panzagl

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by panzagl 4y ago
Do you know any old people? My family is 24 hours Fox news, my wife's is 24 hour CNN, I can't say that either has a rosy view of where the country is going. Both would be considered well-off. Everyone else (especially the worki
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The contracting company receives usually 2-3x what the actual developer makes- so if the gov't pays $300K for a developer, they get a $100K developer. Some of that overhead is justified, but a lot of it is the company's profit. T
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Ehh, I think you need to read some history on D&D/TSR- Gygax was happy to try to squeeze Arneson out, and to threaten other RPGs
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So my wife's school had a 4th grader bring in a taser and threaten a kid with it before break- where does a kid even get a taser? He's back at school. I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether that's a detriment to
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Ugh, while true, now I'm worried that after killing a generation of local bookstores they're gunning for my local game/hobby store.
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I had 'cast' in quotes for a reason- I was half thinking of Norm (though I don't think he went to MIT) and more of the various sub contractors that filter through the show (some of which seemed to be thinly disguised product
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Well, they've done episodes like this: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/season-20-ask-toh/23197052/s20-...
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The 'cast' of 'This Old House' is mostly MIT MechE grads who figured out they could make more money doing renovations for Route 128 techies than burning themselves out working at their companies.
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No FORTH, APL, Clojure or Rust? My HN bingo card is empty...
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I doubt that's even an FTE.
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> This website is seriously infested with reflexive contrarians No it's not.
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These comments remind me of watching 'Chopped' where someone overcooks a fish by like, a minute, and the judges get so offended and go off about the food being 'inedible' How dare someone expect me to comprehend a sente
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Big IT projects fail. The US federal government for the most part only deals in big projects. There's more to it than that, but they're mostly details compared to this basic truth.
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It's something the NPS has struggled with from the beginning- there is a book called "Engineering Eden" that goes into just how 'controlled' Yellowstone is and how the objectives have changed over the last century.
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30% of staff released by the Kraken...
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It's expensive and no one wants to pay for it.
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3d6 6 times in order.
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Water makes travel take longer than the small area would indicate- there's a reason why anyone who drives through NYC is obsessed with bridges and tunnels.
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In the US a lot of that territory is Native American land/reservation. Feel free to convince them you know how to best use their land.
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See the hex grid reference stuff here: https://www.redblobgames.com/ for basically everything you ever wanted to know about hex grids.
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I think he's pointing to the hypocrisy of political agendas that value the life of a baby more before it's born than after.
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If you're not the customer you're the product. Figma just cashed you out.
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So Adobe screwed their users by making them switch to a subscription model like Figma has used from day one?
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So what I'm getting out of this is that the next time I'm on vacation out of the country and my employer calls to ask an 'urgent' question I should definitely ignore it so he doesn't get in trouble with the IRS.
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Usually it means work in the country you're visiting- I can't go to Mexico for a week and wait tables, but if I vacation there I still get paid by my employer.
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Oh, you know, Javascript Ninja, Devops Rockstar, a real job. /s
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London is even flatter and more temperate than California, hardly invalidates the comment.
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Psychedelics aren't addictive- hyphens are.
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But salaries were for professionals and ownership, not labor- and while that meant if you needed to work 60 hours for a week you worked 60 hours, it also meant that if you only needed to work a thirty hour week, you worked thirty.
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I'm sure the 'problem X only exists because America doesn't have walkable cities' crowd will take up the slack.

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