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by prewett 4y ago
Those are definitely famine prices. A choenix [1] is about 1 quart (4 C), and a denarius was one day's wage for a laborer [2]. At, say $10/hr, a day's wage is $80. A 5 lb bag of flour has 18 C [3], so that would be $360 for
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by prewett 4y ago
It's not clear how high the barrier to entry to software is; if the barrier is low, we can expect wages to drop, long-term. People are (reportedly) getting six figure jobs from a six week bootcamp, which could be troubling to people ge
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by prewett 4y ago
If the main reason tech workers have good working conditions is an under-supply of talent, that suggests that management is fundamentally not trustable. If that is the case, then when things go the other way we can expect to not have good w
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by prewett 4y ago
The GP's metaphor of a marriage is not applicable in this case, since a marriage is a friendship/partnership, and the corporate structure is essentially a kingdom. Options are limited if the king and his advisors aren't liste
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by prewett 5y ago
1: don't go through the administration, that will be a hassle. Just ask the professor if you can sit in on the class, and if they say you can (which they probably will if there are empty seats), do so.
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by prewett 5y ago
Companies are legally considered persons, hence their speech is protected. This is consistent with individual sovereignty. If people are wards of the State, then the State would have the responsibility to police "harmful" speech;
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by prewett 5y ago
> It's a position from a place of privilege and is actively harmful The rest of this post makes sense but what is this supposed to mean? How is using real names "a position of privilege"? Does this just mean that some peop
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by prewett 5y ago
My 2007 17" MBP works fine, and I pull it out when something strange happens with my router, since it has an actual ethernet port. However, the battery has bulged so that the trackpad is difficult to click.
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by prewett 5y ago
Libraries do cull their collection and sell books that haven't been checked out in N years, though, which is sort of similar.
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by prewett 5y ago
> If you haven’t solved the Schrodinger equation before Heh heh, define "solved"... If I remember my QM class correctly, we "solved" the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom; the book achieved this by observing
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by prewett 5y ago
Flip this around: if a crisis suddenly demanded that we stop using our computers and go back to using paper, there'd be a lot of software developers and tech companies agitating a return to computers when the crisis abated. And there a
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by prewett 5y ago
Some of us don't like dealing with liars / propogandists / BSers, and think that you should mean what you say.
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by prewett 5y ago
"Social class" is not the same as a class in a classifier. The plumber may have a lot of bargaining power when an ice-storm breaks all the pipes in a major city, but the plumber does not have a high social class. Typically high so
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by prewett 5y ago
Well, if you don't appreciate what Apple is offering, then don't buy one. I was just explaining what people see in it. Judging by the upvotes, I'd say it's fairly representative of why people like them. > Just don&#x2
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by prewett 5y ago
Macs have a certain set of features which is not even close to being matched by any other laptop, as far as I'm aware. Not everyone values these features, and for them, the Mac is just overpriced. - solid and beautiful chassis, no plas
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by prewett 5y ago
I was hoping to find out what he thought “thick” and “thin” desires were, but he never bothers defining them. Maybe he talks about them in another essay? But without definitions, this piece is just a catalogue of all the ills of society, ju
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by prewett 5y ago
Terrorism was the reason given for the initial escalation towards the Uighurs around 2014. There were several domestic terrorism incidents involving a handful of Uighurs around, the most notable (to me) being there was a car-fire/bomb
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by prewett 5y ago
Seems kind of disingenuous to choose a career (curator and writer, according to the brief bio) which is known to not pay well, and then complain that working for a wage doesn't allow for upward mobility. She complains that the system i
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by prewett 5y ago
It sounded like it wasn't the heat that got converted to electricity, but rather the photons emitted by the hot object glowing, and since your vantablack object is not glowing you would expect to get nothing. But maybe not, the glowing
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by prewett 5y ago
The article doesn't seem to answer the question of why the heat plume distributed stuff on the nearside rather than evenly, or on the top side. If the south pole was hit, it seems like the heat should flow evenly on both sides, and if
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by prewett 5y ago
A stock market crash only wipes out your portfolio if you sell. If the company is at all viable it will be able to raise prices with inflation, thus continuing to exist. You own a piece of the company, and maybe the price other people are w
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by prewett 5y ago
Qt is a particularly poor experience on macOS. Also the past few years all the new stuff in Qt was QtQuick, which seems basically like JS, and if you're into JS, why not just use Electron? GTK is a non-starter for something professiona
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by prewett 5y ago
My feeling about WSL is that if you have to install another operating system into your main operating system, clearly the main operating system has problems.
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by prewett 5y ago
My Mac laptops typically have uptimes of months (85 days, currently). However, I am still on Mojave, and I do have 32 GB of RAM. I do routinely encounter two problems. When switching desktops while have full-screen video the cursor frequent
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by prewett 5y ago
Being a generalist is beneficial in freelancing, since it gives you demonstrated skill in lots of areas. The more areas, the more projects you "qualify" for, since clients want assurance that you can jump right in and be productiv
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by prewett 5y ago
If you want to build user interfaces, I'd recommend learning Cocoa or Qt, which are both well-designed UI libraries. (Java/Swing is okay, but Win32 has a limiting design, and MFC is crap. Was pretty unimpressed with Android's
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by prewett 5y ago
I really depends on the species of yak. Shave your matted, smelly yak? No thank you! But my silky black yak, absolutely! I guess the trick is to fall in love with a species of yak that everyone else needs but wants to avoid, so they&#x2
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by prewett 5y ago
I’ve had some companies give a Codility test, which is basically 3 leetcode-style problems, 30 min each, solvable in 10 or 15 lines of code, any language you want. Then the actual interview can focus on discussing your solutions and higher
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by prewett 5y ago
It might be low risk for the company, but it’s not low risk for anyone who already has a job that they want to keep until they find a new one. You can’t take a week of vacation for a bunch of companies. It would work for people without a jo
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by prewett 5y ago
"Inauthentic", even

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