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by noirbot 4y ago
Exactly. I've had interviews I've conducted where we had one open position, and ended up between a couple good candidates. I would have been fine hiring any of them, but we only needed one person, so we selected the one that felt
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not sure that even remotely tracks if you're trying to imply that the American left claims that everyone that agrees with them is the only smart people. If anything a lot of their narrative is that they're oppressed by pe
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yes and no - the work that's gone into it, and into Proton in general has made game support on linux generally leap forward. I don't have a Steam Deck myself, but because it exists, things are getting patched in Proton often befor
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, power management is absolutely terrible. I've been messing with it for a year, but I can't really get my Linux laptop on any distro to have better than about 2 hours of battery life while running, and 5-6 while in "stand
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but that's not really relevant to the point I'm trying to make. People moved away from animal-based travel to cars because cars had distinct improvements in usability and upkeep cost. It was ok to have the infrastructure com
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by noirbot 4y ago
My internal customers at my current job like to DM me on Slack at all hours of day and night to ask me banal questions about their password or MFA device status. All of these have well documented answers I've sent them before, and have
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by noirbot 4y ago
But an ICE car is an obvious improvement in both cost and usability to a horse-drawn carriage. Half of the value of an EV is that it's cheaper and easier to refuel. Making everyone who'd want one pay thousands to install infrastru
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by noirbot 4y ago
Not exactly though, since it's presumably harder to make sure you got assigned the ride that you requested in Uber than in a system with more openness/choice.
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by noirbot 4y ago
I mentioned this in another thread, but Southwest feels like they fuck up in ways that are understandable, if unfortunate. Delta, United, American and co. feel like they intentionally screw you out of perverse pleasure and a desire to cause
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by noirbot 4y ago
They're taking reservations months ahead of time. It's not as if they can magically know what staffing they'll have in 3-9 months. I'm effected by this, but I bought my ticket in September. It doesn't seem reasonabl
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by noirbot 4y ago
For comparison, a Greyhound bus on the same route I was about to take a Southwest flight on was about $160 and took 36 hours with 2 transfers compared to $250 on Southwest with one transfer and 5 hours total travel time. The costs are fairl
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by noirbot 4y ago
I guess let's wait to see how it works out in the US? The US government seems to be saying they're going to try to do something about this, so it doesn't seem like SWA is going to pay nothing here. Actually, it appears that S
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by noirbot 4y ago
That does bring up an interesting question - are they actually saving on fuel? I would have assumed, given the relatively planned-out nature of most airline operations, that fuel would be something contracted out in advance, and that they m
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by noirbot 4y ago
Predictable, assuming they knew which crews in which cities were close to their limit, which it seems like they don't now that the system is down, which is most of the problem.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, for the folks I know who got blue checks in the sort of post "because you know someone at Twitter" zone, the whole exercise was more people joking or complaining about how random the whole thing was. I remember one time where
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, I think this is the biggest thing. Most "real" celebrities can still post on Twitter or whatever. If Elon Musk or Lebron James or Barack Obama posts something important, I'll probably see it wherever they decide to post
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not sure it's meant to make him look good or bad as much as just say "What person who Elon would agree with, who also has an idea of how to run a social media/moderation business, would agree to work for him and impl
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but the question was "how do they do this" not "why would they do this"
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm saying it's cowardly to aggressively half-ass your "competition" and then act like you're being bullied by someone who now has a monopoly because they cared more about making a product than you did. It's a
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'd agree, but business information is really the killer thing in a maps app a lot of the time. It's a lot of the reason OSM is often near useless even with a good app overlay. Much like most people don't know people's p
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think the issue is less whether they're a monopoly in a legal sense, as much as if these companies really have a leg to stand on to complain about it. "We all decided to not really make a product in area X, and someone else did,
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but what's the lag time on that? Four years? Ten? It's possible to claim they should have paid more in the past, and that's part of the problem, but unless you're going to help immigrate already-qualified nurses fr
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by noirbot 4y ago
There would still be if it took years to get a nursing certification and essentially everyone with one was already employed. I can't just decide that I'm a nurse tomorrow and start on Monday, no matter what they pay.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but that's not the argument. It's that if you require people to carry a helmet with them to use your for-hire bike system, less people will use it, but they'll still need to get places, so they're more likely to hi
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by noirbot 4y ago
No? Total war just means you consider attacking non military targets as ok and you're essentially willing to sacrifice your domestic economy and civilian life to win. That definitely seems to mostly fit what Russia is doing, even if yo
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by noirbot 4y ago
And Ukraine is doing a lot more to defend than some random US local police department is doing against an unexpected attack. That's the point. These sort of oppression attacks are mostly effective if you can keep them up. Power out for
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by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but still important to point out that we've moved beyond "We'll commit violence to oppress trans people" to "We'll commit violence to prevent people from publicly wearing clothes we don't approve of.
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by noirbot 4y ago
I suppose most of it is that terrorism and just any ideological violence is more about sending a message than being effective. This isn't total war. The point isn't really to outage a random town/county from power or internet
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by noirbot 4y ago
Were they? It wasn't clear even for most of a week after the election that Biden was likely to be elected.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, I think that strategy works because whichever artist it was just books a smaller venue. Most cities only have 1 venue that could do a concert as big as what Taylor Swift does. If you're operating in the 1k capacity space though yo

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