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by prewett 4y ago
It wasn't the banks doing the haircut in Cypress, it was the government. You can't blame that one on the banks.
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by prewett 4y ago
I have met people like this. And heard someone correct someone else for using it wrong. In fact, when during introductions, this person said their pronoun so loudly that I forgot their name (partly because it made no sense to put two pronou
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by prewett 4y ago
I've been reading "Cynical Theories" by Pluckrose and Lindsay which explains this whole thing as coming from a one-dimensional, activistized Postmodern framework. In this framework, society is a subtle network of power that c
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by prewett 4y ago
In 2001 and 2009 I remember hearing about layoffs where they had a big (in-person) meeting to announce the layoffs. I seem to recall there were two ways: either you have two simultaneous meetings, one for the survivors and one for the axed;
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by prewett 4y ago
If it works, autotools is fine. I've had to wade through a bunch of autotooled projects for which it didn't work. Those scripts are no fun to debug.
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by prewett 4y ago
I can imagine that one reason is that you also need customers to be able to find things, which is difficult when not sorted into some meaningful categories. That said, I think at the Target near me the beer and the diapers are relatively cl
607.
by prewett 4y ago
Seems reasonable for certain non-native English speakers. "You are talking with a live support [person/agent]", but support is a noun meaning "support person". Chinese developers who have introduced themselves to me
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by prewett 4y ago
> people these days who do not have social media may feel excluded or left out, and may even miss things Text-centric social media might be a good middle ground here. I only login to the FB web site a few times a year (mostly to add&#x2F
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by prewett 4y ago
I'd guess most of the places that use C would tend to be embedded; those that aren't probably moved to C++. Could you credibly claim to know C++? Have you used Java or Python for anything in the past? If you need something now tho
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by prewett 4y ago
Extinction is hyperbole. Even a lack of immunity to smallpox did not result in native Americans being wiped out by smallpox, although it did drastically lower their numbers.
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by prewett 4y ago
Interesting graph, I like that it's broken out into quarters. But, 1) those are statistics for the old version, the new version might be completely different. I've had enough one-line fixes break entire features I was not aware
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by prewett 4y ago
Presumably there is space for two copies of the firmware, and once the new one decompresses and checksums correctly you update the firmware-start pointer.
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by prewett 4y ago
I don't think viewing religious tradition as "we don't want to explain our reasoning to you plebs" is doing justice to the religion. I believe Catholicism does have a reason that is understandable by common folk: since J
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by prewett 4y ago
Strictly speaking, software as a low-cost marginal business originally referred to shrink-wrapped application software. If your website is basically a buy button with a download link, you fall into that category. But now your distribution n
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by prewett 4y ago
> "Market" is just another way of saying "Power differential." Oh come on. This is a cynical or Marxist take, but it's pretty obviously untrue. A flea market, farmers market, FB marketplace doesn't have a su
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by prewett 4y ago
If you want UI, there currently is no good solution. In my opinion, AppKit/UIKit is the only well-designed UI with any currency at the moment, but as you point out, it is not cross platform. If you're okay with using Dart, Flutte
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by prewett 4y ago
Only if he sells right now, otherwise he literally hasn't made any money, just his current potential-money (like potential-energy) has increased. It remains to be seen what will happen in the future. He is also exposed to all sorts of
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by prewett 4y ago
There’s also a difference in how old you are and if you have a family. When you have four years of junior-level savings, the prospect of having no income is very different than when you have twenty years of savings, with ten of those at sen
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by prewett 4y ago
It absolutely is callous, “showing an insensitive and cruel disregard for others”. It is not financially callous, as you point out, it absolutely is emotionally callous to not have the courtesy to even notify the person that they are ending
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by prewett 4y ago
It looks like it takes 1500 tons of concrete per mile of highway, and a ton of concrete produces 900 kg of CO2, which I will estimate to be 1 ton of CO2. So, 1500 tons of CO2 / mile of highway. It is said to last 60 years, so 25 tons C
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by prewett 4y ago
This sounds like hammers looking for nails, too. I don't see how swelling the ranks of communists (which then unswelled a couple decades later) or unions has anything to do with inequality being the correct cause for OP's complain
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by prewett 4y ago
Am I wrong to think these are just a typical Marxist class-struggle talking points? At any rate, blaming the problems on inequality seems a lot like seeing everything as nail when all you have is a hammer. I'm not sure why OP's co
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by prewett 4y ago
Try contracting / consulting. I feel like contracting has a different set of expectations, there's more of an expectation that contractors kind of do their own thing. There's also an expectation that contractors are a bit fla
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by prewett 4y ago
Given how many of them leave their kids with the grandparents and move to Guangdong, etc. to work in the factories and live in bunk houses and send money back home, only seeing their kids once a year during Spring Festival, I think they mig
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by prewett 4y ago
I don't think Google belongs in that list of "oldline" companies... GE, Sears, and Boeing are all over 100 years old, and made/shipped actual physical products. Regardless of whether Google's internal incentives are
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by prewett 4y ago
I feel like there was so (informal?) theorem that a full-specification of a program is at least as long as the program. Since you have to tell the AI what the specification is, the worst that could happen is programming becomes more like Kn
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by prewett 4y ago
If you reference XYZZY, you need to suggest Colossal Cave! I think this is the text game that inspired all the others (and the only game I've ever played on VAX/VMS). You may be able to run it with `advent` on Linux. There used to
628.
by prewett 4y ago
Part of my role was office sysadmin during that time. We switched from IBM machines to Dell machines right about then, and pretty much all of them failed with bulging capacitors. Unfortunately, Dell support made me go through the whole riga
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by prewett 4y ago
I thought killing MagSafe was pretty dumb, too, but every time I tripped over the USB-C power cable on my 2018 MBP it came right out, no problem. Plus it's really nice to be able to move the power cable to whichever side the outlet is
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by prewett 4y ago
I hope they were scrambling jets, that's their job. I'm sure they assumed it was some mistake, but if it isn't, by the time you know for sure it is too late. I'm sure "scrambled" meant "pilots sprinting

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