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by petcat 3mo ago
> cyberathletes So this is why I've started getting so many ads lately for "internet pants" and other cybersports attire.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Well don't give up your career just yet unless you absolutely love the role of nursing. I'm sure you're thinking the grass is greener right now, but there's a reason why there is a chronic nursing shortage.... It can b
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by petcat 3mo ago
You have to actually like the work though. It's one thing just to recognize that it's a good career with a lot of security and good pay. But if you don't actually like the work, i.e taking care of people when they're at
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by petcat 3mo ago
Debt doesn't really mean anything at this scale. Especially when the debt is denominated in US dollars and the debtor operates an extraordinary number of aircraft carriers. It's that old saying "if you owe the bank $1,000 th
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by petcat 3mo ago
USA and Europe are basically equal in terms of yearly production of renewable energy. Texas + California alone rank 6th in the world.
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by petcat 3mo ago
From USA's perspective, Interpol is a tool. The same as the rest of Europe's agency and governance concoctions (ICC). It is not any kind of authority or even a reliable mechanism to do what it wants.
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by petcat 3mo ago
I doubt the US would ever outsource something like this (border security) to an international organization like INTERPOL. It uses INTERPOL to track down and catch wanted people abroad, but that's it.
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by petcat 3mo ago
Crazy how cheap gasoline is in USA. $4 is still basically half as much as anywhere in Europe even when there isn't a war.
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by petcat 3mo ago
I think the Zig people are really just worried that maybe Zig itself is a DOA language before it has even reached 1.0 because it doesn't offer enough over C for any serious use and their flagship project has now abandoned it.
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by petcat 3mo ago
I think that's the point. EU doesn't actually want these factories to operate in the EU. They just want to buy the clothes from elsewhere. But then of course they cry a lot when they realize how easy it has become for China and
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by petcat 3mo ago
> The French gambling regulator said the site's continued availability constituted advertising. A ban on financial transactions to the site was already in place. It's crazy that French "regulators" can just order ISPs
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by petcat 3mo ago
> SQLite does not support unsigned integers. omg you're right. Another example of SQLite's type-flimsyness. > You can add a check constraint So now we're just layering on our own brittle validation and runtime checks t
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by petcat 3mo ago
Well for one we should probably validate that the number is smaller than the total life of the physical universe. SQLite will gladly store a u64::MAX as a "unix timestamp" despite it being about 300x larger than the number of seco
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by petcat 3mo ago
so now we've traded a text column for an int column that still can't validate that the number is actually externally consistent with the real world.
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by petcat 3mo ago
> the "architect" imagines they need more (or is preparing for the potential) I guess I am one of those "architects" that imagines they need an actual date/time storage class instead of some stringly-typed text c
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by petcat 3mo ago
> the Postgres container you spun up out of habit was never needed These posts need to stop comparing their contrived use-cases for SQLite to Postgres. Sure, SQLite is all you need if it really is all you need . But Postgres does so
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by petcat 3mo ago
which chinese models are beating American models
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by petcat 3mo ago
More like Nemotron 3 with benchmaxxing enabled has (re-)entered the chat.
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by petcat 3mo ago
> There was a time when people would have felt safe enough to rely on the multiplicity of strongly allied nations with steel production capability. [...] nations that were previously considered reliable strategic partners no longer are b
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by petcat 3mo ago
Aren't NHS medical workers in a constant state of protest over low wages and bad working conditions? I know the doctor/nurse brain drain from Canada and the UK to the US used to be really bad. I haven't seen what the statisti
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by petcat 3mo ago
> But, in the US your level of direct payment options are frankly shite. This is completely untrue. > In india, direct transfer is free and mostly instant, same in the UK/EU. Zelle is an instant payment-by-email network created b
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by petcat 3mo ago
In the words of Hank Hill, "some people are meant to go to college, and some people are meant to go to beauty school."
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by petcat 3mo ago
> In many other countries, you do not only initially get unemployment benefits, but also a form of basic income if the unemployment benefits expire and you haven't found a job, plus rent compensation, etc. It's the same everywh
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by petcat 3mo ago
Aren't NHS medical workers in a constant state of protest over low wages and bad working conditions? I know the doctor/nurse brain drain from Canada and the UK to the US used to be really bad. I haven't seen what the statist
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by petcat 3mo ago
It very much depends on life situation. For instance, if you are less than 50 and on private health care through your employer than you're very likely going to have better healthcare access than anywhere in Europe and Canada. I am able
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by petcat 3mo ago
Denmark is the architect of Chat Control. Even the extreme version that requires all E2E communications be accessible to the government. Denmark is not just decayed, it is completely rotten.
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by petcat 3mo ago
This is kind of a strange take. > Local taxes are for petty but useful stuff My state has completely state-funded healthcare, and a renowned state-funded university system. USA is a nation of states and those states (mostly) make their o
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by petcat 3mo ago
> lock owns the cameras and the poles Flock may own the camera and the physical pole, but I find it hard to believe that they own the ground the poles are installed in. Almost definitely owned by the Department of Transportation.
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by petcat 3mo ago
As an American, tax dollars are for re-paving the parking lot at our middle school, establishing a water district for our town, buying another school bus, and funding our municipal fire department and ambulance corp. Any money collected by
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by petcat 3mo ago
> Now if that's further migrated to safe Rust, put into production & gathered feedback from lots of users, yes then you have something. Obviously they have to start somewhere if they want to get to safe rust with a considerabl

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