few of the
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by mjevans 1y ago
I'd say the parents should moderate it... but I've seen how busy work and everything else leaves modern parents. Society really needs to adjust to leave time for people to be humans, to correctly raise and guide the next generatio
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by mjevans 1y ago
You might not be aware. After we grew up that word became somewhere vaguely in the same classification of 'radioactive' as the N word people from the 1940s used to use all the time. It kind of tints movies like Idiocracy (a movie
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by mjevans 1y ago
It's both true and particularly illogical! "" * 'Employment Assistance' - connect workers with the best jobs that want them "" ^^^ Would someone like to end welfare ('unemployement insurance')?
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by mjevans 1y ago
Static, Near Static (not generated on demand at least; generated only on real content update), and Login seems likely. AI not caching things is a real issue. Sites being difficult TO cache / failing the 'wget mirror test' is
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by mjevans 1y ago
Use case: crawling possibly related files based on string search hints in a repo you know nothing about... Something on the order of 6 seconds a page doesn't sound TOO out of human viewing range depending on how quickly things load and
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by mjevans 1y ago
The DART program I remember was (near Seattle) King County metro's Dial A Ride Transit (DART) program which... literally worked that way. I don't know what the fee structure was offhand as at the time in my life I saw a lot of th
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by mjevans 1y ago
It's a problem that intersects with the national issues related to... under-served and poorly integrated people in the population. National policy needs to do much better on an array of issues that contribute to 'poor public trans
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by mjevans 1y ago
I do remember an attempted rape, but I didn't remember the underage part. Probably I was more focused on overpowering an attacker as a positive aspect. It was _many_ years ago that I read that book.
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by mjevans 1y ago
I loathed Gatsby in high school. It's RUINED for me. I could never go back and read it. There's far too much else I'd rather have cross my eyeballs so many other stories in the library. By having a work unworthy of my expe
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by mjevans 1y ago
Something nice from a cyberpunk series would work well. Snow Crash comes to mind as an, offhand, likely safe enough for teens book that isn't boring.
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by mjevans 1y ago
The description reminds me of 'that turtle program' I encountered as a child... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) Hopefully this program also helps teach children new ways of thinking.
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by mjevans 1y ago
I will have to look into that more tomorrow. My only Debian desktop is a laptop at family's house and currently asleep. It mentioned an error with the repository but my first troubleshooting step was to try to manually verify I could
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by mjevans 1y ago
Correct, but that's firefox-esr not firefox. At one point I found it necessary to switch as there was an issue with security updates, but that might have been an issue in that particular system's configuration that I since resolv
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by mjevans 1y ago
Related... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1966096 If you're running Firefox on Debian please make sure you manually update it since the package repo's been down for a while. I filed a 'support&
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by mjevans 1y ago
Offhand, what I remember reading during the initial 737 MAX crashes: Part of the appeal of the 737 series of airplanes was pilot certification across a wide fleet allowed for carrier flexibility and cost savings. Same airframe, same '
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by mjevans 1y ago
That never made sense to me. Isn't the whole reason the 'board' gets paid so much that they're the ones who go to jail if stuff is messed up (and they're culpable rather than clearly wronged by someone else)?
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by mjevans 1y ago
I've seen these 'bump out's and I LOATH what they do to traffic. While they are one, pedestrian focused, solution I do not believe they are the __best possible__ solution. """ (with the paragraph broken up int
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by mjevans 1y ago
To do what? People want to live near three sorts of things: Social connections like family / friends / potential mates Livelihood needs like education / jobs / foods (1st world, the food they like is fresh / better
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by mjevans 1y ago
UBI isn't going to get us there. Give everyone more cash and the rent-seeking _WILL_ suck harder. Same problem with blindly raising the minimum wage and not instead addressing the root issue. Basic econ 101: inelastic demand means su
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by mjevans 1y ago
Those reference cards are very helpful. In college the embedded PC boards (generic) x86 and (I forget if it was a 68 or 65 series CPU) each included a CPU manual and quick assembly reference card. Seeing instructions grouped by how the de
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by mjevans 1y ago
The devices and core functionality (including security updates, which are fixes to broken core functionality) must survive the manufacturer and should not require ongoing payments of any type*. (new updates being created? maybe, access to
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by mjevans 1y ago
Which is why, like the 'monopoly on violence' the government should also be funding a _lot more research_. It should be at, or partnered with, higher learning institutions and since it's public funded all of the results shoul
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by mjevans 1y ago
I believe it; it's like the first decade or two of low-flow / flush toilets which were generally just terrible and ineffective. Hopefully, like the toilets, a new standard rises that is based around how effective something is at i
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by mjevans 1y ago
(DEI:) Instead of focusing on any aspect of someone's genetics of beliefs, efforts should instead be made to provide opportunity to those without. Not at the inherent cost of others whom are qualified but in the sense of doing what a g
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by mjevans 1y ago
Everything was _way_ more expensive back then, and the CRT monitors had to be driven with electron beam steering gaps (blanks) while the output cycled to the next row. Thus there was downtime for an otherwise idle chip to do some work, and
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by mjevans 1y ago
They service 'spot demand moderation' as an extension of UPS and power smoothing. In this case it's flattening out spikes to smooth slopes.
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by mjevans 1y ago
If a user is interacting, DO NOT UPDATE the list / models / etc. If an update is required, rather than just desired, freeze all input so the user knows it's about to update, this might be accompanied by a quick 'fade&#x2

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