presidentscroob

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by presidentscroob 7y ago
I don't understand the point of this article, it comes across to me as sheltered people with too much spare time maundering over petty, victimhood-ology nothingburgers. First responders and third-world climate refugees have real trauma
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
Community (solidarity, cooperation, concern for others and knowing one's neighbors) is in steep decline in most of the US for many reasons, and especially in Silicon Valley because the vast majority of its denizens aren't settling
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
Hackintosh or not isn't relevant because it's a macOS + Google update service issue. PS: Written on a Hackintosh
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
Yeap. It's a completely worthless article. The more important numbers are: 0) cost-of-living adjusted income (for daily living expenses) 1) housing to yearly income ratio (housing affordability) Absolute yearly salary is primarily usef
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe because you can't spell "there?" ;)
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
Maybe Python 2 can go away soon. Also, modern Python 3 support isn't even close to 100% either. https://pyreadiness.org/3.7/
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
I'm disappointed by the deprecation and decay of features of DDG and Goog in recent years, it seems like the trend is toward dumbing-down. It used to be that double-quoted strings meant "search for exactly this, not fuzzy searches
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
It's a good pattern to DRY-up resource-releasing unwind code. In an ideal world, there would be closures, RAII and fluent interfaces (macros) that would wrap allocation, deallocation, error and success handling without needing C++ and
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
Exactly. I was just at a community dinner for survivors of the Paradise Camp Fire, and reflected on the greater numbers of single, older men sitting by themselves. It's as if a segment of society is deemed like Detroit: unnecessary and
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by presidentscroob 7y ago
There's likely plenty: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-enough-lithium-in-the-world-t...