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by notacoward 2y ago
Came here to say much the same thing, and it's very sad that you're getting downvoted for such an innocuous statement. Many new retirees and empty-nesters (or those approaching such milestones) first got into computing then. That
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by notacoward 2y ago
I believe that "live and let live" vs. "there can be only one" is an axis of difference as important as left vs. right or authoritarian vs. libertarian (with which it's weakly correlated). In that context, I'd
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by notacoward 2y ago
Yeah, since I retired four years ago the only things I've worked on have been like that. (1) A script to solve a resource-allocation problem in Grim Dawn (ARPG). (2) A tiny bit of code added to Garmin's developer kit, to pick ap
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by notacoward 2y ago
And she'll be on the minority side. Case decided, six to three, and she gets to write another dissent that will be ignored.
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by notacoward 2y ago
This court's citation of precedent in one decision is meaningless, since they've shown a lot of enthusiasm for overturning it as soon as it no longer suits their (or their patrons') interests. See also: Dobbs, Loper Bright.
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by notacoward 2y ago
If the court gets to decide what is or is not an official act, then they effectively get to control what the president can or can not do. They've already shown that they don't care about precedent, so they'll make those decis
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by notacoward 2y ago
When talking about a matter of law or regulation, phrases like "feel purpose built" don't carry a lot of weight. Looking at legal definitions of "hotel" across many jurisdictions, it looks like a lot of of them cent
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by notacoward 2y ago
I don't know if you meant specifically in Barcelona, but I'm in just such a unit in Montreal as I type this. Physically it's a 2BR apartment, with its own washer/dryer and full (though small) kitchen, but it's booke
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by notacoward 2y ago
Pretty sure the real issue is safety. Obviously you want to avoid exposed hot contacts and arcing, but also thermal safety is a pretty big deal. Addressing that increases cost, so companies don't want to do it unless there's enoug
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by notacoward 2y ago
The imposter invasion has an even more insidious effect: the creation of software that sounds great (because making it sound great was its authors' forte) but actually sucks to work with (because making good software was not their fo
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by notacoward 2y ago
> their entire industries have gone online, or in many cases, been destroyed by the tech industry itself Interesting point. It makes me think of what happened to typesetters (including my mother) when desktop publishing came along. It wa
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by notacoward 3y ago
This is not all that different in effect compared to a simple wealth (and estate) tax. If you squint a bit, it's a deferred 100% tax. The main reason to prefer this one AFAICT is that it makes easier to implement the first part (no t
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by notacoward 3y ago
I saw this on Tumblr a few days ago, and can happily report that it does seem to work. The test case was searching for images of "serval" (a kind of wild cat), and the addition did indeed clean up the results. Somebody else had su
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by notacoward 3y ago
So TSA creates these unnecessarily long lines and stressful conditions, and some of the people in those lines have guns? Only a matter of time before that ends very badly.
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by notacoward 3y ago
You touch on one of the most annoying things about TSA: the inconsistency. Every airport seems to have slightly different rules, and the agents treat you like an idiot if you don't know theirs. Sorry, Mr. Cop School Reject, I've b
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by notacoward 3y ago
Multiple people saying taxes should be proportional to vehicle weight. So should registration/inspection fees, insurance rates, and most of all fines. You need it for your business? Cool, then the business should cover the cost just li
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by notacoward 3y ago
In a nutshell: bad metrics and perverse incentives for engineers. If the only metrics that would move from such a change are ad impressions (these are ads after all) then either nobody will make that change or somebody else will revert it t
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by notacoward 3y ago
"I don’t know that anyone besides Grabar is even thinking about this" A great many people are. Urbanist Xitter (Mastodon, Threads, whatever) is very much alive and well. The closest thing to a consensus about what to do with the r
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by notacoward 3y ago
I'd love to see a real analysis instead of anecdotes, and particularly one that separates Tesla vs. others. My Tesla owning friends all complain about this; none of my Nissan/Ford/VW owning friends do. I suspect that BMW&
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by notacoward 3y ago
This is a problem (doing it simply enough for a physical system to work) that I've been turning over head during idle moments for a while. Very nice to see that somebody else has seen it through, and shared the result. Kudos!
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by notacoward 3y ago
EdgeFS was pretty much a direct ripoff of multiple open-source projects, including one I worked on, so I'm not going to shed a tear for them. IIRC they even cribbed some of the material for manuals.
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by notacoward 3y ago
IBM? Try EMC or Cisco. I ended up at the former by acquisition; many friends ended up at the second likewise. AFAICT they both have much worse records of turning acquisitions into abandonware than IBM does (not that IBM's is great).
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by notacoward 3y ago
> the economy diversifies, and services improve Pure wishful thinking. Is there any empirical reason to believe this would be more true with everyone living in a couple of dozen large cities (as if that can even happen - see later) ins
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by notacoward 3y ago
The low-density areas within city limits are functionally suburbs. You basically said as much yourself. Whether they have their own name and mayor or town council is a historical accident, not significant in this context. For example, Det
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by notacoward 3y ago
Because people doing that is why this will never change. Every time someone leaves the suburbs for the city, a vote in town elections goes with them. Every time, it becomes less likely that zoning or other local laws affecting land/pro
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by notacoward 3y ago
> It's that most people in the US like car-centric culture, and like suburbs. To put a finer point on it, people who like suburbs live in them. People who dislike them move elsewhere - forfeiting any voting rights they might have h
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by notacoward 3y ago
Cue the copyrighted music playing 24/7 in NYPD stations in 3, 2, 1, ... No, I'm not joking. This is a real thing that has happened elsewhere, using copyright law to take down evidence of police misbehavior. https://www.
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by notacoward 3y ago
Yes, stop making every conversation about yourself. No, do not stop sharing your knowledge and experiences. This article is like someone who once had a meal that was overcooked, and insists that all food should be eaten raw ever thereafter.
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by notacoward 3y ago
> authority figures were generally incompetent for the role they were fulfilling The problem is: who judges competency? If you make yourself the sole judge, you're setting yourself up as the authority (meta-authority?) which can s
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by notacoward 3y ago
> there is a general sentiment Don't pretend to read minds. The general sentiment is what people say it is, no more and no less.

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