poulsbohemian

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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
>hardware debacles such as the PowerBook 5300 I'm still twitching 30 years later... what a piece of shit mine was. Spent more time in AppleCare than in my possession being used.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Only with hindsight will we know if this is momentary or systemic. Back after the dotcom crash, there were several years of struggle and hustle for new grads, and many people never really got any footing. The past roughly decade has been an
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
>I know people that routinely travel in EVs between Mendocino county and San Diego county. Roughly the distance between NY and Georgia. I would assume they are forced to recharge multiple times over that distance, which might be fine - y
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
This was mostly true 20 years ago. This has not been the case for many years at this point. WSJ is now the print version of Fox News.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
The situation in Iraq and Afghanistan as it was beginning... they took an entirely "Might Makes Right" position, facts be damned.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
I'm not sure - I just looked casually at some options and it appears one can find an iPad between $700-$900 for a pretty solid model, which includes the $250 folio keyboard. The base model MBA starts at $999. So depends on whether you
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
I'm guessing you are coming at it from the perspective of a laptop user and likely a power user. The majority of the population just needs to scroll social media, message some friends, send an email or two, do a little shopping, maybe
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
I think perhaps you are overestimating the computing needs of the majority of the population. Get one of the iPad cases with a keyboard and an iPad is in many ways a better laptop.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Do you live somewhere in the east where states are close together? If I want to travel across my state, I'd have to plan a recharge somewhere along the way for nearly any electric vehicle. To fill up with gas would take ten minutes; as
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
I can't speak to car electronics design or anything about the capabilities of Tijuana or Ciudad Juarez, but your comment had me reflecting that in the mid/late 90s those of us who were in b-school went from all about Mexico to all
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Maybe not on a per-acre basis, but when you consider the acreage needed for commercial farming, it's untenable for the "family farmer." As a real estate agent, can I find you a generic alfalfa field that might kick off some v
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Farmland is stupidly expensive. The equipment and inputs (fertilizer, fuel) are stupidly expensive. Growing outside, you are forever at the whims of the weather rather than being able to control each detail of production. Fields inevitably
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
True - but my alma mater (midwest liberal arts school) has had a CS program since the 1970s and added programs like data science over the past decade, plus always had a 3+2 engineering partnership with another school. In the small PNW town
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
There are long-term stay hotels that generally cater to business clientele, plus most of the chains have a laundry room somewhere on premise for guest use.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
> Game Of Thrones I think Game of Thrones is actually a great example of why we shouldn't be teaching Game of Thrones... I made a historical reference to Savonarola the other day, and when the person didn't know what I was talk
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
>I don't want to read a Dickens book or Gatsby, I want to read a book that is relatable Gatsby is a timeless story of class division. The upstart nouveau riche verses the entrenched institutionalists. You could write a version of it
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Shaving can definitely help you stay younger looking, but there's also something to be said for the silver fox look. No question I get more attention from women today than when I was 20. Take good care of your body and skin and you c
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
When I was in Turkey on a project, the i was absolutely a problem in the software I was trying to deploy. Glad to see this as it's one of those classic "Things Programmers Should Know" topics right up there with all the other
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
> Your tankless water heater is a good example of something that is completely inadequate for solar setups, they draw insane amount of energy over very quick period I know nothing about any of this, so please educate me for the good of u
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
This is what I observe as a Realtor and living in a somewhat rural area - there are some people who like the idea of living the self-sufficient lifestyle, there are others who are convinced Armageddon is upon us and they are going to be rea
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
None - because it wasn't a mess. We had a strong and growing economy and a legit plan to boost American manufacturing. Everything we are experiencing right now is a Trump foot-gun.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
History has come around a lot and Carter has been shown to have been a man ahead of his time. You are right that for many decades after his term he was not viewed favorably.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
RCV is a weakass attempt to move us in the direction of the Westminster system without actually just fixing the system. You want Westminster just go there and don't fuck around half-assing it with RCV.
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
>Dems are the lesser of two evils. Example? I hear this constantly and yet there's one party that has spent decades trying to protect the environment, protect workers, fund schools, fund health care, provide day care, prevent gun vi
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Where are these "good enough" third parties? In my (mostly but it's complicated) Democratic state, there have been third party candidates in various local positions, especially in urban areas, but it's been more a way to
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Why should the Democratic party support something that would A) weaken the Democratic party and B) Potentially throw more votes to the Republicans as exactly happened this past cycle? The Democratic party is a god damn big tent. It's t
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
>If they don't like it, they should be pushing for ranked-choice voting. The Washington State Democrats are about to have one of our regular meetings this coming weekend, and I guarantee as is the case all all of our meetings, there
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
But the thing is, I don't need a train from LA to NYC - I just need one from SEA<-->PDX. Or one from Boise <--> SLC. You could connect key cities within a region and it would be game changing. Living in WA if I had GEG<-
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
Yeah I guess that's part of my curiosity and how one might set up a test case - did they come to my house because they detected the cat hormones at my house?
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by poulsbohemian 1y ago
iMac - i7 processor, 32gb of ram. Still a very serviceable machine by the specs.

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