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by noirbot 5y ago
Given what I know about Samsung in Austin, I'm pretty sure you're not paying nearly enough to justify anything close to 20 hours a day. Just because you work with "great people" on "a global supply chain project&quo
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but Amtrak is a weird comparison since its "real" service area isn't anywhere close to the full population of the US. There's plenty of whole states that don't have an Amtrak station in them. Most EU countries
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but then the better US comparison includes things like the Chicago/NYC/Boston/DC/Atlanta train systems, which I'd imagine a decent number of folks in those cities take more than 31 times a year. Heck, I think
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by noirbot 5y ago
Yea, that doesn't seem like that useful of a number, since Frankfurt is a fairly major layover airport for international travel. I guess the more specific question would be how many Germans fly to elsewhere in Germany or Central Europe
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by noirbot 5y ago
Give or take. There's plenty of trains between countries in Europe that would also be within driving distance. In my mind, the optimal realistic situation is to have rail for longer distances (1-8 hours), but not trans-oceanic obviousl
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by noirbot 5y ago
But that seems like a reasonably understandable number? For all that everyone talks about how amazing trains are in other countries, I'm a little surprised to learn that I take Amtrak more in the US than the average German citizen take
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by noirbot 5y ago
Even so, $50 round trip is pretty pricey, especially since that's per-person. I don't mean any of this to say I wouldn't love a better train system, just that it seems like more of the value of it is in realms other than its
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by noirbot 5y ago
That definitely depends on the route/city though. There's plenty of routes where the train is a lot faster at otherwise high-traffic times of days. Completely honest question - are trains in, say, Germany that much cheaper for goi
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by noirbot 5y ago
I mean, Amtrak is pretty cool along the coasts. I'd much rather take it than almost anything else for getting between cities on the coasts. It's not great, but outside of just making the trains better/cheaper/run more of
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but a lot of general plagiarism is done because of laziness or the high reward/low risk math of whatever context it's in. If I plagiarize some code as part of my job and don't say where I got it from, it's unlikely
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by noirbot 5y ago
It reminded me a lot of the art in Mysterium as well, where the premise is that the art cards are visions being presented to mediums from a ghost to try to hint towards how they died.
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by noirbot 5y ago
Also, isn't Tessier-Ashpool in Neuromancer specifically a Swiss company and generally European?
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by noirbot 5y ago
Which is interesting because his descriptions of travel and scene transition in the most recent 5 books of his are deeply flowery and some of my favorite bits of his writing. I suppose writers change and grow over time, and I wonder if some
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by noirbot 5y ago
I think the important comparison there, and something I often keep in mind, is that the US is a lot more diverse racially, even with its segregation, than a lot of other countries in the world. It's a lot easier for a country that&#x27
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by noirbot 5y ago
See, I feel like it's almost the opposite - I like salaried because I work my 40 and then feel no guilt for slacking off after that unless it's an incident/emergency. If I had a contract that paid me for overtime/hourly,
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by noirbot 5y ago
It's interesting that you think that they're "clearly" "second-class". I've never had a feeling that the contractors on the teams I worked on were treated any differently. Obviously I didn't know thei
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by noirbot 5y ago
It's also a super configurable weather app with a lot of options for data backends. Generally just a good app, with the sass and insults being a nice cherry on top.
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by noirbot 5y ago
Fair, but A. what's a good non-Google or MSFT spreadsheet option, and B. that generally feels like worse UX than something like this. This feels like a different flavor of "Why would anyone use Slack/Discord when you could ju
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by noirbot 5y ago
Mostly because I dislike and prefer not to use Google. It's also just nice to not co-mingle accounts in that way for something this specific. I have an app I use exclusively for holding my flight information for any flights I take. I d
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by noirbot 5y ago
I think I mostly agree with you, but I definitely have a set of apps that I install for only trips. I had a trip back in November with 6 people in total, and plenty of sub-groups going off to do stuff, along with full-group reservations wit
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by noirbot 5y ago
Does it matter? It's not as if I designed this laptop myself. I had 2 options. If you can only put a battery in your laptop that holds X W/hrs of power and you sell it with a CPU and other components that demand enough power to dr
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by noirbot 5y ago
Correct? And yet, with all of that, that old Macbook was a more capable laptop in almost every way than the Framework I have now. It doesn't matter that the Framework has a better CPU or monitor if it dies halfway through even a short
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by noirbot 5y ago
Yea, it depends on the distance. I wouldn't want to demand that people fly for a few hours every months, and that's not really particularly environmentally friendly, but if it's in drive/train range, much more reasonable
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by noirbot 5y ago
I mean, it clearly wasn't directly my responsibility since I wasn't consulted as a major decision maker, but I am an active co-lead developer on the project. I was told the look into another language was part of "a bake off&q
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by noirbot 5y ago
I like that everyone just assumes I'm using Linux. But even my 2017 Macbook on Intel was doing better than this, and the issues I'm seeing with Framework occur on Fedora and Windows essentially equally.
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by noirbot 5y ago
I'm using Linux and Windows. I regret to inform you that neither helps all that much. I've even spent a decent amount of time shoving values into config files to try to improve things on Linux.
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by noirbot 5y ago
To my point above, I'm pretty sure the Framework case is quite a bit larger in volume than the MBA case, so it's not really apples to apples there. Perhaps it's just that the Intel processor in the Framework is a massive ener
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by noirbot 5y ago
I think it can somewhat work with flexible timelines. A full 2/5 days a week in-office hybrid is decidedly the worst of both, but a "we come into the office every N weeks for 1-2 days to handle major meetings in person" feels
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by noirbot 5y ago
It's also about stability. I've had decisions as major as what language to use for a project done without input from the whole team, and now I have to live with writing in a framework I strongly dislike and had good arguments agai
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by noirbot 5y ago
I'm a little surprised, but the weight being roughly the same makes sense. The thickness is a little deceptive. I think they're both measured from their thickest point, but the Framework is essentially a solid brick with only a sl

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